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Fellowships for Business and Economic Historians

Links to some of the major grant and fellowship programs (primarily US) of interest to business and economic historians are provided below. [Please note that some programs do not yet have current application materials available; in those cases, the link goes to the last available information.]

Hagley Museum and Library
    Hagley Grants and Fellowships, overview
    Henry Belin du Pont Dissertation Fellowship
    Henry Belin du Pont Research Grants
    Exploratory Research Grants
    Miller Center/Hagley Library Dissertation Fellowship in Business and Politics

Harvard Business School
    Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship in Business History
    Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., International Visiting Scholars in Business History Program
    Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship
    Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Travel Fellowships

BAC Bursary for Business History Research
Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry Grants
Centre for Business History in Scotland Seedcorn Grants
Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellowships
Clark Research Grant Program, Benson Ford Research Center
EHA Research Fellowships
Economic History Society Grants
Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellowship in Economic History, Brandeis University
Hartman Center Research Grants
History Project Research Grants
Lemelson Center Fellowships, at the National Museum of American History
Library Company of Philadelphia Fellowships
Pasold Research Fund, for research in textile history
PEAES Fellowships
Prize Fellowships in Economics, History, and Politics (Harvard)
Rockefeller Archive Center Grants
Rovensky Fellowship in U.S. Business or Economic History [last year's materials]
SHOT Fellowships
Virginia Historical Society, Betty Sams Christian Fellowships in Business History


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