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.

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Mildred Colodny Diversity Scholarship for Graduate Study in Historic Preservation

Biography
Website

https://savingplaces.org/colodny-scholarship

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

Students in their final year of undergraduate study intending to enroll in a graduate program in historic preservation; or graduate students enrolled in or intending to enroll in historic preservation programs. The program of study must be at a U.S. university, college or institution, and in order to receive the internship stipend portion of the award, students must be eligible to work in the U.S.

Selections will be based partly on financial need, and partly on application materials, undergraduate academic performance, promise shown for future achievement, commitment to working in preservation in the United States following graduation, and potential to help increase diversity within the preservation movement. Applications will be reviewed through a flexible consideration of all pertinent elements of diversity in light of the particular qualifications of each applicant.

Students who have received the scholarship in a previous year are not eligible to apply.

Eligible Fields of Study: Historic Preservation, or graduate programs in departments of History, Architecture, American Studies, Urban Planning, Museum Studies, etc, with a primary emphasis on Historic Preservation.

Amount

Up to $15,000 towards graduate school tuition; a $5,000 stipend for a summer internship with the National Trust following the student’s first year of study; and up to $2,000 towards the student’s attendance at a National Preservation Conference.

Duration

Annual