2016 OAH John Higham Research Fellowship

Graduate Students: Apply now for a 2016 John Higham Research Fellowship.

The Organization of American Historians (OAH) invites applications for its annual John Higham Research Fellowship. When fully funded, the Higham Fellowship will offer two annual awards ranging from $1,000 to $1,500 each to successful applicants. Until that time, funds equal to 5% of the fund balance will be awarded, the amounts to be determined by the John Higham Research Fellowship Committee.

This fellowship is open to all graduate students writing doctoral dissertations for a Ph.D. in American history. Applicants pursuing research in those fields most congenial to the research and writing interests of John Higham will receive special consideration. These topics include U.S. social and intellectual history broadly considered, with preference given to research projects on American immigration and ethnic history as well as American historiography, and the cultural history of the nineteenth-century U.S.

Recipients will be notified after February 1, 2016. Grants will be announced at the 2016 OAH Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, April 7–10.

The grants are given in memory of John Higham (1920-2003), past president of the OAH and an important figure in immigration, ethnic, and intellectual history. Thanks to the generosity of William L. and Carol B. Joyce in providing a leadership gift to initiate this fellowship, the OAH is pleased to offer this award while at the same time it pursues additional fund-raising efforts to further expand the program.

John Higham Research Fellowship Committee

Maddalena Marinari (Committee Chair)

Affiliation: Gustavus Adolphus College

mmarinar@gustavus.edu

Alison Clark Efford

Affiliation: Marquette University

alison.efford@marquette.edu

Marni Davis

Affiliation: Georgia State University

marnidavis@gsu.edu

Location: United States

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2015

Read more and apply here.