Together with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC), part of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), offers an annual Bonn Yale Fellowship.

The fellowship is open to all scholars with expertise in racial slavery in the United States from the colonial period through the American Civil War. Applicants MUST have received their PhD prior to the beginning of their appointment. Both, established and younger scholars are encouraged to apply to the BCDSS for this annual fellowship.

The expertise that our fellows bring to the Cluster is of the utmost value and we highly appreciate their active and creative involvement. Our Fellowship Program offers a unique opportunity to bring together their collective knowledge, providing each fellow with the necessary time and freedom to pursue their own research. The program is designed to be a space for discourse, exchange, and networking, and all fellows and guests are invited to share their research projects and results in our Fellows Seminar. 

Our fellows are welcome to attend our lecture series, conferences and workshops, and organise their own topic-driven workshops and other joint events. In addition, we are happy to inform about opportunities to publish research findings in one of our peer-reviewed publication formats.