Description

The American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum in Philadelphia offers this nine-month residential fellowship to advanced Ph.D. students working toward dissertation completion. It supports research in all fields, provided the dissertation addresses topics reflected in the Library & Museum’s collections and demonstrates a need to use those holdings.

Selection emphasizes the caliber of the project and evidence that it can be completed in a timely manner. The committee also considers the need to work at the APS and other Philadelphia-area research institutions. Fellows have opportunities to participate in Society programs and other affairs. Past recipients’ projects have addressed sociolinguistic variation, antislavery, theoretical physics, health in early Atlantic cities, and political thought.