External Funding for Graduate Students

Graduate students are encouraged to pursue external funding to support the extensive archival and library research required to make original scholarly contributions in the master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation. The list below is not a comprehensive list of available funding. It represents some of the agencies that have funded OU History graduate students or faculty in the past. Funding sources are dynamic—new grants become available, and others run through available funding. It is graduate students’ responsibility to research funding sources for their projects, in coordination with their advisors and committees. 

Fulbright U.S. Student Program
https://us.fulbrightonline.org/applicants/types-of-awards/study-research

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship, https://www.acls.org/programs/mellon-acls-dissertation-innovation-fellowships/

American Philosophical Society
https://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/fellowships

The Philips Fund for Native American Research https://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/phillips-fund-native-american-research

American Historical Association Research Grants
https://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/grants-and-fellowships

Grants Calendar
https://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/awards-and-fellowships-calendar    

Albert Beveridge Grant
https://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/grants-and-fellowships/albert-j-beveridge-grant

American Society for Environmental History fellowships and travel grants
https://aseh.org/Fellowships-and-Funding

Organization of American Historians
https://www.oah.org/awards/awards-for-graduate-students-and-recent-graduates/

John Higham Research Fellowship
https://www.oah.org/awards/awards-for-graduate-students-and-recent-graduates/john-higham-research-fellowship/

Western Historical Association fellowships and travel grants
https://www.westernhistory.org/awards#scholarships

WHA-Huntington Martin Ridge Fellowship, $3500 for 1 month research in Huntington Library
https://www.westernhistory.org/awards/huntington

Rundell Fellowships, $1500 for graduate student research
https://www.westernhistory.org/awards/rundell

American Heritage Center (University of Wyoming)
https://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/grants/index.html

Beineke Library, Yale University
https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fellowships

Brigham Young University, Redd Center
https://reddcentergrants.byu.edu/

Briscoe Center for American History (University of Texas)
https://briscoecenter.org/research-travel-award/

John Carter Brown Library
https://jcblibrary.org/fellowships

Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture (University of Wisconsin)
https://www.wiscprintdigital.org/fellowship/

Clements Library, University of Michigan
https://clements.umich.edu/research/fellowships/

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa OK
Helmerich Center for American Research Duane H. King short-term fellowships ($2500 for 2 weeks-1 month): https://gilcrease.org/helmerich-center/research-fellowships/

Travel to collections grants ($500/week for up to two weeks)
https://gilcrease.org/helmerich-center/travel-collections-grants/

Duane H. King Postdoctoral Fellowship
https://gilcrease.org/helmerich-center/kingfellowship/

Hagley Library and Museum (business and technology history)
https://www.hagley.org/research/grants-fellowships

Hall Library (science and technology)
https://www.lindahall.org/

Historical Society of Pennsylvania
https://www.portal.hsp.org/fellowships

Huntington Library Fellowships
https://huntington.org/fellowships

University of Kansas, Spencer Research Library, Lawrence KS
https://spencer.lib.ku.edu/using-the-library/travel-awards

Kansas Historical Society, Alfred M. Landon Research Grants
https://www.kshs.org/p/alfred-m-landon-historical-research-grants/11382

Library Company of Philadelphia
https://librarycompany.org/academic-programs/fellowships-2/#/

Massachusetts Historical Society
https://www.masshist.org/research/fellowships

McNeil Center for Early American Studies
https://www.mceas.org/fellowships-0

Montana Historical Society Research Fellowships
https://mhs.mt.gov/Research/about/fellowships/

National Archives, Cokie Roberts Research Fund in Women’s History
https://www.archivesfoundation.org/cokie-roberts-fellowship/

New-York Historical Society
https://www.nyhistory.org/careers/fellowships

New York Public Library
https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/fellowships-institutes

Newberry Library, Chicago IL Short-Term fellowships
https://www.newberry.org/research/fellowships/short-term-fellowships

Oregon Historical Society Short-Term fellowships
 https://www.ohs.org/research-and-library/research-fellowships.cfm

Redd Center for Western Studies (Brigham Young University)
https://reddcenter.byu.edu/Pages/about-our-awards

Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Union Affairs (Wayne State University)
https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/15137

University of Illinois Foundation John Rovensky Fellowship in US Business History
https://thebhc.org/john-e-rovensky-fellowship-2022-2023

University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Research fellowships
https://www.library.wisc.edu/friends/friends-grants/grants-in-aid/

Wisconsin Historical Society Research Fellowships
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS3637

** Check relevant state historical societies for fellowships and travel grants

** Check relevant presidential libraries for fellowships and travel grants

Mahindra Humanities Institute at Harvard
https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/postdoctoral-fellowships

Society of Fellows in the Humanities, University of Southern California
https://sofh.usc.edu/

Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
 https://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Research/Institutes-and-Centers/SWCenter/Fellowships