LGBTQ History Research Grant

The 2024 grant competition is now closed. The application for the 2025 grant will be available in late 2024.

The American Historical Association offers LGBTQ History Research Grants to support new and continuing research in LGBTQ history, available to scholars working in all temporal and geographic fields. Open to scholars at all career levels, this grant will especially serve graduate students and early career researchers working on LGBTQ history. Individual grants up to $500 will be awarded.

Eligibility

Only members of the Association are eligible to apply for AHA research grants. Grants are awarded each June and may be used anytime in the subsequent 15 months for expenses related to furthering research in progress. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars, and to those with specific research needs, such as the completion of a project or a discrete segment thereof.

Please note: Within a five-year period, no individual is eligible to receive more than a combined total of $1,500 from all AHA research grants.

Application Process

Log into your MY AHA account at historians.org/myaha and click “Available Application Forms” in the AHA Awards, Grants, and Jobs section. The deadline is February 15.

  1. Fill in the application form, which includes your contact information, the title of your work, and specific funding and budget information.
  2. Upload an Application Packet as a single PDF. Include the following documents:
    • CV (up to 5 pages)
    • Statement (up to 750 words) describing your project, including specific uses to which you will put the funds. If special skills, such as foreign language, paleography, or oral history are essential to the project, please indicate your level of proficiency
    • Bibliography (1 page) of the most recent, relevant secondary works on the topic
  3. Letters of recommendation are NOT required.

Selection Process

A selection committee reviews applications each spring, and applicants will be notified of the committee’s decision by email in mid-May. Awards are distributed each June. Please, no phone calls.

Requirements

Successful applicants will be expected to complete a survey outlining how the funds were used and how they furthered the grantee’s research. Survey responses will be due in August of the year following the grant award. AHA financial support should be acknowledged in any publication resulting from this research.

For questions, please contact the Prize Administrator.