American Congregational Association-Boston Athenæum Fellowship

The American Congregational Association-Boston Athenæum Fellowship is for research into American religious history involving the collections of the Boston Athenæum and the Congregational Library. The award includes 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 June 15.

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

 Past Recipients of the ACA-Boston Athenæum Fellowship

2011-2012  Richard Boles, Ph.D. candidate, George Washington University, “Divided Faiths: The Rise of Segregated Northern Churches, 1730-1850”

2010-2011 Mary Kupiec Cayton, professor, Miami University, “’A Divine and Supernatural     Light’: Religious Emotion and the Rise of Evangelical Culture in America, 1740-1840”

2009-2010 None awarded this year

2008-2009  H. Paul Thompson, Jr., (Assistant Professor, North Greenville University), “The Swan Song of Antebellum Reform: Temperance Reform in Post-Emancipation Atlanta, 1865-1887.”

2007-2008 Professor William Van Arragon (King’s College, Edmonton, Alberta), for revising his dissertation, “Cotton Mather in American Cultural Memory,” for publication.