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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.
Grants organized by field and then by type of grant (short-term/summer, dissertation research, write-up). Some grants are cross-listed.

Africa:

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:

Eastern/Central Europe:

History of Science:

Western Europe:

Britain:

France

Germany

The Netherlands

Spain and Portugal

Medieval History

Latin America

Middle Eastern History

South Asia:

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

U.S. History, Dissertation:

U.S. History, write-up and postdoctoral

Non-Field Specific Grants

 

Writing-Up Grants & Postdoctoral Fellowships:

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."
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