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