In addition to the resources below, you should also refer to the extensive and helpful list of grants and resources maintained by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere. Talk to your supervisor and mentors about possible funding sources in your area of specialization (regional, methodological, thematic, chronological).
National and International Granting Agencies
(Grants not restricted to a particular library or archive)
American Catholic Historical Association
Summer research and writing grant.
American Council of Learned Societies
Many fellowships available, including several dedicated to specific geographic areas of study. Well worth a look.
American Historical Association
Several grants available.
American Research Institute in Turkey
For research in Turkey.
American-Scandanavian Foundation
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
A long list of different travel grants. See also their list of affiliate library travel grants.
Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France)
Residential fellowships for researchers in French and Francophone studies.
CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship
For female graduate students in history.
CCWH/Berks Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship
For female graduate students working on a historical dissertation that interrogates race and gender.
Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism (Notre Dame)
Hibernian Research Award (for the study of Irish Americans)
Research Travel Grant (for study at Notre Dame’s libraries)
German Historical Institute (Washington)
Doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships related to German history.
Institute for Humane Studies (George Mason)
Graduate sabbatical grants that release PhD students from teaching obligations and sponsorship of publications about liberalism and the liberal tradition.
Louisville Institute (for scholars writing about American religion.)
Medieval Academy of America
Among other grants there is a dissertation research grant and Shallek award and fellowship for medieval British history.
ACLS
Among other fellowships, American Council of Learned Societies has the ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER)
Dissertation completion grant in East European and Eurasian studies.
North American Conference on British Studies
Various grants and fellowships in British studies, including pre-dissertation grant and dissertation fellowship.
Organization of American Historians
Various prizes and awards for research and conference travel, and article competitions, including OAH/IEHS John Higham Travel Grants for travel to the OAH.
Phi Alpha Theta – Doctoral fellowships
Various prizes, including graduate school grant and doctoral scholarship for PAT members.
Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowships
The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) program supports distinguished graduate students in the humanities and social sciences conducting dissertation research outside the United States. This is a major funding source for students hoping to do a year of research abroad.
See also the SSRC’s funding page for other funding opportunities in international research.
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Various awards for graduate students working in US diplomatic history to research and write dissertations.
Southern Jewish Historical Society
Various grants to support research on Jewish and Southern Jewish topics.
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies
For students near completion. $3,000 award for research expenses.
Woodrow Wilson Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
In addition to topics in religious studies or in ethics (philosophical or religious), dissertations appropriate to the Newcombe Fellowship competition might explore 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.
Fellowships for Specific Libraries and Archives
American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, MA)
American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia)
John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship
Boston Athenæum Research Fellowships Recipients
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (D.C.)
Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism (Notre Dame)
Gerald R. Ford Library (Ann Arbor)
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (New York)
Hagley Museum and Library (Delaware)
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
Harry S. Truman Library Institute for National and International Affairs (Independence , Missouri)
Haverford College – Quaker Collection
Hoover Institute (Stanford University)
Huntington Library ( San Marino , CA)
Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (Cincinnati)
JDC Archives (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) (New York)
John Carter Brown Library (Brown University)
Library Company of Philadelphia
North Caroliniana Society (Chapel Hill)
Schlesinger Library (Radcliffe)
Smithsonian Institution (Washington)
Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives (Nashville)
UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies
University of Chicago Library Special Collections Research Fellowships (Platzman Memorial Fellowships)
University of Illinois – Russian and East European Collections (Summer Research Lab)
Winterthur Library (Winterthur, DE)
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (NY)
Postdocs
(and see above)
John W. Kluge Center , Library of Congress (Kluge Fellowship, among others)
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg)
Virginia Historical Society (Richmond)
Other Sources of Grant and Funding Information
H-Net
Lists fellowships, conferences etc.
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