Fellowships

The American Antiquarian Society offers three broad categories of visiting research fellowships, with tenures ranging from one to twelve months. All of the fellowships are designed to enable scholars, advanced graduate students, and others to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library on their projects and discussing their work with others.

These residencies in Worcester provide an opportunity not only for research in collections that are extraordinarily deep but also for collegial discussion with staff and other fellows, faculty in area colleges and universities, and other scholars visiting AAS from all over the United States and abroad. Hundreds of books and articles, some of them winners of major prizes, including the Pulitzer and Bancroft, have stemmed from AAS fellowships.

The Society is able to offer self-catering accommodations at a reasonable cost adjacent the library. The newly renovated Fellows' Residence, at 9 Regent Street is located next to the main library building, just beyond the staff parking lot. Rooms are available to AAS fellows and other visiting researchers. Room rates and house rules are available online. Fellows have priority in renting AAS accommodations, but doing so is not a requirement for holding a fellowship. When requested, the staff will do their best to suggest suitable alternative accommodations in Worcester and environs.

Applicants for AAS fellowships should make themselves aware of the Society's Policy on Professional Ethics.

A separate list of recent publications and scholarly works based on research at AAS is also available.

October 5:
* applications for Fellowships for Creative and Performing Artists and Writers

October 15:
* Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship applications

January 15:
* Short-Term Fellowship applications
* AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship applications

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