2025

* January 3 [C]. Short-term Fellowships in the History of Cartography (Newberry Library, Chicago).
* January 15 [C]. Brian Leigh Dunnigan Fellowship in the History of Cartography (and other both short- and long fellowships) (William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan)
* January 17 [C]. Visiting Fellowships (including the Eleanor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and Graphic Arts - Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.)
* January 31. [C]. Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Research Fellowships for use, inter alia, with cartographic material from the Stephen S. Clark Library, Unversity of Michigan)

* March 1 [C]. Hakluyt Society Essay Prize.
* March 4 [?]. Short-Term Research Fellowships (New York Public Library)

* April 1 []. London Topographical Society. Ann Saunders Essay Prize. * May 1 [P]. Helen Wallis Fellowship (British Library)
* May 1 [?]. Graduate Scholar-in-Residence program at the Newberry Library, Chicago (for advanced PhD students for the period September-May). {It is not clear if this has been renamed as the Newberry Scholar-in-Residence, nor is the deadline date obvious}
* May 20 [P]. Leventhal Map & Education Center Small Grants Fund for Early Career Digital Publications.

* June. The application for the 2024-2025 Fellowship will be available in June 2024: Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers (fellowship for work on the collections of the New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library - of which the The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division forms a part)
* June 1 [P]. Society for the History of Discoveries Student Essay Prizes
* June 1 [P]. Walter W Ristow Essay Prize (Washington Map Society)
* June 24 [? seems to have been discontinued]. Ian Mumford Award (British Cartographic Society), for university and college students where cartography, maps or mapping forms the principal subject of research
* June 24 []. Dr Bennie Ng Scholarship - for research in the National Library of Ausralia's map collection [NB. Started 2024.]

July 1. [Call for papers deadline, extended from May 1]. Fall Meeting of the Texas Map Society: 'Frontiers and Borderlands of Texas and the Greater Southwest' (San Antonio, 24-26 October 2024).
* July 31 []. Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Short-term Research Fellowships)

* September 10 []. Bibliographical Society of America (Charles J. Tanenbaum Fellowship in Cartographical Bibliography). See also Application Guidelines.
* September 15 []. Philip Lee Phillips Society Fellowship (John W. Kluge Center and the Philip Lee Phillips Map Society at the Library of Congress)
* September 30 []. Herzog-Ernst-Scholarship Programme at the Research Library Gotha and the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt. See also the Bewerbung.
* September 30 []. The Willison Foundation Charitable Trust Award (for 'advanced research in the History of the Book', with maps specifically included)
* September 30 [] Augustin Hirschvogel Fellowship (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg)

* October 31 []. Mendel Fellowship (a visiting fellowship mentioning specifically 'geography, navigation and cartography'; also the Everett Helm Visiting Fellowships - Lilly Library, Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington)

* November 1 [P]. J.B. Harley Research Fellowships (London)
* November 15 []. Long-term Fellowships. (Newberry Library)
* November 15 []. Huntington Library (applications from 31 August; a range of short- and long-term fellowships - San Marino, California)
* November 29 [] Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections.
* November 29 []. American Geographical Society Library Fellowships (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries)

* December 1 [P]. Allard Pierson fellowships (starting in 2024, replacing the Explokart fellowship)
* December 31 [-]. ISHMap Prize for Projects in Map History'. [NB. This prize is awarded every two years, currently in the odd year.]

DEADLINE DATES UNKNOWN OR CONTINUATION UNCLEAR

National Library of Australia Fellowships (Canberra)

Leventhal Map & Education Center Public Research Fellows in History and Geography (between one and three weeks in residence at the LMEC, Boston Public Library) ['not currently available' - seen 1 January 2024].

National Maritime Museum Research Fellowships (London, Greenwich). "The Caird Fellowship Scheme is not currently accepting new applications, as the team work on a revised research strategy for Royal Museums Greenwich." [seen 1 January 2024].

Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum (see for details of the Crone and Warnsinck Fellowships)

William and Madeline Welder Smith Travel Award (see the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History - University of Texas at Austin)

Different dates, check website. State Library of New South Wales (various grants for Australian history, e.g. C.H. Currey, Nancy Keesing and Milt Luger Fellowships)

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