Henry Kaufman Financial History Fellowship Program

The Henry Kaufman Financial History Fellowship Program supports research by emerging scholars in financial history, broadly conceived. Fellowships include monetary awards as well as support from the BHC community of scholars, which for decades has prioritized engagement with graduate students and early career researchers.  To be eligible, applicants must be enrolled in or graduates of an accredited doctoral program.

Henry Kaufman Financial History Research Fellowships

Provide for the cost of travel to archives, libraries, research centers, or other research sites (up to $1,000 for in-country travel or up to $2,000 for international travel); access to research databases (up to $500); and other justifiable research-related costs for scholars whose work engages meaningfully with financial history in any time period or region of the world and who are currently in an accredited PhD program or who earned a doctorate within 5 years of the application deadline.

Henry Kaufman Financial History Dissertation Fellowships

Provide up to $40,000 for up to twelve months to support PhD candidates writing a dissertation that engages meaningfully with financial history in any time period or region of the world. Award recipients are expected to devote full time during their fellowship tenure to the proposed project. The fellowship period must begin within twelve months of notification of the award, unless granted an extension by the Selection Committee.

Henry Kaufman Financial History Post-Doctoral Fellowships 

Provide up to $60,000 for up to twelve months for PhDs whose work engages meaningfully with financial history in any time period or region of the world and who earned a doctorate within 5 years of the application deadline.  The typical applicant will use the research time to revise her or his dissertation for publication, but applications for support of second-book project research also are welcome. Award recipients are expected to devote full time during their fellowship tenure to the proposed project. The fellowship period must begin within twelve months of notification of the award, unless granted an extension by the Selection Committee.