Fellowship and Grant Opportunities
for Faculty

Humanities and Social Sciences
Deadlines: DECEMBER 2009-APRIL 2010


  • Grants for Travel to Libraries, Archives, Collections, or Other Research Sites


GRANTS FOR TRAVEL TO LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, COLLECTIONS, OR OTHER RESEARCH SITES

(by deadline)


NOTE: Many deadlines are anticipated deadlines, based on prior application cycles. Please confirm deadlines with funding sources.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Visiting Scholar Program

DEADLINE: November 24, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Fellowships are awarded to postdoctoral researchers and senior scholars.
ABSTRACT: The center awards fellowships to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust. The Center welcomes proposals from scholars in all relevant disciplines including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, philosophy, religion, psychology, comparative genocide studies, law and others. The length of an award is at the discretion of the Center. A minimum tenure of three consecutive months is required; fellowships of five months or longer have proven most effective.
URL: http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/application

 

American Philosophical Society
Franklin Research Grants

DEADLINE: December 1, 2009 for work in April through December
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants are expected to have a doctorate. Ph.D. candidates are not eligible to apply, but the society is particularly interested in supporting the work of young scholars who have recently received the doctorate. American citizens and residents of the United States may use their Franklin awards at home or abroad. Foreign nationals must use their Franklin awards for research in the United States. Applicants who have received Franklin grants may reapply after an interval of two years.
ABSTRACT: The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses.
URL: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/franklin

 

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Kennan Institute Summer Research Grants

DEADLINE: December 1, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: Awards are limited to scholars who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents upon commencement of their scholarship.
ABSTRACT: Scholars who conduct research in the social sciences or humanities focusing on the former Soviet Union (excluding the Baltic States), and who demonstrate a particular need to utilize the library, archival, and other specialized resources of the Washington, D.C., area can apply for the new summer research grants.
URL: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.item&news_id=548790

 

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Short-Term Grants

DEADLINE: December 1, 2009; March 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: These grants are available to American academic experts and practitioners engaged in specialized research requiring access to Washington, DC and its research institutions.
ABSTRACT: With funding provided by Title VIII (the Act for Research and Training for Eastern Europe and Independent States of Former Soviet Union), EES offers short-term grants to scholars working on policy relevant projects on East Europe. Special consideration will be given to projects on Southeast Europe, or projects that can be credibly linked to issues in the Western Balkans. Projects should focus on fields in the social sciences and humanities including, but not limited to, anthropology, history, political science, Slavic languages and literatures, and sociology. All projects should aim to highlight their potential policy relevance.
URL: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm

 

Huntington Library
Short-Term and Long-Term Fellowships

DEADLINE: December 15, 2009
ABSTRACT: The Huntington is an independent research center with holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, and the history of science and medicine. The Library collections range chronologically from the eleventh century to the present and include a half-million rare books, nearly six million manuscripts, 800,000 photographs, and a large ephemera collection, supported by a half-million reference works. Short-term fellowships are tenable for periods of one to five months; long-term fellowships are tenable for periods from nine to twelve months. Fellows are expected to be in continuous residence.
URL: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=566

 

Yale University
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Fellowships for Visiting Scholars

DEADLINE: December 15, 2009
ELIGIBILITY: It is necessary to have the doctoral degree in hand at the time that the applicant applies.
ABSTRACT: The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library offers short-term fellowships to support visiting scholars pursuing postdoctoral or equivalent research in its collections. Normally granted for one month, fellowships must be taken up between September 1, 2010, and May 31, 2011. Recipients are expected to be in residence during the period of their award and are encouraged to participate in the activities of Yale University. Successful applicants normally explain in extensive and specific detail the relationship of the Beinecke collections to their project and its significance within the larger field of scholarly concern.
URL: http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brbleduc/brblapplyvisiting.html

 

McGill University
Osler Library Research Travel Grant

DEADLINE: December 31, 2009
ABSTRACT: The Osler Library of the History of Medicine sponsors a travel grant designed to assist scholars who need to travel and establish temporary residence in Montreal in order to use the resources of the library. The grant is available to historians, physicians, and those interested in the arts and humanities of medical history.
URL: http://www.mcgill.ca/library/library-using/branches/osler-library/about/#GRANT

 

University of Notre Dame
Research Travel Grants

DEADLINE: December 31, 2009
ABSTRACT: Grants to help defray travel and lodging costs are made to scholars of any academic discipline who are engaged in projects that require substantial use of the collection of the library or the archives of the University of Notre Dame. The library collection is particularly rich in the following areas: Catholic newspapers, history of midwestern Catholicism, Catholic literature, and history of Catholicism in the United States. Manuscripts of historical personages, records of twentieth century Catholic organizations, reports of European missionary societies, and much more material related to the American Catholic community are held in the archives. Research projects must be related to the study of American Catholicism.
URL: http://www.nd.edu/~cushwa/grants/index.shtml

 

Winterthur Museum
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships

DEADLINE: January 7, 2010 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be U.S. citizens or residents for three years prior to application.
ABSTRACT: Winterthur participates in a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funded program, Fellowships at Independent Research Institutions, in which scholars may receive 4 to 12 month fellowships to pursue advanced research. Winterthur Library is a recognized center for advanced study and is dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of America's artistic, cultural, social, and intellectual history from colonial times into the twentieth century. Fellows have conducted research in the areas of material culture, architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture, garden and landscape studies, Shaker studies, travel and tourism, the Atlantic World, childhood, sentimental literary culture, and many other areas of social and cultural history. Winterthur's museum and library collections are rich and diverse, and Winterthur welcomes applications that offer fresh approaches to the resources.
URL: http://www.winterthur.org/research/fellowship.asp?sub=fellowships_avail

 

Winterthur Museum
Winterthur Research Fellowships

DEADLINE: January 7, 2010 ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ABSTRACT: Winterthur Research Fellowships are short-term (one to three months) fellowships for academic and independent scholars. Winterthur Library is a recognized center for advanced study and is dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of America's artistic, cultural, social, and intellectual history from colonial times into the twentieth century. Fellows have conducted research in the areas of material culture, architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture, garden and landscape studies, Shaker studies, travel and tourism, the Atlantic World, childhood, sentimental literary culture, and many other areas of social and cultural history.
URL: http://www.winterthur.org/research/fellowship.asp?sub=fellowships_avail

 

John Carter Brown Library
Long-Term Fellowships

DEADLINE: January 10, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants for some of the Long-Term Fellowships (funded by NEH) must be American citizens or have been resident in the United States for the three years immediately preceding the application deadline.
ABSTRACT: The JCB is an independently administered and funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities located on the campus of Brown University. Sponsorship of research at the JCB 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. The JCB will receive applications for Long-Term Fellowships, several of which are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), an independent agency of the U.S. Federal government, by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and by the InterAmericas Fellowship which supports research on the history of the West Indies and the Caribbean basin. The R. David Parsons Fellowship supports the study of the history of exploration and discovery. Recipients of all fellowships are expected to relocate to Providence and to be in continuous residence at the JCB for the entire term of the award.
URL: http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/

 

John Carter Brown Library
Short-Term Fellowships

DEADLINE: January 10, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: These fellowships are open to Americans and foreign nationals who are engaged in postdoctoral research.
ABSTRACT: The JCB is an independently administered and funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities located on the campus of Brown University. Sponsorship of research at the JCB 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. Recipients of all fellowships are expected to relocate to Providence and to be in continuous residence at the JCB for the entire term of the award. The JCB offers several Short-Term Fellowships to scholars who are engaged in postdoctoral, or independent research in areas of research on colonial America that may benefit from the use of JCB materials, including such areas as research in the history of cartography or a closely related area; research in bibliography and the history of printing; research on the history of women and the family in the Americas prior to 1825, including the question of cultural influences on gender formation; research in early maritime history; research in the comparative history of the colonial Americas; colonial Spanish American history; research on some aspect of the Jewish experience in the New World before 1825.
URL: http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/

 

Newberry Library
Long-Term Fellowships

DEADLINE: January 11, 2009
ABSTRACT: Long-term fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars for periods of six to eleven months. These grants support individual research and promote serious intellectual exchange through active participation in the Library's scholarly activities, including a biweekly fellows' seminar. The stipends for these fellowships range from $25,200 to $50,400. Applicants may combine these fellowship awards with sabbatical or other stipendiary support. Scholars may apply for any of the long-term fellowships using the same application.
URL: http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/long-term.html

 

American Antiquarian Society
AAS-NEH Long-Term Fellowships

DEADLINE: January 15, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: U.S. citizens and foreign nationals who have been resident in the U.S. for at least three years immediately preceding the application deadline are eligible.
ABSTRACT: AAS-NEH fellowships last from four to twelve months, and fellows are expected to be in residence at the Society. They must devote full time to their study and may not hold other fellowships or grants, except for sabbatical and other supplemental grants from their own institution.
URL: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/nehfellowship.htm

 

American Antiquarian Society
Short-Term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships

Deadline: January 15, 2010
ABSTRACT: Short-term visiting academic research fellowships are tenable for period of one to three months. Fellows are expected to be in residence at the Society during the entire fellowship period.
URL: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/acafellowships.htm

 

Massachusetts Historical Society
Long-Term Research Fellowships

DEADLINE: January 15, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Fellows must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals who have lived in the United States continuously for at least three years at the time of application.
ABSTRACT: Long-term awards support six to twelve months of continuous research in the collections. Fellows must be in residence for the entire tenure of the fellowship.
URL: http://www.masshist.org/fellowships/long_term.cfm

 

Yale University
Lewis Walpole Library
Visiting Fellowships

DEADLINE: January 18, 2010
ABSTRACT: The Lewis Walpole Library, a department of the Yale University Library, has significant holdings of eighteenth-century British prints, drawings, manuscripts, books, and paintings. It is able to support advanced research in most aspects of British eighteenth-century studies. The library offers visiting fellowships, normally for four weeks, as well as travel grants of lesser duration, to scholars engaged in postdoctoral research.
URL: http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/information/fellowships.html

 

Duke University
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Research Grants

DEADLINE: January 29, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Any faculty member with a research project directly related to the collections is eligible to apply.
ABSTRACT: The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library announces the availability of grants for researchers whose work would benefit from access to the five research centers of library’s collections.
URL: http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/services/grants/application.html

 

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
Grants-in-Aid

DEADLINE: January 30, 2010 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ABSTRACT: The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute is dedicated to preserving the legacy and promoting the ideals of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Grants-in-Aid are awarded to support research on the "Roosevelt Years" and clearly related subjects. The awards are made to assist scholars in conducting research at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York. Grants are intended especially to assist younger scholars, and scholars from the emerging democracies and the Third World. Priority is given to proposals that utilize library resources, and which have the greatest likelihood of publication.
URL: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu

 

Association for Asian Studies
AAS China and Inner Asia Council Small Grants

DEADLINE: February 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be current AAS members, but there are no citizenship requirements.
ABSTRACT: Small grants are available to scholars with special interests in China or Inner Asia. Applications are specifically encouraged in the following areas: 1. Curriculum development at the college or secondary level. 2. Conferences and seminars: organization of small conferences and seminars away from major centers of Chinese studies. 3. Short research trips for scholars at non-research institutions, to travel to major libraries and collections in North America and Taiwan. 4. Specialist or regional newsletters or websites disseminating important information to their respective fields 5. Translations of scholarly books and articles. 6. Collaborative projects in which the grant will facilitate communication and limited travel by scholars working on a common project in Taiwan and North America. The following items are not eligible for funding: (1) travel to conferences, including the AAS annual meeting; (2) book subventions and publication costs; and (3) repeat applications for previously funded projects and organizations.
URL: http://www.aasianst.org/grants/main.htm#CIAC

 

Association for Asian Studies
Japan Studies Grants
Research Travel Within the USA

DEADLINE: February 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents who have not received funds in this category within the past five years. These grants are primarily intended to support postdoctoral research on Japan.
ABSTRACT: The Association for Asian Studies supports a variety of grant programs in Japanese studies designed to facilitate the research of individual scholars, to improve the quality of teaching about Japan on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study of Japan into the major academic disciplines. Under the Research Travel within the USA category, grants are offered to persons who are engaged in scholarly research on Japan and wish to use museum, library, or other archival materials located in the USA.
URL: http://www.aasianst.org/grants/main.htm

 

Library of Congress
American Folklife Center
Parsons Fund Award

DEADLINE: February 1, 2010 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ABSTRACT: The Parsons Fund Committee at the Library of Congress invites applications for grant funds for 2009. The purpose of the fund is to make the collections of primary ethnographic materials housed anywhere at the Library of Congress available to the needs and uses of those in the private sector. Awards may be made either to individuals or to organizations in support of specific projects. Projects may lead to publication in media of all types, both commercial and noncommercial; underwrite new works of art, music, or fiction; involve academic research; contribute to the theoretical development of archival science; explore practical possibilities for processing ethnographic collections in the Archive of Folk Culture or elsewhere in the Library of Congress; develop new means of providing reference service; support student work; experiment with conservation techniques; and support ethnographic field research leading to new library acquisitions.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/grants.html#parsons

 

University of Texas at Austin
Harry Ransom Center
Research Fellowship Program - One- to Three-Month Fellowships

DEADLINE: February 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: All applicants must be postdoctorates. United States citizens and foreign nationals are eligible to apply. Individuals who have previously received a Ransom Center fellowship are eligible to reapply after one year has passed.
ABSTRACT: The Ransom Center awards fellowships to support scholarly research projects in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history. One- to three-month fellowships are available for research in the center's collections. A complete list of available fellowships is on the website.
URL: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fellowships/application/

 

University of Texas at Austin
Harry Ransom Center
Research Fellowship Program - Travel Stipends

DEADLINE: February 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: All applicants must be postdoctorates. United States citizens and foreign nationals are eligible to apply. Individuals who have previously received a Ransom Center fellowship are eligible to reapply after one year has passed. Travel stipends may not be combined with other Ransom Center fellowships.
ABSTRACT: The Ransom Center awards fellowships to support scholarly research projects in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history. Travel stipends may be awarded to scholars with research projects that require less than one month's research at the Ransom Center. There is not a specified length of residency for travel stipends.
URL: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fellowships/application

 

Filson Historical Society
Ballard Breaux Visiting Fellowships

DEADLINE: February 15, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be Ph.D.s.
ABSTRACT: These fellowships are intended to encourage the scholarly use of The Filson's nationally significant collections by providing support for travel and lodging. Fellows are expected to be in continuous residence at The Filson. The society's collections are especially strong for the frontier, antebellum, and Civil War eras of Kentucky history. The fellowships are designed to encourage research in all aspects of the history of Kentucky and the regions of the Ohio Valley and the Upper South.
URL: http://www.filsonhistorical.org/fellowships.html

 

American Jewish Historical Society
Sid and Ruth Lapidus Fellowship

DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Preference will be given to researchers interested in 17th and 18th century American Jewish history and to authors seeking subsidization of a first book in the field of early American Jewish history.
ABSTRACT: The fellowship supports one or more researchers wishing to use the collections of the AJHS in New York or Massachusetts. Preference is given to research in 17th and 18th century American Jewish history. At the discretion of the awards committee, the fellowship funds may also be applied to subsidizing publication of a first book in the field of American Jewish history, again with preference given to works in early American Jewish history.
URL: http://www.ajhs.org/academic/Awards.cfm

 

American Philosophical Society
Library Resident Research Fellowships

DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
ABSTRACT: These short-term fellowships are intended for conducting research in the library's collections. The APS Library is a leading international center for research in the history of American science and technology and its European roots, as well as early American history and culture. The library houses over eight million manuscripts, 250,000 volumes and bound periodicals, and thousands of maps and prints. Outstanding historical collections and subject areas include the papers of Benjamin Franklin; the American Revolution; 18th- and 19th-century natural history; western scientific expeditions and travel including the journals of Lewis and Clark; polar exploration; the papers of Charles Willson Peale, his family and descendants; American Indian languages; anthropology including the papers of Franz Boas; the papers of Charles Darwin and his forerunners, colleagues, critics, and successors; history of genetics, eugenics, and evolution; history of biochemistry, physiology, and biophysics; 20th-century medical research; and history of physics.
URL: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/resident

 

American Philosophical Society
Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research

DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: The committee prefers to support the work of younger scholars who have received the doctorate.
ABSTRACT: The fund provides grants for research in Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and the history of studies of Native Americans, in the continental United States and Canada. Grants are not made for projects in archaeology, ethnography, psycholinguistics, or for the preparation of pedagogical materials. The committee distinguishes ethnohistory from contemporary ethnography as the study of cultures and culture change through time.
URL: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/phillips

 

David Library of the American Revolution
Research Fellowships

DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
ABSTRACT: The David Library offers research fellowships for the study of America in the last half of the eighteenth century to qualified postdoctoral researchers. The fellowship is intended primarily for researchers using the collections assembled at the David Library. Project descriptions must demonstrate how the collections will be utilized.
URL: http://www.dlar.org/#Research_Fellowships

 

Folger Shakespeare Library
Short-Term Fellowships

DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
ABSTRACT: The Folger Shakespeare Library offers research fellowships to encourage access to its exceptional collections and to encourage ongoing cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars of the early modern period. Short-term fellowships are supported by the library's endowments.
URL: http://www.folger.edu/academic/fellows.asp

 

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
Herbert Hoover Travel Grant

DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
ABSTRACT: The purpose of the Herbert Hoover Travel Grant is to fund travel to the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa. The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association is a nonprofit support group for the Hoover Presidential Library-Museum and Hoover National Historic Site in West Branch. The program, funded entirely through contributions from private individuals, corporations, and foundations, is specifically intended to promote the study of subjects of interest and concern to Herbert Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover, their associates, and other public figures as reflected in the library's collections.
URL: http://www.hooverassociation.org/grantsawards/travel_grant.php

 

Library Company of Philadelphia
Visiting Research Fellowships in Colonial and U.S. History and Culture

DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
ABSTRACT: The Library Company of Philadelphia and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania jointly award fellowships for research in residence in their collections, which contain printed materials relating to all aspects of American history and culture up to about 1880. These fellowships support advanced, post-doctoral, or dissertation research. Founded in 1731, the Library Company was the largest public library in America until the latter part of the nineteenth century, and thus contains printed materials relating to every aspect of American culture and society in that period. It holds over half a million rare books and graphics, including the nation's second largest collection of pre-1801 American imprints and one of the largest collections of eighteenth-century British books in America. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, now enriched by the holdings of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, holds more than 18 million personal, organizational, and business manuscripts, as well as 500,000 printed items and 300,000 graphic images concerning national and regional political, social, and family history. The Balch collections have added rich documentation of the ethnic and immigrant experience in the United States. Together, the institutions form one of the most comprehensive sources in the nation for the study of colonial and U.S. history and culture. The two libraries combined have extraordinary strength in the history of women and African-Americans, popular print culture, business and banking, philanthropy and reform, education, natural sciences, medicine, technology, art, architecture, German Americana, American Judaica, and a host of other subjects.
URL: http://www.librarycompany.org/fellowships/american.htm

 

Massachusetts Historical Society
Short-Term Research Grants

DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Fellows must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals holding appropriate U.S. government documents.
ABSTRACT: Short-term grants support four weeks of continuous research in the collections. Awardees must be in residence for the entire tenure of the fellowship.
URL: http://www.masshist.org/fellowships/short_term.cfm

 

New York Academy of Medicine
Research Fellowship in the History of Medicine

DEADLINE: March 1, 2010 –ANTICIPATED DEADLINE
ELIGIBILITY: Preference will be given to those whose research will take advantage of resources that are uniquely available at the academy, and to individuals in the early stages of their careers.
ABSTRACT: Each year the New York Academy of Medicine offers the Paul Klemperer Fellowship to support work in history and the humanities as they relate to health, medicine, and the biomedical sciences. The Klemperer Fellowship supports research using the academy library's resources for scholarly study of the history of medicine. It is intended specifically for a scholar in residence at the academy library.
URL: http://www.nyam.org/grants/history.shtml

 

Newberry Library
Short-Term Fellowships

DEADLINE: March 1, 2010
ABSTRACT: These short-term fellowships provide access to the Newberry's collections for Ph.D. candidates or post-doctoral scholars who live and work outside the Chicago area. Normally, these fellowships are awarded to individual scholars. The library will, however, award a small number of fellowships for collaborative projects. Teams of two or three scholars who plan to collaborate on a single, substantive project are therefore also eligible to apply. The stipend is $1600 per month for each scholar.
URL: http://www.newberry/org/research/felshp/short-term.html

 

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
Research Travel Grants Program

DEADLINE: March 15, 2010
ABSTRACT: In honoring President Ford's lifelong commitment to public service, the Foundation's focus is on exhibits, community affairs and educational programs, conferences, symposia, research grants and special projects that improve citizen interest and understanding of the challenges that confront government, particularly the presidency.
URL: http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/foundationgrants.asp

 

John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
Various Research Grants

DEADLINE: March 15, 2010
ABSTRACT: The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation invites scholars to apply for support of their research and use of the archival, manuscript, and audiovisual holdings of the Library. Several different grant and fellowship programs support research on specific topics and in specific collections of the library.
URL: http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK+Library+and+Museum/

 

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
Grant-in-Aid of Research

DEADLINE: March 15, 2010
ABSTRACT: A limited number of grants-in-aid will be awarded by the foundation to defray living, travel, and related expenses for scholars conducting research at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas.
URL: http://128.83.78.247/grants.hom/grant_online/grant_online_info.cfm

 

University of Michigan
Bentley Historical Library
Travel and Research Grants

DEADLINE: March 15, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Grants are available to scholars conducting postdoctoral 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.
ABSTRACT: The travel and research grant program is designed to encourage research and writing based on the holdings of the Bentley Historical Library. The named fellowships that constitute the program provide a modest amount of support to facilitate travel to the library and to underwrite research related expenses. The Bentley Historical Library houses the Michigan Historical Collections and the University of Michigan Archives. The Michigan Historical Collections is a broadly conceived archival collection that documents the history of the state of Michigan. The library's holdings number over 8,000 collections and document every period of Michigan's history, from the territorial era to the present day. The extensive University of Michigan archives document the history of the institution from 1817 to the present.
URL: http://bentley.umich.edu/academic/travel/index.php

 

American Jewish Archives
Jacob Rader Marcus Center
Fellowship Program

DEADLINE: March 18, 2010
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be conducting research in some area relating to the history of North American Jewry. Typically, fellowships will be awarded to postdoctoral candidates.
ABSTRACT: The fellowship program supports 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. The program will support serious research in some area relating to the history of North American Jewry.
URL: http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/programs_fellowship.php

 

Vermont Historical Society
Weston Cate, Jr. Research Fellowship

DEADLINE: March 31, 2010
ABSTRACT: The fellowship supports research in any aspect of Vermont history. The grantee is expect ed to complete research and writing on his or her topic within the period of the fellowship. The research project proposed by the applicant must be complete within itself. Because the society's purpose is to encourage worthwhile, original research in Vermont history that might not otherwise be undertaken, segments of a larger study already in progress - even if they can stand alone - may be at a competitive disadvantage. Insofar as possible, the project should involve the use of the collections of the Vermont Historical Society's library or museum. In making the fellowship award, the selection committee will favor applications that address topics designed to fill research gaps in the state's history.
URL: http://vermonthistory.org/index.php

 

Harry S. Truman Library Institute
Research Grants

DEADLINE: April 1, 2010
ABSTRACT: Research grants are awarded biannually and are intended to enable postdoctoral scholars and other researchers to come to the library for one to three weeks to use its collections. Awards are intended to offset expenses for that purpose only. Individuals may receive no more than two grants in this category in any one five-year period. Preference will be given to projects that have application to enduring public policy and foreign policy issues and that have a high probability of being published or publicly disseminated in some other way. The potential contribution of a project to an applicant's development as a scholar will also be considered.
URL: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/grants/#ress

 

The Jefferson Library
Travel Grants

DEADLINE: April 1, 2010
ABSTRACT: Travel grants are available on a limited basis for scholars and teachers wishing to make short-term visits to Monticello to pursue research or educational projects related to Jefferson.
URL: http://monticello.org/research/fellowships/travelgrants.html

 

Indiana University
Lilly Library
Everett Helm Visiting Fellowships

DEADLINE: April 15, 2010
ABSTRACT: The Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship program supports research and provides access to the collections of the Lilly Library for scholars residing outside the Bloomington area. Project proposals should demonstrate that the Lilly Library's resources are integral to proposed research topics. Its holdings support research in British, French, and American literature and history; the literature of voyages and exploration, specifically the European expansion in the Americas; early printing, and the Church, children's literature, music; film, radio and television; medicine, science, and architecture.
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/fellowships.shtml