Jobs and Fellowships
Fellowship Title: Military Collection Research Summer 2025 Fellowship
Fellowship Location: History Colorado Center, Denver, CO (This position is in-person and not available for remote work.)
Stipend: $5,000. The stipend is not salary or compensation. The stipend is meant to support study and research during the tenure of the appointment and will be issued in three installments: 45% at the start, 45% at the end, and 10% upon submission of the findings report post completion of the fellowship.
History Colorado is committed to anti-racism practices across its institution and outlined in these grounding virtues. As such, we encourage members of Black, Indigenous, Latino Hispanic, People of Color, LGBTQ+ and persons with disabilities communities to apply for this internship.
Apply By: March 15, 2025
Desired Schedule: Apx. one month. 160 hours, worked between June and August 2024.
Broad Scope of Position: The Military Collection Research Fellowship supports scholars who wish to pursue research and study centered on the Colorado Military History Collection. The Colorado Military History Collection is significant because it includes artifacts, books, manuscripts, pamphlets, maps, newspapers, photographs, and ephemera relevant to the history of Colorado and Western military service. This collection covers a vast number of subjects including the 10th Mountain Division, U.S.S. Colorado, Colorado National Guard, Spanish-American War, The Frontier Army, Military Forts, U.S. Air Force, World War I, World War II, and German POWs.
Outcomes: In the first month, the fellow will create one social media post and will present one program at History Colorado on their research experience. Within six months following the residency period, the fellow will submit a final report on their research findings.
Desired Academic Field Study: The fellowship intends to support serious scholarly work that makes use of the Colorado Military History Collection and adds to scholarship in a field related to the collection’s content. We are seeking current or recent graduate students and PhD candidates in American History, Military History, Political Science, Public History, or related degree programs.
To Apply for this Position: All application materials must be submitted in the order below in one PDF file. Please include the following materials:
- Project abstract (maximum length: 150 words)
- Curriculum Vitae
- Project description indicating the scope of your research and the existing scholarship with which you engage (maximum length: 1000 words)
- Summary of the parts of the Colorado Military History collection you plan to consult during your residency and how they are pertinent to your project (maximum length: 500 words)
- List of other museum or archival collections in Colorado you may consult during your residency
- Strongly suggested that fellow visits at least 1 other institution during the funding period)
- List of potential conference(s) at which you would present your finished work
Submit all application materials and your answer to the question below to Director of Volunteer Engagement Emily Dobish, emily.dobish@state.co.us.
As a response to the national protests regarding systemic injustice, History Colorado staff came together to discuss as an institutional community the ways in which History Colorado can advance the work of anti-racism. These Grounding Virtues are the result of our collective process.
Please click here: https://www.historycolorado.org/sites/default/files/media/document/2024/Anti-Racism_Grounding_Virtues.pdf
Answer this question: How have these guiding principles shown up in your previous work and/or how would you contribute to these virtues in your fellowship position at History Colorado?
**All fellows must successfully complete a background check.
FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for our 2025-26 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related humanities fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections. Fellows also participate in a dynamic intellectual community alongside in-house experts and scholars from other Kansas City cultural and educational institutions.
The Linda Hall Library holds nearly half a million monographs and more than 43,000 journal titles documenting the history of science and technology from the 15th century to the present. Its collections are exceptionally strong in the engineering disciplines, chemistry, and physics. In addition, the Library boasts extensive resources related to natural history, astronomy, earth science, environmental studies, aeronautics, life science, infrastructure studies, mathematics, and the history of the book.
The Library offers residential fellowships to support on-site research in Kansas City, as well as virtual fellowships for scholars working remotely using resources from the Library’s digital collections. Applicants may request up to four months of funding at a rate of $3,000 per month for doctoral students and $4,200 per month for postdoctoral researchers.
The Library is also offering several fellowships intended for specific groups of researchers:
- The National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship provides nine months of residential funding ($5,000 per month) to a postdoctoral scholar whose research explores the intersection of science and the humanities.
- The History of Science and Medicine Fellowship, offered in partnership with the Clendening History of Medicine Library at the University of Kansas Medical Center, provides one month of residential funding ($3,000 per month) to a doctoral student whose research examines the intersecting histories of science and medicine.
- The Pearson Fellowship in Aerospace History provides up to two months of residential funding ($4,200 per month) to a postdoctoral scholar studying the history of aviation or spaceflight.
- The Presidential Fellowship in Bibliography provides up to four months of residential funding ($4,200 per month) to a postdoctoral scholar whose research focuses on the study of books and manuscripts as physical artifacts.
Please share this announcement with graduate students, colleagues, or anyone else who might be interested in the Linda Hall Library’s fellowship program. All application materials are due no later than January 17, 2025. For further information, visit https://www.lindahall.org/research/linda-hall-library-fellowships/ or e-mail fellowships@lindahall.org.
GRANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Charles Koch Foundation Foreign Policy Grants Team recently launched a new RFPs that will be of interest to SMH members. Their focus is primarily on supporting research with relevance to current U.S. foreign policy debates. All of these RFPs operate on a rolling basis and are open to scholars at all levels, including graduate students via their dissertation grants.
Foreign Policy - https://charleskochfoundation.org/grants/foreign-policy-research-grants/
Ending Endless Wars in the Middle East - https://charleskochfoundation.org/grants/ending-endless-wars-in-the-middle-east/
The Future of America’s Alliances - https://charleskochfoundation.org/grants/the-future-of-americas-alliances/
Managing Relations with China - https://charleskochfoundation.org/grants/managing-relations-with-china/
Trade Policy - https://charleskochfoundation.org/grants/trade-policy-research/
U.S. Foreign Policy Dissertation Grants - https://charleskochfoundation.org/grants/u-s-foreign-policy-dissertations/
While the Foundation anticipate these RFPs being open long-term, they do reassess their priorities on an annual basis. All open RFPs can always be found on this webpage: https://charleskochfoundation.org/partner-with-us/
SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
Charles A. and Loyola M. Murphy Endowed Scholarship for the Study of 10th Mountain Military History
Recently, the 10th Mountain Foundation partnered with the family of WWII veteran, Charles Murphy (86-I) to create our first endowed scholarship for graduate students in military history.
Applicants need not be 10th Mountain descendants, but they do need to be studying about the Division. and its related units.
This $5,000 scholarship granted once per recipient and celebrates the devotion to education that Charles Murphy and his wife Loyola brought following his return from Italy and his is 31 years of teaching and coaching.
https://10thmountainfoundation.org/programs-we-support/scholarship/undergraduate-scholarships/
FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
The Ronald Reagan Institute announces a new Postdoctoral Visiting Scholars Program for work that advances the political, economic, and national security ideas and values of President Ronald Reagan. Visiting Scholars will be selected based on the relevance of their research to these principles. Proposals will also be judged on the likelihood of completion of a book manuscript during the fellowship period. In addition to a stipend of $75,000, each scholar will receive an additional $5,000 for research related costs.
See https://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan-institute/scholarship/reagan-institute-visiting-fellows-program/
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