Boston Athenaeum Short-term Fellowships

The Boston Athenæum offers short-term residential fellowships to support the use of Athenæum 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 Athenæum.

Eligibility

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.

Annual Deadline

April 15

Fellowships

• American Congregational Association-Boston Athenæum Fellowship – Supports research into American religious history involving the collections of the Boston Athenæum and the Congregational Library.
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship – Offered in conjunction with the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies to use the Boston Athenæum’s holdings relevant to the 18th century.
• Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellowship – Available for research on topics concerning the Confederate States and the Civil War.
• Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship – Offers a stipend to 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.
• New England Regional Fellowship Consortium.
• Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship on the Civil War, its Origins and Consequences.