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 2025 KHS Research Fellows:

• Zachary Clary (PhD student, Vanderbilt University)—Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Violence, Death, and Martyrdom in the Civil Rights Movement
• Linda Noel (Associate Professor, Morgan State University)—Slavery’s Demise and Memory in Kentucky, 1863-1920s
• Veronica Primm (MA student, University of Kentucky)—Race, Gender, and Reproductive Medicine in the Antebellum South
• Margaret Sumner (Associate Professor, The Ohio State University)—Professor John M. Maxwell and the Cultivation of Black Professional Networks in Kentucky, 1870s-1890s
• J. Matthew Ward (Professor, Quincy University)—A Poor Cow at the Door: Milk Sickness as Environmental and Social Problem in the Antebellum Era

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.