American Antiquarian Society

AAS-American Historical Print Collectors Society Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)
AAS-American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Fellowships (Postdoctorate/Fellowship)
AAS Fellowships for Creative and Performing Artists and Writers (All/Fellowship)
AAS National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowships (Postdoctorate/Fellowship)
AAS-Northeast Modern Language Association Fellowships (All/Fellowship)
ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellowships (Professional Development/Fellowship)
Stephen Botein Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)
The “Drawn to Art” Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)
The Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)
Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowships (Postdoctorate/Fellowship)
Jay and Deborah Last Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)
The Legacy Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)
The Reese Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)
The Joyce Tracy Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)

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AAS-American Historical Print Collectors Society Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)

Purpose: To enable scholars, advanced graduate students and others to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in theAAS library. Focus: American Studies. Qualif.: Applicants must be enrolled in doctoral degree of accredited institutions or universities. Criteria: Recipients are selected based on: significance or importance of the project; appropriateness of the proposed study to AAS collections.

Funds Avail.: $1,200-$1,700. To Apply: Applicants must fill out the online application form. Deadline: January 15. Contact: Mr. Paul Erickson, [email protected].

AAS-American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Fellowships (Postdoctorate/Fellowship)

Purpose: To enable scholars, advanced graduate students and others to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing

research in the AAS library. Focus: General Studies. Qualif.: Applicants are not necessarily members of ASECS; must be an ABD graduate students or postdoctorals, holding the PhD or equivalent degree at the time of the application. Criteria: Recipients are selected based on: significance or importance of the project; appropriateness of the proposed study to the AAS collections.

Funds Avail.: $1,200-$1,700. To Apply: Applicants must fill out the online application form. Deadline: January 15. Contact: Mr. Paul Erickson, [email protected].

AAS Fellowships for Creative and Performing Artists and Writers (All/Fellowship)

Purpose: To improve the ways in which an understanding of history is communicated to the American people. Focus: American History; Culture; Performing Arts; Writing; Filmmaking; Journalism. Qualif.: Applicants must have work for the general public which produces imaginative, non-formulaic works dealing with pre-twentieth century American history. Criteria: Recipients are selected based on the quality of performed task.

Funds Avail.: $1,200. Number Awarded: 3. To Apply: Applicants must provide a cover sheet; two letters of reference; a current resume including a listing of any awards, scholarship, or grant received; a statement of not more than five-typed, double spaced pages briefly summarizing the applicants educational and professional background and goals, describing the research for the project including readings in primary and secondary sources, and indicating the nature of the research program proposed for the AAS fellowship; ten copies of representative samples of previous works must included for the distribution of the committee. Deadline: October 5.

AAS National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowships (Postdoctorate/Fellowship)

Purpose: To enable scholars, advanced graduate students and others to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library. Focus: Humanities. Qualif.: Applicants must have completed their formal professional training; maybe foreign nationals who have been residents in the United States for at least three years immediately preceding the application deadline. Criteria: Recipients are selected based on: significance or importance of the project; appropriateness of the proposed study to the AAS collections.

Funds Avail.: $40,000. Number Awarded: 3. To Apply: Applicants must fill out the online application form. Deadline: January 15. Contact: Mr. Paul Erickson, [email protected].

AAS-Northeast Modern Language Association Fellowships (All/Fellowship)

Purpose: To enable scholars, advanced graduate students and others to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library. Focus: American History. Qualif.: Applicants are not necessarily members of NEMLA. Criteria: Recipients are selected based on: significance or importance of the project; appropriateness of the proposed study to the AAS collections.

Funds Avail.: $1,200-$1,700. To Apply: Applicants must fill out the online application form. Deadline: January 15. Contact: Mr. Paul Erickson, [email protected].

ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellowships (Professional Development/Fellowship)

Purpose: To support an academic year (normally nine months) of residence at any one of the national residential research centers participating in the program. Focus: Humanities; Social Sciences. Qualif.: Applicants must be recently tenured humanists; must be employed in a tenured position at a degree granting academic institution in the United States. Criteria: Recipients are selected based on the quality of the proposal and required qualifications.

Funds Avail.: $75,000. Number Awarded: 11. To Apply: Applicants must fill out the application form. Applicants must submit no more than ten pages, double-spaced proposal; no more than three pages bibliography; no more than two pages publications list; three reference letters. Applicants must provide an institutional statement. Deadline: October 1.

Stephen Botein Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)

Purpose: To enable scholars, advanced graduate students and others to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library. Focus: American History; Culture. Qualif.: Applicants must be enrolled in doctoral degree of accredited institution or universities; must be engaged in scholarly research and writing including doctoral dissertation in any field of American history and culture. Criteria: Recipients are selected based on: significance or importance of the project; appropriateness of the proposed study to the AAS collections.

Funds Avail.: $1,200-$1,700. To Apply: Applicants must fill out the online application form. Deadline: January 15. Contact: Mr. Paul Erickson, [email protected].

The “Drawn to Art” Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)

Purpose: To enable scholars, advanced graduate students and others to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library. Focus: Art; Culture. Qualif.: Applicants must be enrolled in doctoral degree of accredited institution or universities. Criteria: Recipients are selected based on: significance or importance of the project; appropriateness of the proposed study to the AAS collections.

Funds Avail.: $1,200-$1,700. To Apply: Applicants must fill out the online application form. Deadline: January 15. Contact: Mr. Paul Erickson, [email protected].

The Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)

Purpose: To enable scholars, advanced graduate students and others to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library. Focus: American Studies. Qualif.: Applicants must be scholars in American Studies doing dissertation or rehabilitation research at universities in Germany. Criteria: Recipients are selected based on: significance or importance of the project; appropriateness of the proposed study to the AAS collections.

Funds Avail.: $1,200-$1,700. To Apply: Applicants must fill out the online application form. Deadline: January 15. Contact: Mr. Paul Erickson, [email protected].

Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowships (Postdoctorate/Fellowship)

Purpose: To provide scholars with time and resources to extend research and/or to revise the dissertation for

publication. Focus: History; Literature; American Studies; Political Science; Music. Qualif.: Applicants must have more than three years beyond receipt of the doctorate. Criteria: Recipients are selected based on: appropriateness of the project to the AAS collections and interests; likelihood that the revised dissertation will make a highly significant books.

Funds Avail.: $35,000. To Apply: Applicant must fill out the on-line application form. Deadline: October 15. Contact: [email protected].

Jay and Deborah Last Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)

Purpose: To enable scholars, advanced graduate students and others to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library. Focus: Art; Culture. Qualif.: Applicants must be enrolled in doctoral degree of accredited institution or universities. Criteria: Recipients are selected based on: significance or importance of the project; appropriateness of the proposed study to the AAS collections.

Funds Avail.: $1,200-$1,700. To Apply: Applicants must fill out the online application form. Deadline: January 15. Contact: Mr. Paul Erickson, [email protected].

The Legacy Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)

Purpose: To enable scholars, advanced graduate students and others to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library. Focus: American History; Culture. Qualif.: Applicants must be enrolled in doctoral degree of accredited institution or universities; must be engaged in scholarly research and writing including doctoral dissertation in any field of American history and culture. Criteria: Recipients are selected based on: significance or importance of the project; appropriateness of the proposed study to the AAS collections.

Funds Avail.: $1,200-$1,700. To Apply: Applicants must fill out the online application form. Deadline: January 15. Contact: Mr. Paul Erickson, [email protected].

Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)

Purpose: To enable scholars, advanced graduate students and others to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library. Focus: American History; Culture. Qualif.: Applicants must be enrolled in doctoral degree of accredited institution or universities; must be engaged in scholarly research and writing including doctoral dissertation in any field of American history and culture. Criteria: Recipients are selected based on: significance or importance of the project; appropriateness of the proposed study to the AAS collections.

Funds Avail.: $1,200-$1,700. To Apply: Applicants must fill out the online application form. Deadline: January 15. Contact: Mr. Paul Erickson, [email protected].

The Reese Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)

Purpose: To enable scholars, advanced graduate students and others to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library. Focus: American Studies. Qualif.: Applicants must be enrolled in doctoral degree of accredited institution or universities. Criteria: Recipients are selected based on: significance or importance of the project; appropriateness of the proposed study to the AAS collections.

Funds Avail.: $1,200-$1,700. To Apply: Applicants must fill out the online application form. Deadline: January 15. Contact: Mr. Paul Erickson, [email protected].

The Joyce Tracy Fellowships (Doctorate/Fellowship)

Purpose: To enable scholars, advanced graduate students and others to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library. Focus: American History; Culture. Qualif.: Applicants must be enrolled in doctoral degree of accredited institution or universities; must be engaged in scholarly research and writing including doctoral dissertation in any field of American history and culture. Criteria: Recipients are selected based on: significance or importance of the project; appropriateness of the proposed study to the AAS collections.

Funds Avail.: $1,200-$1,700. To Apply: Applicants must fill out the online application form. Deadline: January 15. Contact: Mr. Paul Erickson, [email protected].