Deadline: 7 March 2025
Applicants can now submit their applications for the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Research Fellowship Program.
The fellowship seeks to nurture scholars at the beginning of their academic careers to increase their lifelong interest in history and promote continued academic and public appreciation of Medgar and Myrlie Evers’s life and works, the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, and the struggle for human rights.
Funding Information
- This annual fellowship awards a $5,000 stipend to one graduate student or a faculty member within the first five years of their academic career to conduct research using the Evers Papers and other archival collections at MDAH for two weeks during the summer.
Eligible Costs
- Travel
- Accommodations
- Food
- Additional photocopies and scans of archival materials
- Other expenses during the recipient’s time researching at the archives
Ineligible Costs
- Computer equipment (hardware or software)
- Childcare
- Photo framing/matting
Eligibility Criteria
- The fellowship recipient must be a student enrolled in a graduate or doctoral program at an accredited college or university, or a faculty member within the first five years of their academic career.
Selection Criteria
- Scholastic contribution.
- Proposed research topic, methodology, use of MDAH holdings, and research products.
- Anticipated schedule.
- Estimated expenses (travel, housing, and other).
- Curriculum vitae and Letter of recommendation from academic advisor.
For more information, visit MDAH.
