This is a short list of American Studies funding which is either specifically oriented towards ECR and/or precarious scholars, or where ECR and/or precarious scholars have previously achieved funding success.

If you know of any other relevant awards please let us know!

UK BASED

BRITISH AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY HISTORIANS

• ECR Research Grant

BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN STUDIES

• Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize
  
• BAAS Book Prize
  
• Public Engagement and Impact Award
  
• ECR Short-Term Research Assistance Award
  
• Founders' Research Assistance Award

DAVID BRUCE CENTRE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES, KEELE UNIVERSITY

• Bruce Centre Fellowships
  
• Visiting European Fellowships
  
• Visiting Junior Fellowship

ECCLES CENTRE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES, BRITISH LIBRARY

• Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowships

ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY

• First Monograph Prize
  
• Economic History Society Fellowships
  
• Carnevali Small Research Grants Scheme
  
• Initiatives & Conference Fund
  
• BME Events and Activities Small Grants Scheme

HISTORIANS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY UNITED STATES

• Article Prize
  
• ECR Travel Awards​
  
• COVID-19 Mini-Grants

INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH

• Past & Present Fellowships
• Pearsall Fellowship in Naval History
• Scouloudi Historical Awards: Research Awards
• Scouloudi Historical Awards: Publication Awards

ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY

• Adam Matthew Digital Collections Subscriptions
  
• COVID-19 Hardship Fund
  
• RHS Research Grants
  
• RHS Conference Travel Grants
  
• RHS Conference Organisation Grants

SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIETY

• COVID-19 Emergency Grants Fund

OVERSEAS

AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY

• AAS-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowships
• Alstott Morgan Fellowship
• American Historical Print Collectors Society Fellowship
• Stephen Botein Fellowships
• Jenny d'Héricourt Fellowship
• The "Drawn to Art" Fellowship
• The Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship
  The AAS-DGfA Fellowship
• The David Jaffee Fellowship in Visual and Material Culture
• The Kate Van Winkle Keller Fellowship for Research in Early American Music and Dance
• Lapides Fellowship in Pre-1865 Juvenile Literature and Ephemera
• Jay and Deborah Last Fellowships
• The Legacy Fellowship
• The Barbara L. Packer Fellowship
• Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowships
• The Reese Fellowship
• Justin G. Schiller Fellowship
• The Joyce Tracy Fellowship

AMERICAN GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY LIBRARY

• McColl Research Fellowships
• AGSL Research Fellowships

AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

• Historians Relief Fund
• Albert J. Beveridge Grant
  
• Michael Kraus Research Grant
  
• Littleton-Griswold Grant
  
• Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant
  
• J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship
  
• Fellowships in Aerospace History
  

AMERICAN JOURNALISM HISTORIANS ASSOCIATION

• Rising Scholar Award
• Joseph McKerns Research Grants

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

• Franklin Research Grants
• Lewis and Clark Fund
• Phillips Fund

BLACK METROPOLIS RESEARCH CONSORTIUM

• Mellon Summer Fellowships

EMORY UNIVERSITY

• Short-Term Library Fellowships

FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY

• Filson Fellowships
• Ballard Breaux Visiting Fellowships

GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE

• Short-Term Research Fellowships

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA

• Short-Term Fellowships

ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

• King V. Hostick Scholarship

LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA

• Short-Term Fellowships

MARYLAND CENTER FOR HISTORY AND CULTURE

• Lord Baltimore Research Fellowship Program

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

• African American Studies Fellowship
  
• Andrew Oliver Research Fellowship
  
• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships
  
• Benjamin F. Stevens Fellowship
  
• C. Conrad & Elizabeth H. Wright Fellowship
  
• Kenneth and Carol Hills Fellowship in Colonial History
  
• Malcolm and Mildred Freiberg Fellowship
  
• Mary B. Wright Environmental History Fellowship
  
• Marc Friedlaender Fellowship
  
• Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship
  
• Military Historical Society of Massachusetts Fellowship
  
• Ruth R. & Alyson R. Miller Fellowships
  
• W.B.H. Dowse Fellowships

NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL FELLOWSHIP CONSORTIUM

• Short-Term Research Fellowships

NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Women's HIstory and Public History
• Helen and Robert Appel Fellowship in History and Technology
• Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation / Mellon Foundation Fellowship
  
• Short-Term Fellowships 

NEWBERRY LIBRARY

• Long-term Fellowships
• Short-term Fellowships

NORTH CAROLINIANA SOCIETY

• Archie K. Davis Fellowships

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

• Friends of Princeton University Library Research Grants

RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

• Schlesinger Library Research Support Grants

ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES

• RIAS Research Grants
  
• Marilyn B. Young Research Grant

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-CHICAGO

• UIC Special Collections Short-Term Fellowships

VIVIAN HARSH SOCIETY

• Timuel D. Black Fellowship