The American Revolution Institute’s American Heritage Partners Long-Term Research Fellowship supports an academic or independent scholar undertaking advanced research on a significant topic related to the American Revolution. The fellowship is intended to advance an ambitious project leading to a substantial scholarly or public-history outcome, such as a book, major article, documentary edition, exhibition, digital project, or other significant work of research and interpretation.
The Institute will award one fellowship of $25,000 annually. The award is intended to support an extended period of concentrated research, ordinarily including several months of work in residence at the American Revolution Institute. The fellowship may also support necessary travel, housing, per diem expenses, research services, and work in other libraries, archives, museums, historic sites, landscapes, or geographic locations when such research is integral to the project. Substantial use of the Institute’s collections must remain central to the fellowship.
Applicants should ordinarily have completed their graduate training and must demonstrate the scholarly or professional experience necessary to carry an ambitious project toward completion. Eligible applicants may include university faculty, independent scholars, and professionals engaged in humanities research, libraries, archives, museums, historic sites, public history, digital humanities, or related cultural heritage work. Doctoral candidates seeking support for dissertation research should apply to the Institute’s Short-Term Research Fellowships.
The Institute particularly welcomes projects that introduce new sources, methods, or forms of interpretation to the study of the American Revolution. These may include projects examining relationships among historical events, people, objects, places, landscapes, environments, routes, borders, and patterns of movement. Projects may also employ cartography, historical geography, geographic information systems, GPS-based field research, spatial data, digital mapping, data visualization, or other interdisciplinary methods.
Successful proposals will clearly explain the significance, originality, and feasibility of the project; identify the collections, sources, sites, landscapes, and other forms of evidence to be examined; demonstrate why an extended period of research is necessary; and describe the substantial progress expected during the fellowship term.
Awards will be based on:
- the quality, originality, and significance of the proposed project;
- its relevance to the American Revolution Institute’s mission and collections;
- the extent to which sustained research in residence may be necessary;
- the project’s potential to produce a substantial scholarly or public-history outcome;
- the effective use of collections, places, landscapes, spatial evidence, or digital methods, where relevant; and
- the applicant’s demonstrated ability to complete the proposed work.
The application deadline is November 6, 2026, and applicants should expect to be notified of the Selection Committee’s decision by January 2027.