Michael Kraus Research Grants in American Colonial History

Michael Kraus Research Grants in American Colonial History is sponsored by American Historical Association (AHA). These grants support research in American Colonial history. They are intended to help individual scholars defray research expenses.

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addtoany. com/share) ##### Submissions Are Closed Deadline: February 15, 2026 The American Historical Association offers the Michael Kraus Research Grants to recognize the most deserving proposal relating to work in progress on a research project in American colonial history, with particular reference to the intercultural aspects of American and European relations.

These modest annual grants are intended to further research in progress and may be used for travel to a library or archive; microfilming, photography, or photocopying; hiring a researcher; borrowing or access fees; and similar research expenses—a list of purposes that is meant to be merely illustrative, not exhaustive (other expenses, such as childcare, can be included). Individual grants up to $800 will be awarded.

**Only members of the Association are eligible to apply for AHA research grants. **Grants are awarded each June and may be used anytime in the subsequent 15 months for expenses related to furthering research in progress. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars, and to those with specific research needs, such as the completion of a project or a discrete segment thereof.

Please note: Within a five-year period, no individual is eligible to receive more than a combined total of $1,500 from all AHA research grants. 1. Fill in the application form, which includes your**contact information**, the**title of your work**, and specific**funding and budget information**.

2. Upload an Application Packet as a single PDF. Include the following documents: * **Statement**(up to 750 words) describing your project, including specific uses to which you will put the funds.

If special skills, such as foreign language, paleography, or oral history are essential to the project, please indicate your level of proficiency * **Bibliography**(1 page) of the most recent, relevant secondary works on the topic 3. Letters of recommendation are**NOT**required. A selection committee reviews applications each spring, and applicants will be notified of the committee’s decision by email in mid-May.

Awards are distributed each June. Please, no phone calls. Successful applicants will be expected to complete a survey outlining how the funds were used and how they furthered the grantee’s research.

Survey responses will be due in August of the year following the grant award. AHA financial support should be acknowledged in any publication resulting from this research. For questions, please contact thePrize Administrator.

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Byers,**_Forgotten Journeys: The French Bestsellers That Shaped American Exploration_**Elizabeth Hines,**_War in the Time of Anglo-Dutch Empire_**Molly Nebiolo,**_Constructing Health: Concepts of Well-Being in the Early Atlantic World_ **Joseph Bienko**,_Warfare and the Environment in the 17th-Century Atlantic World and Caribbean_**Rowshan Chowdhury**,_Passage to Mutiny: Figurative Indianness, ‘The Relief of Lucknow,’ and 19th-Century Triangular Newspaper Network_**Paul G.

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1485 to c.

1714_ **Andrea Mosterman**,_Sharing Spaces in a New World Environment: African-Dutch Contributions to North American Culture, 1626-1826_ **Christian Koot**,_In Pursuit of Profit: Persistent Dutch Influences on the Inter-Imperial Trade of New York and the English Leeward Islands, 1621-89_ **Sowande’ Mustakeem**,_Ripples of Infinity: Gender, Health, and Violence in the Middle Passage, 1721-1808_ **Natale Zappia**,_The Autonomous Interior: Trading, Raiding, and Freedom in Native California, 1700-1857_ **Anya Zilberstein**,_Planting Improvement: Small Farms and Scientific Agriculture in the British North Atlantic, 1740-1820_ **Gillian Hendershot**,_Witches, Wizards and Marginalized Men: Gender, Accusation and Conviction in Witchcraft Trials in Seventeenth Century England and Colonial New England, a Transnational Study_ **Sara Sundberg**,_Women and the Civil Law in Early Louisiana_ **Kirsten Sword**,_Wayward Wives, Runaway Slaves, and the Rights of Dependents in Early America_ **Jacob Blosser**,_Pursuing Happiness: Latitudinarianism and the Anglo-American Mind_ **Richard Bond**,_Ebb and Flow: Free Blacks and Urban Slavery in Eighteenth-Century New York_ **William Ramsey, III**,_The Yamasee War_ **John Donoghue**,_Radical Republican Political Culture in the Puritan Atlantic,1630-1661_ **April Hatfield**,_Anglo-Spanish Relations in the Caribbean and Southeastern North America, 1580-1720_ **Dinah Mayo-Bobee**,_Servile Discontents: Runaway Slaves of Colonial New Hampshire, 1745-1785_ **Gabriele Gottlieb**,_A Solemn Warning and Caution to Every One: Capital Punishment in Early America_ **Christopher Hodson**,_From Exile to Ethnic: The Acadian Diaspora and the Imagining of Identity in the Early Modern Atlantic World_ **James Delbourgo**,_Political Electricity: Experimentalism, Enthusiasm, and Enlightenment in 18th-Century British America_ **Matthew Pursell**,_Intellectual Construction of Servitude_ **Ariana Hannum**,_The Agricultural Economy of West Florida_ **Birte Pfleger**,_The Creation of a Gendered Middle Ground in Penn’s Woods_ **Sarah Pearsall**,_‘After All These Revolutions’: Family Correspondence from the British-Atlantic World, 1760-1812_ **Wayne Lee**,_From Riot to War: Public Violence in 18th-Century North Carolina_ **Turk McCleskey**,_Black Ned: A Life on the Colonial Frontiers_ **Kees-Jan Waterman**,_Dutchmen and Indians: An Ethnohistory of Intercultural Contacts in New Netherland, 1609-64_ The AHA brings together historians from all specializations and all work contexts, embracing the breadth and variety of activity in history today.

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