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

The Boston Athenæum and the Massachusetts Historical Society offer the Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship on the Civil War, Its Origins and Consequences with a stipend of $4,000 for research residencies of at least four weeks at each institution. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals holding the appropriate U.S. government documents. Applications are due February 15 each year. Each institution will automatically refer unsuccessful proposals to its short-term fellowship competition.

The Athenæum’s Civil War collections are anchored by its holdings of Confederate states imprints, the largest in the nation, consisting of books, maps, broadsides, sheet music, newspapers, governmental publications, and other materials organized according to the Parrish & Willingham bibliography.
The MHS’s manuscript holdings on the Civil War are particularly strong. They include, for example, diaries, photographs, correspondence from the battlefield and the home front, papers of political leaders, material on black regiments raised in Massachusetts, and extensive holdings on the U.S. Sanitary Commission.

The Athenæum and the MHS are particularly interested in projects for which both repositories’ resources are vital.

For more information and to apply please visit the MHS's website

Past Recipients of the Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship

2020-2021

Andrew Donnelly, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University, “Reconstructing Sexuality: The Politics of Sex and Manhood in the Civil War Era”

2019-2020

Kevin Hooper, Ph.D. candidate, University of Oklahoma, “Seizing Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Pursuit of Citizenship in the Antebellum United States”

2018-2019

Jean Franzino, Visiting Assistant Professor, Beloit College, “Dis-Union: Disability Cultures and the American Civil War”

2017-2018

Kathleen Hilliard, Associate Professor, Iowa State University, “Bonds Burst Asunder: The Revolutionary Politics of Getting By in Civil War and Emancipation, 1860-1867”

2016-2017

Kent McConnell, Ph.D., instructor, Phillips Exeter Academy, "A Time-Stained God: Spiritual Lives, Civil War Deaths and the Violent Remaking of Religion in America"

2015-2016

Robert Mann, independent scholar, "Contact of Human Souls"
Kevin Waite, Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania, "The Slave South in the Far West: California, the Pacific, and Proslavery Visions of Empire"

2014-2015

Sarah Beetham, Ph.D. candidate, University of Delaware, "Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865-1917"

2013-2014

Dylan Yeats, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University, "Americanizing America: How the Federal Government Shaped the Nation, 1818-1924"

2012-2013

Ann Holder, Associate Professor, Pratt Institute, “Making the Body Politic: Sexual Histories, Racial Uncertainties and Vernacular Citizenship in Post-Emancipation US”

2011-2012

Jordan Watkins, Ph.D. candidate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, “The Place of the Past in the American Civil War”

2010-2011

Peter Wirzbicki, Ph.D. candidate, New York University, “Black Intellectuals, White Abolitionists, and Revolutionary Transcendentalists: Creating the Radical Intellectual Tradition in Antebellum Boston”

2009-2010

Kathryn Shively Meier, Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia, '"Under the Surge of the Blue’: Environmental Effects on Civil War Solder Mental and Physical Health in Virginia, 1862”