Patrick Henry History Fellowship 2025-2026 ($45,000 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: January 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Patrick Henry History Fellowship 2025-2026. The Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience invites purposes for its full-time residential fellowship, which helps excellent work on American historical past and tradition by each students and nonacademic authors.

The Starr Center, positioned at Washington College in Chestertown, Md., is an interdisciplinary heart devoted to fostering revolutionary approaches to the American previous, and to selling glorious writing on historical past, for common in addition to tutorial audiences. The 2025-2026 Patrick Henry Fellow will preserve full-time residence in Chestertown all through the time period of the award, though quick-time period analysis journey is permitted. The fellow will train an undergraduate seminar at Washington College within the spring semester and provides at the least one public lecture or workshop associated to his or her work. The fellowship should start earlier than September 15, 2025.

Benefits

The fellowship contains:

• Stipend: $45,000
• Health Benefits
• Book Allowance
• Faculty Privileges
• Nine-Month Residency in a historic 18th-century home in Chestertown, MD
• Office Space on the waterfront Custom House
• OPPORTUNITY to show an undergraduate seminar and current a public lecture or workshop

Eligibility

• Applicants ought to have a major mission at the moment in progress — a e book, movie, oral historical past archive, podcast collection, museum exhibition, or related work. The mission ought to tackle the historical past and/or legacy – broadly outlined – of the U.S. founding period and/or the nation’s founding concepts. It may focus immediately on early America, or on the myriad methods the questions that preoccupied the nation’s founding era have formed America’s later historical past. Work that contributes to ongoing nationwide conversations about America’s previous and current, with the potential to achieve a large public, is especially sought.
• Applications from printed writers and established students are welcome. Dissertation initiatives won’t be thought-about; first-e book initiatives are likewise discouraged until the applicant has an in any other case in depth publication historical past.
• Candidates who’ve accomplished the vast majority of their analysis and are targeted on the writing section of their initiatives are particularly inspired to apply. 

Application

Applications ought to embrace the next:

• A canopy letter;
• The applicant’s curriculum vitae, together with an inventory of previous publications, in addition to the names and phone numbers of at the least three references;
• At least one substantial pattern of the candidate’s writing (printed or unpublished);
• A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of a course that the candidate may train;
• A quick however persuasive narrative description of the work-in-progress, its potential contributions to ongoing nationwide conversations or debates, and the candidate’s plan for his or her fellowship yr.

Applications could also be submitted through e mail or a single PDF doc mailed to: [email protected]

For extra data, go to Patrick Henry History Fellowship.