Individual projects

The New Jersey authors’ awards were instituted in 1994 to encourage and celebrate books about New Jersey.  Awards are considered for works in five, non-fiction categories:

The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) and Project House Europe (PHE), both located at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, invite applications for their joint fellowship. The RCC fosters innovative research and education in the environmental humanities and social sciences. PHE promotes cutting-edge research from around the world on the history of Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The Estelle Freedman Award is a research travel award given out by the CLGBTH for scholars applying feminist analysis to LBGTQ history, from any historical time period or region. The award is named in honor of Estelle Freedman, a pathbreaking historian in US women’s history and feminist studies. Professor Freedman taught at Stanford from 1976 to 2021, where she cofounded the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her prolific scholarship includes prison reform, lesbian history, and the politics of sexuality.