Research Fellowships

Researchers have used the Kentucky Historical Society’s rich archival holdings to shed light on a vast array of topics, from frontier land distribution and law, to Civil War medicine and from river-borne commerce in the 19th century to Kentucky’s nuclear energy industry.

To help facilitate your research, KHS offers short-term fellowships (one to four weeks) to promote scholarship on any facet of Kentucky’s history.

We offer fellowships in the spring.  Download Fellowships guidelines and learn more here.

Congratulations to our Fall 2025 KHS Research Fellows:

• Shae Smith Cox, Texas A&M University, "'The Suffering and Groans of the Wounded and Dying Were Terrible to See and Hear': Auditory Experiences of Civil War Hospitals" 
• E. Allen Driggers, Tennessee Technological University, "Inflammation:  A Chemical Biography and India-Burma War Challenges" 
  
• Bo Rodgers, University of Miami, “Impatient for Freedom: Slave Resistance, Black Politics, and the Law in Cuba and Kentucky” 

Click here for a more complete list of our current and past fellows and here for a list of their publications.

If you have questions or need more information, send an email to KHSFellowships@ky.gov.