External Fellowships, Grants, and Training Opportunities

A wide variety of fellowships, seminars, internships, and other training are available here. Some tabs are sorted by an academic field of study, geographic region, or fellowships offered by specific libraries. "Academic Societies," along with the first three tabs on the stages of progress in doctoral study, cover a wide variety of fields, so be sure to check those out too. If you have any other funding or training sources you'd like us to post, send us an email with the relevant info and URL.

Pre-Dissertation

Dissertation

American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowships
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Josephine De Karman Fellowship Trust
Gettysburg College Dissertation Fellowship
Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship
Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation and Post-MFA Fellowship at Williams College (2 per year for a wide variety of humanities and fine art fields; supports teaching and dissertation completion work)
Medieval Academy Dissertation Grants
Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships in European Studies
Weatherhead Residential Fellowship (humanities or social sciences)
Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies: Academy Scholars Program
Eastman/Marshall Dissertation Fellowships
Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation Fellowships
University of Notre Dame, Institute for Advanced Study
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
Institute of Turkish Studies: Dissertation Writing Grants
American Heraldry Society: William Barton Graduate Scholarship for Study of Heraldry
Lake Institute on Faith and Giving, one-year Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (social science study in non-Western countries or regions)

Post-Doctorate

UNL Office of Postdoctoral Studies (workshops, talks, travel grants, current postdocs)
UNL Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship (list of options)
Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs Wikia (postings)
The A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at UW-Madison (theme changes annually)
Cambridge University Library Munby Fellowship (available to post-doctoral, or equivalent)
Folger Library Fellowships (available to those with a doctorate)
Institute of Historical Research (IHR) postdoctoral fellowships
University of Pennsylvania, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (theme changes each year)
Wesleyan University, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship (themes change each year)
The Getty Foundation, Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies: Academy Scholars Program
Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship (anthropology, archaeology, art and theater history, cultural studies, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, religious studies, and women's studies)
The Institute of Turkish Studies: Post-Doctoral Summer Travel Grants
Gettysburg College Post-Doctoral Fellowship
The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (social science study in non-Western countries or regions)
American Academy in Rome's Rome Prize (30 emerging artists and scholars, per year, in literature, visual arts, music composition, historic preservation, and medieval and Renaissance/early modern studies)
University of Cambridge's CRASSH "Conversions" fellowship (10 weeks)
Princeton University Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts (four fellows for three years each)
UCLA's Clark Library: ASECS/Clark Fellowships (Restoration or 18th century topic), Clark-Huntington Join Bibliographical Fellowship, Clark Short-term Fellowships, Kanner Fellowship in British Studies, and Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships
Council of American Overseas Research Centers Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program
Chemical Heritage Foundation's long-term fellowships for postdoctoral scholars (history of chemical sciences and technologies)
Society for the History of Technology, Hindle Fellowship
Brown University's Howard Foundation fellowships (10 early-mid career individuals who align with current year's theme)
Haverford College Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship (2 per year, to support teaching and research)
Library of Congress, Kluge Fellowships (4-11 months tenure)

Training/Seminars

Rare Book School (RBS)
California Rare Book School (CalRBS)
The English-Speaking Union of the United States: British University Summer School (Oxford)
The University of Cambridge, Institute of Continuing Education, International Summer Programmes
National Gallery of Art: Internships and Fellows
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Internships and Fellowships
Newberry Library Seminars
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Programs
Newberry Library Center for the History of Cartography Programs
Folger Shakespeare Library Scholarly Program
Calvin College Summer Seminars
Mellon Summer Institutes in Vernacular Paleography
London International Paleography Summer School
The Medici Archive Project Paleography Seminar
Institute for Historical Study, online training
Folger Shakespeare Library: list of online resources for early modern English paleography
17th and 18th Century Paleography Resources Online
English Handwriting 1500-1700: Bibliography and Research Resources

Archival Fellowships

Columbia University Libraries Fellowship
Friends of Princeton Library Research Grant
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Fellowship
Yale University, The Lewis Walpole Library Fellowship
The John Carter Brown Library Fellowship
The Newberry Library Short- and Long-term Fellowship
The Huntington Library Fellowship
The John Rylands Research Institute Visiting Research Fellowship
The RSA–Bodleian Library Grant
The RSA–Newberry Grant
The RSA–Huntington Grant
University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Grants-in-Aid
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Winterthur Research Fellowship Program
The Getty Foundation Library Research Grants
John Leyerle-CARA Prize for Dissertation Research on medieval era at University of Toronto archives
UCLA's ASECS/Clark Library Fellowships in Restoration or an eighteenth-century topic (one-month duration), Dissertation Fellowships (three-month duration), and Kanner Fellowship in British Studies (three-month tenure)

Academic Societies

Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources
SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) Program (humanities and humanistic social sciences; research in non-US topic)
Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowships (any recognized field of humanities)
Fulbright-Hays--Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)
The Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations
Mark Pinson Grant for Graduate Research on the Ottoman Balkans
ACLS dissertation program in East European Studies (currently suspended due to lack of federal aid)
American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Fellowship for study in India
The American Research Center in Egypt fellowship (archaeology, anthropology, architecture, art, history, Islamic studies, literature, religious studies, and Coptic studies)
Spencer Dissertation Fellowships (study of history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world)
American Councils for International Education (study of foreign languages)
Council of American Overseas Research Centers Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program
Chemical Heritage Foundation's short-term fellowships, Eugene Garfield Grants, and Research Travel Grants support research in the archives (history of chemical sciences and technologies)

Art History

History of Music

Anthropology/Archaelogy

Philosophy

Literature

Theatre

Jewish History

Women and Gender

Digital Humanities

British Isles

NACBS Dissertation Fellowship
Harley Fellowship in the History of Cartography
Royal Museums at Greenwich: AHRC three doctoral studentships; Caird Short-Term Fellowships; Sackler Short-Term research fellowship [topics for all fellowships range from maritime studies, astronomy, to empire]
Jacobite Studies Trust Fellowship
Richard III Society and Yorkist History Trust Bursary
The Medieval Academy of America: Schallek Fellowship for late medieval Britain (c.1350-1500)
UK Arts & Humanities Research Council grants database
The Leverhulme Trust, Early Career Fellowship (3 year tenure; must either hold a degree from a UK higher education institution at the time of taking up the Fellowship, OR, at the time of the application deadline must hold an academic position in the UK)
The Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme; and, Enterprise Partnership Programme

France

Italy

Northern Europe

Germany

Asian Studies

Fellowship Studies