Summer Programs: The academy has a number of summer programs that would involve study in Rome. A limited number of scholarships are available for participants.
For more information, please see http://www.aarome.org/index.htm
The ACLS has a number of dissertation and post-doctoral fellowships though many of these are restricted to individuals with US citizens or permanent residents of the US.
For more information, please see http://www.acls.org/
The AHA has a number of small grants for graduate students though these are restricted to AHA members.
For more information please see http://www.theaha.org/prizes/
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives has an annual Fellowship Program. The Marcus Center's Fellowship Program provides recipients with month long fellowships for research and writing at The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, located on the Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Fellowship stipends will be sufficient to cover transportation and living expenses while in residence in Cincinnati. Applicants for the Marcus Center Fellowship program must be conducting serious research in some area relating to the history of North American Jewry. Typically, Marcus Center Fellowships will be awarded to post-doctoral candidates, Ph.D. candidates who are completing dissertations, and senior or independent scholars.
For more information please see http://www.huc.edu/aja/
The American Research Institute in Turkey offers ARIT fellowships for research in Turkey. While grants for tenures up to one year will be considered, some preference is given to projects of shorter duration. Hostel, research, and study facilities are available at ARIT's branch centers in Istanbul and Ankara.
ELIGIBILITY: Scholars and advanced graduate students engaged in research on ancient, medieval, or modern times in Turkey, in any field of the humanities and social sciences, are eligible. Student applicants must have fulfilled all requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and/or be members in good standing of educational institutions in the United States or Canada. Pre-doctoral applicants may also qualify for ARIT's Kress Graduate Fellowship in the History of Art and Archaeology. Post-doctoral scholars may also apply for ARIT fellowships sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
For more information please see http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/ARITFellowships.htm
This association has a number of grants for which graduate students are eligible.
For more information please see http://www.aasianst.org
Library Grant
Fellowships are open to scholars working on doctoral dissertations or conducting
post doctoral research. A researcher's topic need not be specific to the history
of Michigan, but in all cases it must require significant use of the holdings
of the Bentley Library.
Scholars resident in Ann Arbor are eligible to apply provided that their work is considerably underway and based primarily on the holdings of the Bentley Library.
For more information please see >http://www.umich.edu/~bhl/
These scholarships normally run for four to six months, and are occasionally extended for short periods. Those selected participate in one or more of the Institute's projects, under the supervision of the Director, the Assistant Director or a project director. These range from archaeological surveys and excavations to oral-historical fieldwork, and may occasionally involve some archival research or the collection of linguistic and ethnographic data. Opportunities may be provided for some independent work to enable students to gain additional experience and to select subjects for subsequent thesis research. Recent graduates and senior graduate students are eligible.
For more information please see http://britac.ac.uk/institutes/eafrica/scholars.html
The Camargo Foundation maintains a study center in Cassis, France, for the benefit of fellows who wish to pursue projects in the humanities and social sciences related to French and Francophone cultures, as well as creative projects by visual artists, photographers, video artists, filmmakers, media artists, composers, and writers. For scholarly projects, research should be at an advanced stage and not require resources unavailable in the Marseilles-Cassis-Aix region. The Foundation offers, at no cost, twelve furnished apartments as well as a reference library, a darkroom, an artist's studio, and a music composition studio. The residential fellowship is accompanied by a $3,500 stipend, which is awarded automatically to each recipient of the grant.
For more information please see http://www.camargofoundation.org/
The Canadian Government provides support for teaching, research, conferences and program activities that further the knowledge and understanding of Canada in the United States. We are particularly interested in projects that focus on the diverse aspects of Canada-U.S. relations. Priority topics include bilateral trade, Canada-U.S. border issues, security cooperation, environmental and natural resources issues, and cultural relations.
For more information please see http://www.canadianembassy.org/
Several scholarships are funded by the Canadian and International Scholarship Program. These include
For more information on any of the above please see http://www.scholarships-bourses-ca.org/
The Woodson Institute invites scholars working in the humanities and social sciences to apply for predoctoral (two-year) and postdoctoral (one-year) fellowships. These residential fellowships are designed to facilitate the completion of dissertations/manuscripts in African American and African Studies and related fields; preference is given to applicants whose research is substantially completed.
For more information please see http://www.virginia.edu/~woodson/
The center offers several programs to foster the development of Holocaust and genocide studies, broadly defined.
For more information please see http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/
The Charles Babbage Institute has an annual competition for the Adelle and Erwin Tomash Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship will be awarded to a graduate student for research in the history of computing.
The fellowship may be held at the recipent's home academic institution, the Charles Babbage Institute, or any other location where there are appropriate research facilities. The stipend is $10,000 plus up to $2,000 for tuition, fees, travel to the Charles Babbage Institute and relevant archives. It is intended for students who have completed all requirements for the doctoral degree except the research and writing of the dissertation.
For more information please see http://www.cbi.umn.edu/
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. In addition to topics in religious studies or in ethics (philosophical or religious), dissertations might consider the ethical implications of foreign policy, the values influencing political decisions, the moral codes of other cultures, and religious or ethical issues reflected in history or literature. Winners will receive $16,500 for 12 months of full-time dissertation writing. Approximately 35 non-renewable fellowships will be awarded from among more than 400 applications. Graduate schools will be asked to waive tuition for Newcombe Fellows.
For more information please see http://www.woodrow.org/newcombe/newcombe_purpose.html
The Chemical Heritage Foundation plays host to scholars from all parts of the world through its fellowship and travel grant programs. Through the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry, CHF administers several different fellowships for both the academic year and the summer. Research Travel Grants are also available for scholars who want to visit for a shorter term. Our visiting scholars are encouraged to use the resources of the Othmer Library and other area resources. For more information about Fellowship opportunities at CHF please contact Josh McIlvain (joshm@chemheritage.org), the Fellowship Coordinator.
Please see http://www.chemheritage.org/
DAAD grants are available to faculty and students in Canada and the United States to participate in a wide variety of academic activites. In general, applicants need to be US or Canadian citizens or permanent residents. In certain cases foreign nationals enrolled or employed at universities in North America may also be eligible to apply.
DAAD has both research grants and language study grants.
Please see http://www.daad.org/
The Center for Afroamerican and African Studies invites applications for the DuBois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellowship Program from scholars working on Africa or the African diaspora. Consideration will be given to all disciplines including the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and professional schools. Scholars from or who study the Gullah speaking Sea islands, Cape Verde islands, the Anglophone Caribbean, the Canary Islands, and Madagascar and/or other less studied areas are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in hand and be no more than five years beyond completion of their degree
For more information please see http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/caas/
The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library of Duke University announces the availability of grants for researchers whose work would benefit from access to the library's archival and rare printed collections. These grants are offered by the library's research centers: The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture; The John Hope Franklin Collection of African and African-American Documentation; and The John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History. Researchers may apply for grants from more than one center. The maximum award per applicant is $1,000.
For more information please see http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/specoll/grants.html
Dumbarton Oaks offers residential fellowships in its three areas of study: Byzantine Studies (including related aspects of late Roman, early Christian, western medieval, Slavic, and Near Eastern Studies) and Pre-Columbian Studies (of Mexico, Central America, and Andean South America).
Eligiblity for Junior Fellowships is restricted to students who at the time of application have fulfilled all preliminary requirements for a Ph.D. (or appropriate final degree) and will be working on a dissertation or final project at Dumbarton Oaks under the direction of a faculty member at their own university. In exceptional cases, applications may be accepted from students before they have fulfilled their preliminary requirements for graduation.
There are also Summer Fellowships that are open to individuals at any academic level.
For more information please see http://www.doaks.org/
The Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine, of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia has an annual competition for library grants.
Wood Fellowships generally carry a maximum grant of $1000, and require at least one week's residence at the College of Physicians. It is expected that Wood Fellows will use the unique resources of the College's Medical Historical Library and Mutter Museum in their research. The grants are intended for travel to Philadelphia or to offset income loss and research expenses.
For more information please see http://www.collphyphil.org/
The Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies has a broad mandate in undergraduate and graduate education, advance research, and exchange within the University community. This institute has both pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships.
For more information please see http://www.rochester.edu/College/AAS/Fellowship/fellowships.html
The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program is a program of educational exchange between Canada and the United States. The aim of the program is to increase understanding between the two countries by providing scholarships and fellowships to Canadian and American faculty and graduate students to allow them to study in the other country.
For more information please see http://www.usembassycanada.gov/content/index.asp
Grants-in-aid: Short-term grants-in-aid support visits to Hagley for scholarly research in the imprint, manuscript, pictorial, and artifact collections. They are designed to assist researchers with travel and living expenses while using the research collections. Scholars receive a stipend, make use of the research holdings, and participate in the programs of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society. These grants are to support serious scholarly work. They are available to both degree candidates and senior scholars and writers working independently as well as college and university teachers, librarians, archivists, museum curators, and scholars from fields other than humanities. Scholars are expected to participate in seminars which meet periodically, as well as attend noontime colloquia, lectures, and other public programs offered during their tenure. Low cost housing may be available on the museum grounds.
Please see http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/center.html
The competition for these awards is open only to doctoral candidates (Ph.D. or comparable professional school degree) or recent recipients of these degrees who may already hold teaching or research positions. Candidates for advanced degrees must have completed all course work and general examinations by the time of application. Historically, competitive candidates have already made significant progress on their dissertations.
The purpose of the Academy Scholars Program is to identify outstanding scholars who are at the start of their careers and whose work combines disciplinary excellence in the social sciences and history with an in-depth grounding in particular countries or regions outside the United States, Canada, and Western Europe.
For more information please see http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/academy/scholars.htm
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies offers a pre-doctoral fellowship each year . Benefits include the use of computing facilities and desk space (if available) as well as access to the resources of the University of London.
For more information please see http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/research/fellows2.html
The Institute of Historical Research has at least three scholarships that might be of interest to individuals who have to do research in England.
1) Research Fellowship in History
The Institute of Historical Research offers Research Fellowships in History
each year, tenable at the Institute, for PhD candidates who have already completed
at least two years' research on their chosen topic.
2) Past & Present Fellowships
The Past and Present Society and the Institute of Historical Research offer
a one-year postdoctoral Research Fellowship in History tenable at the Institute.
3) IHR Mellon Fellowships
The IHR-Mellon offers both Pre-Dissertation and Dissertation Fellowships. There
are NO citizenship requirements. To be eligible students must be studying
at a North American institution.
For more information on any of these fellowships please see http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/awards/fellowships.html#ihr
The ICCS has an annual competition for Graduate Student Fellowships and Internships for specialists in Canadian History.
For more information please see http://www.iccs-ciec.ca/
The John Carter Brown Library has an annual Research Fellowship program Sponsorship of research at the John Carter Brown Library is reserved exclusively for scholars whose work is centered on the colonial history of the Americas, North and South, including all aspects of the European, African, and Native American involvement. There are both short-term and long-term fellowships.
For more information please see http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/index.html
The Library Company of Philadelphia has a number of fellowships that can be used for both post-doctoral and dissertation research. Theses are eligible to foreign nationals scholars who live outside of the United States. An applicant's research should focus on early American culture and history (colonial period until the end of the 19th century).
For more information please see http://www.librarycompany.org/
These scholarships will pay for up to 8 months of accommodation at London House or William Goodenough House - residences for international graduate students in Mecklenburgh Square, London that form part of Goodenough College.
For more information please see http://www.lgac.ca
This is an annual fellowship ($2500) for North American scholars needing to do research in France. Graduate students who reside in North America and whose research is related to French history and culture requires work in archives libraries and other research holdings in France are eligible to apply.
Please contact Kathryn Norberg for application details. Email: knorberg@ucla.edu
Kathryn Norberg Millstone Fellowship
Department of History
PO Box 951473
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473
The Muktabodha Indological Research Institute invites applications from individual graduate students undertaking dissertation research in Hinduism.
For more information please see http://www.muktabodha.org/fellowships.htm
The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study. Applicants must hold doctorate or have equivalent scholarly credentials, and a record of publication is expected. Both senior and younger scholars are eligible for fellowships, but the latter should be engaged in research other than the revision of a doctoral dissertation. Fellowships are for the academic year (September through May). Scholars from any nation and humanistically inclined individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life, as well as from all fields of the humanities, are eligible.
For more information please see http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/
The Omohundro Institute offers two post-doctoral fellowships in any area of early American history.
For more information please see http://www.wm.edu/oieahc/fello.html
The Department of History
has detailed information about this scholarship. The application package can
also be picked up from the Department. Deadline for application is usually around
mid-October and the application must be submitted through the Department.
The OGS program is open to citizens, permanent residents of Canada and international students attending an university in Ontario.
For more information please see http://osap.gov.on.ca/eng/not_secure/OGS.htm
The Rockefeller Archive Center of The Rockefeller University will continue a five-year program of residencies for research at the Center on topics related to the history of basic medical research, a subject richly represented in the archival collections at the Center.
The history of basic medical research will be broadly defined to include most aspects of the history of the Rockefeller University (founded as the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in 1901), much of the history of the international medical, public health, and scientific research programs of the Rockefeller Foundation, and major elements of the histories of the Commonwealth Fund, Culpeper Foundation, Markey Trust, and Markle Foundation. Certain segments of the Rockefeller family archives also document the history of basic medical research, such as the founding and support of research institutions. As a group, the archives of these institutions constitute one of the outstanding resources for the study of the history of basic medical research in the 20th century.
For more information please see http://www.rockefeller.edu/archive.ctr/medres.html
The Smithsonian has both internships and fellowships.
For more information please see http://www.sil.si.edu/
The Office of Fellowships and Grants administers both pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships.
For more information please see http://www.si.edu/ofg/
SSHRC has both doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships.
For more information please see http://www.sshrc.ca/
The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College is an internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history. The holdings document the historical experience of women in the United States and abroad from the colonial era to the present.
The Sophia Smith Collection and the Smith College Archives at Smith College has three annual research support programs: the Margaret Storrs Grierson Scholars-in-Residence Awards, the Caroline D. Bain Scholar-in-Residence Award, and the Travel-to-Collections Fund. We welcome applications from faculty members, independent scholars, and graduate students who live at least 50 miles from Northampton, Massachusetts, and whose research interests and objectives would be significantly advanced by extended research in the holdings of either the Sophia Smith Collection or the Smith College Archives.
For more information please see http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/index.html
Scholars can apply to work in the Vatican Film Library or the Rare Book Collection for one or two five-week periods during the regular academic year.
For more information please see http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/cmrs/fellow.html
The East Asian Library offers small library grants to scholars from outside of Kansas. Its collection has over 185,000 volumes in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and substantial periodical holdings. The collection is especially strong in the fields of Chinese and Japanese art history, history, literature, religion, and Japanese women's studies.
For more information please see http://www2.lib.ku.edu/eastasia/ealtravelgrant.htm
To promote the interpretation of Virginia history and access to its collections, the Virginia Historical Society, funded by a matching grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and gifts from individuals, offers fellowships of up to four weeks a year.
The majority of awards go to persons who live out of the area and incur greater expenses. We expect recipients to work on a regular basis in our reading room during the period of their award. We welcome applications from doctoral candidates. Undergraduates, master's students, and graduate students not yet admitted to Ph.D. candidacy are not eligible.
For more information please see http://www.vahistorical.org/
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has annual competition for Predissertation Fellowships. Predissertation Fellowships are grants of $3,000 offered to graduate students who have passed preliminary exams and who are exploring or beginning research on a project related to the core interests of the Weatherhead Center. These interests are broadly defined to include research on international, transnational, and comparative topics (both contemporary and historical) including rigorous policy analysis as well as the study of countries and regions other than the United States.
For more information please see http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu
For short-term visits by scholars based elsewhere to the UK and for UK, Irish or Dutch scholars to other countries, or, the Republic of Ireland or The Netherlands. Visits under this scheme may be to consult libraries or archives, to exchange views or work with colleagues who have similar research interests, or to attend small specialist workshops and symposia. Study or lecture tours, meetings of a professional or vocational nature and international congresses are normally excluded.
For more information please see http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/homgratra.html
The foundation sponsors a number of fellowships in Humanistic Studies for individuals planning to prepare for careers in humanistic teaching and scholarship. Many of these are for persons with US citizenship. The post-doctoral fellowship is open to anyone with a degree from a Canadian or US graduate program.
For more information please see http://www.woodrow.org/
The institute offers a number of fellowships to support scholars conducting research in American Jewlish history at the YIVO library and Archives
For more information please see http://www.yivoinstitute.org/index.htm