The Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH) is a space for network and community building for women historians of diverse backgrounds, interests, and professions. It offers multiple fellowships for graduate and early career scholars.
CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship
The CCWH / Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Graduate Student Fellowship is a $1000 award to a graduate student completing a dissertation in a history department. The award is intended to support either a crucial stage of research or the final year of writing.
The applicant must be a graduate student historian in a history department in a U.S. institution; must have passed to A.B.D. status by the time of application; may specialize in any field of history; may hold this award and others simultaneously; and need not attend the award ceremony to receive the award.
Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship
The CCWH Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship is an annual award of $1000 given to a graduate student working on a historical dissertation that interrogates race and gender, not necessarily in a history department. The award is intended to support either a crucial stage of research or the final year of writing.
The applicant must be a CCWH member; must be a graduate student in any department of a U.S. institution; must have passed to A.B.D. status by the time of application; may hold this award and others simultaneously; and need not attend the award ceremony to receive the award.
Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize
The CCWH Nupur Chaudhuri Article Prize is an annual $1000 prize that recognizes the best first article published in the field of history by a CCWH member. The the article must be published in a refereed journal in one of the two years preceding the prize year (so 2021 and 2022 for the 2023 award). An article may only be submitted once. All fields of history will be considered, and articles must be submitted with full scholarly apparatus.
Fellowship Website:
https://theccwh.org/awards