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FUNDING + AWARDS

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
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