NACBS Pre-Dissertation Grants

The NACBS Pre-Dissertation Grants are awarded to Ph.D. candidates to pursue preliminary research on potential dissertation-length studies related to any topic in British (including Scottish, Irish, and Imperial) history or British Studies. Two grants in the amount of $4000 each are awarded annually to students enrolled in a U.S. or Canadian institution. The grants must be used to offset costs associated with research travel outside of North America. Applicants must be graduate students in good standing at a Ph.D. program who will not have had a qualifying dissertation prospectus approved by the time of application or travel. The grant must be used within fifteen months of its awarding and the research trip funded by the grant must be at least one month in duration. Recipients are expected to propose a paper based on their research to either the national or a regional conference of the NACBS within three years of holding the fellowship.