Scholarships & Fellowships

This is a repository for scholarships and fellowships designed to support people seeking or in historic trades careers.

This page aggregates scholarship and fellowship information from across the internet–serving different demographics and sponsored by different organizations.

Do you know of one we should add? Or see one that is no longer active? Submit a New Entry! This helps us keep the list an up-to-date and accurate resource. As available, please include the awarding organization name, website and contact information, description of the award, eligibility, amount, eligible uses, application due date, award date, and the duration. 

Christopher P. Robinson International Preservation Trades Exchange Scholarship

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Preservation Trades Network Website: https://ptn.org/Christopher-P.Robinson-International-Trades-Exchange-Scholarship
Biography
Description

International exchange fund designed to increase the awareness of international traditional trade skills, preservation knowledge, conservation techniques, and understanding of traditional building materials and their relations to the built environment.

Eligibility
  • Working tradespeople
  • PTN member
Amount

$2,500

Eligible Uses

Tuition, Travel Funds

Duration

Annual

Colonial Williamsburg’s Annual Working Wood in the 18th Century Conference Scholarship

Colonial Williamsburg Website: 2025 Working Wood Conference
Biography
Application

Conference Scholarship Application

Description

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is pleased to offer a limited number of scholarships for students to attend the Annual Working Wood in the 18th Century Conference. This year’s program, To Furnish a Town: High, Low and In Between, will be held in person & virtually January 23-26, 2025.

Eligibility
  • Currently enrolled in a woodworking curriculum of an accredited school, or having graduated with a woodworking degree within the past 5 years.
  • Emerging museum professionals in the woodworking, crafts & trades field.
Amount
  • In-Person scholarships cover registration costs to attend the main Working Wood program, receptions and dinner, access to the streaming platform to view presentations until March 31, 2025, and a historic area ticket voucher for a 7-day visit to Colonial Williamsburg to be redeemed by December 31, 2025. In-person scholarships may include accommodations but do not include travel.

* Note: In-Person scholarship recipients will have the option to register for Pre-Conference activities, and an option to register a guest for Companion Programs. Any of these additional items are an additional fee, not covered by the scholarship.

  • Virtual scholarships cover registration costs to all Working Wood virtual presentations, available until March 31, 2025, as well as a historic area ticket voucher for a 7-day visit to Colonial Williamsburg to be redeemed by December 31, 2025.
Eligible Uses

In person and virtual registration

Application Due Date

November 1, 2024

Application Award Date

November 15, 2024

Duration

Annual

Event Page

Colonial Williamsburg’s Annual Working Wood Conference

 

Construction Trades Scholarship

Website: https://nawic.org/education/nfsf-scholarships/
Biography
Description

Support for people enrolled in construction trades training programs

Eligibility

Applicant must be currently enrolled in a construction-related training program which is approved by the Bureau of Apprenticeship Training, community college, technical school or equivalent.
Applicant must be obtaining training in a construction-related craft or trade.

Amount

$500 – $2,500

Eligible Uses

Tuition, Related Instruction

Application Due Date

February 28

Application Award Date

June 15

Duration

Annual

Harrison Goodall Preservation Fellowship

Website: https://historictrades.org/goodall
Biography
Description

Promote enterprising professionals’ ability to undertake a focused pursuit that makes a meaningful and innovative contribution to the field of historic preservation and support the stewardship of historic resources. for people enrolled in construction trades training programs

Eligibility
  • Must work in a preservation related field (trades, historic preservation, museum studies, history, archaeology, urban planning, architecture, etc.)
  • Emerging and seasoned preservation and trades professionals encourage to apply.
  • Federal and non-federal workers
Amount

$10,000

Eligible Uses

Project related activities

Application Due Date

April 12

Application Award Date

August 15

Duration

Annual

J. Joseph Edgette Education Fund

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Association for Gravestone Studies Website: J. Joseph Edgette Education Fund
Biography

In 2021 AGS established the J. Joseph Edgette Education Fund to honor the legacy of one of AGS’s tireless, longstanding supporters. Dr. J. Joseph Edgette was co-winner of the 2015 Forbes Award (with Richard Sauers). The “Joe Fund” recognizes Edgette’s decades-long career training educators and his many years of dedication to cemetery scholarship. Its purpose of supporting scholars and educators in their research projects is aligned with AGS’ founding purpose in 1977 — to further the study and preservation of gravestones.

Fund objective:

To support projects that further the study and preservation of gravestones by providing financial assistance to scholars and educators. Further details are here.

1) Eligibility guidelines:

  • •Scholars who need financial support to complete their gravestone- or cemetery-related projects are eligible to receive money from the fund.
  •  Awards are not intended to be scholarships that would simply replace a portion of a student’s financial aid, but instead are tied directly to his or her qualifying project expenses.
  • Excluded are any projects already funded by AGS through scholarship awards (such as the student scholarships granted to attend the annual conference).

2) Examples of awards that support scholarly and educational projects:

  • Hiring a student intern to research cemetery records at a “second-tier” cemetery (that is, one without an endowment to support such activities).
  • Assisting with travel and other expenses for a research project related to a specific cemetery, tombstone design, or carver.
  • Paying for a GPR survey at a cemetery known to hold the remains of enslaved or other marginalized people buried there without markers.
  • Paying for ancillaries such as bagged lunches, copy expenses or other costs related to a local volunteer cemetery- or gravestone-themed project.
  • Funding workshops to train public school teachers in how to use cemeteries as instructional tools.
  • Providing financial assistance to other projects that meet the spirit of the fund.

3) Management and oversight of the fund:

  • AGS’ Executive Committee, or a committee of AGS determined by the Executive Committee, makes all decisions regarding award amounts and distribution of cash from the fund.
  • The AGS Treasurer maintains records regarding donations into, balance of, and cash distributed from the fund, and reports fund activity to AGS membership at least once per year.
  • Scholars and educators apply for the funds by submitting a proposal for how an award would be used. Parameters for the application to the fund are determined by AGS.
  • Recipients of cash from the fund agree to make their research public — by presenting at a conference, publishing in Markers or the AGS Quarterly, or in other ways approved by AGS.
  • Eligibility guidelines, use of awards, and management and oversight of the fund may be changed at any time with the approval of the AGS Executive Committee.

Application

Download pdf here.

Misia Leonard Scholarship

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Preservation Trades Network Website: https://ptn.org/Scholarship-Funds
Biography
Description

Conference fund to support the attendance of current students, apprentices, and new hires to the International Preservation Trades Workshop.

Eligibility
  • Current Students
  • Apprentices
  • Beginning professional tradespeople
Amount

$1,000

Eligible Uses

Costs associated with attendance to IPTW

Application Due Date

Prior to annual IPTW

Application Award Date

Prior to annual IPTW

Duration

Annual

Slater Scholarship

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Association for Gravestone Studies Website: Slater Scholarship
Biography

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The Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS) promotes the academic study of gravemarkers, cemeteries and related topics internationally through its annual conference and peer-reviewed journal Markers. For many years, scholarships have been awarded to students whose educational pursuits are aligned with AGS’ founding purpose in 1977 — to further the study and preservation of gravestones. In 2022, AGS’ student scholarship award was renamed The Slater Student Scholarship Award in honor of Dr. James A. Slater, an early pioneer of the organization and one of the most influential voices in the field of gravestone studies.

1) Eligibility guidelines:

• Awards are open to graduate or undergraduate students at any accredited college or university.
• Students submit an application form (available on the AGS website) with supporting documentation to the AGS Scholarship Committee.
• Research topics may include the study of gravestones (such as marker materials, forms, and motifs, as well as carver studies) and cemeteries (such as surveys, burial practices, and landscape histories).
• Excluded are any research projects already funded by AGS through other awards.

2) Awards:

The Slater Student Scholarship aspires to fund a free or subsidised student place at each AGS conference. It is, however, entirely dependent on donations, and thus the amount which can be awarded varies from year to year.

3) Management and oversight of the program:

• AGS’s Student Scholarship Committee determines award recipients each year after completing its review of scholarship applications.
• AGS reserves the right to award one or more scholarships each year, or to make no award, as circumstances permit.
• Allowable out-of-pocket travel expenses are determined by the AGS Executive Committee and may include air, train or bus fare, and other expenses directly related to the recipient’s transportation to and from the conference.
• The AGS Treasurer maintains records regarding donations into, balance of, and cash distributed from the fund, and reports fund activity to AGS membership at least once per year.
• Eligibility guidelines, use of awards, and management and oversight of the fund may be changed at any time with the approval of the AGS Executive Committee.

Stockton Scholarship

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Association for Gravestone Studies Website: Stockton Scholarship
Biography

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The Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS) promotes the academic study of gravemarkers, cemeteries and related topics internationally through its annual conference and peer-reviewed journal Markers. With gratitude for a generous donation from longtime AGS members Ron & Jane Stockton in 2021, AGS established the Stockton Student Scholarship Award to support students whose educational pursuits are aligned with AGS’ founding purpose in 1977 — to further the study and preservation of gravestones.

1) Eligibility guidelines:

• Awards are open to graduate or undergraduate students at any accredited college or university.
• Students submit an application form (available on the AGS website) with supporting documentation to the AGS Scholarship Committee.
• Research topics may include the study of gravestones (such as marker materials, forms, and motifs, as well as carver studies) and cemeteries (such as surveys, burial practices, and landscape histories).
• Excluded are any research projects already funded by AGS through other awards.

2) Awards:

• The Stockton Student Scholarship provides the award recipient with complimentary conference registration, on-campus lodging, and on-campus meals during the AGS annual conference. The recipient receives a complimentary student membership in AGS for one year beginning June of the year of the award.
• Scholarship recipients agree to present their research at the annual conference if asked to do so; their work may also be published in Markers, the AGS Quarterly, or in other ways approved by AGS.

3) Management and oversight of the program:

• AGS’s Student Scholarship Committee determines award recipients each year after completing its review of scholarship applications.
• AGS reserves the right to award one or more scholarships each year, or to make no award, as circumstances permit.
• Allowable out-of-pocket travel expenses are determined by the AGS Executive Committee and may include air, train or bus fare, and other expenses directly related to the recipient’s transportation to and from the conference.
• The AGS Treasurer maintains records regarding donations into, balance of, and cash distributed from the fund, and reports fund activity to AGS membership at least once per year.
• Eligibility guidelines, use of awards, and management and oversight of the fund may be changed at any time with the approval of the AGS Executive Committee.