Washington College Fellowship in Early American History

The Washington College Fellowship in Early American History supports research into the library of George Washington or a germane area and offers a stipend of $1,500 for a residency of twenty days and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenæum. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals holding the appropriate U.S. government documents. Applications are due by April 15 every year.

Applicants must submit a curriculum vitae and letter of intent describing the proposed project and citing specific materials from the Boston Athenæum’s collections. Graduate students must also include a letter of recommendation from their faculty advisor. Candidates will be notified by May 15.

Mail applications to: Boston Athenæum, 10 ½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108 or email applications to: warnement@bostonathenaeum.org

Past Recipients of the Washington College Fellowship in Early American History

2011-2012 Alan Pell Crawford, independent scholar, “The Personal Library of George Washington”

2010-2011 Matthew Fisk, Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Art Enterprise and Diplomacy: John Trumbull, A Federalist Painter in Europe, 1780-1815

2009-2010  Jessica Parr, Ph.D. candidate, University of New Hampshire, “On the Margins of Empire: The Spectre of Marronage and the Making of Intellectual Borderlands in the Age of Revolution”

2008-2009  Professor Kevin J. Hayes,University of Central Oklahoma, “The Book in Washington’s Life”