Long-Term Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society

FAIN: RA-285292-22

Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA 02215-3631)
Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai (Project Director: August 2021 to present)

18 months of stipend support (2 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The Massachusetts Historical Society requests a grant of $251,000 in outright funds and $20,000 in matching funds, a total of $271,000, for a program of long-term post-doctoral fellowships. To this sum the Society will add $20,000 raised from outside sources and $30,375 either from fundraising or its own funds, a total of $50,375. NEH support will allow the Society to award 18 months of fellowships per year in lengths of between 4-12 months per fellowship. The initiative will complement three other research fellowship programs at the MHS—1) short-term fellowships; 2) regional fellowships (along with the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium); and 3) a two-month Civil War fellowship (along with the Boston Athenaeum). In Spring 2020 the four research fellowship competitions the Society sponsors considered 218 applications and made 59 awards. MHS-NEH Fellows employ their grants at the MHS, where they make use of one of the great research collections for the study of American history.