Support Services

Fellowship and Grant Opportunities
for Graduate Students

Humanities and Social Sciences

Deadlines: January, 2008-May, 2008

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

RESEARCH AT ARCHIVES, LIBRARIES, AND COLLECTIONS

(by deadline)


American Antiquarian Society
Various Short-Term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships
DEADLINE: January 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Fellowships are available for doctoral candidates engaged in dissertation research. Candidates holding a recognized terminal degree appropriate to the area of proposed research, such as the master's degree in library science or M.F.A., are also eligible to apply.
ABSTRACT: The American Antiquarian Society offers fellowships to support research on any topic supported by the society's collections. Fellowships are awarded to individuals engaged in scholarly research and writing - including doctoral dissertations - in any field of American history and culture through 1876. The fellowships are tenable at the AAS library in Worcester, Massachusetts.
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/acafellowship.htm

Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council
AAS NEAC Japan Studies Grants
Grants for Research Travel within the USA
DEADLINE: February 1, 2008
CITIZENSHIP: US citizens and permanent residents are eligible.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must have not received funds in this category within the past five years. Although these grants are primarily intended to support postdoctoral research on Japan, Ph.D. candidates are also eligible to receive support for doctoral dissertation research at appropriate collections. The review committee strongly encourages applications from graduate students to include a letter of recommendation from an advisor.
ABSTRACT: The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, in conjunction with the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, 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 United States.
http://www.aasianst.org/grants/main.htm

Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asia Council
Korean Studies Grants
Research Travel - North America Awards
DEADLINE: February 1, 2008 –for spring/summer awards
ELIGIBILITY: Predoctoral dissertation work will be considered.
ABSTRACT: The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, in conjunction with the Korea Foundation, offers a grant program in Korean studies designed to assist the research of individual scholars based in North America, to improve the quality of teaching about Korea on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study of Korea into the major academic disciplines. The Research Travel - North America Awards are available to scholars who are engaged in research on Korea and wish to use museum, library, or other archival materials located in the United States and Canada.
http://www.aasianst.org/grants/main.htm

Dirksen Congressional Center
Congressional Research Awards
DEADLINE: February 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: The competition is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress. Political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies, and journalists are among those eligible. The center encourages graduate students who have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus to apply and awards a significant portion of the funds for dissertation research.
ABSTRACT: The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The center's first interest is to fund the study of the leadership in the Congress, both House and Senate. Topics could include external factors shaping the exercise of congressional leadership, institutional conditions affecting it, resources and techniques used by leaders, or the prospects for change or continuity in the patterns of leadership. In addition, the center invites proposals about congressional procedures, such as committee operation or mechanisms for institutional change, and Congress and the electoral process. The center also encourages proposals that link Congress and congressional leadership with the creation, implementation, and oversight of public policy. Proposals must demonstrate that Congress, not the specific policy, is the central research interest. The research for which assistance is sought must be original, culminating in new findings or new interpretation, or both.
http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_CRAs.htm

Virginia Historical Society
Research Fellowship Program
DEADLINE: February 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: The society welcomes applications from doctoral candidates; graduate students not yet admitted to Ph.D. candidacy are not eligible.
ABSTRACT: 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 three weeks a year. The society makes awards on the basis of the applicants' scholarly qualifications, the merits of their proposals, and the appropriateness of their topics, as demonstrated by citation to specific sources in our collections. Applicants whose research promises to result in significant publication, including the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, will receive primary consideration. The society expects recipients to work on a regular basis in the society's reading room during the period of their award.
http://www.vahistorical.org/research/fellowships.htm

American Historical Association
Albert J. Beveridge Grants for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Only AHA members are eligible. Preference will be given to Ph.D. candidates and junior scholars.
ABSTRACT: The American Historical Association offers the Albert J. Beveridge Grants for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere to support research in the history of the Western hemisphere (United States, Canada, and Latin America). The grants are intended to further research in progress and may be used, for example, for travel to a library or archive, for microfilms, for photographs, or for photocopying (other expenses, such as child care, can be included).
http://www.historians.org/prizes/BeveridgeGrantInfo.htm

American Historical Association
Michael Kraus Research Grant in American Colonial History
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Only AHA members are eligible. Preference will be given to Ph.D. candidates and junior scholars.
ABSTRACT: The American Historical Association offers the Michael Kraus Research Grant in American Colonial History to recognize the most deserving proposal relating to work in progress on a research project in American colonial history, with particular reference to the inter-cultural aspects of American and European relations. The grants are intended to further research in progress and may be used, for example, for travel to a library or archive, for microfilms, for photographs, or for photocopying (other expenses, such as child care, can be included).
http://www.historians.org/prizes/KrausGrantInfo.htm

American Historical Association
Littleton-Griswold Research Grant for Research in U.S. Legal History
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Only members of the AHA are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to Ph.D. candidates and junior scholars.
ABSTRACT: The American Historical Association is accepting applications for the Littleton-Griswold Research Grant for research in U.S. legal history and in the general field of law and society. The grants are intended to further research in progress and may be used for travel to a library or archive, for microfilms, photographs, or photocopying - a list of purposes that is meant to be merely illustrative, not exhaustive (other expenses, such as child care, can be included).
http://www.historians.org/prizes/Littleton-GriswaldGrantInfo.htm

American Historical Association
Schmitt Grants for Research in European, African, or Asian History
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Only AHA members are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to Ph.D. candidates and junior scholars.
ABSTRACT: The American Historical Association’s Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grants support research in the history of Europe, Africa, and Asia. The grants are intended to further research in progress and may be used, for example, for travel to a library or archive, for microfilms, photographs, or photocopying (other expenses, such as child care, can be included).
http://www.historians.org/prizes/SchmittGrantInfo.htm

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Grants-in-Aid
DEADLINE: February 15, 2008
ABSTRACT: Grants-in-Aid are awarded to support research on the "Roosevelt Years" and clearly related subjects. The awards are made to assist scholars, pre- or postdoctoral, 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.
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/grants.html

Massachusetts Historical Society
Various Short-Term Research Fellowships
DEADLINE: March 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Typical applicants include, but are not limited to, independent scholars, advanced graduate students, and college and holders of the Ph.D. or the equivalent. Candidates who live 50 or more miles from Boston receive preference.
ABSTRACT: The Massachusetts Historical Society offers approximately 20 fellowships each year for researchers who need to use the collections to complete a major project. Any project for which the society's collections are appropriate is eligible. Each fellowship includes a stipend for twenty days of research, which must be conducted in the society's archives sometime between July 1, 2008, and June 30, 2009.
http://www.masshist.org/fellowships/short_term.cfm

Newberry Library
Short-Term Resident Fellowships for Individual Research
DEADLINE: March 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Ph.D. candidates from outside of the Chicago area
The library's holdings span the history and culture of western Europe from the Middle Ages to the mid-twentieth century and the Americas from the time of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans. Its strengths include European discovery, exploration, and settlement of the Americas; the American West; local history, family history, and genealogy; literature and history of the Midwest, especially the Chicago Renaissance; Native American history and literature; the Renaissance; the French Revolution; Portuguese and Brazilian history; British literature and history; the history of cartography; the history and theory of music; the history of printing; and early philology and linguistics. The collections number 1,500,000 printed titles, five million manuscript pages, and 300,000 historic maps.
http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/short-term.html

David Library of the American Revolution
Research Fellowships
DEADLINE: March 2, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Predoctoral applicants must have passed their department's Ph.D. comprehensive or qualifying exams before applying.
ABSTRACT: The David Library in Washington Crossing, PA, offers research fellowships for the study of America in the last half of the eighteenth century to qualified doctoral candidates and 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.
http://www.dlar.org/#Research_Fellowships

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
Research Travel Grants Program
DEADLINE: March 15, 2008
ABSTRACT: The Gerald R. Ford Foundation is a private, non-profit corporation whose programs and exhibits are supported entirely by private contributions and bequests. 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. Grants defray travel, living, and photocopy expenses for research trips to the Ford Library.
http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/hpgrants.asp

John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
Kennedy Research Grants
DEADLINE: Applications may be submitted at any time, but the postmark deadline is March 15 for spring grants and August 15 for fall grants. Applicants will be promptly notified of their project's eligibility. Awards are announced on April 20 and October 20. Applications received after one deadline will be held for consideration in the next cycle.
ELIGIBILITY: Preference is given to dissertation research by Ph.D. candidates working in newly opened or relatively unused collections, and to the work of recent Ph.D. recipients who are expanding or revising their dissertations for publication.
ABSTRACT: The purpose of these grants is to help defray living, travel, and related costs incurred while doing research in the textual and non-textual holdings of the library in Boston, Massachusetts. Grant applications are evaluated on the basis of expected utilization of available holdings of the Library, the degree to which they address research needs in Kennedy period studies, and the qualifications of applicants. Preference will be given to projects not supported by large grants from other institutions.
http://www.jfklibrary.org/

University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library
Travel and Research Grants
DEADLINE: March 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Fellowships are open to scholars working on doctoral dissertations. 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.
http://www.umich.edu/~bhl/bhl/general/bordin.htm

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow Travel & Research Grants
DEADLINE: March 23, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be former Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows who are now candidates for the Ph.D. degree in fields recognized under the terms of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program. Candidates must have passed all comprehensive examinations, completed all course work for the degree, and selected a dissertation topic that has been approved by the dissertation advisor.
CITIZENSHIP: United States
ABSTRACT: The MMUF Travel & Research Grants are available to graduate students who participated in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Program. The grants provide eligible students the financial means to complete their research prior to the start of dissertation writing. Awards are based on the scholarly merit of individual applications received.
http://www.woodrow.org/mmuf/MMUFTRindex.php

Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
General Grants Program
DEADLINE: April 1, 2008
ABSTRACT: Research grants are intended to enable graduate students, 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. 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.
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/grants/#ress

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation: International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello
Travel Grants
DEADLINE: April 1, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Graduate Student
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.
http://monticello.org/research/fellowships/travelgrants.html

Lilly Library at Indiana University
Everett Helm Visiting Fellowships
DEADLINE: April 15, 2008
ELIGIBILITY: Graduate Student; Ph.D./M.D./Other Professional
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.
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/fellowships.shtml