The Blavatnik Archive Research Fellowships provide up to $2500 a term for outstanding scholars to study and disseminate its primary source materials: 145,000 items in 20th century Jewish and world history, with a special emphasis on World War I, World War II, and Soviet Russia. Generally, the Fellowship is non-residency: researchers will work online, using a high-resolution metadata-rich website that contains over 18,500 publicly available items from the Archive’s content management platform. For the Fall 2025 term beginning September 1, 2025, all applications must be submitted in English by July 15, 2025.
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The Blavatnik Archive is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to preserving and disseminating materials that contribute to the study of 20th-century Jewish and world history, with a special emphasis on World War I, World War II, and Soviet Russia.