Friends of the Bancroft Library

Friends of the Bancroft Library is sponsored by Friends of the Bancroft Library. Raises funds and donations to purchase books and manuscripts for the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

Bancroft fellowships and awards | UC Berkeley Library Bancroft fellowships and awards Bancroft Library Curator Theresa Salazar, center, assists undergraduate researchers. (Photo by Cathy Cockrell/UC Regents) The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley is pleased to offer fellowships for graduate students, undergraduates, and independent scholars conducting research in the collections.

The Bancroft Library is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive research environment, and seeks to support students and scholars using the collections for archival and bibliographic research, as well as those wishing to use the collections for creative projects. Scholarships are divided by those open to graduate students, undergraduates, and independent scholars (there will be overlap).

Click on each scholarship to learn details about the eligibility requirements, and any additional application requirements specific to that award. Go to the How to apply section below to download the application, and to learn more about the application process. The application deadline for all Bancroft fellowships and awards is March 2, 2026, by 11:59 p.

m. Open to graduate students The Bancroft Library Hill Study Award assists advanced graduate students from any University of California campus and is funded by the Kenneth E. and Dorothy V.

Hill Fellowship Fund. The Bancroft Library Meylan Study Award assists advanced graduate students from any recognized institution of higher education in the United States or abroad, and is funded by the Edward F. and Marianne E.

Meylan Fellowship Fund. Friends of The Bancroft Library Award assists advanced graduate students from any University of California campus and is funded by the Friends of The Bancroft Library. The Arthur J.

Quinn Memorial Fellowship , established in memory of Professor of Rhetoric Arthur Quinn (1942-1997), supports research by doctoral candidates in the history of California. The Donald Sidney-Fryer Fellowship supports research relating to the Clark Ashton Smith’s literary circle.

$2,500 Open to undergraduate students The Meyers-Putnam Family Bancroft Library Fellowship supports research at The Bancroft Library by undergraduates enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley. $1,000 The Hill-Shumate Book Collecting Prize was established by Kenneth E. Hill and Albert Shumate to encourage Berkeley undergraduate students to collect books.

The Donald Sidney-Fryer Fellowship supports research relating to the Clark Ashton Smith’s literary circle. $2,500 Independent scholar fellowships The Donald Sidney-Fryer Fellowship supports research relating to the Clark Ashton Smith’s literary circle. $2,500 All affiliated fellowship opportunities listed here have their own separate deadlines and application process.

Refer to their respective pages for further details. Carmel and Howard Friesen Prize in Oral History Research is awarded to the Berkeley undergraduate student who submits the best essay that draws upon The Bancroft Library’s Oral History Center interviews. Papers should have been written during the current academic year, the previous summer, or the previous spring.

This application is due the last day of the spring semester at 5 p. m. Copy direct link for How to apply section to clipboard Application forms and submission instructions The application deadline is March 2, 2026, by 11:59 p.

m. Please fill out this application for undergraduate, graduate, and independent scholar fellowships Note: Undocumented students are eligible to apply. No work authorization is required.

Applications for awards and fellowships require submission of: 1. Letter of recommendation Letters of Recommendation must be submitted to bancroft-library@berkeley. edu by the RECOMMENDER.

Please format the subject line as following: (Applicant Last Name) Letter of Rec: Bancroft Fellowship. In 1,000 words or less for undergraduates or 3,000 words or less for graduate students and independent scholars , describe how the research project will be aided by access to The Bancroft Library's collection. The statement must be single-spaced in 12 size font.

Include your name and page numbers on all pages. You may cite your academic plans for the coming year, area of specialization, career goals, and any additional information which may aid the selection committee in evaluating your application. Please include a list of materials that you would consult at The Bancroft Library during your research.

Include call numbers and collection names. 4. A curriculum vitae or résumé Awards will be announced at the Annual Meeting and Luncheon of the Friends of The Bancroft Library on May 30, 2026.

Award recipients should plan to attend the Annual Meeting and Luncheon if they are available. For all other questions please email The Bancroft Library administration office at bancroft-library@berkeley. edu .

Copy direct link for Hill study award section to clipboard The application deadline is March 2, 2026, by 11:59 p. m. The Kenneth E.

and Dorothy V. Hill Fellowship Fund provides one year-long fellowship to graduate students from any campus of the University of California who are conducting research that would benefit from the use of source materials in The Bancroft Library. This fellowship is not offered every year.

The recipients of the fellowships will conduct their research at The Bancroft Library and must therefore be registered during the academic year at Berkeley or their home campus under the inter-campus exchange program. The applicant will conduct the research project within one year of notification. For further instructions on how to apply for a Bancroft Library Study Award, please see How to apply.

Andrew Klein, Militant Capital: How Oakland Became an Outpost of Empire and Rebellion in the Long Twentieth Century. Cycle canceled due to Covid-19. Alexander Scott Arroyo, Designing an Ocean: Oceanic Imaginaries of American Empire in the New Arctic.

Alexandra Havrylyshyn, Free Under the Laws of France: How Enslaved Women and Girls Accessed Justice in Antebellum Louisiana, 1837-1857. John Elrick, Model City: Technologies of Government in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nancy Gallman, American Constitutions: Life, Liberty, and Property in Colonial East Florida.

Peter Ekman, Suburbs of Last Resort: Order and Ruin on the Edge of San Francisco Bay. Simon Abramowitsch, The Production of Multi-Ethnic American Literature in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1966-1996: From the Black Panther Party to the Institutionalization of “Diversity. ” Adam Romero, The Afterlives of Industrial Byproducts: The Necessity of Industrial Byproducts in the Industrialization of California Agriculture.

Emily Cole, Translation Ideology in Graeco-Roman Egypt (ca. 332 BCE – 300 CE). Adrianne Francisco, Colonial Subjects: American Colonial Education and Philippine Nation-Making , 1900-1934.

Diana Negrín, Changing Wixárika Lives and Livelihoods in Mexico’s Cities. Israel Pastrana, Brazos de Oro: Mexican Contract Labor Migration and the Political Economy of the American Southwest, 1917-1973. Tara McDowell, Jess and the Language of Pictures, 1951-1991.

Hannah Haynie, The Linguistic Geography of the Sierra Nevada and Central California. Colin Dingler, Lyric Impurity: Genre, Serial Poems, and the Form of History in Mid-Century and Contemporary American Poetry. Sarah Lopez, Migrating Mexico: A Material History of Remittance Space in Sur de Jalisco and Los Angeles.

Audrey Wu Clark, The Asian American Avant-Garde: Internationalist Aspirations in Early Asian American Literature, 1882-1945. William Wagner, Reading, Writing, and Rambling: The Literary Culture of Travel in Antebellum America. Seth Roger Lunine, Private City, Public Threat: Entertainment, Industry and Illusion in Emeryville, California, 1880-1950.

Maria Belen Bistue, Collaborative Writing: Translation Strategies in Early Modern Multilingual Texts. Sean Burns, Working Class Hero: The Intellectual and Activist Legacy of Archie Green. Natale Zappia, The Autonomous Interior: Trading, Raiding, and Freedom in Native California, 1700-1857.

Ruben Flores, States of Culture: The Central Government and Ethnoracial Consolidation in Mexico and the US, 1920-1950. Francisco Casique, Race and Space in San Francisco’s Mission District. Rachel A.

Chico, Navigating Nation: Communication and Orientation in the Veracruz-Mexico City Corridor, 1812-1867. Anil K. Mukerjee, An Examination of the Engel Sluiter Historical Documents Collection.

Hellen Lee, Never Done: Women’s Work and Culture in the United States, 1870-1910. Kimberly Bird, Unsettled Frontier: Poetic Radicalism and the Question of Nationalism in California, 1930-1940. Lisa Conathan, Language Contact and Linguistic Change in Northern California.

Karen McNeill, Building the California Women’s Movement: Architecture, Space and Gender in the Life and Work of Julia Morgan. Yu-fang Cho, Visions of Pacific Destiny: Culture of Western Expansionism and American Women’s Work of Benevolence, 1880s-1900s. Dulcinea Michelle Lara, Historical Evolution of Education and Its Detrimental Ideological and Identity Forming Consequences in New Mexico.

Jeffrey Alan Ow, Contested Isles: The History and Representation of Ellis Island and Angel Island. Isabel Breskin, Above the City upon a Hill: Lithographic City Views of San Francisco, 1848-1914. Andrew Johnson, Quicksilver Mining Landscapes of California and the West, 1840-1920.

Adrienne Williams, UCB 92 and the Re-Vision of Miracles of the Virgin. Donald Michael Bottoms, Race, Politics, and the Law in 19th Century California. Anne Burnett Keary, Christian Missionaries, Colonial Knowledges, Contested Geographies: The Missionary Translation of Indigenous Language and Culture in New South Wales and Oregon Territory in the Nineteenth Century.

Copy direct link for Meylan study award section to clipboard The application deadline is March 2, 2026, by 11:59 p. m. The Edward F.

and Marianne E. Meylan Fellowship Fund provides one year-long fellowship to graduate students from any recognized institution of higher education in the United States or abroad who are conducting research that would benefit from the use of source materials in The Bancroft Library. This fellowship is not offered every year.

The recipients of the fellowships will conduct their research in The Bancroft Library and must therefore be registered during the academic year at Berkeley or their home campus under the inter-campus exchange program. For further instructions on how to apply for a Bancroft Library Study Award, please see How to apply. Ian Halter, Worlds for Sale, Peoples for Purchase: Living Alaska’s Cession, 1862-1896.

Cycle canceled due to Covid-19. Maria Barreiros Almeida-Reis, Backwaters of the Atlantic World: Slavery, Governance, and the Scramble for the Amazonian Borderlands, 1580-1700. Amrit Deol, Ghadri and Sikh Poetry: Interrogations of Subjugated Knowledges in History.

Copy direct link for Friends award section to clipboard The application deadline is March 2, 2026, by 11:59 p. m. The Friends of The Bancroft Library awards $45,000 in fellowships to graduate students from any University of California campus.

Award stipends range in amounts up to $5,000 per recipient. The recipients of the fellowships will conduct their research in The Bancroft Library and must therefore be registered during the academic year at Berkeley or their home campus under the inter-campus exchange program. For further instructions on how to apply for a Bancroft Library Study Award, please see How to apply.

Niall Chithelen, Concrete and the Construction of China: The Environmental History of "Building Socialism , 1946-1976 . Emily Schollenberger, Shifting Sediments: Photography, Memory, and Imperial Landscapes . Cameron Black, Playing a Different Game: Student-Athlete Protest at the University of California, Berkeley.

Alexander Chaparro-Silva, Writing the Other America: Democracy, Race, and Print Culture in the Americas, 1821-1898. Katherine Hobbs, Romance, Politics, and the Law in British Women’s Rights Reform, 1830-1900. Caroline Johnston, The Sagebrush Rebellion and the Making of the Right: Political Synthesis in the Rocky Mountain West, 1976-1984.

Patrick Reilly, Scholars and Social Control: The Politics of American Police Research in the Twentieth Century. Jonathan van Harmelen, Legislating Injustice: Congress and the Wartime Incarceration of Japanese Americans. Juan Pablo Morales Garza, Politics, Religious Hierarchy and Land Property in Indigenous Villages in the Valley of Mexico, 1853-1862.

Anthony Joshua Meyer, Attending to the Sacred: Tlamacazque and Their Complex Roles in Mexica and Christian Spaces. Alice Regina Lapoint, Spiritual Forces Compel [Miwok and Tlingit Beliefs]. Alessia Cecchet, Monarch: The Last California Grizzly Bear.

Sarah Elizabeth Biscarra Dilley, Where are You From and Where are You Going? : Patterns, Parcels, and Place. Nitoshia Lashawn Ford, A Consideration of Presence: Black Women LIS Professionals and the Historical Record.

Janice Yu, Strange Selves: Representations of the Othered Body. Carrie Alexander, Rush: Time, Haste, and Negotiations of Power in Mid-Nineteenth Century California. Sarah Bane, Join the Club: Regional Print Clubs in America During the Interwar Period.

Kristina Borrman, The Architecture of Belonging: ‘Livable Places’ in California since 1945. Sarah Quincy, ‘Loans for the Little Fellow’: Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression. Michelle Ripplinger, Chaucer’s Women from Script to Print: John Stow’s and Thomas Speght’s Collected Works.

Andrew Shaler, Mariposa: Violence, Colonial and Indigenous Histories of the California Gold Rush. Claire Urbanski, (Re)Emergent Bones and Sacred Formations: The Accumulation of Ohlone Remains in the Construction of the San Francisco Bay Area. Desirée Valadares, Race, Rights and Reparations: The Material Culture of World War II Confinement Camps in Canada and the United States.

Tara Keegan, The Endurance of the Upriver People: A Karuk Story of Sport and Survival, 1877-1928. Christina Bush, Fashioning the Black Masculine. Kelly Easterday, Uniting a Century of Forest Survey Collection to Determine Drivers of Change in California Forests.

Kimberly Killion, From Farms to Kitchens to the “Body Laboratory”: Nutritional Science and the Politics of Food in the United States, 1885-1930. Savannah Kilner, Pride and Property: Queer Settler Colonialism and the Landed Politics of Solidarity in Oakland, CA, 1979-present. Christopher Miller, Public Enemies: Transience and Lyric in American Poetry.

Carlos Rivas, Urban Utopia? The Reducción General de los Indios and Coloniality of Space at Nahuizalco, El Salvador after 1520. Joanne Tien, Educating for Freedom: A study of the Berkeley Experimental Schools Project, 1968-1976.

Xan Chacko, Moving, Making, Saving: Experimental Agriculture in California. Nancy Gallman, American Constitutions: Life, Liberty, and Property in Colonial East Florida. Theodora Dryer, Designing Certainty: A History of Model Based Thinking in the Era of Scientific Planning, 1929-1970.

Maggie Elmore, Building Community through Politics: The Catholic Church, the State, and Ethnic Mexicans in the US Southwest, 1923-1986. Gary Fox, Aesthetic Futures, On Air: Donald Appleyard, Kenneth Craik, and Berkeley’s Environmental Simulation Laboratory. Camilo Lund-Montano, Out of Order: Radical Lawyers and Revolutionary Movements in the Global Sixties.

Amani Morrison, Black Chicago through the Pen of Gwendolyn Brooks. Alexander Werth, Culture Wars: Race, Citizenship, and Violence in Oakland, California’s Urban/Colonial Frontier. Spencer Strub, Robert Doughtie and the Readers of the Print Piers Plowman.

Jennifer Terry, Shifting Conceptions of Juvenile Labor and Employment in California, 1938-1980. Jessica Stair, Textual-Pictorial Literacies in the Techialoyan Manuscripts of New Spain. Cori Knudten, Constructing Gender in California’s East Bay, 1920-1941.

Dexter Hough-Snee, Mining Anxiety while Mocking the Marketplace: Economic Thought in the Latin American Satirical Archive, 1598-1880. Natalie Mendoza, Domesticating Foreign Policy: Inter-Americanism and Mexican Americans in the US Southwest, 1930s-1950s. Jeffrey Yamashita, Manufacturing Japanese American War Heroes: Incarceration, a “Suicide Battalion,” and Ben Kuroki.

Elizabeth Miller, The American Expeditionary Tradition, Pre-Colombian Architectures and the Indigenous Specter in American Art since 1960. Robert Lee, Louisiana Purchases: The US-Indian Treaty System in the Missouri River Valley. Katherine Kadue, “The Living Labours of Publick Men”: Intellectual Labor as Domestic Practice from Erasmus to Milton.

Daniel Benjamin, Excavating Excluded Affects in the Poems of Jack Spicer. Griselda Jarquin, The Transnational Politics of Remembering: Revolution and Counterrevolution in Nicaragua and the US. Yve Chavez, Indigenous Agency and Artistic Production at California’s Missions.

Ziza Delgado, The Third World Liberation Front at UC Berkeley: An Anti-Hegemonic Movement for Radical Pedagogy and Revolutionary Curriculum. Robert Kett, Stones, Feathers, Crude: Art and Science in Twentieth Century Southern Mexico. Terence Przeklasa, The Mission Indian Federation: American Indian Rights on the Right.

Susan Wood, Gathering the “Other”: Salvage Ethnography and the Construction of Culture in Southern California, 1897-1909. Marilola Perez, Pacific Exceptionalism? A Sociolinguistic Examination of Cavite Chabacano.

Amy Lee, Coolies and Opium: Comparative Anglo-American Empires, Chinese Globalism, and Literary Modes of Uneven Development. Samia Rahimtoola, Open Form: The Ethos of the Given in Robert Duncan's Life-Work. Marcel Brousseau, Imaginary Lines: Data, Narration, Cartography, and the Speculation and Historicization of the U.S. Mexican Indigenous American Borderlands.

Kevin Whalen, Beyond School Walls: Indian Education in Southern California. Alicia Cowart, Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on Fire Regimes and Vegetation Change in Central California. Di Hu, The Transformation of Identity, Daily Life and Resistance in the Colonial Obraje of Pomacocha, Vilcashuaman, Peru.

Sara Jensen, The Topography of Wellness: Mechanisms, Models and Metrics of Health in the Urban Landscape. Jacob Lee, Imaginary Empires: Kinship, Power and Alliance in the Illinois Country, 1550-1840. Alexander Tarr, Have Your City and Eat It Too: Los Angeles and the Renaissance in Urban Agriculture.

Travis Wilds, Assembling the Science of the Future: Epistemic Virtues in the Exact Sciences, Physiology and Literature of Post-Enlightenment France, 1780-1840. Javier Arbona, Racialized Homefronts: Reclaiming the Port Chicago Explosion. Erin Collins, Recombinant Social(ist) Antagonist on the Landscape of the Lower Mekong Delta.

Emily Colbert Cairns, The Other Carvajal: Reading Crypto-Jewish Feminine Space. Anita Huizar-Hernández, Histories of Contact: Arizona's Multi-Ethnic Heritage. Bianca Brigidi, Being Native American: Race, Ethnicity and Mission in Spanish, Mexican and U.S. California, 1769-1852.

JoAnna Wall, Virgin Territory: Women in the Monjeríos of Alta and Baja California, 1697-1834. Elizabeth Sine, Movements on the Margins: An Archaeology of Struggles for Survival and Dignity in Depression-Era California. Leece Lee, Modernity and the "Death Ethic": Western Expansion as War in the Northern Plains, 1820-1880.

María Covadonga Lamar Prieto, Spanish Language in XIX California. Natalia Cecire, The Girl Modest Witness and the Poetics of Knowledge. Funie Hsu, Blackboard Frontiers: American Expansion and U.S. Colonial Education Policy, 1887-1914.

Diana Greenwold, Skins and Carcasses: Stereoscopic Vision and the Native American in Nineteenth-Century Utah. Nicole Pacino, Prescription for a Nation: Public Health in Post-Revolutionary Bolivia. Swati Rana, Who You Calling Immigrant?

: Alienage and Nativity in the Literature of Brown America, 1900-1965. Clare Robinson, The California Memorial Union. Barbara Zimbalist, The Devil in Disguise: Incarnational Politics in Medieval Miracles of the Virgin.

Kathleen Adams, Kindergarten and Community: The Silver Street Kindergarten Society of San Francisco. Rachel Brahinsky, The End of Gentrification: Development, Politics and Race in San Francisco. Allison Ferrell, Collaborated Lives: Individualism and Collectivity in the Avant-Garde of Jay DeFeo.

Cheryl Holzmeyer, Toward Interactivity: Transformations of the U.S. Science Museum Field, 1830-Present. Adam Lewis, Liberal Citizenship and National Sovereignty in the Antebellum Empire. Rebecca Munson, "The Text Is Foolish": The Telling Choices of Shakespeare’s First Editions.

Marques Redd, Imaginal Mapping, Psychospirituality, and the Multidimensional Complexities of British and American Romanticism. Lauren Chase Smith, Bawdy Amusements of Progress in the Transpacific Borderlands. Christina Zanfagna, Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels.

Ricardo Fagoaga Henandez, Regions, Markets and Indigenous Economic Participation: Chiapas and Guatemala. Brian Grossman, Investigating the Influence of Social Science Measurement on the Development of the Disability Rights/Independent Movement. Heidi Hoechst, Refusable Pasts: Spatial Economics and the Politics of the U.S. Tradition.

Christine Hong, Captivity in Translation: Huckleberry Finn as Intertext in Ralph Ellison's and Ôe Kenzaburo's Mid-century Prisoner-of-War Narratives. Andrea King, Forbidden Pleasures, Damnable Sin, and Municipal Corruption: Race, Gender, and Respectability in San Francisco’s Vice District, 1900-1940. Emily Moore, Aesthetic Confrontations: Chilkat Tunics and the Evolution of Northwest Coast Designs.

Joseph Ring, Transported by the Mode: Milton's Sublime Aesthetics and the Politics of Astonishment. Citlali Sosa-Riddell, The Culture of Commemoration among the Californios: Changing Cultural Practices, Honor, and Race Ideology, 1850-1900. Warren Wood, City Fathers: The Influence of Social and Economic Changes on the Meaning and Practice of Fatherhood in San Francisco, 1849-1915.

Peter Allen, A Space for Living: Regionalism and the Rise of Environmental Planning in the Bay Area, 1939-1969. Amy Lippert, Consuming Identities: Visual Culture and Celebrity in Nineteenth-century San Francisco. Timothy Pepper, Economic and Social Interaction in the Papyri from Ptolemaic Tebtunis.

Maria Ramnath, Haj to Utopia: Anti-systemic Ideologies in the South Asian Diaspora, 1905-1930. Lilia Soto, Migration as a Matter of Time: Perspectives from Mexican Immigrant Girls in the Napa Valley. Sarah Thomas, The Politics of Growth: Land-Use in Postwar America, 1950-1975.

Zeb Tortorici, The Appearance of Colonial Order: Sexuality in Colonial Mexico, 1600-1800. Richard Welker, The Roots of Agribusiness. Penelope Anderson, The Rhetoric and Politics of Audience: Lucy Hutchinson, John Milton, and Katherine Philips.

Steven Fountain, Big Dogs and Scorched Streams: Horses, Beavers, and Ethnocultural Change, 1769-1849. Jean V. Gier, Writing Communities and Constituencies: Literature of the U.S. Filipino Press During the Early Twentieth Century.

Ki Won Han, The Rise of Oceanography in the United States, 1900-1940. Stacy Kozakavich, The Archaeology of the Kaweah Co-operative Commonwealth’s Advance Townsite. Michael Kunichika, Vision for Verbal Art in the Russian Symbolist Journal, 1899-1917.

Marissa López, Nationalism, Narrative, and History: The Formal Case for Chicana/o Literature. Elisabeth O’Connell, Recontextualizing the Tebtunis Papyri. Julie Tanaka, German Fiat: German Historiography and Identity in the Holy Roman Empire.

Nicole Caso, Practicing Memory in Central American Literature: Reflections on Histories, Space and Language. Alison Fraunhar, Revisioning the Mulata in Cuban Visual Culture, 1880-1980. Haden Guest, The Police Procedural Film and the Organization of Postwar America, 1930-1960.

Joyce Mao, China-town: Cultural Politics and Racial Space in San Francisco, 1850-1980. Nadia Nurhussein, Verbal Topiary Work: Reading Dialect in American Poetry, 1870-2001. Jose Pastrano, Immigration Policies and Low-cost Labor: The 1920s Political Debates over Mexican Labor.

Evelyn Rodriguez, Coming of Age: Identities and Transformations in Filipina Debutantes and Mexican Quinceañeras. Samantha Holtkamp Gervase, Life and Law in the Lower Mississippi River Valley: Categories and the Expansion of America, 1800-1860. Rudy Poscallo Guevarra, On Common Ground: Mexican and Filipinos in San Diego Agriculture, 1920-1965.

Chantelle Nicole Warner, Literacy Identity Construction in Works of Dutch Clandestine Literature Written During the Second World War. Jessica Delgado, The Inquisition and Women’s Voices: Female Accusers and Witnesses in the Mexican Inquisition. Yolanda James, California Malinches in the Project to Recover a Chicana/o Lit.

Heritage. Delberto Ruiz, Teki Lenguas del Yollotzin (Cut Tongues from the Heart). Anna More, Colonial Baroque: Siguenza y Góngora and the Politics of 17th-Century New Spain.

Michelle Morton, Utopian and Dystopian Visions of California in the Literary Imagination. Anna Naruta, Creating Whiteness in California: An Examination of White and Chinese Relations from 1865-1910. Suzette Spencer, Sounding Freedom: Maroonist Poetics, Signifyin’ Language, and the Black Vernacular.

Allison Varzally, Ethnic Crossings in California, 1930-1950 Copy direct link for Gunther Barth section to clipboard Mary Ludwig, Incarcerated Nations: Removal and Confinement on Indigenous Lands. David Morales , Power Plays: A Cultural History of Conquest and Performance in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1820s-1870s. Sarah Sears, Negotiating Nature: Diplomacy, Community, and Environment in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands.

Francisco Céntola, An Environmental History of the Transportation Revolution, 1850-1910. Hope McCaffrey, Free-State White Women in Antebellum Democratic Politics. Brian Wright, Conquest on Paper: Archives and the American West.

Cycle cancelled due to Covid-19 Laura Gómez, Farmworkers’ Labor Camps: Race, Gender and the Family in California’s Central Valley, 1880-1940 Cooper Weissman, Invasive Bodies, Natural Borders: Eugenics, Conservation and Eco-nativism in the U.S. 1918-1988 Yoav Hamdani, Uncle Sma's Slaves: Slavery in the United States Regular Army, 1797-1865 Lorraine Dias Herbon, "Give 'em Jessie": The Life of Jessie Benton Frémont Mark Jordan Keagle, Cold Commodities: Ice and the Building of the American West, 1848-1945 Charnan Williams, Slavery and Freedom in the City of Angels: Black and Indian Angelenos from the Mexican Period to the United States Civil War, 1820–1865 William Cowan, The Pacific Slope Megaflood of 1861-1862 Richard Soash, Tempered Inclusion: Syrian-Lebanese and Armenian Mobility in the U.S. Progressive Era John Suval, Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Rupture of American Democracy, 1830–1860 Laura Fravel, Gazing Westward: The Quest for Unity in American Art Displays at the World's Fairs, 1876–1916 Darren Raspa, Pacific Policeways: Grassroots Control and Power in San Francisco, 1850-1950 Travis Ross, Machines of Memory: Hubert Howe Bancroft's History Company and the Making of Western History Daniel Lynch, The Lost Cause of the Californio: Southern and Californio Convergence in Southern California, 1846-1920 Michael Caires, Greenbacks in the Golden State: California, Legal Tender and the State Resistance during the Civil War Christina Salerno, Fire: Not a Natural Disaster Mackenzie Moore, Our Hearts Are Unalienated from the Land of Our Birth: Isolation and the Americanization of Oregon, 1834-1859 Alexander Olson, Scars and Signs: Natural History at the University of California, 1869-1906 Richard Welker, The Culture of Agrarian Capitalism: Farmers, Neighbors, and Economic Relationships in Nineteenth Century California Copy direct link for Hill-Shumate section to clipboard The application deadline is March 2, 2026, by 11:59 p.

m. Prizes are open to undergraduates currently enrolled at UC Berkeley. Kenneth E.

Hill and Albert Shumate established the prizes to encourage Berkeley students to collect books, to build their own libraries, to appreciate the special qualities of the printed word, and to read for pleasure and education. The Hill-Shumate Prize awards $1,500 to the winning entry and $1,000 for second place. In addition, all entrants will receive one-year gift memberships in the Friends of The Bancroft Library.

To be considered for the Hill-Shumate Prizes, collections must include at least 50 items. Collections may: Cover specific authors or subjects, contemporary or historical Stress bibliographical features (edition, illustrations, binding, etc.) Include paperbacks and ephemeral material, as long as they significantly reflect the purposes of the collection Modern textbooks should not be submitted.

Judges will give special consideration to how well the collection reflects the student's stated goals and interests. Age, rarity, or monetary value of material in the collections submitted is less important than the thought, creativity, and persistence demonstrated in defining a collection and bringing it into being.

After reviewing the essays and lists, the judges may ask finalists to bring selected items from their collections to The Bancroft Library for final judging. For further instructions regarding how to apply for The Hill-Shumate Book Collecting Prize, please see How to apply . First Place : Lily Garcia, The Bookworm’s Trail to the Wilderness: A Literary Collection.

Second Place : Patricia Iley, Americana: A Library of American Narratives . Cycle cancelled due to Covid-19 First Place : Nicole Su-Wen Lee, A Library of Dragons: Friend not Foe Second Place : Geraint R. H.

Hughes, Historical Fiction from Alexander to Napoleon Ian Stevens Erickson, Geometry: The Diagram and The Description Henry Weikel, Visual Legacy of Late 20th Century Science Fiction Elise Levin-Guracar, Education in America: Policy, Practice, Theory, and History Samuel Diener, Down to the Sea in Ships:Voyage Narratives and the Epistemic Power of Fictionality First Place : Reginald James, Oakland, California: The Epicenter of the Black Radical Imagination Second Place : Rebecca Peters, Water, Rights, and the Spirit of Resistance in Latin America Third Place : Hunam Rostomyan, A Logico-Philosophical Collection Luciano Concheiro, Becoming Mexican: A Collection Kathleen O'Connell, Library of Books in Warfare: Military History and Fiction Anthony James Wright, Traditions of the University of California: Yearbooks First Place : Kathleen O'Connell, Library of Books in Myths, Legends, and Fantasy Second Place : Candace Cunard, Science Fiction Through the Years: A Critical/Historical Collection Third Place : Steven Broderick, Classical Latin and Greek Literature Rhae Lynn Barnes, The Print Culture of American Amateur Minstrelsy, Blackface Plays, and Dialect in Black Literature (circa 1890s-1940s) First Place : Sudev Jay Sheth, Library of Books in Northern Indian Classical Vocal and Percussion Music Second Place : Ashley Fiutko, Library of Books in Ancient Egypt Third Place : Christopher Montes, Library of Books in Modern American Military History First Place : Alexis Ashot, Library of Books in Russian Published in the 20th Century Second Place : Gustavo Buenrostro, Encountering Mexico: History, Politics, and Culture Third Place : Matt Werner, Jorge Luis Borges and the McSweeney's School First Place : Raul Diaz, Evolutionary Biology and Herpetology Second Place : Billy Chen, Feminist and Queer Cultural Studies and Psychoanalysis Third Place : David Singer, Jewish Religion and History First Place : Danielle Peterson, The Poet, John Ashbery Second Place: Anobel Odisho, Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology Third Place : Mai Der Vang, Hmong Culture First Place : David Weinrich, Classics Second Place : Ken Chen, Modern Poetry Sean Nye, Scottish Literature First Place : Lyubov Golburt, Poetry Second Place : Carolyn Babauta, Beat Poets Third Place : Christina Tran, World Literature Copy direct link for Meyers-Putnam section to clipboard The application deadline is March 2, 2026, by 11:59 p.

m. Meyers-Putnam Family Bancroft Library Fellowship established in 2007 celebrates the important role of the University of California, Berkeley in the lives of its family members: Leslie O. Meyers (BS Mechanical Engineering, 1922), Kathryn P.

Meyers, Peggy Jane Meyers Putnam (BA Physics, 1948; C. LS 1949), and Malcolm G. Putnam (BA Labor/Industrial Relations, 1953; MBA 1955).

Leslie O. Meyers served as Captain of the 1921 Cal baseball team. Jane Meyers Putnam was employed as a UC Berkeley technical reference librarian from 1949 through 1955.

This fellowship supports research at The Bancroft Library by undergraduates currently enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley. This fellowship is offered in the amount of $1,000. Awards may be used to defray travel expenses, living expenses, or research costs.

All awards are made by The Bancroft Library Fellowship Committee. The applicant will conduct the research project within one year of notification. To apply for the Meyers-Putnam Family Bancroft Library Fellowship, please see How to apply .

Gianfranco Gastelo, Colonialism in Peru: Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s and Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Identities. Joseph Lerdal, Laboratory of Intervention: The Pershing Punitive Expedition and the Production of Military Knowledge. Maya Luong, Investigating California’s Asian American Women’s Experiences of Sexual Violence and Harassment.

Cycle cancelled due to Covid-19 Gitika Nalwa, Strange Fruit: Male Racial Identity and the American Wilderness, 1830-1950 Emma Bianco, What are They Doing to your Children? Examining Orange County's Right-Wing War on Progressive Education in the 1960s Copy direct link for Quinn memorial section to clipboard The application deadline is March 2, 2026, by 11:59 p. m.

The Arthur J. Quinn Memorial Fellowship was established in memory of Arthur Quinn (1942-1997), Professor of Rhetoric.

These fellowships support research by doctoral candidates (i.e., those who shall have been advanced to candidacy by the time the fellowship is taken up) in the history of California from any recognized institution of higher education in the United States or abroad, with a preference for students carrying out research in The Bancroft Library. Applicants must be enrolled in an accredited university.

This fellowship is offered for short-term research projects. Awards may be used to defray travel expenses, living expenses, or research costs. The applicant will conduct the research project within one year of notification.

For more details on applying for an Arthur J. Quinn Memorial Fellowship, please see How to apply . Cassandra Euphrat Weston, Sexual Dissidence, Jewishness, and Radicalism in the American West, 1900-1930.

Douglas Sangster, Advocates Inside and Outside the Law: Disability Activism in California From 1930-1990. Margot Yale, From the Left Coast: Artistic Practice on the Edge of the California Federal Art Project. Paul Burow, Ecologies of Belonging: Settler Colonialism and Environmental Change in Rural Communities of California and Nevada.

Michelle Donnelly, Impressions of Internment: Amy