The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities (formerly the Stanford Humanities Fellows Program) is an interdisciplinary program offering post-doctoral fellowships in humanities disciplines. The program brings outstanding younger scholars (within three years of the PhD) to Stanford on two-year fellowships. Fellows enjoy substantial time to pursue research, teach two courses per year […]
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Full-Year Program
CASA offers a 12-month intensive Arabic language and culture program. These programs include up to a year of study as well as program sponsored tours and trips.
Hemlow Prize in Burney Studies
Awarded to the best essay written by a graduate student on any aspect of the life or writings of Frances Burney. The essay, which can be up to 6,000 words, should make a substantial contribution to Burney scholarship. The judges will take into consideration the essay’s originality, coherence, use of source material, awareness of other […]
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grants
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites scholars whose dissertation research requires use of the library’s collections to apply for research support. Applications will be evaluated on the significance of the research and the project’s potential contribution to the advancement of knowledge as well as its creativity in […]
Art History Fellowships
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in art history support PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and senior museum professionals whose research projects relate to the Museum’s collections. Applicants should have received their doctorate or have completed substantial work toward it.
The Douglass Dockery Thomas Fellowship in Garden History and Design
Annual grant for the study of history and design in the American garden. Also intended to look to the future of gardens, their place in the environment. Project study would have wide scope. Open to graduate students for study and research at a US institution.
American Indian Scholarship
This scholarship is intended to help Native American college/university and technical school students of any age, any tribe, in any state at the undergraduate or graduate level. Graduate students are eligible; however, undergraduate students are given preference. Applicants must be Native Americans (proof of American Indian blood is required by letter or proof papers) in […]
Birgit Baldwin Fellowship
The Baldwin Fellowship provides a grant of $20,000 to support a graduate student in a North American university who is researching and writing a significant dissertation for the Ph.D. on any subject in French medieval history that can be realized only by sustained research in the archives and libraries of France. The fellowship helps defray […]
Lewis and Clark Fund for Field Exploration Research
This grant encourages exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation. Applications from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies are invited, but applicants from all fields may apply.
Rose and Sigmund Strochlitz Travel Grants
The Archives & Special Collections of the University of Connecticut Libraries, housed in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, support the research of scholars throughout the United States and from abroad. Sigmund Strochlitz Travel Grants are intended to encourage use of these unique collections and to provide partial support to outstanding scholars who must travel […]