Research and Fellowships
This year, The Huntington has awarded long-term research fellowships to individuals, including (from left) Minayo Nasiali,(UCLA), Hardeep Dhillon (University of Pennsylvania), Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire), Kate Masur (Northwestern University), Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez (Northeastern University), Meredith Oda (University of Nevada – Reno), and Felipe Ledesma Núñez. | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Welcoming the 2026–27 Huntington Research Fellows
The Huntington annually welcomes approximately 150 long- and short-term research fellows, selected through a competitive, peer-review process that provides $2 million in awards. These fellows are among the roughly 2,000 scholars in the fields of history, literature, botanical science, art history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine who come from around the world each year to conduct academic research in The Huntington’s collections.
Susan Juster, W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research
| The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.News from the Director of Research
June 2026 | We’ve just wrapped up an exceptionally busy season of programs. In a short span, we hosted five major conferences and symposia and seven public lectures! During this time, our audiences learned about Making the Body in Renaissance Italy through art, literature, and medicine; United Queendom: Legacies of Gendered Power in the Early Modern British World which explored the fabled Tudor-era regnant queens and their continued hold over contemporary pop culture; Old Women, Race, and Power throughout American history; Disability and Care in Medieval and Early Modern France, which took an approach to premodern embodiment, disability, affect, and care; and Perspective on Gardens in the American Context. This garden symposium was part of The Huntington’s This Land Is… initiative in honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and included a tour of the new Oak Meadow in front of the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art. This floriferous meadow showcases California native plants alongside iconic American trees – especially oaks, the national tree. Stop by and see a new garden take shape before your very eyes!
Verso Is Back
The Huntington’s research blog has relaunched. The first post in the new series, by Brett Rushforth, editor in chief of the Huntington Library Quarterly, examines how a 2026 legal battle over removed interpretive panels at Philadelphia’s President’s House underscores the essential role of rigorous academic scholarship in shaping public history, drawing on materials in The Huntington’s collections—including George Washington’s 1796 correspondence regarding Ona Judge.
A Haven for the Humanities
Inside The Huntington’s ecosystem of scholarship
At dawn, The Huntington is still—a hush over its 207 acres in San Marino. Inside the Library’s historic core, each archival box holds traces of the past—from the mundane to the extraordinary: a note in the margin, a map of conquest, a letter of resistance.
By midmorning, that stillness becomes quiet work. In the Library’s reading rooms, the art galleries, and the Botanical Gardens, ideas cross centuries and disciplines. What begins as scholarship becomes something larger: a way of asking how we live with the past and what responsibilities come with knowing it.
Using the Collections
Academic Conferences and Lectures
The Huntington hosts academic conferences and lectures every year open to the public. Program details are available approximately two months prior to the conference date.
United Queendom: Adapting the Tudors through SIX and Historical Collections
Libraries as Communities of Desire
A Print of a Chinese Theater in California: A Life History
Archival Captivity Narratives: Who's Capturing Whom in Comanche Archives?
Inventor of Magic Food: The Life and Legacy of Filipina Food Scientist Maria Ylagan Orosa
Shapiro Book Prize Lecture - “Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson”
American Affections: The Life, Loves, and Letters of Mary Fish
Life’s “Continual Vibrations”: Asian American Artists and the Natural World
Early Books’ Migration: European Upheaval and American Collections
Peregrine Tyam and Mrs. Mary Verney: Patriarchy and Race in Late 17th-Century England
Out of the Woodwork: U.S. Forests and Black Cultures, 1800–1940
The Mormons in Black and White: Racial Mixing among the Latter-day Saints
Breaking Curfew: Everyday Japanese American Resistance during World War II
The Whites-Only Immigration Regime
Goya’s Portraits and a New Prize for The Huntington
The Other California: Land, Loss, Labor, Liberated Futures along Phantom Shores
Underrepresented Voices in the Archive
Fellowships
The Huntington Library awards over 150 research fellowships annually. Applicants for long-term (9-11 month academic year or 4-5 month academic term) fellowships must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. at the time of application. Short-term fellowships (one to three months) are open to graduate students; faculty members; postdoctoral scholars; and independent researchers. Travel grants/exchange fellowships (for study abroad) are open to doctoral candidates who have advanced to candidacy (ABD) at the time of the application deadline, to faculty members, and other postdoctoral scholars.
209 Books Published by Fellows
Huntington fellowships support quality research that advances scholarship in the humanities and makes use of The Huntington’s extensive archival and rare book collections. Since 1995, there have been 209 books published by long-term fellows.