Outside Fellowships

As a first step, click here for the list maintained by the GSAS of major fellowships, and here for the GSAS, "Guide to Grantsmanship," which also contains general recommendations for effective proposals. Note that applications for most major grants are due one year in advance: in the fall of the year before the grant is awarded. Following are useful additional resources:

• H-Net. Job listings, conference and fellowship announcements, calls for papers, etc. are posted on the H-Net website and on many of the different topic-specific mailing lists H-Net organizes. Mailing lists vary in scope and degree of activity, but the engine has nice features that allow you to receive postings in a single e-mail, suspend service while you are on vacation, etc. How to apply: Go to www.h-net.org for both listings and instructions for joining mailing lists.
• American Historical Association. Publishes a guide to Grants, Fellowships and Prizes of Interest to Historians, with advice on writing proposals as well as listings of funding opportunities. Available only online to AHA members. How to apply: Membership cost for graduate students is $35, which includes a subscription to the American Historical Review and the AHA's monthly newsletter, Perspectives, which also contains some fellowship and job announcements. Details on membership and the grants guide are available on the AHA web page, under the links Membership and Publications, respectively.
• InfoEd. A database of hundreds of grant opportunities; you can search manually or set up an automated search engine to search periodically and e-mail a list of postings that fit a profile you set up. A lot of junk, but occasional gems. How to apply: On the Smarts/Genius web page, click Create a New Profile. They will ask for your university, department, name and e-mail information to verify that you are a student at a participating university (i.e., Columbia). After you have a profile, you can then set up Keywords that the search engine will use to match you with funding listings.
• Council for European Studies. Offers a number of SUMMER fellowships for research in Europe. Only students who have NOT defended a prospectus are eligible. The CES website also has a list of research organizations, archives, etc. in different European countries that can be helpful in planning your trip. How to apply:Details are available under the Fellowships link at www.europanet.org. Deadlines are usually February 1.

Africa:

• FLAS grant.
• Leitner Family Grant (SIPA) [Link TBA]
  
• Fulbright-Hays International Dissertation Research Grants.
• Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship.

Ancient:

• Center for the Ancient Mediterranean Travel Fellowships (CU) : Please address enquiries to the Coordinator of the Center, Erin Thompson, et157 [at] columbia.edu, 854-1621.

Comparative Politics:

• Ghita Inoescu Travel Scholarship (Government and Opposition).
• Europa Fellowship, New Europe College Institute for Advanced Study (SE Europe).
• Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation, Fellowship for New American.

Eastern/Central Europe:

• ACLS Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.
  
• ACLS Southeast European Studies Program, dissertation.
• ACLS Language Grants, summer study (Albanian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, or Romanian).
• IREX [International Research & Exchanges Board) (short-term, dissertation).
• Harriman Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship.

History of Science:

• The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
• New York Academy of Medicine.
• National Science Foundation (NSF).
• Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science Dissertation Fellowships.
• Dibner History of Science Program at the Huntington Library.
• Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Western Europe:

• Short-term/Summer: Council for European Studies' pre-dissertation summer fellowships.
• Currier and Reid Hall Fellowships (administered by the Columbia GSAS).
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Summer Language Study Grant.

Britain:

• Institute for Historical Research (pre-diss short-term, dissertation)
• North American Conference on British Studies-Huntington Library Fellowship

France

• Chateaubriand Fellowship.
• Bourse Eiffel.

• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Research Grant.
• Institute of European History, Mainz (dissertation, German required).
• Deutsches Museum Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• German Historical Institute Washington
• Justus Liebig University-Giessen International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (dissertation).

The Netherlands

• Nederlandse Taalunie (summer language)

Spain and Portugal

• Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies.
  

Medieval History

• Medieval Academy of America

Latin America

• Columbia Institute of Latin American Studies Pre-Diss Field Research Grant

Middle Eastern History

• Middle East Institute
• FLAS grants
• Middle East Institute
• Institute for Turkish Studies (ITS) -- dissertation-writing grants, and summer language grants for Turkish.
• American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) --pre-doc and post-doc.
• Council of American Overseas Research Centers: multi-country grants, especially in Middle East-affiliated with State Department funds
• Gennadius Library in Athens.

South Asia:

• American Institute of Indian Studies (dissertation).

U.S. History, Short-term/collections-based Grants:

• The Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
• NSDAR – Columbia Only, $1500, contact Prof. Blackmar.
• German Historical Institute at the Horner Library, Philadelphia (short-term):
  
• Smithsonian (summer and year long grants, using their collections).
• Newberry Library (Chicago; their collections).
• American Antiquarian Society.
• New England Consortium research grant.
• American Philosophical Society Library
• Gerald R. Ford Scholarship
• University of Kansas (search for fellowships, in PDF)
• Huntington Library (short-term and dissertation).
• Hagley Museum (technology and business)
• Wintethur (material culture)
• Rockefeller Archives
• In addition, please explore the following short-term grants: Notre Dame (history of religion), Brigham Young (history of religion/Mormons), Ford Presidential Library (all the presidential libraries have small research grants: Truman, JFK, LBJ, FDR), Iowa Historical Society (history of Iowa), National Library of American Medicine, Gilder Lehrman (for NYC libraries).

U.S. History, Dissertation:

• The McNeil Center for Early American Studies
• Alfred Chandler Jr. Traveling Fellowship (pre-diss, diss business history)
• United States Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Fellowship (dissertation, peace & conflict studies)
• Henry Frank Guggeheim (dissertation - violence, dominance, aggression studies)
• Ford (African-American Studies)
• 2008 OAH HUGGINS-QUARLES AWARD (students of color)
• Miller Center for Contemporary Politics and Political History (dissertation)
• Rovensky Fellowships in American Economic or Business History (dissertation)

U.S. History, write-up and postdoctoral

• Eisenhower (Columbia based, accent government and international affairs)
• Charlotte W. Newcombe (ethics and religion)
• Josephine de Kármán
• Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship
• American studies post-doc
• American Academy for the Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholars Program (post-doc)
• Lamar Center (Yale) for the Study of Frontiers and Borders (dissertation and post-docs)
• Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture Postdoctoral Fellowships.
• C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience (post-doc)

• Summer/short-term grants: FLAS Summer Language Study Grant.
• History Department Summer Grant: announced within department in early spring for the following summer, see Sharee Nash.
• Dissertation: GSAS-CU Traveling Fellowship.
• Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship.
• Fulbright-Hays International Dissertation Research Grants.
• AAUW (American Association of University Women) Dissertation Fellowships:
• American.
• International.

Writing-Up Grants & Postdoctoral Fellowships:

• AAUW (American Association of University Women)
• American.
• International.
• Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP).
• Mellon/ACLS write-up.
• Whiting (Columbia humanities) or from GSAS website.
  
• Quinn (Columbia History Dept.) – announced in the spring for the following fall.

Other Sources of Funding and information about funding:

• Libraries and archives – many offer small, short-term grants to researchers who use their collections. Not enough perhaps to fund an entire dissertation, but definitely worth applying for if need to visit their collections anyway.
• Research centers – if you are traveling abroad especially, local research centers may be able to provide you with valuable logistical support, such as use of a computer, Internet or special research tools, contacts among local scholars, research advice, housing recommendations, etc.
• Historical associations – they may award small grants for study or research, or at the very least have lists of grants of interest for their particular field or locale.
• Colleagues – contact more advanced students working in your field; ask your professors (who write hundreds of recommendation letters) for grant ideas, etc.
• Book acknowledgements– Most authors thank the research organizations that funded them; books written from dissertations often list graduate funding.
• Cornell University Grants Database.
• Michigan State University Grants (history).
• UCLA GRAPES Graduate Research Database.
• The Social Science Research Council also publishes a good guide to applications: “The Art of Writing Proposals."