External Grants and Fellowships
There are several external sources of funding for graduate student research and study. There is a list of such institutions and foundations which appears on the GSAS website.
The department has also compiled a list specific to graduate students in history. This is by no means an exhaustive list; please consult your mentor, your advisory committee, and websites of professional associations as you conduct your search. Be sure to check the grantor's website for current deadlines and information on restrictions, obligations, eligibility requirements.
Essential Clearinghouses:
H-Net
AHA Directory of Grants, Prizes, and Fellowships (members only)
General Funding for Graduate School:
Bou Family Grant (small grants for international students only), Office of International Programs, Georgetown
FLAS
Ford Foundation (3 years)
Javits Fellowship (4 years)
The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
SSHRC (Canadians only, 4 years)
Travel to Archives
AAS China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC) Small Grants (AAS members only)
AHA Research Grants (members only)
Beveridge Grant
Kraus Grant
Littleton-Griswald Grant
Schmitt Grant
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (various small grants, members only)
Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship (ASECS members only)
Medieval Academy Dissertation Grant
Georgetown Graduate School
there are often competitions for these $5000 (in 2009) research grants in the spring. Your dissertation proposal must be on file for you to be eligible, and you need to be nominated by the department.
Grants for Research-Related Expenses
Barry Bloomfield Bursary (UK)
Cosmos Club Foundation
The John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Award (Catholic subjects)
Women’s Studies
Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowships
IHR Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities Pre-Dissertation Fellowship (UK only)
The James R. Scobie Award, CLAH (for Latin American History)
Institute of Turkish Studies Summer Research Grants (PRE-dissertation research only)
Archival Research (short- to long-term)
Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in East European Studies
American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT)
Chateaubriand (France)
Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
Multi-Country Fellowship Program
DAAD (Germany)
English-Speaking Union of the United States Helene Gladstone Williams Awards
(DC area residents; research must promote goals of ESU)
Fulbright
Fulbright-Hays
George C. Marshall/Baruch Fellowships
20th-century US military/diplomatic
Gerda Henkel Foundation (Germany)
IHR Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship (UK)
Inter-American Foundation (Latin America and Caribbean)
IREX
NACBS Dissertation Year Fellowship (UK)
Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture & United States’ Universities (Spain)
Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations
Research Grants in Comparative Studies on Modern Turkey
Smith Richardson Foundation World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship
SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship
Pre-doctoral Fellowships for Research or Writing
ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in East European Studies
Early American Economy (residential)
McNeil Center for Early American Studies (residentail)
Miller Center Fellowship in Politics and History (residence encouraged but not required)
Peace Scholar Dissertation Scholarship
Philanthropic Educational Organization Scholar Award (women only)
Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (residential)
Spencer (education)
Dissertation Completion Fellowships
American Association of University Women (US citizens)
ACLS/Mellon
Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges (residential and teaching)
Ford Foundation
Getty Foundation (residential)
Institute of Turkish Studies Dissertation Writing Grant
Jewish Studies
The John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship
Newcombe Fellowships (religious and ethical issues)
Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence (Yale, residential)
Georgetown Graduate School
There are often competitions for these final-year fellowships in the spring, funding permitting. Your dissertation proposal must be on file for you to be eligible, and you need to be nominated by the department.
Fellowships for Research in Specific Collections
The American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, MA)
American Philosophical Society (science, exploration, native Americans, etc.) Philadelphia
Autry National Center of the American West
Beinecke Library (Yale)
Clark Library (UCLA)
College of Physicians (Philadelphia)
David Library for the Study of the American Revolution (Washington’s Crossing, PA)
Duke University Library Research Grants
The Filson Historical Society (Louisville, KY)
Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington)
Getty
Gilder Lehrman
Hagley Library
Harry Middleton Fellowship in Presidential Studies (must use LBJ Library, but may also us other presidential libraries or other facilities in the National Archives and Records Administration system)
Hoover Library
Houghton Library (Harvard)
Huntington Library (San Marino, CA)
NACBS-Huntington Library Fellowship
The John Carter Brown Library (Providence)
Kennedy Library
The Library Company of Philadelphia
The Library Company of Philadelphia/Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Lilly Library, Indiana University
Maryland Historical Society (no stipend, free parking pass & other amenities)
The Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston)
various New England research libraries (consortium)
New Netherland Institute (various repositories)
New York Historical Society (consortium of various NYC archives, including Columbia)
Newberry Library (Chicago)
Pan Am Historical Foundation (at University of Miami Special Collections)
Smithsonian
Society of the Cincinnati (Washington)
Truman Library
The Virginia Historical Society (Richmond)
Winterthur
Regional Research Centers With Short-term Funding for Time in Residence
The John Nicholas Brown Center (Providence)
Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello (Charlottesville)
Rockefeller Library (Williamsburg)
Residential Post-doctoral Fellowships
Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship
The UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
The American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, MA)
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities (Stanford; some teaching)
Business History (Harvard Business School)
Center for Historical Research (Ohio State, topics change each year)
Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities (Columbia University)
Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges (teaching expected)
Shelby Collum Davis Center for Historical Studies (Princeton, topics change regularly)
Early American Economy (pre- and post-doc, Philadelphia)
Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowship (Huntington Library)
Institute for Historical Studies (Austin)
McNeil Center for Early American Studies (2 years, some teaching, UPenn)
Michigan Society of Fellows (3 years)
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture (2 years, some teaching, William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA)
Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence (Yale, teach one course)
Rachel Carson Center for Environmental Studies (Munich)
Post-doctoral Fellowships (non-residential)
Ford Foundation
Mellon/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities
SSHRC (Canadians only)
Miscellaneous Links
ACLS
ACLS East European Studies Program (includes summer language study, dissertation grants for research and writing, and postdoctoral fellowships)
American Research Center in Egypt
Asian Studies Grants and Fellowships
Funding for Women and Minorities (list maintained by the Graduate School; please note that “minority” is a capacious category)
German Historical Institute
Graduate School Fellowship and Grants Database
Medievalists
Naval History
Phi Alpha Theta Doctoral Scholarships
Language Study
Boren Fellowship
Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA)
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program
DAAD
FLAS
Institute of Turkish Studies
Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace (for Middlebury summer programs)
Study Abroad in Turkey Scholarships for Armenian American Students
Qatar Scholarship Program (intensive study in Doha during academic year)
