Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars Program
A residential year at the Foundation's New York headquarters for scholars doing data analysis and writing on RSF priority areas. Provides salary replacement, office space, computing and subsidised housing.
- Indicative award
- up to $150k per year (per year)Page states salary support typically up to 50 percent of academic-year salary, to a maximum of $150,000. No minimum is published, so amountMin is null. Partially subsidised housing is provided for scholars from outside greater New York.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · JunNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.RSF's deadlines page lists a Visiting Scholars deadline of June 25, 2026 at 2pm ET for the September 2027 - June 2028 residency, with decisions in December 2026. That date has passed; the next cycle date was not published at the time of checking. A separate Visiting Researchers deadline of May 4, 20
- Who can apply
- Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- Open to individual scholars and small working groups from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds; the project must fit an RSF priority area. Requires residence in New York for the fellowship period (Sept 1 to June 30, or a half-year fall or spring visit).
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- social inequality · poverty policy · labour markets · race and immigration
- Apply at
- https://www.russellsage.org/apply/visiting-scholar
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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