Western History Association (WHA) Fellowships

The Western History Association strives to be a congenial home for the study and teaching of all aspects of North American Wests, frontiers, homelands, and borderlands. It offers fellowships for graduate student research in these areas, including the:

• Beverly Purrington/Richard White Western History Dissertation Prize ($500): Given to the best dissertation on the history of the North American West, in its varied aspects and broadest sense, defended and filed in the preceding calendar year.
• Sara Jackson Graduate Student Award ($500): Supports graduate student research at the MA or PhD level. Preference will be given to African American or other students of color.
• Walter Rundell Graduate Student Award ($1500): Supports dissertation research for doctoral candidates who have completed comprehensive examinations.
• WHA-Huntington Library Martin Ridge Fellowship ($3500): Supports a month-long research fellowship in residence at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California.
• Western History Disability Studies and Disabled Scholar Award ($1000): supports two graduate students who are either working in the fields of disability studies and western history OR identify as disabled and wish to attend the WHA conference with financial assistance.