AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship

The AAS-NEH Long-Term Fellowships are tenable for four to twelve months each year.  These fellowships offer splendid opportunities for collegiality with and mentoring from the staff, other visiting fellows, and the academic community in and near Worcester, Massachusetts.  

AAS-NEH fellows are expected to be in regular and continuous residence at the Society. They must devote full time to their study and may not accept teaching assignments or undertake any other major activities during the tenure of their award. Fellows may hold other major fellowships or grants during fellowship tenure, in addition to sabbaticals and supplemental grants from their own institutions. Other NEH-funded grants may be held serially, but not concurrently.

Eligibility

AAS-NEH fellowships are for persons who have already completed their formal professional training. Degree candidates and persons seeking support for work in pursuit of a degree are not eligible to hold AAS-NEH fellowships. Candidates for advanced degrees must have completed all requirements, except for the actual conferral of the degree, by the application deadline for the fellowship. This includes the dissertation defense. Foreign nationals who have been residents in the United States for at least three years immediately preceding the application deadline for the fellowship are eligible. Mid-career scholars are encouraged to apply. 

Length of Term

Four to twelve months during the period June 1 to May 31.

Stipend

The stipend for AAS-NEH Fellowships is $5,000 per month.

Criteria

Fellows are selected on the basis of the applicant's scholarly qualifications, the scholarly significance or importance of the project, and the appropriateness of the proposed study to the Society's collections. Preference will be given to individuals who have not held long-term fellowships during the three years preceding the period for which the application is being made.

Accommodations

For fellows who reside on campus in the Society’s scholars’ housing, located next to the main library building, the stipend will have the room fee deducted from the stipend. (Room fees range from $600 to $1,000 per month.) Although fellows have priority, renting from the Society is not a requirement of those holding fellowships. When requested, the staff will do their best to suggest alternative accommodations in Worcester or environs.

Application Procedure

To apply, complete an application form online

You will be asked to attach a single PDF document containing the elements listed below:

  • A CV of no more than three (3) pages
  • A proposal of no more than six (6) double-spaced pages describing the project, its current status, and its significance for scholarship. Be sure to provide an overview of the narrative and argument, locate the project in the relevant literature.
  • A selective bibliography of not more than one page providing, for purposes of context, a list of secondary sources relevant to the proposed project
  • A statement of previous support that you have received for this project, as well as a statement indicating whether you currently hold or expect to hold an academic appointment or equivalent during the fellowship year. If so, please indicate whether you expect to receive support from your institution during the tenure of the fellowship, and the terms of such support.
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Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2007-08 Daniel A. Cohen Case Western Reserve University Associate Professor Burning the Charlestown Convent: Private Lives, Public Outrage, and Contested Memory in Nineteenth-Century America
2007-08 Richard Bell University of Maryland Assistant Professor Do Not Despair: Suicide, Property, and Power in the Newly United States
2007-08 Peter Leavenworth University of New Hampshire PhD Candidate Accounting for Taste: The American Music Business in the Early Republic and Confrontations in Music Aesthetics, 1770-1825
2007-08 Jeannine M. DeLombard University of Toronto Associate Professor Ebony Idols: Famous Fugitive Slaves in Britain before the Civil War
2006-07 Seth Rockman Brown University Assistant Professor Self-Made and Slave-Made: Capitalism, Slavery, and the Rise of the Early American Economy
2006-07 Robert E. Bonner Dartmouth College Visiting Assistant Professor Crossings to Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and the Completion of American Liberty
2006-07 Edward J. Larkin University of Delaware Assistant Professor The Loyalist Origins of United States Culture
2006-07 Nancy Shoemaker University of Connecticut Professor The Whaling History of New England Indians
2005-06 Kenneth Banks University of North Carolina, Asheville Visiting Assistant Professor Slow Poison: French Contraband in the Early Modern Atlantic Economy, 1660-1800
2005-06 Sara Crosby University of Notre Dame PhD Candidate The Female Poisoner and Popular Print Media in New England, 1840-1860