This fellowship supports postdoctoral research on African and Indigenous slavery and dispossession, leveraging resources at Brown University's Simmons Center and John Carter Brown Library.
Short-term Fellowship supports predoctoral, postdoctoral, and independent researchers in residential or remote research to examine colonial American history in global and comparative contexts.
The John Carter Brown Research Fellowship for Indigenous Communities supports Indigenous-led research using the JCB Library’s Early American history and culture collections, offering both remote and residential access.
The J. M. Stuart Graduate Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library supports Brown Ph.D. students researching early American history through immersive access and collaborative library projects.
Short-Term Fellowships support researchers studying transatlantic slavery, funding on-site work with Schomburg Center collections to advance scholarship on slavery and anti-slavery in the Atlantic World.
2026-2027 Gilder Lehrman Center Fellowships support scholars’ residential research on slavery, resistance, abolition, and their legacies to deepen understanding of slavery from earliest times to the present.