Harvard Loeb Fellowship 2027-28

Loeb Fellows are accomplished practitioners, influential in shaping the built and natural environment, whose work is advancing positive social outcomes in the US and around the world. In the middle of promising careers they step away from their hectic professional lives for one academic year. Fellows audit classes at the GSD and throughout the vast network of Harvard and MIT. They engage with faculty and students, participate in Fellowship events, and collaborate with their peers. They become part of a powerful growing network of colleagues passionately committed to revitalizing communities.

The Loeb Fellowship offers:

• Up to 10 fellowships per year, drawing applicants from across the US and the world.
• The time for learning and the intellectual resources to fortify practice and expand vision, all in the service of improving the future of the built and natural environment.
• The opportunity to audit classes, tuition free, throughout Harvard and MIT.
• A comfortable stipend and modest housing in Cambridge.
• A worldwide network of alumni colleagues and supporters.

• Table of Content
• About Harvard University
• Harvard Loeb Fellowship Fellowship
• Aim and Benefits of Harvard Loeb Fellowship Fellowship
• Requirements for Harvard Loeb Fellowship Fellowship Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

Harvard Loeb Fellowship Fellowship

Aim and Benefits of Harvard Loeb Fellowship Fellowship

• Stipend ($57,500)
• Tuition
• Housing
• Travel Grants

Requirements for Harvard Loeb Fellowship Fellowship Qualification

• Urban designers, public artists, developers, journalists, civic leaders, architects, landscape architects, urban planners, policymakers, and community development leaders.
• Harvard University encourage applications from a wide range of practitioners whose work focuses on improving the built and natural environment. In short, people of exceptional skill who design, plan, preserve, and critique the places where we live, work, and play are eligible to apply.
• The program is for people in mid-career, with a minimum of 8 years of experience in the field. We seek professionals who have leadership ability, a strong drive to help others succeed, and who show the potential to take their capacities to higher levels. The opportunities presented by the Fellowship work best for those experienced enough to ask the hard questions, but with plenty of time left to make an impact. A typical Loeb class averages about 42 years of age.
• The Fellowship is for practitioners. It is not an academic sabbatical program or an artist residency; there are many other programs for those purposes. The Loeb is unique in providing support for renewal and reflection in an active career.
• Fellows take stock of what they have learned, expand skills in the midst of a great university and chart the next phase of their careers to become more effective agents of change.
• Harvard University value a creative and motivated work history and a commitment to supporting others above more traditional credentials. A completed degree in higher education is not a requirement. Professionals with atypical backgrounds or unusual career paths who have demonstrated the capacity to make a difference in their fields are encouraged to apply.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

• If you know of someone in your professional circle who might be a good candidate, please use the Nomination Form. Harvard University will send them a letter describing the Fellowship and sharing your encouragement of them as a potential Loeb candidate.

Contact: [email protected]

For more information, kindly visit Loeb Fellowship webpage.