Sports History Grants

The North American Society for Sport History announces three new awards programs: The Joe Arbena Latin America Sport History Grant - designed to advance the study and exploration of Latin American Sport History The NASSH Dissertation Travel Grant - designed to support dissertation research The NASSH Diversty Scholarship - designed to promote diversity in membership Please see the following link for more … Continue reading Sports History Grants

Visual Culture of the Civil War Seminar

The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center will host a two-week NEH Summer Institute for college and university teachers in July 2016 on the visual culture of the American Civil War and its aftermath.  Applications to participate will be accepted via mail, e-mail, and our online … Continue reading Visual Culture of the Civil War Seminar

Winterthur Conference-Note Short Deadline!

Possessed: The Material Culture of Ownership Call for Proposals - 2016 Emerging Scholars Symposium Friday April 22 - Saturday, April 23, 2016 The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware invites submissions for papers to be given at the 14th Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars held at Winterthur Museum onFriday … Continue reading Winterthur Conference-Note Short Deadline!

Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) Outreach Grants

SHCY Outreach Grants 2016 The SHCY will award two $500 grants and one $1500 grant for events that take place in 2016 to projects deemed worthy by the Outreach and Executive Committees of the SHCY. 1. The $500 grants will help defray expenses for speakers, workshops, and other scholarly events fully or partially devoted to the history of children … Continue reading Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) Outreach Grants

Buildings Survey Fellowship

The HABS/SAH Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship is a joint program of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) that permits a graduate student architectural historian to work on a 12-week HABS history project during the summer of 2016. The applicant should be pursuing studies in U.S. architectural history or a related field.  The … Continue reading Buildings Survey Fellowship

American Antiquarian Society Fellowships

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) invites applications for its 2016-17 visiting academic fellowships. Over thirty short-term fellowships will be awarded for periods of one to two months. New among our fellowship offerings this year is the Alstott Morgan Fellowship, which, supports research on the history of education in nineteenth-century America, drawing on AAS’s unmatched collection … Continue reading American Antiquarian Society Fellowships

Grants to University of WI Collections

Grants to Scholars is the Friends program which helps to fund visiting scholars with particular research needs in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. The Friends award a handful of grants to scholars annually, each of which is generally for one month’s duration, for research in the humanities, sciences, and related fields appropriate to the libraries’ collection strengths. … Continue reading Grants to University of WI Collections

Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship program

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University is a museum and research center that promotes the examination of modern visual and material culture. The focus of the Wolfsonian collection is on North American and European decorative arts, propaganda, architecture, and industrial and graphic design of the period 1885-1945. The collection includes works on paper (including posters, prints and … Continue reading Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship program

Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grant Program

Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the library’s research collections. Up to $3,500 is available per award. Applications will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and other rare and unique holdings of the Department of Rare Books and … Continue reading Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grant Program

Weatherhead Initiative at Harvard

The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH) at Harvard University identifies and supports outstanding scholars whose work responds to the growing interest in the encompassing study of global history. We seek to organize a community of scholars interested in the systematic scrutiny of developments that have unfolded across national, regional, and continental boundaries and who … Continue reading Weatherhead Initiative at Harvard