The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) is Canada's leading institute for advanced research in the humanities. At the University of Toronto, the JHI cultivates, sustains, and promotes humanities research across the University and beyond.
The JHI Postdoctoral Fellowships support the next generation of scholars within this intellectual community. Each year, fellows spend 12 months in residence at the JHI, where they join the Circle of Fellows— an intellectual community galvanized by the ideas and activities of its members, who also include faculty research fellows, distinguished visiting fellows, graduate and undergraduate students. Together, fellows advance knowledge that contributes to the life of the university, their fields and disciplines, and greater public life.
Why apply?
The JHI Postdoctoral Fellowships offer more than dedicated research time. This 12-month residential fellowship gives early-career scholars the time and space to focus on research while benefiting from faculty mentoring and becoming active members of the JHI community. Fellows receive an award of $75,000 CAD plus benefits, a dedicated office at the JHI and access to the University of Toronto Libraries.
Eligibility
The JHI Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to scholars in the humanities and qualitative social sciences who earned, or expect to earn, a doctoral degree within the fellowship's eligibility period. Applicants from all countries are welcome, including doctoral candidates and graduates of the University of Toronto. Complete eligibility requirements are available when the annual competition opens.
Applications
The competition is held once a year. Applications typically open in early August, with a deadline in late October, for fellowships beginning the following July.
When the competition is open, complete application details, eligibility requirements and deadlines are published on our current funding opportunities page.
Learn more about the JHI's mission and the Circle of Fellows.
It was a year of unexpected progress, new ideas, close contact with students and fellows in Toronto, and new connections with researchers further afield.