Research Fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society

The American Antiquarian Society is currently accepting applications for fellowships to conduct archival research using the AAS collections. Both short-term and long-term fellowships are available, tenable for periods of one to twelve months during the period June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026. All awards are for use of the AAS library’s resources for research and writing. Scholars’ housing on-campus housing is available. Letters of recommendation are no longer required for fellowship applications.

The application deadline for short-term fellowships and for NEH post-doctoral fellowships is January 15, 2025.

SHORT-TERM RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS support periods of one to three months.

LONG-TERM RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS support periods of four to twelve months.

Since its founding in 1812 the American Antiquarian Society has collected over four and a half million books, pamphlets, newspapers, graphics, and manuscripts and continues to add to these holdings of pre-twentieth century primary materials. The Society also maintains a robust collection of secondary materials of current scholarship often based on its holdings. The AAS is the nation’s chief repository for newspapers published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in what is now the United States, portions of Canada, and the Caribbean. The Society has accumulated over 18,000 newspaper titles. The Society’s periodicals collection is also extensive. The books and pamphlets in the Society’s collection touch on every subject in American history and life through the year 1900. The collection has grown into the largest collection of pre-1821 United States imprints anywhere in the world. The graphic arts collections at the American Antiquarian Society are diverse and expansive, incorporating over 400,000 historic American objects subdivided into 135 collection areas. The department cares for prints, broadsides, maps, ephemera, sheet music, drawings and photographs. The Society’s manuscript department contains rich resources for the study of American history and culture. Numbering over 2,000 collections and well over a million items, the Society’s manuscripts span the years from 1613 into the twentieth century. The children’s literature collection at the American Antiquarian Society is, within its scope, the world’s finest. The collection, now numbering over 26,000 volumes, chronicles the emergence of an American literature for children.

For more information on fellowship types and links to online applications please visit:  https://www.americanantiquarian.org/fellowships