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Colonial Society of Massachusetts Graduate Student Forum

June 2-3, 2022 Graduate students preparing original research on any area of early American history (up to 1815) at both the MA and PhD levels are invited to submit proposals for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts’s annual Graduate Student Forum....

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French Colonial Historical Society Book Prizes

The French Colonial Historical Society/Société d’histoire coloniale française awards two book prizes annually for the best books on French colonial or post-colonial history published during the preceding year.   The Boucher Prize is awarded in honor of long-time members and active...

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Duane H. King Postdoctoral Fellowship at Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Florida

The University of Tulsa’s Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum seeks applications for its Duane H. King Postdoctoral Fellow. The Research Center houses the Gilcrease Library and Archive containing more than 100,000 rare books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and...

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Call for Papers : Oceans as Archives Conference

4-6 July, 2022 University of Amsterdam- The Netherlands Organizers: Mikki Stelder (University of Amsterdam), Renisa Mawani (University of British Columbia), Kristie Flannery (Australian Catholic University) website: www.oceansasarchives.org After an illuminating Oceans as Archives symposium in May 2021 held at the University...

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American Philosophical Society Fellowships

The Library & Museum of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia invites applications for sabbatical, postdoctoral, predoctoral, and short-term research fellowships for projects in all fields, and particularly those pertaining to Native American and Indigenous Studies, Early American History and...

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Starr Center and the John Carter Brown Library Fellowships

The Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and the John Carter Brown Library invite applications for the Hodson Trust - John Carter Brown Fellowship, a unique research and writing fellowship. The Hodson Trust - John Carter Brown Fellowship...

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New Netherland Institute Fellowships

The New Netherland Institute is pleased to announce that we will be awarding two fellowships this year to projects that investigate New Netherland and/or the Dutch in 17th and 18th century North America and Curacao.  Scholars of all ranks are...

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The ECCLES Centre for American Studies fellowships

The Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library invites applications from academics and creative researchers wishing to visit London to use the British Library’s collections relating to the Americas (North America, the Caribbean, Central America, South America).Who are...

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TSA-CUP Book Prize

TRANSATLANTIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOK PRIZE The TSA-CUP book prize is awarded to the best book published within a given year in the broad field of transatlantic studies. Both monographs and edited collections are eligible. We are...

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PhD scholarship project at the Wilberforce Institute

Maritime Quarantine and Transatlantic Slavery Application deadline: January 10, 2022 Applications are invited for this PhD scholarship project, working with the renowned Wilberforce Institute at the University of Hull, seeking to mine underexplored data within Slave Voyages to analyse what we can...

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