Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) - Grants
Application Deadline: 10/01/2014
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations offers several travel grants, a language acquisition grant, and a grant to promote scholarship in U.S. foreign relations history by women.
Some grants are targeted to graduate students and others to postdoctoral applicants.
The Stuart L. Bernath Dissertation Research Grant
The grant helps defray expenses encountered in the writing of their dissertations. (Applicants for this award will be considered automatically for the Holt, Gelfand-Rappaport, and Bemis grants.)
Applicants must be actively working on dissertations dealing with some aspect of U.S. foreign relations history. Award amount: up to $4,000.
The W. Stull Holt Dissertation Fellowship
The Fellowship helps defray the costs of travel necessary to conduct research on a significant dissertation project. (Applicants for this award will be considered automatically for the Bernath, Gelfand-Rappaport,
and Bemis grants.) Applicants must be actively working on dissertations dealing with some aspect of U.S. foreign relations history. Award amount: up to $4,000.
The Lawrence Gelfand – Armin Rappaport Dissertation Fellowship
The Fellowship helps defray the costs of dissertation research travel. (Applicants for this award will be considered automatically for the Bernath, Holt, and Bemis grants.) Applicants must be actively
working on dissertations dealing with some aspect of U.S. foreign relations history. Award amount: up to $4,000.
Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grants
The Bemis Research Grants of up to $2,000 will be awarded annually to help defray the costs of domestic or international travel necessary to conduct research on significant scholarly projects. (Applicants
for this award will be considered automatically for the Bernath, Holt, and Gelfand-Rappaport grants.) Applicants must be actively working on dissertations dealing with some aspect of U.S. foreign relations history. Award amount: up to $2,000.
The Michael J. Hogan Foreign Language Fellowship
The is intended to promote research in foreign language sources by graduate students. It is intended to defray the costs of studying foreign languages needed for research. Applicants must be graduate
students researching some aspect of U.S. foreign relations history. Award amount: up to $4,000.
William Appleman Williams Junior Faculty Research Grants
The grants are awarded to help defray the costs of domestic or international travel necessary to conduct research on significant scholarly projects. Untenured college and university faculty and others
who are within six years of the Ph.D. and who are working as professional historians on their first research monograph. Award amount: up to $2,000.
The Myrna F. Bernath Fellowship
The fellowship defrays the costs of scholarly research by women. Applications are welcomed from women at U.S. universities as well as women abroad who wish to do research in the United States. Preference
will be given to graduate students and those within five years of completion of their PhDs. Award amount: up to $5,000. Note: Applications are due in even years, and the Fellowship begins in odd years.