Fellowships:

The Boston Athenæum offers short-term fellowships to support the use of Athenæum collections for research, publication, curriculum and program development, or other creative projects. Each fellowship pays a stipend for a residency of twenty days and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenæum. Scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, teaching faculty, and professionals in the humanities as well as teachers and librarians in secondary public, private, and parochial schools are eligible. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals holding the appropriate U.S. government documents.

Applicants need not send multiple submissions for different fellowships. Please click on the following links for information on each fellowship:

Applications for the six fellowships listed below are due April 15, 2012

Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship

Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellowship

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship

Washington College Fellowship in Early American History

American Congregational Association-Boston Athenæum Fellowship

Mudge Teacher Fellowship

Application for Loring due February 15, 2012

Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship on the Civil War, its Origins and Consequences

Application for NERFC due February 1, 2012

New England Regional Fellowship Consortium

Current Fellows
Past Fellows 
Suggestions for Accommodations for Fellows