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American Heritage Center
Centennial Complex
2111 Willet Drive
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-4114
Email: ahcref@uwyo.edu
The American Heritage Center supports a variety of scholarly activities through the grants and fellowships we offer. For more information or questions about fellowships or grants, please contact AHC Archivist Leslie Waggener or call 307-766-2557.
Buffalo Bill Center of the West – Cody, Wyoming
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming – Laramie, Wyoming
The American Heritage Center (AHC) at the University of Wyoming and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West (BBCW) in invites applications for the annual Peter K. Simpson Fellowship on the American West through March 30, 2023. The fellowship aims to support a 20-day stay divided between the AHC and the BBCW to research extensive collections on the American West in both repositories. Academic scholars at any level, from graduate students to tenured faculty, may apply. Fellowships will fund original research advancing knowledge, understanding, and passion about the history and myths of the American West
BBCW archival materials housed in the McCracken Research Library and the collections held by the BBCW’s five museums support the Center’s mission of connecting people to stories of the American West. Subject strengths include Plains Indian cultures, the history of Euro-American explorers and settlers, western artists, American firearms, and the life and legacy of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody.
AHC archives on the American West include information on the lives of men and women who shaped the West. Strengths are Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain West (including politics, settlement, and western trails) and the “Western image” as represented by writers, artists, historians, and others.
Send completed application materials electronically by March 30, 2023, to BBCW Human Resources Director Terry Harley at terryh@centerofthewest.org. Candidates will be selected in April and notified by e-mail.
The American Heritage Center’s Alan K. Simpson Institute is accepting applications for the 2023 Alan K. Simpson Institute Fellowship on Western Political History through March 31, 2023. The fellowship aims to support a 20-day research stay at the Center to make use of its extensive collections in this area.
The annual competition is designed to encourage academic scholars investigating the role of western politics and politicians in American history to explore the AHC’s rich political collections. Academic scholars at any level, from graduate students to tenured faculty, may apply.
Send completed application materials electronically by March 31, 2023, to AHC Archivist Leslie Waggener at lwaggen2@uwyo.edu. Candidates will be selected in April and notified by e-mail.The University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center (AHC) is accepting applications for the Women in Public Life Fellowship through March 31, 2023.
The annual competition is designed to encourage academic scholars to disseminate their findings from the AHC’s abundant collections relating to women’s lives and careers in the public sector. Academic scholars at any level, from graduate students to tenured faculty, may apply. Members of under-represented communities and multi-disciplinary scholars are encouraged to apply.
The University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center (AHC) is accepting applications for the Bernard L. Majewski Research Fellowship through March 31, 2023.
The annual competition is intended to provide research support for a recognized scholar in the history of economic geology and to facilitate the Fellow’s use of the AHC’s archival collections. Academic scholars at any level, from graduate students to tenured faculty, may apply.
The American Heritage Center annually offers travel grants of up to $750 each to provide support for travel, food and lodging to carry out research using the AHC's collections.
The deadline for Travel Grant applications is March 31, 2023.
Send completed application materials electronically to AHC Archivist Leslie Waggener at lwaggen2@uwyo.edu. Candidates will be selected in April and notified by e-mail.
Each spring semester the AHC offers a research award to a University of Wyoming undergraduate in the form of a cash prize to the best research paper or project, based substantially on materials (manuscripts, archives, rare books, photos, maps, audio, film and video, etc.) at the AHC. The award is entirely funded by voluntary donations from faculty and staff at the AHC.
Send completed application materials electronically by May 16, 2023, to AHC Archivist Leslie Waggener at lwaggen2@uwyo.edu. Candidates will be selected in May and notified by e-mail.
The American Heritage Center supports the University of Wyoming's charge of teaching, research, public service, and cultural outreach by enabling and promoting the study and interpretation of our nation's history. This grants program offers an opportunity to pursue projects such as independent or collaborative research projects, course development, and symposia that use AHC's resource material as the basis of the project/course/symposia.
Grants are available to University of Wyoming and Wyoming community college students, faculty, academic professionals, and staff.
Send completed application materials electronically by January 28, 2023, to AHC Archivist Leslie Waggener at lwaggen2@uwyo.edu.
The Fellowship for the Study of 20th Century American Popular Culture aims to support a 20-day research stay at the AHC. Funding is available to late postdoctoral investigators and new faculty (those at or below the rank of Assistant Professor) who will use materials from the AHC’s premier holdings in American popular culture.
The University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center (AHC) did not accepting applications for the Fellowship for the Study of 20th Century American Popular Culture for 2023. The AHC hopes to offer the fellowship in 2024.
American Heritage Center
Centennial Complex
2111 Willet Drive
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-4114
Email: ahcref@uwyo.edu
1000 E. University Ave. Laramie, WY 82071
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