This page contains links to job, internship, scholarship, fellowship, assistantship, grant, and other funding opportunities in history, public history, museums, libraries, and more. Opportunities are also shared via email through the Loyola history department list-serv. Loyola history graduate students also maintain a private list sharing where they’ve worked and interned. If you’re a Loyola history graduate student who wants access to this list or if you know of a resource that should be added to this page, please email the professional development graduate assistant.
This is a non-exhaustive list.
Aggregated job & internship listings
- Alliance of Midwest Museums Job Board
–Jobs, internships - American Alliance of Museums Job Board
–Jobs, internships - American Association for State and Local History Career Center
-Jobs, internships, volunteer positions - American Historical Association Job Board
- Chicago History Museum Job Board
-Jobs, internships, volunteer positions - City of Chicago Careers Site
-Jobs, internships - Hire Culture: Creative Employment in Massachusetts Listings
–Jobs, internships, volunteer positions - H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online: Click here.
–Jobs, internships, volunteer positions, CFPs, other academic, public history, and museum opportunities - Illinois Association of Museums Job Board
-Jobs, internships - Indeed.com Listings
- Inside Higher Ed Careers
- Loyola University Chicago Fellowship Office: Click here.
- Loyola University Chicago Career Services Handshake Portal
-Outside jobs, as well as positions for Loyola students - Museum Hack Job Board
–Jobs, internships
- Museum Savvy Resources
-Jobs and professional development resources - MuseWeekly e-newsletter sign-up
–Jobs, internships, volunteer positions, conference CFPs, other public history and museum opportunities - National Council on Public History Job Listings
–Jobs, internships, volunteer positions - National Emerging Museum Professionals Network Job Listings
-Jobs, internships, volunteer positions - Newberry Library Positions
–Jobs, internships, volunteer positions - Organization of American Historians Job Board
- PreserveNet Job Board
–Jobs, internships - Society of American Archivists Job Board
–Jobs, internships
Specific jobs & internships
- Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Internships
- AP Exam Grading: Click here.
- History Factory Careers: Click here.
- National Museum of American History internship, job, fellowship, and volunteer opportunities
- Pritzker Military Museum & Library: Click here and here.
–Jobs, internships, volunteer positions
Scholarships, fellowships, assistantships, grants, & other funding
- **Dissertation Resources List: Research Grants, Completion Fellowships, and Dissertation Prizes: Click here.
- ACLS Public Fellows Opportunities.
–See the list on the left of the page for fellowship opportunities - ACLS Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship: Click here.
- American Academy of Religion International Dissertation Research Grants: Click here.
- American Academy of Religion Raj Research Grant: Click here.
- American Catholic Historical Association John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Award: Click here.
- American Catholic Historical Association Graduate Student Summer Research Grant: Click here.
- American Society of Church History John F. Wilson Research Fellowship: Click here.
-Requires membership - American Society of Church History Research Fellowship: Click here.
-Requires membership - American Historical Association Beveridge Travel Grant for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere: Click here.
-Requires membership - Bancroft Library Hill Study Award: Click here.
- Bancroft Library Meylan Study Award: Click here.
- Bancroft Library Quinn Memorial Fellowship: Click here.
- Bancroft Library Reese Fellowship: Click here.
- Conference on Latin American History James R. Scobie Award: Click here.
- Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship: Click here.
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad: Click here.
- Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship: Click here.
- Immigration and Ethnic History Society Pozzetta Dissertation Research Grant: Click here.
- King V. Hostick Scholarship: Click here.
- Humanities Without Walls: Click here.
-Yearly in-residence pre-doctoral fellowship for humanities PhD students - Loyola University Chicago Graduate School INTERNAL Financial Assistance and Funding resources: Click here.
–Includes:
Funding opportunities for Loyola PhD and MA students, including the Schmitt Fellowship, Teaching Scholars Fellowship, Research Experience for Master’s Programs Project, Child and Family Research Assistantships, Graduate Assistantships, funding for research and conference travel, and more. - Loyola University Chicago Graduate School List of EXTERNAL Funding Resources: Click here.
–Includes:
Grants and Fellowships Databases and Lists;
Grants Offered by Government, Foundations, and Institutes;
Grants and Fellowships at Libraries, Archives, or Research Centers; Grants Offered by Professional Groups or Scholarly Associations - Loyola University Chicago Office of Research Services External Funding Opportunities: Click here. (multiple)
- National Council on Public History awards: Click here. (multiple)
-Includes awards for student projects and student conference travel, among others. - Organization of American Historians Travel, Dissertation, and Essay Awards for Graduate Students and Recent Graduate Students: Click here. (multiple)
- Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship: Click here.
- Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Travel and Dissertation Writing grants: Click here. (multiple)
- Smith Richardson Foundation World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship: Click here.
- Texas State Historical Association Travel and Dissertation Research fellowships: Click here. (multiple)
- Western History Association Rundell Award: Click here.
- Western History Association–Huntington Library Ridge Fellowship: Click here.
- Woodrow Wilson Charlotte Newcomb Dissertation Fellowship: Click here.