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 Spring 2026 KHS Research Fellows:

• Kate Ballantyne, Liverpool John Moores University, "The World The Sixties Made: Free Speech Debates In Southern Higher Education"
• Colton Davis, Mississippi State University, "From Lemon Cars to NASCAR: The Rise of Toyota in the United States"
• Clare Gibron, UNC Charlotte, "The Thirteenth Amendment and Emancipation in Kentucky"
• Kelly Hopkins, University of Houston, "Displacement and Renewal: Multinational Indigenous Communities and Resistance in the Ohio River Valley, 1720–1815"
• Dhananjaya Premauden, University of Pennsylvania, "The Speculation College: How Land and The Speculative Economy Built Early Nineteenth Century Public Colleges in the United States (1787–1862)"
• Andrew Walgren, Indiana University Northwest, "Media Combat: The Great War and the Transformation of American Culture"
• Fiona Young-Brown, Independent Scholar, "Beyond Belle: The Ladies of Lexington's Red-Light District"

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.