Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship

Featured artwork by 2020 Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellow Hanna Sholl  (Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak, Alaska)

Under a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship promotes intellectual leadership in Native American communities by supporting outstanding Native Americans who hail from a wide variety of fields and who utilize different modes of expression in communicating their knowledge and work.

The goal of the fellowship is to identify, support and convene Native American knowledge holders and knowledge makers who embody exceptional creativity and progressive and critical thinking, and who have the potential to significantly move forward their fields in ways that will ultimately lead to broad, transformative impacts for Native communities and beyond. Core to this program is supporting Native individuals who are engaged in the creation and dissemination of knowledge that advances their respective field or area of expertise.

For this fellowship, Native intellectual leadership is defined broadly and includes cultural leaders, media makers, scientists, health professionals, academics, curators, artists, writers, and policy makers, among others. The work of these leaders takes many forms, including journalism, visual art, film and video, speeches or sermons, educational curricula, music or theater, formal scholarship or research, public health strategies, legal arguments, fiction, and policy analysis.

The fellowship program launched in 2019, and the first cohort was awarded in 2020.

Learn more about each fellowship year below:

• 2020 Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellows
  • 2020 Advisory Committee
  • 2020 Honorable Mentions
• 2021 Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellows
  • 2021 Advisory Committee
  • 2021 Honorable Mentions 
• 2022 Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellows
  • 2022 Advisory Committee
  • 2022 Honorable Mentions
• 2023 Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellows
  • 2023 Advisory Committee
  • 2023 Honorable Mentions
• 2024 Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellows
  • 2024 Advisory Committee
  • 2024 Honorable Mentions
• 2025 Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship — The application window closed May 7, 2024. Check back for more information.

Highlights from the Inaugural Fellows

Learn more about the 2020 Luce Indigenous Knowledge fellows here.

Knowledge Making Begins: Early Planning of the Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship

Fellowship Advisory Committee Meeting, March 28 to 29, 2019, at First Nations headquarters in Longmont, Colorado.