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Presbyterian Historical Society

Support the PHS Research Fellowship Program

The Presbyterian Historical Society’s Research Fellowship Program awards annual research and travel grants to eligible scholars, students and independent researchers who wish to use PHS’s rich holdings. Since 2004, the program has supported scholarship in a range of fields including mission history, social justice movements and ecumenism. Fellows submit reports to PHS and are encouraged to publish their work in Waymarks: Presbyterian and Reformed History for Today.

The significance of scholarship and access to research materials has never been more important. Each grant of $3,000 is awarded through a competitive application process and can be used to cover travel, lodging, and other research expenses. Consideration is given to those whose primary residence is more than seventy-five miles from Philadelphia.

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Hear from past fellows

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I am extremely grateful for having had the opportunity to visit the PHS archives and to have benefited from the generous support of the society in conducting my research. I hope that this unique opportunity will allow my dissertation to present new and novel aspects of both the American missionaries’ history in Lebanon and of architectural and urban history in the region, and be a testament to the importance of the extensive and well-preserved archives of the mission and the PHS.
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Yasmina El Chami
2019 PHS Research Fellow
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The Presbyterian Historical Society is a national treasure. Its vital holdings shed light on not just the history of American Christianity, but also the changing texture and organization of social, political, and economic life through the centuries.
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Heath W. Carter
2016 PHS Research Fellow
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Thank you for making it possible, and for allowing me to join the ranks of numerous other historians whose work has been based upon sources held at the PHS. The work of the PHS is truly vital, indispensable for those who seek to understand our past and present in all its complexity.

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Paul Putz
2016 PHS Research Fellow

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