Barra Foundation International Fellowships Grant

Barra Foundation International Fellowships Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Amount: Up to US $3,500
Last Updated: December 05, 2025

Summary

The Barra Foundation International Fellowships, offered by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, provide four-week research opportunities for foreign scholars focusing on early American history and culture. This fellowship supports both postdoctoral and dissertation research, allowing access to extensive collections that cover various historical themes, including women's history and ethnic studies. A stipend of $2,500 and travel expenses up to $1,000 are included, emphasizing a commitment to international scholarly collaboration.

Overview

NOTE: Candidates are strongly encouraged to inquire about the appropriateness of the proposed topic. Historical Society of Pennsylvania The Historical Society of Pennsylvania awards a number of four-week fellowships for research in its collections during each academic year. Historically, the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania have offered many opportunities for support in the form of one-month fellowships for advanced research in residence in either or both institutions. For this year, the two programs will be administered separately. As part of its continued commitment to supporting researchers, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania will award a number of fellowships for research in its collections during the academic year. The Collection ​ The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has collections capable of supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history of America and the Atlantic world, as well as mid-Atlantic regional history, from the 17th through the 20th centuries. HSP collections are strong in local newspapers and printed ephemera, prints and photographs of the Philadelphia region, and graphics by local artists. They possess extraordinary strength in the history of women and African Americans, popular literature, business and banking, popular medicine, philanthropy and reform, education, natural sciences, technology, art, architecture, German Americana, American Judaica, and a host of other subjects. Now enriched by the holdings of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, HSP holds more than 19 million personal, organizational, and business manuscripts, as well 560,000 printed items and 312,000 graphic images concerning national and regional political, social, and family history. The Balch Institute collections bring the HSP added strength in documenting ethnic and immigrant history, with significant holdings of ethnic newspapers, records of benevolent societies and other local and national ethnic organizations, and personal papers of prominent leaders in ethnic and immigrant communities across the nation. Explore HSP’s library catalog. Fellows are also encouraged to use the collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia, located next-door to HSP in Philadelphia’s Center City. The two independent research libraries have complementary collections capable of supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history of the United States in its Atlantic world context from the 17th through the 19th centuries, as well as Mid-Atlantic regional history to the present. Barra Foundation International Research Fellowship Barra Foundation International Research Fellowship to support research in residence in their collections by foreign national scholars of early American history and culture living outside the United States. The Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania offer the one-month fellowship. These two independent research libraries, adjacent to each other in Center City Philadelphia, have complementary collections capable of supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history of the United States and the Atlantic world from the 17th through the 19th centuries, as well as Mid-Atlantic regional history to the present. Funding The stipend is $2,500 plus an allowance for travel expenses up to $1,000.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Barra Foundation International Fellowships (which also cover travel expenses) are reserved for citizens of other countries living outside the US.The fellowship supports both postdoctoral and dissertation research. The project proposal should demonstrate that the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania have primary sources central to the research topic. The fellowship supports four weeks in residence at any time between June and May.