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The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) is a learned society that was founded in 1812 in Worcester, MA. The Society maintains a research library of American history and culture up to 1876 in order to collect, preserve and make available for study the printed records of the United States of America.
AAS American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowships
Subjects: American 18th century studies.
Eligibility: Applicants are not necessarily members of ASECS; must be an ABD graduate students or postdoctorals, holding the PhD or equivalent degree at the time of the application. Criteria: Recipients are selected based on: significance or importance of the project; appropriateness of the proposed study to the AAS collections.
Level of Study: Postdoctorate
Type: Fellowships
Value: $1,350 for the awardee who will be residing inside the campus; $1,850 for the awardee who will be residing off the campus
Length of Study: 1 month
Frequency: Annual
Study Establishment: The Society’s Library in Worcester, MA
Country of Study: United States of America
No. of awards offered: 1
Application Procedure: All application material is available from our website at www.americanantiquarian.org.
Closing Date: January 15th
Funding: Private
Contributor: The American Society for 18th Century Studies and the AAS
No. of awards given last year: 1
AAS Joyce Tracy Fellowship
Subjects: Early American history and culture.
Purpose: To support research on newspapers or magazines for projects using these resources as primary documentation.
Eligibility: Doctoral candidates may apply.
Level of Study: Doctorate, Postdoctorate
Type: Fellowship
Value: $1,850 per month or $1,350 per month including housing
Length of Study: 1 month
Frequency: Annual
Study Establishment: The Society’s Library in Worcester, MA
Country of Study: United States of America
No. of awards offered: 1
Application Procedure: All application material is available from our website at www.americanantiquarian.org.
Closing Date: January 4th
Funding: Private
Contributor: An endowment established in memory of Joyce Tracy
No. of awards given last year: 1
AAS Kate B and Hall J Peterson Fellowships
Subjects: Early American history to 1876.
Purpose: To enable persons, who might not otherwise be able to do so, to travel to the Society in order to make use of its research facilities.
Eligibility: Doctoral candidates may apply.
Level of Study: Doctorate, Postdoctorate
Type: Fellowship
Value: $1,850 per month or $1,350 per month including housing
Length of Study: 1–3 months
Frequency: Annual
Study Establishment: The Society’s Library in Worcester, MA
Country of Study: United States of America
No. of awards offered: 10
Application Procedure: All application material is available from our website at www.americanantiquarian.org.
Closing Date: January 15th
Funding: Private
Contributor: The late Hall J Peterson and his wife Kate B Peterson
AAS Reese Fellowship
Subjects: American bibliography and the history of the book in America to 1876.
Purpose: To support research.
Eligibility: Doctoral candidates may apply.
Level of Study: Doctorate, Postdoctorate
Type: Fellowship
Value: $1,850 per month or $1,350 per month including housing
Length of Study: 1 month
Frequency: Annual
Study Establishment: The Society’s Library in Worcester, MA
Country of Study: United States of America
Application Procedure: All application material is available from our website at www.americanantiquarian.org.
Closing Date: January 15th
Contributor: The William Reese Company, New Haven, CT
No. of awards given last year: 2
AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowships
Subjects: Early American history and culture.
Purpose: To make the Society’s research facilities more readily available to qualified scholars.
Eligibility: Fellowships may not be awarded to degree candidates or for study leading to advanced degrees, nor may they be granted to foreign nationals unless they have been resident in the United States of America for at least 3 years immediately prior to receiving the award.
Level of Study: Postdoctorate
Type: Fellowship
Value: The maximum stipend available is US$4,200 per month
Length of Study: 4–12 months
Frequency: Annual
Country of Study: United States of America
No. of awards offered: 3
Application Procedure: All application material is available from our website at www.americanantiquarian.org.
Closing Date: January 15th
Funding: Government
Contributor: NEH
No. of awards given last year: 3
Additional Information: Fellows may not accept teaching assignments or undertake any other major activities during the tenure of the award. Other major fellowships may be held concurrently.
AAS-Northeast Modern Language Association Fellowship
Subjects: American literary studies. For research in literary history of America and the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that can be supported by the collections of the American Antiquarian Society. The award is jointly funded by the Northeast Modern Language Association and AAS. Degree candidates are not eligible. NEMLA membership is not required of applicants; awardees who are not already members must join.
Purpose: To support research.
Eligibility: Doctoral candidates may apply.
Level of Study: Postdoctorate
Type: Fellowship
Value: $1,850 per month or $1,350 per month including housing
Length of Study: 1–2 months
Frequency: Annual
Study Establishment: The Society’s Library in Worcester, MA
No. of awards offered: Varies
Closing Date: December 31st
Funding: Private
Contributor: Jointly funded by NEMLA and AAS
No. of awards given last year: 1
ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship
Subjects: All subjects supported by the AAS library.
Purpose: To support research.
Eligibility: Candidates must be recently tenured humanists selected on the basis of their scholarly qualifications, the scholarly significance of the project and the appropriateness of the proposed study to the Society’s collections.
Level of Study: Postdoctorate
Type: Fellowship
Value: Amount: $75,000, plus funds for research costs and related scholarly activities of up to $5,000 and for relocation up to $2,000
Length of Study: 1 year
Frequency: Annual
Study Establishment: The Society’s Library in Worcester, MA
Country of Study: United States of America
No. of awards offered: 11
Application Procedure: All application material is available from ACLS website at www.acls.org/burkguid.htm.
Closing Date: October 2nd
Funding: Private
Contributor: The Andrew W Mellon Foundation and ACLS
No. of awards given last year: 8, 1 at AAS
American Historical Print Collectors Society Fellowship
Subjects: American prints of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Purpose: To support research or projects using prints as primary documentation.
Eligibility: Doctoral candidates may apply.
Level of Study: Doctorate, Postdoctorate
Type: Fellowship
Value: $1,850 per month or $1,350 per month including housing
Length of Study: 1 month
Frequency: Annual
Study Establishment: The Society’s Library in Worcester, MA
Country of Study: United States of America
Application Procedure: All application material is available from our website at www.americanantiquarian.org.
Closing Date: January 15th
Funding: Private
Contributor: The American Historical Print Collectors Society and the AAS
No. of awards given last year: 1
Barbara L. Packer Fellowship
Subjects: The Barbara L. Packer Fellowship is awarded to individuals engaged in scholarly research and writing related to the Transcendentalists in general, and most especially to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau.
Purpose: To support research.
Eligibility: Both postdoctoral scholars and doctoral candidates may apply.
Level of Study: Doctorate, Postdoctorate
Type: Fellowship
Value: $1,850 per month or $1,350 per month including housing
Length of Study: 1 month
Frequency: Annual
Study Establishment: The Society’s Library in Worcester, MA
Country of Study: United States of America
No. of awards offered: 1
Application Procedure: All application material is available at www.americanantiquarian.org.
Closing Date: January 15th
Funding: Private
Contributor: The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
Drawn to Art Fellowship
Subjects: American art, visual culture or other projects that will make substantial use of graphic materials as primary sources.
Purpose: To support research.
Eligibility: Doctoral candidates may apply.
Level of Study: Doctorate, Postdoctorate
Type: Fellowship
Value: $1,850 per month or $1,350 per month including housing
Length of Study: 1 month
Frequency: Annual
Study Establishment: The Society’s Library in Worcester, MA
Country of Study: United States of America
No. of awards offered: 1
Application Procedure: All application material is available from our website at www.americanantiquarian.org.
Closing Date: January 15th
Funding: Private
Contributor: Diana Korzenik
No. of awards given last year: 1
Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship in American History Visual Culture
Subjects: American art, visual culture, or other projects that will make substantial use of graphic materials as primary sources.
Purpose: To support students who wish to carry out research in the related fields.
Eligibility: Doctoral candidates may apply.
Level of Study: Postdoctorate, Doctorate
Type: Fellowship
Value: $1,850 per month or $1,300 per month including housing
Length of Study: 1–3 months
Frequency: Annual
Study Establishment: The Society’s library in Worcester, MA
No. of awards offered: 10
Application Procedure: Please find more information and downloadable form at www.americanantiquarian.org.
Closing Date: January 15th
Funding: Private
Contributor: Jay and Deborah Last
Justin G. Schiller Fellowship
Subjects: The Schiller Fellowship supports research from any disciplinary perspective on the production, distribution, literary content or historical context of American children’s books to 1876.
Purpose: To support research.
Eligibility: Both postdoctoral scholars and doctoral candidates from any disciplinary perspective may apply.
Level of Study: Doctorate, Postdoctorate
Type: Fellowships
Value: $1,850 per month or $1,350 per month including housing
Length of Study: 1 month
Frequency: Annual
Study Establishment: The Society’s Library in Worcester, MA
Country of Study: United States of America
Application Procedure: Application materials are available on the Society’s website at www.americanantiquarian.org.
Closing Date: January 15th
Funding: Private
Linda F. and Julian L. Lapides Fellowship
Subjects: The Lapides Fellowship supports research on printed and manuscript material produced in America through 1865 for (or by) children and youth.
Purpose: To support research.
Eligibility: Doctoral candidates may apply.
Level of Study: Doctorate, Postdoctorate
Type: Fellowship
Value: $1,850 per month or $1,350 per month including housing
Length of Study: 1 month
Frequency: Annual
Study Establishment: The Society’s Library in Worcester, MA
Country of Study: United States of America
No. of awards offered: 1
Application Procedure: Application materials are available on the Society’s website at www.americanantiquarian.org.
Closing Date: January 15th
Funding: Private
Contributor: Linda F. and Julian L. Lapides
Stephen Botein Fellowship
Subjects: The history of the book in American culture to 1876. Botein Fellows are selected on the basis of the applicant’s scholarly qualifications, the scholarly significance or importance of the project, and the appropriateness of the proposed study to the Society’s collections.
Purpose: Stephen Botein Fellowships are for research in the history of the book in American culture. Funding is derived from an endowment established by the family and friends of the late Mr Botein.
Eligibility: Doctoral candidates may apply.
Level of Study: Doctorate, Postdoctorate
Type: Fellowship
Value: $1,850 per month or $1,350 per month including housing
Length of Study: 1 month
Frequency: Annual
Study Establishment: The Society’s Library in Worcester, MA
Country of Study: United States of America
No. of awards offered: 1–2
Application Procedure: All application material is available from our website at www.americanantiquarian.org.
Closing Date: January 15th
Funding: Private
Contributor: An endowment established by the family and friends of the late Mr Botein
No. of awards given last year: 2
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