The American Revolution Institute’s Long-Term Research Fellowship supports academic or independent scholars conducting 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 resource, or other significant work of research and interpretation.
In 2027, the Institute will award American Heritage Partners Research Fellowships totaling up to $25,000. Fellowship funds are intended to facilitate concentrated research in residence using the American Revolution Institute’s collections. Funds 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.
Recipients will ordinarily be beyond the graduate-student stage and pursuing advanced work that will lead to a substantial scholarly or public-history outcome. Applicants may be university faculty, independent scholars, or 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 applicants will clearly explain the significance, originality, and feasibility of their projects; identify the collections, sources, sites, landscapes, or other forms of evidence they will examine; and demonstrate why an extended period of research is necessary. They should explain why research in residence at the Institute is essential, what sources they will use, and how they will make meaningful progress during the fellowship term. What matters most is the strength, significance, and feasibility of the project and the applicant’s demonstrated ability to complete it.
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.