{"id":119553,"date":"2026-05-04T13:52:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/?post_type=opportunity&#038;p=119553"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:52:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:52:52","slug":"2026-27-scholars-at-risk-sar-academic-freedom-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"opportunity","link":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/opportunity\/2026-27-scholars-at-risk-sar-academic-freedom-fellowships\/","title":{"rendered":"2026-27 Scholars at Risk (SAR) Academic Freedom Fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scholars at Risk (SAR) is pleased to invite early-career researchers to apply for remote research fellowships focusing on academic freedom and related higher education values. The fellowship program is supported by the Mellon Foundation, among other donors, and is intended to foster a professional community of researchers dedicated to developing new research, formal written publications, new course offerings, workshops, webinars or other significant end products.<\/p>\n<h4><b>Fellowship Tracks<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Please apply for\u00a0<b>one<\/b>\u00a0of the two following tracks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"first_item\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Track 1: Global Mellon Academic Freedom Fellowship<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"first_item\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Focus:<\/b>\u00a0Global, comparative, or single-country issues (excluding the US).<\/li>\n<li class=\"last_item\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Availability:<\/b>\u00a0up to 6 fellowships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"last_item\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Track 2: US Academic Freedom Fellowship<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"first_item\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Focus:<\/b>\u00a0Academic freedom issues specifically within the United States.<\/li>\n<li class=\"last_item\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Availability:<\/b>\u00a0up to 6 fellowships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See all details on the fellowship webpage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scholars at Risk (SAR) is pleased to invite early-career researchers to apply for remote research fellowships focusing on academic freedom&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","month":[556],"opportunity-type":[869],"year":[901],"class_list":{"0":"post-119553","1":"opportunity","2":"type-opportunity","3":"status-publish","4":"hentry","5":"month-may","6":"opportunity-type-call-for-fellowship-applications","7":"year-901","10":"year-2026","11":"no-featured-image"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opportunity\/119553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opportunity"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/opportunity"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opportunity\/119553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119557,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opportunity\/119553\/revisions\/119557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/month?post=119553"},{"taxonomy":"opportunity-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opportunity-type?post=119553"},{"taxonomy":"year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year?post=119553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}