Summer Funding Opportunities

Applications for summer 2024 awards are now open.

The Southern Oral History Program offers several competitive awards for current undergraduate and graduate students attending UNC Chapel Hill who are pursuing oral history research or fieldwork during summer 2024. Undergraduates who are graduating in spring 2034 are not eligible to apply.

Please read below for more information on the awards and how to apply.

Proposals must align with the standards of the SOHP’s work and mission. For projects proposing oral history fieldwork, interviews can be considered for deposit in SOHP’s collection at the Southern Historical Collection in the Wilson Special Collections Library.

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Graduate Summer Research Fellowship

The Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Graduate Summer Research Fellowship is made possible by its namesake fund, in honor of the founding director of the Southern Oral History Program. The summer research fellowship provides one graduate student currently attending UNC Chapel Hill with a $4,000 award to pursue oral history research or fieldwork during the summer of 2023.

All recipients of summer funding will be required to submit a mid-summer progress report of what has been accomplished so far, and a plan for work yet to be done. By the end of the summer award period, recipients will submit an impact statement and will share their findings at an event at The Center for the Study of the American South in the fall of 2023.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please email a single PDF that includes:

• Your name, email, and home department are at the top of the page
• A two-page project proposal
  • describe the research questions, objectives, and significance of the proposed research to the study of the South
  • describe the sources and methodology employed
• A one-page project outline
  • describe the structure of the project and a planned timeline of completion for the work
• A two-page curriculum vitae

Separately, have your advisor send a letter of recommendation here.

Send all application materials here by April 1, 2024.

SOHP Undergraduate Research Planning Grants 

The Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) Undergraduate Summer Awards provide startup funding for four undergraduates in the amount of $2,500 each to support preliminary oral history planning and preparation work resulting in the identification of oral history fieldwork or research you will further explore beyond the summer award period.

All recipients of summer funding will be required to submit a mid-summer progress report of what has been accomplished so far, and a plan for work yet to be done. By the end of the summer award period, recipients will submit an impact statement and will share their findings at an event at The Center for the Study of the American South in the fall of 2023.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please email a single PDF that includes:

• Your name, email, and home department at the top of the page
• A two-page project proposal
  • describe the research questions, objectives, and significance of the proposed research to the study of the South
  • describe the sources and methodology employed
• A one-page project outline
  • describe the structure of the project and a planned timeline of completion for the work
• A two-page curriculum vitae

Separately, have your advisor send a letter of recommendation here.

Send all application materials here by April 1, 2024.