Funding and Research
This list of funding opportunities for study and research is not comprehensive. Suggestions are most welcome. It is offered as a service to the NACBS membership in response to the recommendations of the NACBS Report on the State and Future of British Studies.
For advice on planning a research trip to Britain, see the resources from the Victorian Research Web.
- Job Guides
- General Sources for Research and Study
- Graduate Study
- Dissertation Research
- Post-doctoral Fellowships (early stages of career)
- Post-doctoral Fellowships (any stage)
- Library Fellowships (all levels of research)
- Residential Fellowships and Humanities Centers
- Fellowships for UK residents
- Prizes for Research and Writing
General Sources for Research or Study
- Art of Writing Proposals (SSRC)
- Institute of Historical Research's Grants for History
- The Foundation Center, advice and information on resources.
- Funders Online, European sources.
- Cornell Graduate Fellowship Notebook, a variety of fellowships and scholarships for graduate study.
- FastWeb, a scholarship database that requires registration.
- Financial Aid Guide, lists mostly portable, private-sector, non-need-based aid.
- Grant Advisor, through institutional subscriptions.
- U.S. Department of Education, information on a variety of financial aid sources
- Grants Register for US, the old-fashioned annual, in print only (though see Grants.gov).
- Guide to the Major Trusts for the UK, the old-fashioned version in print
- English Speaking Union of the United States
- Fulbright Grants for Study Abroad for US citizens
- Gates Cambridge Scholarships for study at Cambridge University
- Javits Fellowships for the arts, humanities, and social sciences
- Marshall Scholarships for study in Britain
- Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Study
- Mitchell Scholarships for study in Ireland or Northern Ireland
- National Academies Fellowships including Ford fellowships for minorities
- Rhodes Scholarships for study at Oxford
- Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarships
- Soros Fellowships for New Americans for recently naturalized US citizens
- American Association of University Women
- Brookings Institution Fellowships (DC)
- Clark Library, UCLA (CA)
- Council for European Studies Pre-Dissertation Fellowship
- Du Pont Dissertation Fellowship at the Hagley Museum (DE)
- E. P. Thompson Memorial Bursary (Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Library)
- Fulbright Grants for Graduate Study, and the UK Fulbright Commission
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (foreign language and area studies)
- Harvard University (MA)
- Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Walter L. Arnstein Prize for Dissertation Research in Victorian Studies
- NACBS Dissertation Year Fellowship
- NACBS/Huntington Library Fellowships (CA)
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowships
- Richard III Society
- Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (for Canadians)
- Spencer Foundation
- United States Institute of Peace (DC)
- Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grants in Women's Studies
Post-doctoral Fellowships (early stages of career) also see others below
- American Historical Association, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grants
- Aerospace History Fellowship
- Berlin Program in Advanced German and European Studies
- British Academy Visiting Fellowships
- Brown University, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women (RI)
- Brown University, Watson Institute for International Studies (RI)
- University of California, Humanities Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowships (CA), for UC Ph.D.s
- University of California, Los Angeles, Humanities Consortium Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships (CA)
- University of California, President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (CA)
- Cambridge University, Junior Research Fellowships (UK), search the Reporter
- University of Chicago Society of Fellows (IL)
- Columbia Society of Fellows (NY)
- Cornell University, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships (NY)
- Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology and Burndy Library (MA)
- Harvard Academy Scholars Program (MA) international and area studies
- Harvard Society of Fellows (MA)
- Harvard University, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (MA)
- Harvard University, John M. Olin Fellowships in National Security (MA)
- Institute of Historical Research, Fellowships (UK)
- Michigan Society of Fellows (MI)
- Newton International Fellowships
- Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture (VA)
- Oxford University Junior Research Fellowships (UK), or search the Gazette
- University of Pennsylvania, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships (PA)
- Princeton Society of Fellows (NJ)
- Rhodes University (South Africa)
- Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Academy of Education
- Stanford Center for International Security and Arms Control (CA)
- Wesleyan University, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships (CT)
- Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities (at various institutions)
- Yale University, Olin Fellowship in Military and Strategic History International Security Studies (CT)
Post-doctoral Fellowships (any stage)
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy Film Scholars Program
- American Council of Learned Societies
- American Institute of Indian Studies
- American Philosophical Society
- Bibliographical Society of America
- Council of American Overseas Research Centers
- Fulbright Scholars Program (for faculty); see also
- Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, for studies of violence, aggression and dominance
- HASTAC Initiative: Digital Media and Learning
- JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants
- John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, for senior scholars
- International Research and Exchanges Board, IREX
- Macarthur Foundation
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship and Summer Stipends
- National Science Foundation
- Open Society/Soros Fellowships
- Rotary Grants for University Teachers
- Social Science Research Council
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for Canadians.
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Library Fellowships (all levels of research)
- American Antiquarian Society (MA)
- American Jewish Archives (OH)
- British Library, Hellen Wallis Fellowship (UK)
- John Carter Brown Library (RI)
- William Andrews Clark Library, UCLA (CA)
- Cornell University Library (NY)
- Dibner Library of History of Science and Technology (DC)
- Dunbarton Oaks (DC)
- Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellowships (DC)
- Hagley Museum and Library Fellowship in Business, Technology and Science (DE)
- Harvard University, Houghton Library (MA)
- Harvard University, Schlesinger Library (MA)
- Huntington Library (CA)
- Indiana University, Lily Library (IN)
- Kanner Fellowship in British Studies at the Clark Library, UCLA (CA)
- University of Kansas, Spencer Research Library (KS)
- Library of Congress (DC)
- University of Michigan, The Bentley Historical Library (MI)
- National Sporting Library (VA)
- Newberry Library (IL)
- Peabody and Essex Museum (MA)
- Princeton University Library (NJ)
- Ransom Humanities Research Center (TX)
- Rockefeller Center Archive (NY)
- Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (NY)
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries (DC)
- University of Southampton, Hartley Institute Visiting Fellowships (UK)
- Winterthur Library (DE)
- Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship Program (FL)
- Yale University, Lewis Walpole Library (CT)
- Yale University, Beinecke Library (CT)
Residential Fellowships and Humanities Centers
- Consortium of Humanities Centers
- American Academy in Rome (Italy)
- American Research Center in Egypt (Egypt)
- Australian National University, Humanities Research Centre (Australia)
- Australian National University, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research (Australia)
- University Calgary Institute for the Humanities (Canada)
- University of California, Berkeley, Townsend Center for the Humanities (CA)
- University of California, Davis, Davis Humanities Institute (CA)
- University of California, (Irvine) Humanities Research Institute (CA)
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Humanities Consortium (CA)
- University of California, Riverside, Center for Ideas and Society (CA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (CA)
- University of California, Santa Cruz, Center for Cultural Studies (CA)
- Cambridge University, for Visiting Fellowships, check individual college webpages, such as: Clare Hall, Churchill College, Corpus Christi College, Darwin College, Wolfson College, or search the Cambridge University Reporter (UK)
- University of Chicago, Franke Institute for the Humanities (IL)
- Cornell University, Society for the Humanities (NY)
- Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology (MA)
- East-West Center (HI)
- University of Edinburgh, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (Scotland)
- European University Institute, Jean Monnet Fellowships (Italy)
- Getty Research Institute, Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (CA)
- Harvard University, Center for European Studies (MA)
- Harvard University, Charles Warren Center for Studies of American History (MA)
- Harvard University, Humanities Center (MA)
- Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (MA)
- Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (MA)
- Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (CA)
- Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies (NJ)
- Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Sciences (NJ)
- Institute of Historical Research (UK)
- University of London, School of Advanced Study (UK)
- University of Michigan, Institute for the Humanities (MI)
- University of Minnesota, Humanities Institute (MN)
- National Humanities Center (NC)
- New York Public Library, Center for Scholars and Writers (NY)
- New York University, Center for Media, Culture and History (NY)
- New York University, International Center for Advanced Studies (NY)
- University of North Carolina, Center for International Studies (NC)
- Northwestern University, Kaplan Center for the Humanities (IL)
- Ohio State University, Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities (OH)
- Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (VA)
- Oxford University for Visiting Fellowships, check individual college webpages, such as: Christ Church, Nuffield College, St. Antony's College, St. Catherine's College, Wolfson College, or search the Oxford University Gazette (UK)
- Princeton University, Center for Human Values, Laurance Rockefeller Fellowships (NJ)
- Princeton University, Center of International Studies, Visiting Fellowships (NJ)
- Princeton University, Council for the Humanities (NJ)
- Princeton University Shelby Cullom Davis Center (NJ)
- Rutgers University, Center for Historical Analysis (NJ)
- Rutgers University, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, (NJ)
- School of American Research (NM)
- Smithsonian Institution (DC)
- Stanford Humanities Center (CA)
- SUNY, Stony Brook, Humanities Institute (NY)
- Texas A&M University, Center for Humanities Research (TX)
- University of Texas, Austin, Institute for Historical Studies (TX)
- University of Toronto, Centre for Medieval Studies (Canada)
- University of Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Canada)
- United States Institute of Peace (DC)
- University of Utah, Tanner Humanities Center (UT)
- Vanderbilt University, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities (TN)
- University of Virginia, Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies (VA)
- University of Virginia, Foundation for the Humanties (VA)
- University of Warwick (UK)
- Wesleyan University, Center for the Humanities (CT)
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (DC)
- University of Windsor, Humanities Research Group (Canada)
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for 21st Century Studies (WI)
- Yale Center for British Art (CT)
- Yale University, Agrarian Studies (CT)
- Yale University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion (CT)
- Yale University, International Security Studies (CT)
- Yale University, Whitney Humanities Center (CT)
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (NY)
Prizes for Research and Writing
- John Nichols Prize, Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester
- Twentieth Century British History Essay Prize
Please send corrections or suggestions for additional funding resources to the NACBS webmaster.