Residential Fellowships at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

FAIN: RA-290753-23

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, VA 23187-8781)
Catherine Elizabeth Kelly (Project Director: August 2022 to present)

18 months of stipend support (2–3 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The Omohundro Institute’s NEH Fellowship is a residential fellowship program for early career scholars at work on their first books. Beyond the raw resources of primary source materials, scholars require time and expert critical feedback to complete the research and revisions needed to turn a dissertation into a first book; these resources are highly prized and scarce. Since 1945 the Omohundro Institute (OI) has offered its fellows the distinctive opportunity of innovative engagement with all aspects of the research and publication process. The fellowship, focused on developing research into publishable work, reflects the OI’s core mission of supporting scholars and scholarship within an intensive critical community. The evidence validating the OI’s approach is manifold in the scholarship produced and in the subsequent careers of the young scholars who have held OI fellowships. Beginning in 1983, NEH support has been essential to the success of the OI’s fellowship program.