CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship Grant

The CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship, offered by the Coordinating Council for Women in History, provides a $1000 award to graduate students in U.S. history departments who are completing a dissertation. This fellowship aims to support crucial research stages or the final year of writing. Applicants must be graduate students who have achieved A.B.D. status and may specialize in any history field, ensuring diverse representation in women's history.

The Coordinating Council for Women in History
The Coordinating Council for Women in History connects women historians throughout the world from all career stages, supporting students and emerging scholars through prizes, mentoring programs, and workshops.
Our Goals
CCWH seeks to broaden both the organization of women historians and the study of women’s history to represent as fully as possible the diversity of women in the United States and internationally.
To accomplish these ends, CCWH will continue to:
Strengthen ties between permanent and adjunct faculty, graduate students, secondary and elementary teachers and students, public historians, and the general public.Represent the interests of women in all areas of the historical professionResearch and publicize information on the professional status of women
The CCWH offers six awards to help reach its organizational goals.

Eligibility

The applicant must be a graduate student historian in a history department in a U.S. institution.The applicant:must be a graduate student writing a dissertation in history;must have passed to A.B.D. status by the time of the application; may not apply for other CCWH awards simultaneously; need not attend the award ceremony to receive the award. may specialize in any field of history Please note that CCWH members may only apply for one CCWH award per year.
You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member.