The Boston Athenaeum offers short-term fellowships to support the use of our collections for research, publication, curriculum and program development, or other creative projects.
Each fellowship pays a stipend for a residency of twenty days (four weeks) and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenaeum. Scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, teaching faculty, and professionals in the humanities as well as teachers and librarians in secondary public, private, and parochial schools are eligible. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals holding the appropriate U.S. government documents.
Applications are due by April 15 of every year.
Areas of Interest
- A Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship, courtesy of a long-time teacher in the Boston Public School system, offers a stipend of $2,000 for a residency of twenty days (four weeks) and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenaeum. Scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, teaching faculty, creatives, and professionals in the humanities as well as teachers and librarians in secondary public, private, and parochial schools are eligible. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals holding the appropriate U.S. government documents.
- A Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellowship is available for research on topics concerning the Confederate States and the Civil War. It offers a stipend of $2,000 for a residency of twenty days (four weeks) and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenaeum. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals holding the appropriate U.S. government documents.
- The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship is offered in conjunction with the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies to use the Boston Athenaeum’s holdings relevant to the 18th century and comes with a stipend of $1,500 for a residency of twenty days (four weeks) and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenaeum. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals holding the appropriate U.S. government documents.
- The American Congregational Association-Boston Athenaeum Fellowship is for research into American religious history involving the collections of the Boston Athenaeum and the Congregational Library. The award includes a stipend of $2,000 for a residency of twenty days (four weeks) and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenaeum and to the Congregational Library.
- The Boston Athenaeum Community Fellowship includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenaeum. Scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, teaching faculty, and professionals in the humanities as well as teachers and librarians in secondary public, private, and parochial schools are eligible.
- The Boston Athenaeum and the Massachusetts Historical Society offer the Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship on the Civil War, Its Origins and Consequences with a stipend of $6,000 for research residencies of at least four weeks at each institution. Deadline: Feb. 15