Britain: Funding
In recent years research support for scholarship in the British Isles has been much harder to come by than any other area of Europe. This is in large part because demand for fellowships to Britain has remained high, despite private and governmental efforts to steer research in other directions. At Chicago we have made a real effort to acknowledge and rectify the situation with the creation of the Nicholson Center for British Studies, which offers research travel grants and dissertation fellowships for graduate students. Within the next year the university will initiate two one year research grants for graduate students under the auspices of the Nicholson Fund. Small seed grants are available from the Department of History. There are a number of long and short term grants available from outside sources. Two websites provide particularly useful suggestions for grants: the North American Conference on British Studies and the American Political Science Association. Those seeking long-term research fellowships should particularly investigate those offered by the Fulbright, Social Science Research Council, Institute of Historical Research, and the NACBS. Short-term fellowships are available from the English-Speaking Union, the American Historical Association, the Huntington, the Beinecke, the Folger, the Walpole Library, the William Andrews Clark Library, the Houghton Library, the Clements Library, and the Newberry Library.