Fellowships & Grants

Next Deadline: Fall 2025

Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply at least six to eight weeks before the proposed project or initiative date.

Application

Focus: Civic engagement, social justice, activism, on-campus project funding

Eligibility Criteria: Current full-time Lang students and groups that include at least one Lang student. Awards can cover tangible costs or material fees related to applicant projects. Mini-grants cannot be used to pay for compensation of time worked on projects, study abroad program fees, or tuition. However, they can be used to pay for guest speaker honoraria and fees. 

Amount: Individuals can apply for up to $750 in funding per semester; groups can apply for $1,500 per semester. Priority is given to students who have not previously received funding from CESJ.

Endorsement: A faculty, staff, or advisor reference is strongly recommended but not required. 

CESJ Mini-grants are small grants made to individual and groups of students to support student programming, research costs, activism, creative projects, and other work that focuses on social justice or civic engagement. 

Past awards have funded needs like production costs for an exhibition on Salvadoran migration and displacement, supplies for a senior thesis examining displacement in Puerto Rico, travel to the Afro Tech conference, and food for a student-organized conference on urban community and environmental health.

Next Deadline: Spring 2026

Application

Focus: Compensation to assist Lang students who are pursuing unpaid or underpaid summer internships committed to social justice values, practice, and/or scholarship.

Eligibility Criteria: Current full-time Lang students and graduating seniors. Priority will be given to applicants who have not received funding from Lang CESJ in the previous academic year, DACA students, and applicants with a GPA of 3.0 or higher. Eligible internships include internships (any location) that require at least 120 hours over the course of the summer, would otherwise be unpaid, and are dedicated to a social justice mission. 

Amount: Grants of up to $2,000 for part-time internships in a one-time stipend to cover living expenses over the duration of the internship.

Endorsement: Contact information for the internship supervisor is required, as they will be contacted during the application process.

Application Components: Application by online form only

Lang Civic Engagement and Social Justice (Lang CESJ) dedicates funding to Lang students who are pursuing summer internships committed to social justice values, practice, and/or scholarship. Selected grantees will be required to participate in a mid-summer gathering, complete a written reflection, and present their work at a fall mixer event on campus. Please read the full details on the application form website before applying.

Questions can be directed to [email protected].

Application-based opportunity (course credit options available) for students to showcase their research and creative projects on interdisciplinary panels or through posters.

Next Deadline: Fall 2025

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Contact: [email protected]

Paid stipend.

Next Deadline: Spring 2026

Students participate in three structured reviews for Dean’s Honor Symposium panels in the spring—February 25, March 25, and April 8 (the symposium) from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m., 3:00 to 4:00 p.m., or 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Feedback is essential to help Dean’s Honor Symposium students create clear and engaging presentations. These reviews are an excellent opportunity to develop communication skills, build relationships, and learn to provide critical feedback. As part of this small learning community, you’ll be mentored by a faculty member and work with a small group at each session. You'll also see examples of outstanding work and projects that might inspire the work you’ll do as you progress through Lang.

The Dean's Honor Symposium is a conference held each spring at which student work is presented. Students apply each fall semester. The chosen projects are placed into broadly thematic panels that students spend the spring semester developing.

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Contact: [email protected]

Award of up to $1,500 to support capstone work
Next Deadline: Fall 2025

Requirements/qualifications:

• Students must be matriculated degree students at Eugene Lang College.
• Students must be enrolled or planning to enroll in a Capstone course or Independent Senior Work.

• Students who receive the grant must complete a final reflection, submit a write-up of their work for the Lang Capstone blog, and make a short presentation about their experience to a First Year course. 

  Please note that funds are prioritized for students with academic merit and financial need. Projects might not receive partial funding. Deadlines may be edited on the basis of the availability of funds.

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Contact: [email protected]

Eugene Lang Opportunity Awards make it easier for students with financial need and academic merit to participate in the many co-curricular programs and initiatives available at Lang. We believe that real-world experience is just as important as theory explored in the classroom, so we offer a variety of ways for students to engage with the world around them. Grants in this project include Capstone and Unpaid Internship Grants.

Award of $2,000 to support students enrolled at Lang pursuing an unpaid internship
Next Deadline: Fall 2025

Requirements/qualifications:

• Internship is secured (proof required: email from internship supervisor/coordinator).
• Internship is unpaid (proof required: email from internship supervisor/coordinator).
• The bulk of the internship is still to be completed (at least six weeks remaining).
• Students must be current Lang students (graduating students can apply only for the semester after graduation).
• First Year students need permission from the Student Success academic advisor.
• International students must be eligible for curricular practical training (CPT). Learn more at the ISSS's Employment page.
• Internships can be for credit or on a noncredit basis.
• Internships must be a minimum of 120 hours.
• Internships cannot be at The New School.
• Students can receive this grant only once.
• Students cannot receive an Independent Research/Creative Project Grant and a CESJ Summer Fellowship for the same internship.
• Students must submit an updated résumé or CV.
• Students must share their LinkedIn page.
• Students who receive the grant must submit a pre-experience reflection form and an Experience Learning Agreement (ELA) and complete a final reflection or write-up of their experience.

Please note that funds are prioritized for students with academic merit and financial need. Deadlines may be changed depending on the availability of funds. Experiences not funded in a given cycle will be recommended for the following deadline.
 

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Contact: [email protected]

Eugene Lang Opportunity Awards make it easier for students with financial need and academic merit to participate in the many co-curricular programs and initiatives available at Lang. We believe that real-world experience is just as important as theory explored in the classroom, so we offer a variety of ways for students to engage with the world around them. Grants in this project include Capstone and Unpaid Internship Grants. 

First Year Mentors mentor a class of incoming first-year students to help them make a smooth transition to Lang and engage with the campus community. Mentors lead seminar workshops with their assigned group of first-year students throughout the fall semester and meet weekly in a Teaching and Learning Seminar with other Mentors to develop and strengthen their teaching, mentoring, and facilitation practice. The Teaching and Learning Seminar will be taught by Professor Evan Litwack, chair of the First Year Program.

Mentors help new students make the transition to college by counseling them on good study habits, academic planning, time management skills, critical thinking abilities, seminar discussion techniques, and personal health and safety awareness. They also introduce new students to social justice theory and practice at Lang. Qualified students earn up to three credits for serving as First Year Mentors, following training in May and August and enrollment in the Teaching and Learning Seminar in the fall.

Next Deadline: Fall 2025

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Contact: Evan Litwack, [email protected]

Funding is available for junior and senior students majoring in Global Studies who are planning independent research (including capstone- or thesis-related projects) or study abroad during the 2025 spring semester or the 2025 spring or summer breaks. These small grants of up to $500 may be used to defray the cost of materials, airfare/transportation, fees, lodging, or other related expenses.

Next Deadline: Spring 2025

If funding remains after the initial round, late applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until February 28, 2025, at 11:59 p.m.

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Contact: Ben Airing at [email protected]

Lang Academic Fellows
Lang Academic Fellows are nominated by faculty to assist with individual courses that the students have previously taken or for which they are otherwise qualified to provide support. Fellows earn four credits. They work closely with faculty, attend the course on a regular basis, and meet frequently with students in the course to work with them on their writing, reading, and academic practices. The emphasis of the program is for Academic Fellows to help students with their broader intellectual, creative, and critical thinking. In addition, Academic Fellows meet once a week in a seminar to study the theory and practice of pedagogy. (Note: Academic Fellows must be nominated by an instructor; following the nomination, there is a short interview process with the Academic Fellows director.)

Deadline: Students must be nominated by faculty.

Contact: Jennifer Firestone at [email protected]

Next Deadline: Spring 2026

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Contact: [email protected]

This fellowship offers students interested in the arts and humanities a unique opportunity to combine theory and practice. It is open to current second-, third-, and fourth-year BA/BFA students at Lang and in the Adult Bachelor's Program with a strong academic record in the arts and humanities. The program requires students to work in an internship during the fall semester and complete independent research or artistic projects during the spring semester. Participants receive a rare chance to develop their artistic potential or to refine their research and writing skills through individual mentoring and feedback from a New School graduate student.

The Lang Arts and Humanities Fellowship has three components:

• An internship of at least 120 hours over at least 12 weeks in the fall semester, designed to connect students’ academic interests in the arts and/or humanities to organizations in related fields. See below for a list of current internship sites.

• Work with a New School PhD student throughout the fellowship to develop an artistic project or conduct research related to the internship.

• A four-credit independent study course in the spring, during which students work with a mentor to complete a research paper or an artistic project in the visual arts, literature, music, or the performing arts.

Students must also participate in a half-day orientation session in the fall and, if they are conducting a research project, in training sessions on research methods.

Fellows receive a $2,250 stipend from The New School for the internship.

Contact:[email protected]

To apply: Complete the online application. Applicants must submit their résumé with relevant experience, a cover letter, and either a writing sample or an example of creative work. Students must also indicate a preferred internship site. 

Students will be notified by the end of March if they have been selected for an interview.

Lang Arts and Humanities Fellowship Internship Sites 

• Center for Traditional Music and Dance

  The Center for Traditional Music and Dance (CTMD) sustains and promotes the performing arts and traditions of immigrant communities, sharing these art forms with a broad audience across New York. CTMD offers programs that combine research, documentation, presentation, and education, helping immigrant communities preserve their traditions and pass them on to new generations. The organization’s work has had significant national and international impact. It maintains the world's largest archive documenting New York’s immigrant performing arts traditions and is an affiliate program of UNESCO.

• Museum of the Moving Image

  The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) explores the central technology of the contemporary world: screens. With exhibitions and screenings on the art, history, technique, and science of film, television, video games, and other digital media, the museum “presents the real and imagined worlds of our past, present, and future.” Offering educational programs, digital literacy initiatives, and media labs, MoMI invites visitors to make sense of the reality around them. Its many activities include temporary and permanent exhibitions, film screenings, and live conversations with artists, filmmakers, scholars, media educators, and other industry professionals. It also publishes articles in its online film magazine Reverse Shot and the science and film resource Sloan Science & Film. The museum’s collection includes more than 130,000 objects, and its education department serves approximately 70,000 students each year.

• Poetry Society of America

  The Poetry Society of America (PSA), founded in 1910, places poetry at the heart of American life. "We make poetry part of daily life through programs like Poetry in Motion, Poems on Wheels, and poetry-based public art installations. We place poems in parks and gardens, on subways, buses, and street corners, and now in the window of our own storefront project space. The PSA also supports and honors poets through annual awards, readings, seminars, and workshops."
  
  Interns can expect to be involved with operations and programs at the PSA. Their tasks will include conducting research to find poems suitable for the PSA's ongoing public arts projects, helping with day-to-day administrative needs (shelving books, assisting with mailings), proofreading communications, assisting the development associate with membership-related tasks, and assisting the public programs manager and other staff with events (including live streaming and event setup and breakdown). Interns will work at the PSA's Brooklyn office one day a week and must be available to work two weekday evenings a month.

• Giorno Poetry Systems

  Giorno Poetry Systems (GPS) is a nonprofit organization that supports artists, poets, and musicians and centers their perspectives. It is based on the idea of artists supporting other artists. It was created by the artist, poet, and activist John Giorno (1936–2019), who took poetry off the printed page and into the visual, musical, political, and social realms. GPS also supports his work and maintains his extensive archive of the downtown New York poetry, art, performance, and music communities. 
  
  GPS is seeking a Poetry Fellow to help with various activities across the organization, including its public event program; archive of materials related to John Giorno’s life and community; record label, Giorno Poetry Systems Records; and ongoing Dial-A-Poem projects. This position can be shaped in accordance with applicants' special interest in any of these areas or can span the range of activities that GPS is engaged in. Responsibilities include assisting with event planning and promotion, organizing and cataloging archival materials, supporting the production of new records on the GPS record label, and assisting with international Dial-A-Poem phone lines. Ideal candidates are passionate about poetry, art, and music, and are detail-oriented and eager to gain hands-on experience in a dynamic arts nonprofit environment. This position can be one eight-hour day or two four-hour days over at least 15 weeks. The availability to work some evenings to assist with events is preferred. 
  
  

Next Deadline: Spring 2026

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Contact: [email protected]

InsideSchools is a vital resource for families throughout their children’s K–12 public school education, serving as a one-stop shop where NYC families can find free expert advice, resources, and community. A project of the New School’s Center for New York City Affairs, InsideSchools provides information, insights, and engagements that help families navigate the largest and one of the most inequitable school systems in the country. The education team is committed to improving the quality of New York City schools for all families, especially communities in poverty and of color, and offers policy analysis, reports, and public commentary to inform system change and school improvement.

InsideSchools is seeking a motivated and committed Summer Intern to help build the capacity of InsideSchools to more effectively and efficiently serve NYC parents and students. The intern will support the education team’s major initiatives—their newly arrived migrant families project and their 1,800 online school profiles. The intern will assist in collecting and analyzing data from school communities to inform content and programming, developing resources to support public school families throughout the K–12 experience, reviewing policy reports, and drafting narrative content for school profiles. The intern will also conduct research on educational topics to respond to families’ questions and draft content for the InsideSchools blog and policy reports. This internship offers a unique opportunity to engage in work that informs policy and practice while developing valuable skills in research, advocacy, and community engagement.

An understanding of or interest in learning more about the most pressing issues in urban education, particularly the relationship between families and schools, is preferred. Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, or Russian language skills are a plus (not required). 

This internship requires 120 hours of work during summer 2025 (specific hours and days will be determined by the intern and Inside Schools). Interns receive a stipend of $2,500.

Next Deadline: Spring 2026

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Contact: [email protected]

Focus: Engaged learning, research, theory, and practice

Eligibility Criteria: Current second-year, third-year, and fourth-year BA/BFA students at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts and in the Adult Bachelor's Program with a strong academic record in the social sciences

Amount: Fellows receive a $2,250 stipend.

Application Components: Applicants must submit their résumé showing relevant experience, a cover letter, and a writing sample and must indicate at least two preferred internship sites. Students will be notified in the spring if they have been selected for an interview.

This fellowship provides a unique opportunity to combine research, theory, and practice. It requires the ability to work independently over the summer and throughout the fall semester. This fellowship provides a rare chance for students to develop their research and writing skills through individual mentoring and feedback on their work. The fellowship has three components:

• An internship of at least 120 hours over the fall semester, designed to connect students' academic interests to organizations in related fields 
• Work with an NSSR PhD student throughout the fellowship to develop and conduct a research project related to the fall internship
• A four-credit independent study course in the spring term, during which students work with their research mentor to complete a research paper

Learn more about the Lang Social Science Fellowship.

Deadline: June 30, 2025

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Contact: [email protected]

This 120-hour semester-long internship offers students interested in climate change, environmental justice, and sustainability the opportunity to work alongside staff and researchers at either the Tishman Environment and Design Center or Parsons Healthy Materials Lab. Interns receive a $2,500 stipend and mentorship. The projects and focus of the internship change each semester. 

Qualified students work with a faculty mentor who is teaching an introductory-level science and/or math course to host outings and study sessions, build community among students, identify learning challenges in the course, and offer peer tutoring for students in the class. For students interested in pursuing science and math education in combination with communication, media, art, policy, and education studies, this program offers an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the challenges associated with science and math learning and current best practices in pedagogies of engagement and assessment of student learning through a weekly education seminar course.

This fellowship is typically offered in the spring term.

Deadline: Students must be nominated by faculty.

Contact: Katayoun Chamany at [email protected]