Grants and Fellowships
Institutions listed below provide grants and fellowships in support of
travel and research to use primary sources and collections available in
their respective libraries and archives. To make a correction or addition
to this list, please contact Robin Reeder,
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Arizona, University of - Travel and Research Assistance Grants
Contact information:
Morris K. Udall Archives Research Travel/Assistant Grant
University of Arizona Library
Special Collections, Room C208
P.O. Box 210055
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0055
dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/spc/udall/grants.html
Association of Centers for the Study of Congress -
The Richard A. Baker Graduate Student Research Travel Grant
Contact information:
Julia Collins
University Archivist and Moakley Institute Director
Suffolk University Archives
120 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108-4977
617-305-6293
(fax) 617-305-6275
E-mail: jcollins@suffolk.edu
http://www.suffolk.edu/offices/acsc.html
Baylor University (Waco, TX) - Research Fund
Contact information:
Director, W. R. Poage Legislative Library
One Bear Place #97153
Waco, TX 76798-7153
phone: (254) 710-3540
www.baylor.edu/lib/poage/index.php?id=54460
Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME) - Does not have any travel grants for congressional papers in place right now. This may change by next year as the Maine Political Papers Network is working on a group approach to offering such grants.
Contact information:
Paige Lilly
5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5729
Phone: (207) 581-2665
www.library.umaine.edu/mainepoliticalpapers/default.asp
California State University (Fresno, CA) - Research Fellowship Grant
Contact information:
Glenn Gray, Archivist
Henry Madden Library
Central Valley Political Archive
California State University
5200 North Barton Avenue M/S ML34
Fresno, CA 93740-8014
Phone: (559) 278-8573
Fax: (559) 278-6952
E-mail:
www.cvparchive.org/research.html
Connecticut, University of (Storrs, CT) Strochlitz Travel Grant
Contact information:
Thomas Wilsted
Archives & Special Collections
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
405 Babbidge Road, Unit 1205
Storrs, CT 06269-1205
Phone: (860) 486-4501
www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/pages/Strochlitztravel.htm
Dirksen Congressional Center (Pekin, IL) - Congressional Research Awards
Contact information:
Frank H. Mackaman
Dirksen Congressional Center
301 S. Fourth Street, Suite A
Pekin, IL 61554-4219 USA
Phone: (309) 347-7113
Fax: (309) 347-6432
www.dirksencenter.org/grantcongresearchaward.htm
Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL) - Visiting Scholar's Program
Contact information:
Burt Altman
The Claude Pepper Library
Florida State University
636 West Call Street
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1123
Phone: (850) 644-9305
Fax: (850) 644-9303
Email:
pepper.cpb.fsu.edu/library/scholar.htm
Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum (Ann Arbor, MI) Travel Grants
Contact information:
Grants Coordinator
Gerald R. Ford Library
1000 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: (734) 205-0555
Fax: (734) 205-0571
Email:
www.ford.utexas.edu/library/hpgrants.htm
Harvard University - Houghton Library fellowships
Contact information:
The Fellowship Selection Committee
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Phone: (617) 495-2441
Fax: (617) 495-1376
hcl.harvard.edu/houghton/programs/fellowships.html
Indiana University (Bloomington, IN) - Research Fellowship
Contact information:
Breon Mitchell, Director
The Lilly Library
Indiana University Libraries
1200 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
Phone: (812) 855-2452
Fax: (812) 855-3143
Email:
www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/fellowships.shtml
Kansas State Historical Society (Topeka, KS) - Research grants
Contact information:
Andrea Tilghman
Kansas State Historical Society
6425 SW Sixth Ave.
Topeka, KS 66615-1099
Phone: (785) 272-8681, ext. 232
Fax: (785) 272-8682
Email:
www.kshs.org/involved/help/awards.htm
Kansas, University of (Lawrence, KS) - Spencer Research Library travel grants
Contact information:
Spencer Library Travel Grants Committee
c/o William J. Crowe, Spencer Librarian
Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
1450 Poplar Lane
Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7616
Email:
spencer.lib.ku.edu/ksrlgrants/index.htm
Michigan Technological University (Houghton, MI) - Research Travel Grants
Contact information:
Julie Blair
Michigan Tech Archives & Copper Country Historical Collections
J. Robert Van Pelt and Opie Library
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931-1295
Phone:(906) 487-2505
Fax:(906) 487-2357
Email:
www.lib.mtu.edu/mtuarchives/grants/program.aspx
Michigan, University of (Ann Arbor, MI) - Travel and Research Grants
Contact information:
William K. Wallach, Assistant Director
Bentley Historical Library
University of Michigan
1150 Beal Ave.
Ann Arbor Michigan, 48109-2113
Phone: (734) 764-3482
Fax: (734) 936-1333
Email:
www.umich.edu/~bhl/bhl/general/bordin.htm
Missouri Historical Society- Travel and Research Assistance Grants
(For research in the congressional career of Richard A. Gephardt and the Gephardt Congressional Papers)
Contact Information:
Richard A. Gephardt Fellowship
Morgan Davis, Head Project Archivist
2204 S. Vandeventer
St. Louis, MO 63110
Phone: 314-746-4599
Fax: (314) 454-3162
Email:
www.mohistory.org/content/Employment/EmploymentInfo.aspx#Fellowship
National Archives and Records Administration (Washington, DC) -
NARA does not offer individual travel or research grants, but does offer other types of assistance: The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) is a statutory body affiliated with NARA which provides grants that support a wide range of activities to preserve, publish, and encourage the use of documentary sources relating to the history of the United States. The Commission offers assistance to non-Federal agencies and institutions.
Contact information:
National Archives and Records Administration
700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 111
Washington, DC 20408-0001
Phone: (202) 501-5610
Fax: (202) 501-5601
E-mail:
www.archives.gov/grants/about_nhprc/about_nhprc.html
In addition, several private foundations associated with NARA's Presidential Libraries provide grants-in-aid to assist researchers studying Library holdings. Information on these grants is found at:
www.archives.gov/presidential_libraries/about/grants.html
North Carolina, University of (Chapel Hill, NC) - Visiting Scholar's Grant
Contact information:
Head of Public Services-Visiting Scholars Grant
Southern Historical Collection
Wilson Library, CB# 3926
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: (919) 962-1345
Email:
www.lib.unc.edu/mss/travel.html
Northwood University (Skowhegan, ME) - Research Fellowship
Contact information:
Margaret Chase Smith Library
56 Norridgewock Avenue
Skowhegan, Maine 04976
Phone: (207) 474-7133
Email:
www.mcslibrary.org/program/library/libcoll.htm
Oklahoma, University of (Norman, OK) - Travel Grants
Contact information:
Carolyn G. Hanneman
Archivist
Carl Albert Center
University of Oklahoma
630 Parrington Oval, Room 101
Norman, OK 73019 USA
Phone: (405) 325-5835
Fax: (405) 325-6419
Email:
www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=127965
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) - Library Research Grants
Contact information:
Library Research Grant Committee
Princeton University Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: (609) 258-3184
Fax: (609) 258-2324
Email:
www.princeton.edu/rbsc/fellowships/
South Carolina, University of (Columbia, SC) Research Fellowship
Contact information:
Herbert Hartsook, Director
South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina
Columbia, S.C. 29208
Phone: (803) 777-3131
Fax: (803) 777-5747
www.sc.edu/library/socar/fellows.html
The Harry S. Truman Library Institute
Contact information:
Grants Administrator
500 West U.S. Highway 24
Independence, Missouri 64050-1798
Phone: (816) 268-8248
Fax: (816) 268-8299
Email:
www.trumanlibrary.org/grants/index.html
Washington State University (Pullman, WA) - The Thomas S. Foley Institute (affiliated with the school) has funded research.
Contact information:
The Foley Institute
Johnson Tower 401
PO Box 644840
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-4840 USA
libarts.wsu.edu/foleyinst/
Washington, University of (Seattle, WA) - Henry M. Jackson Foundation (unaffiliated with the school) has funded researchers
Contact information:
Ms. Lara Iglitzin, Executive Director
Henry M. Jackson Foundation
1001 Fourth Avenue, Suite 3317
Seattle, WA 98154
Phone: (206) 682-8565
Fax: (206) 682-8961
www.hmjackson.org/guidelines.html
Wyoming, University of (Laramie, WY) - Travel Grants
Contact information:
Rick Ewig, Associate Director
American Heritage Center
Dept. 3924
1000 E. University Avenue
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-4114
ahc.uwyo.edu/eduoutreach/travelgrants/default.htm
CPR pages maintained by Robin Reeder,
Last updated: 11 March 2010
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