Indian Rights Association Fellowship Grant

Indian Rights Association Fellowship Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Amount: US $3,000
Last Updated: November 29, 2025

Summary

The Indian Rights Association Fellowship, awarded by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, supports one month of research residency in Native American studies. This fellowship offers a $3,000 stipend for advanced, postdoctoral, and dissertation research, encouraging exploration of the HSP's extensive Indian Rights Association Records. Open to various topics, it aims to foster scholarly work on the history and rights of Native Americans, enhancing understanding of their cultural heritage and historical narratives.

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. Fellowship Details 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. Indian Rights Association Fellowship Each year the Historical Society of Pennsylvania awards one Indian Rights Association Fellowship in the field of Native American studies. The fellowship supports one month of residency in Philadelphia for advanced, postdoctoral, and dissertation research. Though topic and time period are open, applicants must demonstrate a need to conduct research in the HSP’s Indian Rights Association Records (see finding aid). Funding The stipend is $3,000. Fellowships are tenable for any one-month period between June and May.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Fellowships support research for advanced, postdoctoral, dissertation, independent, and creative projects.