Hodder Fellowships are awarded by the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University to artists and writers of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton during the academic year. No formal teaching is involved. Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts”; they are selected more “for promise than for performance.” Given the strength of the applicant pool, most successful Fellows have published a first book or have similar achievements in their own fields; the Hodder is designed to provide Fellows with the “studious leisure” to undertake significant new work. 

Applications are now being accepted for the 2025-26 academic year.

Eligibility:

•               Open to artists and writers of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year

•               One need not be a U.S. citizen to apply. 

•               Previous recipients of the Princeton Arts Fellowship are not eligible to apply.

•               Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree. 

•               Interested applicants may apply for the Hodder Fellowship in each new application cycle.

Deadline: The application is submitted online. The deadline is September 10, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. (ET)

Application Submission: Through the online portal, Hodder Fellowship applicants should include a curriculum vitae, a 500-word project proposal, and samples of your work (i.e., writing sample, images of your work, video links to performances, etc.).

The Mary Mackall Gwinn Hodder Fellowship program is funded by the Charles John Morris Gwinn and Alfred Hodder Memorial Fund.