Grant of the Week: Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships - July 17, 2008
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offers fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by allowing them to engage in research in any field of knowledge or creation in the arts and sciences.
Grant of the Week: Fellowship in Naval History - July 10, 2008
The Naval War College Foundation annually awards one grant of $1,000 to a researcher who can make the optimum use of research materials for naval history located in the Naval War College’s Archives, Naval Historical Collection, Naval War College Museum collection, and the Henry E. Eccles Library.
Grant of the Week: Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums - July 03, 2008
Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums is a publication (available online as a PDF) that was created by the Library of Congress and the Foundation Center. It lists 1,725 grants of $5,000 or more…
Grant of the Week: American Institute of Indian Studies Research Fellowships - June 26, 2008
The American Institute of Indian Studies announces its 2008 fellowship competition and invites applications from scholars who wish to conduct their research in India.
Grant of the Week: OUTHistory Fellowship from CLAGS - June 19, 2008
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies offers two fellowship awards for OutHistory, their LGBTQ history web site in development. Winners will be awarded $2,500 in order to fund the research and development of a historical exhibit for the web site that will uploaded onto the site at the end of fellowship period.
Grant of the Week: Fellowship on Women and Public Policy - June 05, 2008
The Fellowship on Women and Public Policy, offered by the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society, is a unique opportunity for graduate students who want to improve the status of women.
Grant of the Week: NEH Humanities Collections and Resources Grants - May 29, 2008
The National Endowment for the Humanities offers Humanities Collections and Resources grants to support projects that preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture.
Grant of the Week: Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Contemporary History - May 22, 2008
The George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) offers a new Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Contemporary History…
Grant of the Week: Outreach Grants from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities - May 15, 2008
The Outreach Grant program, from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, supports small projects and is meant to familiarize new applicants with the procedures involved in running humanities programs.
Grant of the Week: Fellowship for the Study of American Popular Culture - May 08, 2008
The University Libraries, Northern Illinois University, invite applications for the Horatio Alger Fellowship for the Study of American Popular Culture.
Grant of the Week: Award for Best Article in Urban History - May 01, 2008
The Urban History Association is offering an Award for Best Article in Urban History published in a scholarly journal in 2007…
Grant of the Week: Master’s Thesis Fellowship from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation - April 24, 2008
The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation offers a number of Lieutenant Colonel Lily H. Gridley Memorial Master’s Thesis Fellowships each year to memorialize the Marine Corps’ first woman judge advocate.
Grant of the Week: Stella Blum Research Grant from the Costume Society of America - April 17, 2008
The Costume Society of America awards the Stella Blum Research Grant to an undergraduate or graduate student to support a single project focusing on any aspect of North American costume…
Grant of the Week: Mongolian Studies Research Fellowship - April 10, 2008
The American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS) announces its new American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS) Research Fellowship Program. This program will support three fellows to conduct up to 12-months of doctoral dissertation or post-doctoral research in Mongolia on topics in the social sciences or humanities.
Grant of the Week: World History Association Teaching Prize - April 03, 2008
The WHA offers an annual prize of $750 to a teacher who submits the finest world history lesson, successfully incorporating recent research and content ideas…
Grant of the Week: U.S. Professors of the Year Award - March 27, 2008
The U.S. Professors of the Year program recognizes the most outstanding undergraduate instructors in the country—those who excel in teaching and in positively influencing the lives and careers of students.
Grant of the Week: Research Grants from the State Historical Society of Iowa - March 20, 2008
The State Historical Society of Iowa (SHSI) will award up to eight research stipends of $1,000 each to support original research and interpretive writing related to the history of Iowa or Iowa and the Midwest.
Grant of the Week: Junior Fellows Summer Internships at the Library of Congress - March 13, 2008
The Library of Congress is offering 10-week Junior Fellows Summer Internships to college students this summer…
2008 Prizes, Awards, and Fellowships from the AHA - March 10, 2008
The AHA invites submissions for its 2008 awards and prizes, including 18 book prizes…
Grant of the Week: Patrick Henry Fellowship from the C.V. Starr Center - March 06, 2008
The C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College is accepting applications for its Patrick Henry Fellowship. This full-time residential fellowship program supports outstanding writing on American history and culture by scholars and nonacademic writers alike.
Grant of the Week: SHAFR Dissertation Completion Fellowship - February 28, 2008
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) offers two year-long Dissertation Completion Fellowships in the amount of $20,000 each, to support the writing and completion of the doctoral dissertation.
Grant of the Week: Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences - February 21, 2008
The Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences is bestowed upon a person, group of people, or institution whose work or research in the fields of anthropology, law, economics, geography, history, psychology, sociology, or other social sciences constitutes a significant contribution to the progress of these sciences to the benefit of mankind.
Grant of the Week: Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology - February 14, 2008
The Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology, awarded by the Society for the History of Technology, is for $10,000 and may be used for any purpose connected with research or writing in the history of technology for a period of not less than four months during the year following the award.
Grant of the Week: PEAES Dissertation Fellowships from the Library Company of Philadelphia - February 07, 2008
The Library Company of Philadelphia Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Fellowships are designed to promote scholarship in early American economy and society, broadly defined, from its colonial beginnings to roughly the 1850s. One dissertation-level fellowship is available, carries a stipend of $20,000, and is tenable for nine consecutive months of residency…
Grant of the Week: History of Space Science Fellowship - January 31, 2008
The History of Science Society Fellowship in the History of Space Science, funds a nine-month research project that is related to any aspect of the history of space science, from the earliest human interest in space to the present.
Grant of the Week: Research Grants for AHA Members - January 24, 2008
AHA members are eligible for four different research grants offered by the Association. All grants are offered annually and are intended to further research in progress. Preference is given to advanced doctoral students, non-tenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars. They may be used for travel to a library or archive; microfilming, photography, or photocopying; borrowing or access fees; and similar research expenses. The grants are as follows…
2007 Prizes and Awards - January 17, 2008
The 2007 prizes and awards granted by the AHA were presented at the 2008 General Meeting on January 4, 2008. The following day we posted a list of the award winners, and the titles of their award winning works (for book prizes). Now, an expanded version of this list, containing book citations and biographies, is available on the AHA web site.
Grant of the Week: Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas - January 17, 2008
Each year the Journal of the History of Ideas awards the Morris D. Forkosch Prize ($2,000) in intellectual history.
Grant of the Week: Save Our History Grant Program from The History Channel - January 10, 2008
The Save Our History Grant Program, from The History Channel, provides funding to history organizations that partner with schools on a local community preservation project.
Grant of the Week: African American History Grant Program from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities - December 27, 2007
The African American History Grant Program from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) are given with the goals of increasing public understanding of African American history and culture, supporting research and documentation of African American historic sites, strengthening institutions that interpret Virginia’s African American history, and providing a solid intellectual foundation for African American heritage tourism in every region of Virginia.
Grant of the Week: Dissertation Fellowships from the U.S. Army Center of Military History - December 20, 2007
Dissertation Fellowships from the United States Army Center of Military History support scholarly research and writing among qualified civilian graduate students preparing dissertations in the history of warfare.
Grant of the Week: Long-Term Fellowships from the John Carter Brown Library - December 13, 2007
The John Carter Brown Library provides a number of Long-Term Fellowships.
Grant of the Week: Air and Space Museum Fellowship in U.S. Naval Flight History - December 06, 2007
The Ramsey Fellowship, offered by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, is a competitive twelve-month, in-residence fellowship in “U.S. Naval Flight History.” A stipend of $45,000 will be awarded for a 12-month fellowship.
Grant of the Week: Bernard Choseed Memorial Fellowship from the YIVO Institute - November 29, 2007
The Professor Bernard Choseed Memorial Fellowship supports original doctoral or post-doctoral research in the field of East European Jewish studies.
Early Deadline for the Albert B. Corey Prize in Canadian-American Relations - November 25, 2007
Submissions for the 2008 Albert B. Corey Prize are due to the prize committee by January 15, 2008. The biennial prize will be awarded at the June 2008 annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association.
Grant of the Week: Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History - November 22, 2007
The Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History is offered biennially by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences to reward outstanding scholarly achievements in the field of history. Recipents are awarded a silver water clock which symbolizes Clio and $150,000 to be spent at the discretion of the recipient.
Grant of the Week: Study Invention and Innovation with a Lemelson Center Fellowship - November 15, 2007
The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center is seeking proposals for its 2008 Fellows Program, supporting projects that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in American society.
Grant of the Week: Fellowships from the White House Historical Association - November 08, 2007
The White House Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians seek proposals for research projects focusing on the roles of the White House as home, workplace, museum, structure, and symbol. Three fellowships are available in the areas of K-12 education; graduate, post-doctoral, and advanced work; and public history.
Grant of the Week: Fellowships for Research in China from ACLS - November 01, 2007
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is offering fellowships through its American Research in the Humanities in China program…
Grant of the Week: Postdoctoral Fellowships from the National Academy of Education - October 25, 2007
The National Academy of Education invites applications for the NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowships, which support early-career scholars working in critical areas of educational scholarship.
Grant of the Week: Mellon Fellowships for Assistant Professors - October 18, 2007
The School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, with the support of the Andrew Mellon Foundation, offers one-year fellowships for assistant professors at universities and colleges in the United States and Canada…
Grant of the Week: Doctoral Fellowships from the Japan Foundation - October 11, 2007
The Japan Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes international cultural exchange and mutual understanding between Japan and other countries. The foundation offers research fellowships and doctoral fellowships.
2008 Teaching American History Grants - October 10, 2007
The U.S. Department of Education is now accepting applications for the 2008 Teaching American History grant program…
Grant of the Week: Junior Fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks - October 04, 2007
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection offers Junior Fellowships in three areas of study: Byzantine Studies (including related aspects of late Roman, early Christian, Western medieval, Slavic, and Near Eastern studies), Pre-Columbian Studies (of Mexico, Central America, and Andean South America), and Garden and Landscape Studies.
Grant of the Week: NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants - September 27, 2007
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) invite applications to the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program.
Grant of the Week: Summer Stipends for the Study of American Christianity from the Louisville Institute - September 20, 2007
The Louisville Institute offers summer stipends to academics and pastors who have earned the terminal degree in their chosen vocation (e.g. M.Div., Ph.D., Th.D.) and are engaged in summer research projects pertaining to American Christianity.
Grant of the Week: Grants from the International Research & Exchanges Board - September 13, 2007
The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) offers grants to master’s students, predoctoral students, professionals, and postdoctoral scholars through its Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) program. The grants support in-depth field research in policy-relevant subject areas related to Southeast Europe and Eurasia or equivalent projects.
Grant of the Week: Digital Humanities Fellowship from Stanford - September 06, 2007
The Stanford Humanities Center will award one Digital Humanities Fellowship for the academic year 2008-09 to a junior or senior scholar.
Grant of the Week: Senior Fellowships from the National Gallery of Art - August 30, 2007
The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art is offering up to seven senior fellowships: one Paul Mellon Fellowship as well as four to six Ailsa Mellon Bruce and Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellowships.
Grant of the Week: Over $2 Million up for Grabs in the Digital Media and Learning Competition - August 23, 2007
HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) and the MacArthur Foundation have teamed up to create the Digital Media and Learning Competition, which will award $2 million in funds to “to support pioneers who use new technologies to envision the future of learning.”
Grant of the Week: Pursue “Change” with a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities from PHF - August 16, 2007
The Penn Humanities Forum (PHF) awards five one-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships each academic year to junior scholars (received doctorate between December 1999 and December 2007) in the humanities who are not yet tenured.
Grant of the Week: Postdoctoral Fellowships from Columbia University - August 09, 2007
The Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities will appoint a number of post-doctoral fellows in the humanities for the 2008-09 academic year. The annual stipend is $52,000.
Grant of the Week: John H. Daniels Fellowship from the National Sporting Library - August 02, 2007
The John. H. Daniels Fellowship supports researchers at the National Sporting Library, a research center for horse and fields sports, for periods of up to one year. Eligible applicants include university faculty, graduate students, museum curators, librarians, writers, and journalists from the following disciplines: history, literature, art history, anthropology, area studies, and history of sport. Recipients of the fellowship will receive a monthly stipend (max. of $2,000/month), free housing near the Library, workspace, and other resources.
Grant of the Week: Postdoctoral Fellowships from the Institute for Research in the Humanities - July 26, 2007
Through a generous bequest from Friedrich and Lieselotte Solmsen, the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, offers three one-year Solmsen Postdoctoral Fellowships to scholars from other universities working on literary and historical studies of the European Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance periods up to about the year 1700, awarded through an annual competition.
Grant of the Week: New Guggenheim Fellowship for Constitutional Studies - July 19, 2007
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in numerous fields (including natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts). For the 2008 competition the foundation will be offering a new fellowship in the field of Constitutional Studies.
Grant of the Week: Hiett Prize in the Humanities - July 12, 2007
The Hiett Prize in the Humanities, given by The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, is an annual award presented to a person whose work in the humanities shows extraordinary promise and has a significant public component related to contemporary culture. Its purpose is to encourage future leaders in the humanities by 1) recognizing their achievement and their potential and 2) assisting their work through a cash award of $50,000.
Grant of the Week: Jacob K. Javits Fellowships - July 05, 2007
The Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program assists students who undertake graduate study in selected fields of the arts, humanities, and social sciences leading to a doctoral degree, or to a master’s degree where the master’s degree is the terminal degree awarded in the selected field of study. History and non-American history are both eligible fields of study for this fellowship.
Dept. of Education Seeks Panel Reviewers for Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program - July 04, 2007
The Department of Education is seeking panel reviewers to evaluate applications from students applying for Jacob K. Javits Fellowships for the 2008 fiscal year.
Grant of the Week: Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chairs - June 28, 2007
The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chairs Program enables promising and prominent Canadian and American scholars, as well as experienced professionals to conduct research, develop collaborations, guest lecture and/or teach at select American and Canadian universities.
Grant of the Week: Fellowship from the Historic New Orleans Collection - June 21, 2007
The Historic New Orleans Collection invites entries for the Dianne Woest Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities.
Grant of the Week: World History Paper Prize - June 14, 2007
Phi Alpha Theta and the World History Association are co-sponsoring a student paper prize in world history.
Grant of the Week: NEH Humanities Collections and Resources Grants - June 07, 2007
The National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access offers Humanities Collections and Resources grants to U.S. nonprofit organizations or institutions, as well as to state and local government agencies. These grants range from $50,000 to $350,000 and are meant to support projects that preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, newspapers, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture.
Grant of the Week: Postdoctoral Bursaries from the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies - May 31, 2007
The University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) invites applications for postdoctoral bursaries (grants) from candidates in any area of the humanities and social sciences. Applicants’ work should fall within the scope of one of the Institute for Advanced Studies’ current research themes or across disciplinary boundaries in the humanities. The bursaries are for three to nine months, within the period of September 1, 2007 through August 31, 2008. Awards will be given up to a maximum of £10,000. No teaching is required, but successful applicants may be able to supplement the bursary by contributing to undergraduate teaching programs. The institute provides office accommodations and research facilities for recipients. Applicants must have been awarded a doctorate, normally within the last three years, and should not have held a permanent position at a university. Deadline: July 13. Visit the award web page for application forms, contacts, and more information.
Grant of the Week: ECHO Digital History Grants - May 24, 2007
George Mason’s Center for History and New Media is offering a number of $1,000 grants, through its ECHO project, to support online digital history collections on the recent history of science, technology, and industry. To apply, submit a grant proposal of no more than 500 words and a c.v. to chnm@gmu.edu with the subject line, “ECHO grant proposal,” by July 1, 2007.
Grant of the Week: American Society for Legal History Dissertation Prize - May 17, 2007
The American Society for Legal History announces the Cromwell Dissertation Prize for 2007, offered by the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation. The prize is awarded for dissertations accepted or student articles written in the previous year (2006) in the general field of American legal history (broadly conceived), with some preference for those in the area of early America or the colonial period. Deadline: June 15, 2007.
Grant of the Week: Economic History Association Dissertation Awards - May 10, 2007
The Economic History Association offers two dissertation prizes to recognize excellence in the economic history field. The Allan Nevins Prize is awarded for the best dissertation in U.S. or Canadian economic history, while the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize recognizes the best dissertation in non-U.S. or Canadian economic history. Entries must be submitted by June 1, 2007, and recipients will be presented their awards at the Economic History Association’s annual meeting in Austin, Texas in September 2007. See the web site for contact information and other details.
Grant of the Week: American Studies Association Dissertation Prize - May 03, 2007
The American Studies Association offers the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize, given annually to the best doctoral dissertation in American Studies, American Ethnic Studies or American Women’s Studies. Applicants who completed their dissertations between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007, and who are members of ASA, are eligible for the $500 prize.
Grant of the Week: Baylor University Oral History Research Fellowship - April 26, 2007
The Baylor University Institute for Oral History is offering one Oral History Research Fellowship for the 2007-08 academic year. This fellowship is designed to bring scholars to Waco, Texas, to work with oral history materials housed in The Texas Collection special library. The oral history collection has many aspects but is strongest in the areas of Central Texas history and religion in the Southwest. The fellowship carries a stipend of $3,000, as well as office space, computer support, and access to the holdings of the oral history collection. Application deadline is May 31, 2007. See the Baylor University Institute for Oral History web site for more information.
Grant of the Week: Fellowships from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - April 19, 2007
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History invites applications for short-term fellowships in several categories.
Grant of the Week: Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Dissertation Fellowship - April 12, 2007
The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation offers one $10,000 General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. Memorial Dissertation Fellowship per academic year to a qualified graduate student working on a doctoral dissertation pertinent to Marine Corps history. Topics in U.S. military and naval history, as well as history and history-based studies in the social and behavioral sciences, with a direct relationship to the history of the United States Marine Corps will be considered. The deadline for applications is May 1. See web site for details.
Grant of the Week: Research Seminar on Constitutionalism - April 05, 2007
The Institute for Constitutional Studies at George Washington University is hosting a residential research seminar on “Constitutionalism” in Washington, DC, June 11-17, 2007. Advanced graduate students and junior faculty are invited to apply by April 22nd. Instructors at the seminar will include Aviam Soifer (dean of the University of Hawaii law school) and Mary Sarah Bilder (Boston College). Participants will receive free lodging, a travel allowance, and a modest per diem to cover food and additional expenses. Lodging will be available from June 6 for participants who want to conduct additional research in the D.C. area and consult independently with Professor Soifer. See this pdf announcement for more information, or visit the institute’s web site.
Grant of the Week: American Institute of Physics - March 29, 2007
The American Institute of Physics’ Center for History of Physics offers grants-in-aid of up to $2,000 for research in the history of modern physics and allied sciences (astronomy, geophysics). Grants can be used only for work done in the center’s Neils Bohr Library in College Park, MD, or for work that adds to the library’s oral history collection. Applicants should either be working toward a graduate degree in the history of science or show a record of publication in the field. Application deadlines are April 15 and November 15 of each year. Visit the institute’s web site for more information.
Grant of the Week: Library of Congress Summer Interns - March 22, 2007
This summer the Library of Congress, home of the U.S. Copyright Office, is once again offering special 10-week, paid internships to college students (undergraduate and graduate). For a stipend of $3,000, Junior Fellows Summer Interns will work full-time, starting on June 4 and ending on Aug. 10, to help locate and itemize uncataloged materials submitted to the office as part of the copyright registration process. In the past, summer interns have identified hundreds of literary, artistic, film and musical gems among the Library’s copyright deposits. The deadline for applications is April 9th; see the LOC press release for full details. Text taken from the Library of Congress press release.
Grant of the Week: Jeanne Humphrey Block Dissertation Award - March 15, 2007
The Henry A. Murray Research Archive is pleased to offer the Jeanne Humphrey Block Dissertation Award to a qualified scholar during calendar year 2007. The award will be given in the amount of $2,500 to a PhD candidate in the social sciences, with an application deadline of April 1, 2007. Interested parties should send a letter of application, an academic vita, a summary of your proposed dissertation work, and two letters of recommendation to hmdc_directors@hmdc.harvard.edu. This text was taken from the Henry A. Murray Research Archive’s web site, for more information on this award see the announcement online.
Grant of the Week: Jameson Fellowship - March 08, 2007
Scholars hoping to snag $5,000 for research at the Library of Congress have until March 15 to submit applications for the J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History.
Grant of the Week: Craig Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellowship - March 01, 2007
Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, in Florence offers up to three Craig Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellowships each academic year. This fellowship is aimed at scholars engaged in some aspect of Italian Renaissance studies who hold demanding positions that permit little time for research.
Grant of the Week: German Studies Research Grant - February 22, 2007
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is offering up to five German Studies Research Grants to highly qualified undergraduate and graduate students who are nominated by their department/program chairs. The grant may be used for short-term research (one to two months) in either North America or Germany. Undergraduates must have at least junior standing and must be pursuing a German Studies track or minor. The grant provides support ranging from $1,500 to $2,500. Application deadline is May 1st. Find more information on these German Studies Research Grants online here.
Grant of the Week: $250K from the Save Our History Grant Program - February 15, 2007
This year, the History Channel will award $250,000 in grants of up to $10,000 to historical organizations to fund hands-on, experiential educational projects that teach students about their local history and actively engage them in its preservation. History museums, historical societies, preservation organizations, historic sites, libraries, archives, government agencies, and other historical organizations are eligible to apply. The deadline for applications is June 1, 2007. For guidelines and criteria, important dates, and to apply, visit www.saveourhistory.com.
Grant of the Week: National Museum of the American Indian Fellowship - February 08, 2007
The Conservation Department of the National Museum of the American Indian is accepting applications for 1-2 year fellowships, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, for post-graduates interested in experience in the care, preservation, and conservation of the museum’s collections. Deadline for applications is March 15th. Contact Marian Kaminitz (kaminitzm@si.edu) for more information, or see the Smithsonian’s web site on fellowship and internship programs.
Grant of the Week: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship - February 01, 2007
The James M. Osborn Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, offered by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, is open to scholars of British history, literature, society or culture in any period from the Middle Ages through the end of the Twentieth Century. Fellowship recipients will receive a stipend of $40,000 and a residential apartment during their 10-months of research at the Beinecke Library, which contains a collection of “books, manuscripts, prints, and original art concerning the literature, history, and culture of the British Isles.” The application deadline is February 15, 2007. For more information see the fellowship announcement on the Beinecke web site.
Grant of the Week: Fellowship from the Chemical Heritage Foundation - January 25, 2007
The Chemical Heritage Foundation invites applications for its Societe de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellowship. This fellowship “is designed to stimulate public understanding of the chemical industries. Applications are encouraged from writers, journalists, educators, and historians of science, technology, or business.”
Introducing: Grant of the Week - January 18, 2007
Beginning today, AHA Today will feature a “Grant of the Week” on the blog every Friday from here on out. Today’s Grant of the Week is: The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research’s National Research Competition.