• Gilles Desplanque, Service archéologique du Département de l'Aisne, Laon,The Samoussy excavation archives by archaeologist Georg Weise (1917), Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Dashti Gohar, Bosten MA. Abstract Horizons. Polaroid Explorations in Takht-e Soleyman, Museum für Islamische Kunst
• Laurent Hausmesser,  Musée du Louvre, Paris, Les terres cuites architecturales de la cite étrusque de ANTCerveteri – les découvertes du XIXe siècle, Antikensammlung
• Parviz Holakooei, Art University of Isfahan,  On the inglaze decoration of Islamic ceramics, Museum für Islamische Kunst und Rathgen-Forschungslabor
• Shunhua Jin, l’Institut National d’ Histoire de l’Art, Paris, Blue-and-White ceramics in the Safavid visual culture, Museum für Islamische Kunst
• Clare Chun-yu Liu, United Kingdom, Re-interpreting German Chinoiserie from a Diasporic Chinese Viewpoint, Kunstgewerbemuseum
• Federica Tagliatesta, Rom, Unbekannte römischen Mosaiken“: Puhl & Wagner, Gottfried Heinersdorff und die Wiederbelebung frühchristlicher und mittelalterlicher Mosaiken in Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinsche Kunst

• Kerstin Barndt, University of Michigan, Museum in Ruins. Representing History, Memory, and Time in Contemporary Germany, Institut für Museumsforschung
• Natalia Bosko, Belgrad, Ad Astra Celestial Phenomena in German Romantic Landscape Painting, Kunstbibliothek
• Joseph Bucciero, Princeton University, New Objectives: German Painting and Organized Capitalism, 1923–1930, Neue Nationalgalerie
• Maximilian Felix Chami, University of Dar Es Salaam, Unwanted people from the Society: Community and Restitution of Human Remains from Musila Island, Tanzania, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Nadia Maria Consiglieri, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Between the Demon and the Ornament. Dissemination and Itineraries of the Dragon in the Renaissance Material Culture (15th-16th Centuries), Kunstgewebemuseum
• Gohar Dashti, Bosten MA. , A Research to Cognition and semantics of Plant designs on the Fragments of Takht-e Sōleymān, Museum für Islamische Kunst
• Karim Mohsen Elridy Ahmed Fathi, Kairo, The Karnak Chapel of Shebitku? Museum für Ägyptische Kunst und Papyrussammlung
• Orlando Fernão, University of Aveiro, Memories of Mozambique in Berlin: A Study for Sound Recordings Repatriation, Ethnologisches Museum
• Chiara Ianeselli, Trento, Individual Objects or Mediation Devices the Accessibility of Labels at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart and at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Institut für Museumsforschung
• Shunhua Jin, Aix-Marseille Université, The Image Exchange and Comparative Study of Illustrated Manuscripts,
  between Safavid Iran and Late Ming China, Museum für Islamische Kunst
• Tomoko Masuya, The University of Tokyo, The Tile Decoration of the Ilkhanid Phase at Takht-i Sulaimān, Museum für Islamische Kunst
• Mailane Maíra Messias Sampaio, Saint-Étienne (France), Food Heritage of the Alto Rio Negro in the Museum: An analysis of the Koch-Grünberg’s collection, Ethnologisches Museum
• Nicole Sarto, Columbia University, New York City, Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble: Enchanting Women in Greek Art, Antikensammlung
• Ehsan Shavarebi, Universität Wien; Coinage and Monetary History of the Western Turks in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands (Late 6th to 8th Century CE), Münzkabinett
• Liv Maria Yarrow, Brooklyn College New York City, Evaluating the Contribution of Bronze Coinages to the Roman Republican, Economy in the Late Third and Early Second Century BCE, Münzkabinett

• Khadim Ali, Doomside, Australia, Shahnama in Persian and Mughal court, Museum für Islamische Kunst
• Małgorzata Bogaczyk-Vormayr, UAM – Adam-MicKievicz-University, Poznań, Surreale Welten: Zur Vorgeschichte und zu den neuen Kontexten der Art Brut, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg,
• Iryna Chechulina, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kiev, Attic black-glazed pottery in the collection of the Antikensammlung, Antikensammlung
• Liubov Dyvak, National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kiev, Youth Point of View on the Museum, Bildung und Vermittlung, Neue Nationalgalerie
• Federica De Giambattista, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rom, Ludwig Pollak and the works of art of the Middle Ages. Interests and Studies of a protagonist of the Art Market and Collecting in the post-unitarian Rome, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für byzantische Kunst
• Francesca Ferrari, New York University, Animated Geometries: Abstraction and the Body in the Work of Alexandra Exter, Paul Klee, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and Joaquín Torres-García in the 1920s, Museum Berggruen
• Milena Gallipoli, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina, Plaster casts from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in Buenos Aires. Historical research, cataloguing and conservation strategies, Gipsformerei
• Luming Guan, University of Cambridge, Early Sixteenth-Century German Art and the Figure of the Artist-Trickster, Kupferstichkabinett
• Erin Hennessey, Webster University, St. Louis, Martin Schongauer´s „Death of the Virgin“ and the Pictorial Sequence in Early Modern Visual Culture', Kupferstichkabinett
• Eman Shokry Hesham, Cairo German Archaeological Institute, Exploring Michael Meinecke’s archive on the Islamic Architecture of Egypt, Museum für Islamische Kunst
• Viktoryna Iunovych, Taras Shevchenko National University, Kiev, Ornament in Contemporary Art: Case Study from the Hamburger Bahnhof Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
• Herbert Justnik, The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art / Volkskundemuseum Wien, Ausstellen als Prozess – der Prozess der Ausstellung, Institut für Museumsforschung
• Kristopher W. Kersey, UCLA, Los Angeles, Art as Metabolism: Fragmentation, Decay, and Assemblage in Japanese Art, Museum für Asiatische Kunst
• Liudmilla Kozeko,  Kyiv, Nationales Forschungs- und Restaurierungszentrum der Ukraine Bildung und Vermittlungsangebote für Ukrainische Geflüchtete, Alte Nationalgalerie
• Anna Lebensztejn, Museum of Literature,Warschau, Harbringers of the New. Landscape Painters and the Lives of the Artists, Gemäldegalerie
• Roksana Ludyn, National University Kyiv, Connecting theatre pedagogy and education in an ethnological museum
• Laura Moretti, University of St Andrews, The Adventurous Life of the Berlin ‘Adorante’, Antikensammlung
• Sergii Polin, Institute of Archaeology of Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Chronology of Kurgans near the Maritzyn-village (excavations by M. Ebert in 1910- 1911), Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Hanna Rudyk, The Bohdan and Varvara National Museum of Art, Kiev, Decolonizing Islamic art narratives in the Museum of Islamic Art (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Museum für Islamische Kunst
• Friederike E. Schwelle, University of Durham, Modern Jews and Ancient Egypt: Patrons, Collectors and Scholars in Europe c.1880-1950, Zentralarchiv
• Valeriia Shyller, National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture Kiev, Youth Point of View on the Museum, Abt. Bildung und Vermittlung, Neue Nationalgalerie
• Marko Stamenkovic, ZETA Contemporary Art Center, Tirana, Graphic Evidence. Examining poster design as a form of ethical concern in the context of sexual violence, Kunstbibliothek
• Maria Trabulo, Universidade Caólica Portugal, Porto, The Reinvention of Forgetting, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für byzantische Kunst
• Esra Tütüncü, Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, History and Coinage of Ariassos, Münzkabinett

All scholarships have been postponed until 2021/2022 due to the Corona pandemic and related travel and work restrictions.

• Niveen Al-Gharbawy, The Grand Egytian Museum, Giza, International Relation Marketing via Exhibitions, Events and Conferences, Case Study the Grand Egyptian Museum and Surrounding Area, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung
• Alexander Ekserdjian, Columbia University, New York; Immortal Bodies: The Sculptural Representation of Mortals and Gods in the Sanctuaries of Central Italy, Antikensammlung
• Dr. Anna Maria Glowa, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Lublin, "Common Threads" - Parallel late antique textiles from Egypt deriving from Robert Forrer's collection in Poland and Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst
• M.A. Erin Hennessey, Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, Between Repetition and Invention: Martin Schongauer's "Death of the Virgin" and the Pictorial Sequence in Early Modern Visual Culture, Kupferstichkabinett
• Dr. Parviz Holakooei, Art University of Isafhan; Gilding technology in the fourteenth century lajvardina tiles from the archaeological site of Takht-i Sulayman, north-western Iran, Rathgen-Forschungslabor; Museum für Islamische Kunst
• M.A. Kaila Howell, Harward University, Cambridge; Romantic Process Philosophy and the Nature Art of Philipp Otto Runge; Alte Nationalgalerie
• Dr. Zachary Jones, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Science, Stylistic-Analysis, and a Comparative Examination: A Study of Historic Tlingit Ethnographic Objects at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Ethnologisches Museum
• Messan Tossa, Universite Belome, Lome; On the expansion of the archival holdings of the German Colonial period in the State Archives of Togo, Ethnologisches Museum

• M.A.Maria Beatriz Haro-Carrión, Tulane University, New Orleans, Beyond Landscape: German Traveler-Artists and the Construction of Race in Latin America, Kupferstichkabinett
• M.B.A Medhavi Gandhi, The Heritage Lab, Chandigarh, Digital Networks: Enabling museum professionals to learn, engage and thrive in the 21st century”.  The project outcome is a toolkit titled “Embrace Digital”, Museum Europäischer Kulturen and Institut für Museumsforschung.
• Assis. Prof. Dr. Emad Hani Ismaeel, University of Mosul, Library of the Architectural Heritage – Façade elements of Mossul Traditional Houses as a Case Study, Museum für Islamische Kunst
• M.A. Sumihiro Oki, University of Amsterdam, Konrad Witz and Early Netherlandish painting, Gemäldegalerie
• Dr. Veronika Poier, Harvard University, Cambridge, When Style implies Knowledge: Contextualizing regional Tradition and foreign Innovation in Tile- Making Techniques under the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed I (r. 1413-1421), Museum für Islamische Kunst
• M.A. Juliana Saft, University of Sao Paulo, Environmental principles for paper reserves management in historic buildings at tropical regions. applied case: Paulista Museum, Sao Paulo City., Rathgen-Forschungslabor
• Dr. Renata Schellenberg , University of Toronto, Memory and Museum Culture, Ethnologisches Museum
• Oleg Sinitsyn, Staatliches Forschungsinstitut für Restaurierung, Moskau, Studying the methods for restoration of stone and plaster sculpture damaged by fire, Skultpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst
• Dr. Margueritte Spoerri Butcher, University of Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Discourses of local and imperial power from the Balkans to Mesopotamia: An analysis of Roman Provincial coins minted in the eastern Roman provinces, AD 238-249 (RPC volumes VII.2 and VIII), Münzkabinett
• Dr. Matthew Unangst, Jacksonville University, Los Angeles, Disclaiming Colonialism: Tanzania and the Two Germanies, 1964-1989, Ethnologisches Museum
• M.A. Hanna-Lisa von Lenthe, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Die Münzprägung und Münzgeschichte der österreichischen Neufürsten., Münzkabinett
• M.A. Michaela Watrelot, Charles University, Prag, Wilhelm Bode and the collector Rudolphe Kann: The private correspondence 1887-1905, Zentralarchiv

• Ulviie Ablaieva, Institut für Ethnologie, Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften der Ukraine (Lviv), Die Forschung der Artefakte der materiellen Kultur der Krimtataren, Museum Europäischer Kulturen
• Dr. Charlotte Bank, Université de Genève, Remaking a World. Recently Displaced Syrian Artists in Berlin: Exile, Marginality and Institutional Participation, Museum für Islamische Kunst
• Dr. Bat-ami Artsi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, In Multiple Ways: Manifestations of Additional Genders in Northern Andean Coast Iconography, 500-1532 A.D., Ethnologisches Museum
• Hanin Hannouch, School for Advanced Studies - IMT Lucca, Finding Robert Lohmeyer -  German Colonial Photography in Africa, Ethnologisches Museum
• Shireen EI Kassem, University of London, Mamluk silk production in Egypt and Syria (1250-1400 AD), Museum für Islamische Kunst
• Prof. Elisabeth Fraser, University of South Florida, Dressing Empire: Early Modern Ottoman Costume Books and Transculturation, Kunstbibliothek
• Dr. Anna Grasskamp, Hong Kong Baptist University, Academy of Visual Arts, Communication and Visual Arts, Objektbilder und Bildobjekte: Nürnberger Gefäß-, Schmuck- und Maschinendarstellungen des 16. Jahrhunderts, Kunstbibliothek
• Dr. Ruba Kasmo; Fatih Sultan Mehmet Waqf University, Istanbul, Documentation of the Built Heritage of Aleppo, Museum für Islamische Kunst
• Dr. Denis Lomtev, Hochschule für Management Moskau. Vom Jugendstil zum sozialistischen Realismus: Künstlerischer Werdegang Heinrich Vogelers im Spiegel seines Berliner Nachlasses, Kupferstichkabinett
• Dr. Michal Mencfel, Institut Historii Szuki, Poznan, Das Raczynskische Museum. Geschichte, Rezeption und Wirkung der Gemäldegalerie des Athanasius Graf Raczynsky in Berlin 1836-1874, (1904), Kunstbibliothek
• Dr. Michiyo Mori, Waseda University Tokyo, Fundamental Study on the Clay Sculptures from the Northern Silk Road, Museum für Asiatische Kunst
• Dr. Nathaniel Prottas, University of Chicago, The Founding of Education Departments in the State Museums of Berlin, Zentralarchiv
• Dr. Pepper Stetler, Miami University, Finding Form: Photography and the Werkbund, Kunstbibliothek, Museum für Fotografie
• Dr. Johanna Wild; University of New Mexico, Finding Robert Lohmeyer  - German Colonial Photography in Africa, Ethnologisches Museum