UNC Chapel Hill has an undergraduate summer research fellowship opportunity for rising junior and seniors who are interested in pursuing a career in academia. Please see the attached word document or you can follow the link to the MURAP program here:
http://www.unc.edu/depts/murap/student-apply.html
The George C. Marshall Research Library in Lexington, Virginia announces research and writing opportunities in Twentieth Century (1898-1960) diplomatic and military history or political affairs.
Read more below on this scholarship. Deadline for the Department of History and American Studies to submit nominations is September 28, 2009. If you are interested in this scholarship, please see Dr. Harris at least a week before this deadline in order to complete an application.
Applications are now being accepted for the Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport, a semester long program based in Mystic, Connecticut that looks at the world’s oceans. Students explore beyond the classroom in an interdisciplinary, academically-rigorous fashion. Our semester is packed with travel, learning about our own country as well as the global ocean and coastal environment. We read Moby-Dick at Mystic Seaport, with a historic whaleship nearly identical to Melville’s Acushnet. We read Rachel Carson’s Under the Sea-Wind beside the Mystic River estuary. We read, among others: Hemingway, Dana, Kipling, Steinbeck, Twain, Chopin, Langston Hughes, and Sarah Orne Jewett. We go to sea on a tall ship for more than a week out of sight of land. We travel in vans along the coasts of central California, the Pacific Northwest, and southern Louisiana. Our home is Mystic Seaport, The Museum of America and the Sea, where students in addition to their four courses (Literature of the Sea, Maritime History, Marine Policy, and Oceanography or Marine Ecology), also take a skills course, such as blacksmithing, small boat sailing, or sea music.
As a Williams College program, students receive a Williams transcript and our curriculum is approved by and is consistent with courses taught at Williams.
Applications for the spring 2010 are due by November 15; for fall 2010 by May 1, 2010.
For more information, go to http://www.williams.edu/williamsmystic/.
The application process for the department’s scholarships for the following academic year (2009-2010) is now underway. Applications must be received by April 9 to be considered. Awards will be announced at the department’s banquet on Friday, April 24.
This year, in addition to our regular merit scholarships (Vance, Darter, Farmer, and Caldwell), the department adds a new scholarship, the William B. Crawley, Jr. scholarship in history.
Details about the scholarships and their requirements are located here: http://www.umw.edu/cas/history/scholarships__awards/default.php [scroll down to the bottom to see the specific requirements for each scholarship.]
Note that the department encourages people to apply for ALL scholarships for which they is eligible. Frankly, the more you apply for, the more likely your chances are.
Go to http://umwhistory.org/histsurvey/index.php?sid=31342&lang=ento apply. [Each scholarship application requires a brief (250 word) essay explaining why you fit the criteria for that scholarship.]
Interested in conducting research at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City? A summer research opportunity, with stipend, is available.
As their website notes,
“The Gilder Lehrman History Scholars Program, inaugurated in 2003, is a competitive summer scholarship program in American history for outstanding college sophomores and juniors. The program, based in New York City, has been designed to both reward undergraduates who have demonstrated superb research and writing skills in the field of American history and provide an opportunity for the next generation of historians to engage in discussions with eminent scholars and in primary-source research.”
For more information, see this link.
Application deadline: March 3, 2009.
