Research grants

2024-25 Research Grants Announced

The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies and Virginia Tech’s Special Collections and University Archives invite applications for the 2024-25 Virginia Center for Civil War Studies Research Grants.

Each grant recipient will visit Virginia Tech’s Special Collections and University Archives in order to conduct research on some aspect of the American Civil War era.

An honorarium of $150 per business day will be provided, up to a maximum of $1,500. (Typical awards are for 2-5 days.) Recipients may also have the opportunity to give an informal presentation on their projects during their visit. Graduate students, faculty members, and independent scholars are all eligible. 

Applications are due by 5 p.m. on March 28, 2024. For details click here: 2024-25-VCCWS-Research-Grants-announcement

2023-24 Research Grant Recipients

Noah Crawford (left) is a PhD candidate at Texas A&M University. Crawford will research refugees during the American Civil War: how displaced people experienced the conflict, and how they impacted its course and aftermath.

John Martin McMillan (right) is a PhD student at West Virginia University. McMillan’s project, “Feeding Confederate Virginia: The Stuff of Subsistence,” explores food systems in Virginia during the Civil War to explain the roles of non-human actors in feeding Black and White citizens and soldiers across the Old Dominion.

Andrew Turner (left) is a PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Turner’s research examines how youth soldiers of the Civil War formed identities during wartime which they carried throughout their lives. He explores how soldiers under the age of eighteen navigated coming of age during wartime and then inserted their recollections of youthful soldiering into Civil War memory in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Click here to learn about previous research grant recipients

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