The Mansueto Institute offers grants, fellowships, research assistantships, and other unique educational and research opportunities from the undergraduate to the faculty levels, as well as to working professionals.
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Faculty Grants
Urban Innovation Grants
The Mansueto Institute provides faculty Urban Innovation Grants for research and other work at the University of Chicago focused on how cities work, grow, and develop, with the aim of advancing more sustainable and equitable urban futures. Be part of an ecosystem of urban innovation.
Student Grants
Urban Innovation Grants for Student Organizations
The Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation provides Urban Innovation Grants for Student Organizations for University of Chicago student events, research, or other efforts focused on critical issues and topics impacting cities. This opportunity is open to undergraduate and graduate student groups at the University of Chicago. Applications are currently open.
Postdoctoral & Graduate Fellowships
Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
Mansueto Institute Postdoctoral Fellows are post-doctoral researchers from a variety of disciplines and perspectives who are interested in building a scholarly understanding of cities. The fellowships are full-time, year-long appointments that can be renewed for a second year, subject to a mutual agreement. Positions are structured between the Mansueto Institute and one of the University of Chicago’s Departments or Schools. Applications will open in fall 2025 for the 2025-26 academic year.
Kreisman Graduate Fellows Program
The Kreisman Graduate Fellows Program is a cohort of University of Chicago graduate students from across fields of study who are committed to pursuing careers in housing research or practice. The program runs for one academic year and is open to all Masters and PhD students at UChicago, such as those studying law, policy, social services, social sciences, data science, and business. During the academic year, Kreisman Fellows take part in a range of professional development activities, including coursework on housing policy and practice. Fellows also receive a stipend to support their professional development. Applications for the 2024-2025 academic year are now open. Deadline to apply extended to September 15th.
Urban Doctoral Fellows
The Urban Doctoral Fellows Program provides a yearlong, supervised cohort experience training up to ten PhD students whose research focuses on urban issues, with an emphasis on strengthening scientific writing, effective presentations, and multimedia communications. Fellowship provides funding of up to $1,000 per fellow to cover registration, hotel, meal and transportation costs for presentations at academic conferences. The program includes twice-monthly lunchtime meetings to review peer papers and presentations, as well as discussions of how distinct disciplines engage in urban research. Applications for the 2024-2025 cohort are now closed.
Graduate Research Assistantships
Urban Research Corps
The Mansueto Institute invites UChicago graduate students with diverse academic backgrounds to participate in a new data science program called the Urban Research Corps. The URC is a research incubator that produces relevant insights about the fundamental processes driving urban change and develops tools to help build more sustainable, equitable, and connected cities. The URC combines the Mansueto Institute’s interdisciplinary approach with technology and data to build generalizable capabilities that accelerate the practice of sustainable urban development at the local and global scales. URC participants will have the opportunity to design, develop, test and deploy computational methods to answer fundamental questions and design scalable tools. Applications are currently closed.
Environmental Frontiers
Environmental Frontiers gives UChicago students a scientific and practical understanding of urban sustainable development, starting with projects on campus. A graduate research assistant leads undergraduate researchers, all working under the guidance of faculty to develop research and applied projects that explore and enhance campus sustainability, with an eye toward broader impact into whole urban areas and their neighborhoods. Applications are currently closed.
Local Data Journalism Initiative - Data Science Fellowship
Leveraging the University of Chicago’s robust data science infrastructure, the Local Data Journalism Initiative establishes partnerships between news organizations and university-led data science teams to conduct ambitious investigative journalism on issues affecting cities, using the highest caliber analytics tools and approaches. Graduate students can apply to be part of a research team supporting investigative journalism stories related to critical issues affecting cities. Applications are currently closed and will re-open in late 2024 or early 2025.
Undergraduate Research Assistantships
Environmental Frontiers
Environmental Frontiers gives UChicago students a scientific and practical understanding of urban sustainable development, starting with projects on campus. Students work under the guidance of faculty to develop research and applied projects that explore and enhance campus sustainability, with an eye toward broader impact into whole urban areas and their neighborhoods. Applications for the summer 2024 undergraduate cohort are currently closed.
Local Data Journalism Initiative - Data Science Fellowship
Leveraging the University of Chicago’s robust data science infrastructure, the Local Data Journalism Initiative establishes partnerships between news organizations and university-led data science teams to conduct ambitious investigative journalism on issues affecting cities, using the highest caliber analytics tools and approaches. Advanced undergraduate students can apply to be part of a research team supporting investigative journalism stories related to critical issues affecting cities. Applications are currently closed and will re-open in late 2024 or early 2025.
Working Professionals
Research Analyst
The Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation seeks a highly motivated Research Analyst to work closely with faculty and other researchers at the University of Chicago. The person in this position will support faculty from a range of disciplines. This position manages scientific research projects and works under the supervision of the faculty director to analyze data, write summary reports, and assist with manuscript production, with opportunities to present research findings at meetings and/or conferences, and to co-author academic publications.
Local Data Journalism Initiative - Journalism Fellowship
Leveraging the University of Chicago’s robust data science infrastructure, the Local Data Journalism Initiative establishes partnerships between news organizations and university-led data science teams to conduct ambitious investigative journalism on issues affecting cities, using the highest caliber analytics tools and approaches. Journalists can apply to the Local Data Journalism Initiative by proposing a data-driven investigative story or series of stories related to critical issues affecting cities. Selected journalists will work with the University of Chicago data science team during the summer of 2024. Applications are currently closed and will re-open in late 2024 or early 2025.