Grants, Fellowships, and Scholarships

Grants

The following list contains information for students seeking grants in history and other closely related fields. For information regarding other disciplines, click here.

• Fulbright (GRAD) - Provides recent B.S./B.A. graduates, master's and doctoral candidates, and young professionals and artists opportunities for personal development and international experience. Campus representative: Dr. Nancy Freudenthal, Office of Academic Affairs, x2720, freudent@tcnj.edu
• TEACH Grant (UNDERGRAD/GRAD) -  Provides grant funds to postsecondary students who are completing or plan to complete coursework that is needed to begin a career in teaching, and who agree to serve for at least four years as a teacher in a high-need field, in a school serving low-income students. Eligible full-time students may receive up to a maximum of $16,000 for undergraduate and post-baccalaureate study, and $8,000 for graduate study.
• PELL Grant (UNDERGRAD) -  The Federal Pell Grant is awarded to students who can prove the most financial need. Most of them come from families where household incomes fall below $20,000 a year. Award amounts may vary, but in recent years maximum Pell Grant awards have been about $4,000.
• Academic Competitiveness Grant (UNDERGRAD) -  The program awards need-based Academic Competitiveness Grants to first- and second-year undergraduates who completed a rigorous high school curriculum.
• OAH/IEHS John Higham Travel Grant (GRAD) - Travel grants of $500 are awarded to three graduate students each year. Funds are to be used by graduate students toward costs of attending the OAH/IEHS annual meeting. The successful candidates will have a preferred area of concentration in American Immigration and/or American Ethnic and/or American Intellectual history.
• Herbert Hoover Travel Grant Award (GRAD) - The program, funded entirely through contributions from private individuals, corporations, & foundations, is specifically intended to promote the use of collections of the Herbert Hoover Library. In recent years, awards have ranged from $500 to $1,500 per applicant.
• New Jersey Historical Commission Mini-grants - Grants available to support small projects which are relatively inexpensive and support the mission of the New Jersey Historical Commission. The regular rules for project grants apply, however, there is no deadline; they are reviewed bimonthly in January, March, May, August, October, and December.
• V-Free Mini Grant Program - The V-Free Mini-Grant program was designed to help students develop projects and promote activities aimed at fostering positive environments in their schools and communities that are free of violence, vandalism and victimization. Any student or youth group, with the help of a teacher or advisor, can apply for a mini-grant. Funds range from $1,500 to $3,000.
• Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation - Grants are awarded to support research that increases the understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world. Grants up to $15,000 to $30,000 per year for periods of one or two years.
• Grants from the German Historical Institute
  

  • Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History (GRAD) - The conference brings together scholars from Germany and North America who are nearing completion of their doctoral degrees. It provides an opportunity to debate doctoral projects in a transatlantic setting. The stipend covers travel costs and lodging expenses.
  • Young Scholars Forum (GRAD) - This annual forum gathers together American PhD candidates and recent PhD recipients who work in the fields of German, German-American, or European history and give them the opportunity to present their work to peers and distinguished academics from both sides of the Atlantic.
  • Doctoral Fellowship in the History of African Americans and Germans/Germany (GRAD) – A six-month doctoral fellowship, with a possible six-month extension. Preference will be given to fellows whose projects fit into the GHI's research foci. The fellow will have the opportunity to make use of the resources in the Washington, DC, area, including the Library of Congress and the National Archives, while pursuing his or her own research agenda.
  • Dissertation Fellowship in the Transatlantic Perspectives (GRAD) – A multi-year dissertation fellowships for outstanding graduate students in a variety of disciplines including history, sociology of migration, urban studies and international relations as well as economic and architectural history.
  • Medieval History Seminar (GRAD) - This program invites sixteen doctoral students to discuss their dissertation projects with peers and senior scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. The stipend covers travel and lodging expenses. The seminar is held each fall, alternating between venues in Europe and the United States.
• Grants from the Medieval Academy
  

  • Medieval Academy Dissertation Grants (GRAD) - Medieval Academy dissertation grants support advanced graduate students who are writing Ph.D. dissertations on medieval topics. The $2,000 grants help defray research expenses such as the cost of travel to research collections and the cost of photographs, photocopies, microfilms, and other research materials.
  • Medieval Academy of America Travel Grants - The Medieval Academy provides a limited number of travel grants to help independent scholars or currently unaffiliated faculty present their work at professional meetings. Awards to support travel in North America are $500; for overseas travel the awards are $750.
    
     

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Fellowships

The following list contains information for students seeking Fellowships in history and other closely related fields. For information regarding other disciplines, click here.

• American Academy in Rome (GRAD) - Rome prize winners pursue independent projects, which vary in content and scope, for periods ranging from six months to two years at the Academy. Stipends range from $9,000 to $17,800 (depending on the terms of the fellowships).
• Leon Levy Center for Biography - Biography Fellowship (GRAD) - During the academic year-in-residence at CUNY, Biography Fellows will devote their time to their projects and be expected to participate in the monthly seminars designed expressly for the Fellows. Fellows may not teach or partake in other full-time employment, but each fellow will receive a stipend of $60,000.
• Leon Levy Center for Biography - Biography Dissertation Fellowship (GRAD) - The Leon Levy Center also offers Biography Dissertation Fellowships for two PhD candidates at the CUNY Graduate Center. Applications are welcome from students in any discipline, but to be considered, an applicant's dissertation project must be devoted to biography.
• Bosch Foundation Archival Seminar for Young Historians (GRAD) - The seminar prepares Ph.D. students working in the field of American history for their prospective research trips. Participants learn how to contact archives, use finding aids, identify important reference tools, and become acquainted with miscellaneous American research facilities. In addition, they have the opportunity to meet a number of prominent scholars and discuss their research with them.
• Newberry Library/École Nationale des Chartes Exchange Fellowship (GRAD) - This fellowship provides a monthly stipend and free tuition for an American or Canadian graduate student to study at the École Nationale des Chartes in Paris for a period of three months during 2010-11. Applications are especially encouraged from students who are in the early stages of preparing their dissertations.
• Samuel Smith Fellowships for Research in New Jersey History (GRAD) - A limited number of fellowships to support applicants doing major research projects in New Jersey history, including doctoral dissertations and monographs. Awards based on demonstrated expertise and excellence of project description. Fellowship support can be used for any project expense other than tuition or publication.
• Javits (GRAD) - For students who demonstrate:  1) superior ability and achievement; 2) exceptional promise; and 3) financial need. Eligible candidates will be entering graduate school during the next academic year or be in their first year of graduate study.
• Madison (GRAD) - Fellowships for graduate study at the master's level of the principles, framing, and history of the U.S. Constitution for teachers of American history, American government, and social studies in grades 7-12 and for college seniors and college graduates who plan to become secondary school teachers of these subjects. Campus representative: Dr. Daryl Fair, Political Science Department, x2745, fair@tcnj.edu
• Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans (GRAD) - Fellowships for up to two years of graduate study are made to “new Americans” in the following categories:  1) a resident aliens (i.e., holders of a Green Card); 2) a naturalized U.S. citizen; or 3) a child of two parents who are both naturalized U.S. citizens.   Fellowships provide a maintenance grant of $20,000 and a tuition grant of one-half of the tuition cost of a U.S. graduate program.
• Fellowships from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute
  

  • Richard M. Weaver Fellowship (GRAD) - The ISI Richard M. Weaver Fellowship pays tuition at the school attended by the recipient, a stipend of $5,000, and awards $1,000 in ISI Books. More than 400 Weaver graduate fellowships have been granted since the program's inception in 1964.
  • Salvatori Fellowship (GRAD) - Two fellowships worth $10,000 each are awarded for graduate work in fields related to the American Founding. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and college seniors or graduate students familiar with the ISI's mission.
  • Western Civilization Fellowship (GRAD) - Up to three fellowships worth $20,000 each will be awarded for the pursuit of graduate studies at the school of applicant's choice. The fellowship is designed to address our culture's loss of memory by supporting the study of the institutions, values and history of the West. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and college seniors or graduate students familiar with the ISI's mission.
  • Bache Renshaw Fellowship (GRAD) - The ISI Bache Renshaw Fellowship awards each recipient $12,000 toward doctoral study in education that will influence the discipline with the ideas, values, and institutions that are fundamental to America’s Western tradition.
• Fellowships from the Medieval Academy
  

  • Birgit Baldwin Fellowship (GRAD) - The Baldwin Fellowship provides a grant of $20,000 to support a graduate student in a North American university who is researching and writing a significant dissertation for the Ph.D. on any subject in French medieval history that can be realized only by sustained research in the archives and libraries of France.
  • Schallek Fellowship and Awards (GRAD) - The Schallek Fellowship provides a one-year grant of $30,000 to support Ph.D. dissertation research in any relevant discipline dealing with late-medieval Britain (ca. 1350-1500). $2,000 awards are also available. 
    

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Scholarships

The following list contains information for students seeking Scholarships in history and other closely related fields. For information regarding other disciplines, click here.

• CARA Tuition Scholarships (GRAD) - A full tuition scholarships for four students participating in Latin summer programs offered at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Toronto. Only students who are members of the Medieval Academy are eligible for these scholarships.
• Courses in Handwriting and Archives - The Summer Program which takes place in Germany introduces students to German handwriting of previous centuries, exposes them to a variety of German archives, familiarizes them with major research topics in German culture and history, and encourages the exchange of ideas among the next generation of American scholars. The scholarship covers travel cost and lodging expenses.
• Martin Luther King Commission Scholarship - Scholarships in the amount of $5000 are awarded annually to college students who have demonstrated an active interest and meaningful involvement in areas of human rights, social justice, labor, and world peace; and who intend to pursue academic and/or career paths that would enable them to advance these causes as future leaders.
• Gates Cambridge (GRAD) - Supports either postgraduate study or a second bachelor's degree at Cambridge University (UK).  It is anticipated that Gates Cambridge Scholars will become leaders in helping to address global problems related to health, equity, technology, and learning.
• Jack Kent Cooke Foundation (GRAD) - Scholarships for seniors and recent graduates planning to attend graduate school for the first time starting this fall.  The maximum available per student per year of study is $50,000 and the maximum length is six years. Only two students may be nominated by the college each year. Campus representative: Dr. Nancy Freudenthal, Office of Academic Affairs, x2720, freudent@tcnj.edu
• Marshall (GRAD) - Brings to the United Kingdom for two years of graduate study intellectually distinguished young Americans who will one day become leaders, opinion formers and decision makers in their own country. Campus representative: Dr. Adam Knobler, History  Department, x2204, knobler@tcnj.edu
• Rhodes (GRAD) - Two-year scholarships for graduate study at Oxford University. Intellectual distinction is a necessary but not a sufficient condition; candidates also must show excellence in qualities of mind and in qualities of person. Campus representative: Dr. Adam Knobler, History Department, x 2204, knobler@tcnj.edu
• Rotary - Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships can support:  1) one year of study abroad; 2) two years of degree-oriented study in another country; or 3) three months of intensive language study and cultural immersion. The primary objective is "to further international understanding and friendly relations among people of different countries." 
• Truman (UNDERGRAD/GRAD) - For students who plan to pursue careers in government or elsewhere in public service, and wish to attend graduate or professional school to help prepare for their careers. To be used for the senior year of college and up to three years of graduate study. Campus representative: Dr. John Sisko, Honors Program, x2337, sisko@tcnj.edu
• Scholarships from Phi Alpha Theta  
  

  • Undergraduate Student Scholarship (UNDERGRAD) - Exceptional junior members entering their senior year and majoring in Modern European History (1815 to present) are eligible for: Graydon A. Tunstall Scholarship Scholarship of $1,000.
  • Doctoral Scholarship (GRAD) - For advanced study by graduate student members of Phi Alpha Theta who are pursuing a Ph.D. in History and who have passed general examinations by February 15, 2010.
  • Graduate Scholarship (GRAD) - Phi Alpha Theta members entering graduate school for the first time and who are enrolled in a Master's program in History are eligible to apply.
  • Paper Prize Awards (UNDERGRAD/GRAD) - Phi Alpha Theta awards six prizes annually for outstanding papers written by graduate and undergraduate members of the honor society.
  • World History Association Paper Prize in World History (UNDERGRAD/GRAD) - Two student paper prizes in world history, each of $400, for the best undergraduate world history paper and the best graduate-level world history paper composed in the 2009-10 academic year.
  • Western Front Association Undergraduate Essay Prize (UNDERGRAD) - Phi Alpha Theta and the Western Front Association award an annual prize of $1,000 for an essay written by an undergraduate student at an American college or university. Honorable Mention certificates will be given to runners-up.
• Scholarships from Daughters of the American Revolution
  

  • Enid Hall Griswold Memorial Scholarship (UNDERGRAD) - Awarded to a deserving junior or senior enrolled in an accredited college or university in the United States who is pursuing a major in either political science, history, government, or economics. This is a one-time award in the amount of $1,000.
  • J.E. Caldwell Centennial Scholarship (GRAD) - Awarded to outstanding students pursuing a course of graduate study in the field of historic preservation. This is a one time award in the amount of $2,000.

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Resources

• Live to Lean - This website offers information and advice on fellowships from recent graduates and recipients of competitive fellowships who want to pass along what they have learned to other students.
• Study Abroad Funding - Searchable information from the Institute on International Education about funding support for study abroad. 
• FastWEB - Free scholarship listing site.

• Fed Money - A free online resource on U.S. government grants and student financial aid programs. Contains information for over 130 government grants and loans (scholarships, fellowships, traineeships) related to education.

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