Michael Kraus Research Grants in American Colonial History

Michael Kraus Research Grants in American Colonial History is sponsored by American Historical Association. These grants support research focused on American Colonial History. Funding can be used for travel to research institutions, microfilming, photography, or hiring researchers.

Michael Kraus Research Grants in American Colonial History – AHA Michael Kraus Research Grants in American Colonial History / Michael Kraus Research Grants in American Colonial History 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. Fill in the application form, which includes your contact information , the title of your work , and specific funding and budget information . 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 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 the Prize 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.

Feller-Simmons , Villancicos from the Maya Highlands: 17th-Century Vernacular Sacred Music from the Huehuetenango Manuscript Collection Benjamin Groth , The Black Sacrament: How Baptism Created Race in New Orleans and the Atlantic World Hannah Jo King , Our Ancestors Were Black Homesteaders: Cultural Ecologies, Racial Tensions, and Solidary Futures on Muscogee Nation Lands, 1827-1919 Nicole Musson , Reports from the West: The North American Backcountry in Print, 1745-75 Francisco Céntola , The Material Basis of Transportation in Alta California, 1769–1848 Ross M.

Nedervelt , The Border-Seas of a New British Empire: Security, Imperial Reconstitution, and the British Atlantic Islands in the Age of the American Revolution Teanu Reid , Harvesting and Weaving Money: Local Currencies in Barbados and the Greater British Atlantic World, 1620–1770 Clifton E.

Sorrell , Negotiating Freedom, Subjecthood(s) and Belonging in the Interimperial Caribbean Frontier: Spanish Blacks in Early English Jamaica, 1658–90 Jacob Swisher , Precious Things: A Planetary History of an Early American Borderland Julia Carroll , The Protestant Sanctioning of Race-Based Slavery in Language and Landscape in the Anglo-American South, 1739-91 Sarah Beth Gable , Policing the Revolution: Massachusetts Communities and the Committees of Correspondence, Inspection, and Safety, 1773-83 Kelly Douma Kaelin , Convert, Migrant, Missionary: Women and the Moravian Church in the Early Modern Atlantic World Andrea Miles , Black Rebels: African American Revolutionaries from North Carolina during and after the War of Independence Jonathan Quint , Building the Border: Sovereignty, Labor, and Landscape in the Great Lakes Borderlands, 1760-1820 Danielle Alesi , Consuming Empire: Eating and Engaging with Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World, 1492-1650 Camden Elliott , War in Wôbanak: Environmental Histories of Conflict in the Dawnland, 1676-1766 Joanne Jahnke Wegner , Stolen Lives: Gender and Captivity in the Northeastern Borderlands, 1630-1763 Cody Nager , From Different Quarters: Regulating Migration and Naturalization in the Early American Republic, 1783-1815 Aimee Hisey , Nations, Networks, and Knowledge: Circulating Epistemologies of Jewish Medical Practitioners in the Spanish Viceroyalties Yiyun Huang , The Chinese Origins of Medicinal Tea: Global Cultural Transfer and a Vast Early America Randal Grant Kleiser , (Ex)Changing Empires: Free Ports, Reform, and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1750-84 Samuel Aldred Slattery , Colonial History from the Ramparts of a Harbor Fort: Early American Seaports and the Policed Atlantic Michaela Kleber, Gendered Societies, Sexual Empires: Early French Colonization among the Illinois Matthijs T.

Tieleman, A Revolutionary Wave: Dutch and American Patriots in the 18th-Century Atlantic World Russell L.

Weber , American Feeling: Political Passions and Emotional Identity in the Early Republic, 1754-96 Juneisy Hawkins, Illicit Anglo-Spanish Food Trade in the Colonial American Southeast, 1703-63 Nicole Mahoney, Liberty, Gentility, and Dangerous Liaisons: French Culture and Polite Society in Early National America, 1770-1825 Maria Ryan, Hearing Power, Sounding Freedom: Black Practices of Music-making and Ear-training in the British Colonial Caribbean, 1807-53 Whitney Barlow Robles , Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History, 1700-1820 Nathaniel Holly , From Chota to Charles Town: The Urban Lives of Cherokees Muiris MacGiollabhui , Sons of Exile: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen, 1795-1830 Marissa Rhodes , Body Work: Wet-Nurses and Politics of the Breast in Eighteenth-Century London and Philadelphia Casey Schmitt , Frontiers of Neighbors: Negotiating a Legal and Cultural Vernacular in the 17th-Century Caribbean Sonia Tycko , Spirited Beyond the Sea: Persuasion and Consent in the Early English Empire Hannah Bailey , “I Saw Africa, But I Have Never Set Foot There”: A “New Account” of Africans in the Early Modern French Atlantic Heather Freund , Loyal Subjects or Internal Enemies?

: Rethinking Legal Subjectivities in the British Caribbean, 1763-1815 Christine DeLucia , The Memory Frontier: Memorializing King Philip’s War in the Native Northeast Gregory Wigmore , The Limits of Empire: Allegiance, Opportunity, and Imperial Rivalry in the Canadian-American Borderland Katherine Grandjean , Post Haste: Letters, Posting, and Empire in Early English America Matthew Kruer , The Susquehannock War: Native Americans, Bacon’s Rebellion, and the Forging of the Covenant Chain Hyun Wu Lee , Soldiers in the Southeast: British Troops, Indians, Colonists, and Slaves, 1756-63 Gloria Whiting , ‘Endearing Ties’: Black Family Life in Early New England Rebecca Hall , ‘Entertaining Negroes’: 18th-Century Criminal Prosecutions and the Creation of Whiteness Gina Martino-Trutor , Her Extraordinary Sufferings and Services: Women and War in New England and New France, 1630-1763 Justin Rowe , 17th-Century Presbyterianism and Scotch-Irish Migration Jonathan DeCoster , Intimate Enemies: Native Rivalry and Imperial Competition in the Colonial Southeast, 1564-1614 Neal Dugre , Creating New England: Intercolonial Political Culture and the Birth of a Region in the 17th-Century English Atlantic Randi Lewis , Government for Sail: Networks of Political Economy in Salem, Massachusetts, 1763-1819 Celine Carayon , ‘Not able to be expressed with tongue’: Communication, Performance, and Acculturation in French America Bronwen McShea , Cultivating a New World: The Jesuits’ Social Vision for France and North America, 1610-85 Ian Aebel , Constructing History, Producing America: Anglo-American Historical Thought, Historiography, and the Birth of American History in the Early Modern English Atlantic, c.

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.