Funding For United States
Masters Phase
The external funding opportunities listed here are of particular interest to students in United States history.
Masters Phase
- American Numismatic Society – Fellowships and Grants
- The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
- Smithsonian Fellowships
Research Phase
- Academic Council on the United Nations System Dissertation Award (or Write Up)
- Academy of American Franciscan History Dissertation Fellowship (Religious)
- American Antiquarian Society – Short-Term Fellowships
- American Catholic Association’s John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Award (or Write Up)
- Asian Cultural Council Fellowships (for Asian and Asian American Studies)
- American Historical Association Research Grants
- American Philosophical Society
- Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon (Any Stage)
- CLIR – Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources
- Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism Travel Grants
- Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship
- Duke’s Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library’s Research Grants (African Americans and Business)
- Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grants
- German Historical Institute’s Research Grants (or Write Up)
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute’s Short-Term Grants (Early and African American, especially—also for Write Up)
- Humane Studies Fellowships (Any Stage)
- Indiana University’s Lilly Library Travel Fellowships
- The Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar Dissertation Program (or Write Up)
- John Carter Brown Library’s Short-Term Fellowships (Colonial)
- Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of the History & Culture of German-Speaking Jewry (U.S. and Germany)
- The Library Company of Philadelphia (Early American History)
- The Massachusetts Historical Society Research Fellowships
- Marshall-Baruch Fellowships (20th Century U.S. Foreign Relations)
- The McNeil Center for Early American Studies Dissertation Fellowship Program (Early American—for Write Up too)
- NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Graduate Research Fellowships
- Newberry Library’s Short Term Fellowships
- OAH/IEHS John Higham Travel Grants
- Omohundro Institute for Early American History & Culture Predoctoral Fellowships
- Smith Richardson Foundation’s World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship
- Smithsonian Fellowships and Internships (or Write Up)
- The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Awards
- Society of Architectural Historians Fellowships (or Write Up)
- The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Grants (Any Stage)
- University of Chicago Library Special Collections Research Fellowships
- William E. Foley Research Fellowship (Missouri)
- Winterthur Research Fellowship Program
Write-Up Phase
- Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
- Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
- The Getty – Research Grants for Pre- and Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation’s Dissertation Fellowships
- The Josephine De Kármán Fellowship Trust
- The Louisville Institute’s Dissertation Fellowship (North American Christianity)
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
- Miller Center Fellowships (U.S. Politics and Foreign Relations)
- The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Awards
- The Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowships (Education)
- Arnold L. Mitchem Dissertation Fellowship