Scholarships

offers modest short term awards to advanced students, postdoctoral trainees, and scientific researchers who are commencing their careers in the fields covered by AMNH. Grants are available from separate funds each having specific restrictions:

• Lerner-Gray Grants for Marine Research support marine zoology. Support is limited to projects dealing with systematics, evolution, ecology and field-oriented behavioral studies of marine animals. Awards are not made to support research in botany and biochemistry.
• Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grants support research on North American fauna in any phase of wildlife conservation or natural history and includes everything north of the Isthmus of Panama, including the Caribbean.
• Collection Study Grants enable pre-doctoral, recent postdoctoral investigators and research scientists to study the scientific collections at the American Museum of Natural History in in the divisions of Anthropology, Invertebrate Zoology, Physical Sciences, Paleontology, and Vertebrate Zoology. The awards partially support travel and subsistence for scientists on short term AMNH visits.

This award will support travel costs for two RGGS Comparative Biology Ph.D. students annually during the duration of the gift, for professional development via doctoral program fieldwork or to attend and present at a national or international conference.

These fellowships support doctoral students in musicology who are in the dissertation writing phase of their program. It is expected that fellowship recipients will work full-time to complete their dissertations within the fellowship year. Applicants must be registered in good standing for a doctorate at a North American university and must have completed all formal degree requirements except the dissertation at the time of full application. Any submission for a doctoral degree in which the emphasis is on musical scholarship will be eligible.

Fellowships support minority scholars and teachers in musicology who are a members of a group historically underrepresented in the discipline, including African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans and, in Canada, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities (as defined by Canadian legislation). The fellowship offers support for one year. Students are eligible who have completed at least one year of full-time graduate work, intend to pursue a Ph.D., and are in good standing at their home institution. They should show evidence of academic excellence and promise of continuing achievement in music scholarship. Those in the earlier stages of the degree are particularly encouraged to appl

Grants offer graduate students the opportunity to work hands-on with one of the world‘s preeminent numismatic collections. The eight-week course taught by the museum staff, guest lecturers and a visiting scholar introduces students to the methods, theories and history of the discipline. The seminar is meant primarily for those with limited or no numismatic background in order to familiarize students of (art) history, textual studies, and archaeology with a body of evidence that is often overlooked and poorly understood. The seminar takes place over eight weeks in the summer.

The American Ornithological Society gives research awards to support undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs conducting research in various areas of avian biology.

This grant supports exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data for direct observation. Applications are invited from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as archeology, anthropology, biology, ecology, geography, geology, linguistics, paleontology, and population genetics, but grants will not be restricted to these fields. Applicants who are U.S. citizens and permanent residents may carry out research anywhere in the world. Foreign applicants must either be based at a U.S. institution or plan to carry out their work in the United States.

Grants will be available to graduate students and postdoctoral and junior scientists who wish to participate in field studies for their theses or for other purposes.

The APS Library offers short-term residential fellowships for conducting research in its collections in Philadelphia. The Library is a leading international center for research in the history of American science and technology and its European roots, as well as early American history and culture. The fellowships offer support for 1-2 consecutive months.

Fellowships offer experience in curatorial work to recent PhDs in the fields of history of science, art history, 18th- or 19th-century American history, or any other related humanities disciplines. The fellowship, based in the APS Museum in Philadelphia, will provide hands-on experience in curatorial work and the opportunity to pursue an independent research project. The fellow will conduct research in the APS collections in preparation for the APS Museum’s exhibitions exploring the intersections of history, art, and science. The fellowship offers support for two years.