Fellowships allow individuals to expand their architectural perspectives and research in a unique employment position at a university. Throughout the year, we've highlighted fellows, fellowships, and their role in architectural academia in our recurring Fellow Fellows series.

This week Archinect highlights five fellowships from four institutions. Opportunities like these provide a blend of research and practice that help support young designers and academics' goals as they progress throughout their careers.

Rice University
Fellowship: Wortham Fellowship
Application Deadline: January 4, 2021

Details: Rice Architecture invites applications and nominations for two Wortham Fellows. The Wortham Fellowship was established twenty-five years ago to give promising and outstanding candidates the opportunity to teach and conduct research. This two-year teaching fellowship is specifically targeted at individuals who are beginning or advancing a career of practice and teaching. The school is particularly interested in highly motivated candidates with a clearly defined design/research agenda who are also prepared to contribute to our commitment to diversity and inclusion in our curriculum. We encourage applications from women and historically underrepresented groups. With a teaching load of three courses per year, fellows are able to hone their research in the context of the school’s small, tightly knit academic community.

University of Southern California
Fellowship: Citizen Architect Fellow
Application Deadline: January 15, 2020

Details: The Citizen Architect Fellows Program is geared towards recent professional architecture degree graduates who aspire to careers in academia. The Program is designed to expose Fellows to a diversity of teaching and research methods; provide resources to enable Fellows to execute a specific research project while in residence; and to provide a mentoring and networking platform to enable them to succeed in attaining academic positions in their field of emerging expertise. Once selected, Fellows are expected to pursue lines of research that can be realized within the two-year time period as finished installation/ exhibition projects and/or writing/publication submissions that can be presented in the form of a lecture/workshop. At the end of each fellowship year, Fellows are required to submit a written report on their activities. Within the last semester of the fellowship program, Fellows are required to present their research publicly.

NuVux Studio
Fellowship: NuVuX Design Education Fellow 
Application Deadline: see listing

Details: Are you passionate about design, technology and education? Do you have a wide range of interests beyond your primary discipline? Do you love the creative energy you accessed through your own design education? If so, join our team as a Design Education Fellow at our partner school in Woodstock, Vermont. The NuVuX Design Education Fellow will be an instructor based at Woodstock Union High School and Middle School in Woodstock, Vermont, who will lead the design and implementation of studios with the support and mentorship of the NuVu Team in Cambridge. NuVu’s hands-on studio curriculum is grounded in fundamental design skills and explores an extensive range of topics and disciplines.

The Ohio State University
Fellowship: Christos Yessios Digital Fabrication Assistant or Associate Professor of Architecture
Application Deadline: March 31, 2021 

Details: The Architecture Section of the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University invites applications for a position at the rank of assistant or associate professor with a research focus on emerging digital design and fabrication technologies. This position is endowed by the Christos Yessios Fund, which is intended to support faculty with the potential to make significant contributions to the field through scholarship, design research, and/or creative design practice. This position will allow Knowlton architecture faculty to develop relationships with the landscape architecture and planning sections and with academic units and research centers on and off campus including the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the Simulation Innovation and Modeling (SIM) Center, and the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD). 

The Ohio State University
Fellowship: Howard E. LeFevre ’29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship
Application Deadline: March 31, 2021 

Details: Situated within a major research university with state-of-the-art facilities, the Knowlton School provides a unique environment for innovative design research and critical inquiry. The Knowlton School enjoys the resources of the university and a metropolitan area of approximately two million people with easy access to several other metropolitan areas. This Fellowship offers the successful applicant a 9-month fellowship to investigate and develop your project. In relation to that investigation and within the fellowship period, you will be asked: 1. To teach a design studio in which ideas related to your project are considered within the disciplinary context of architecture, and, 2. To prepare and present an exhibition as well as a pamphlet, catalogue or monograph about the project. The successful candidate will have a degree in architecture or a related field. The Fellowship provides a salary for teaching, a paid Graduate Research Assistant, and a separate budget for research/project materials.