"Jack Haley and Dale Society Fellowships"

Jack Haley and Dale Society Fellowships

Location: University of Oklahoma Norman Campus

Department: Western History Collections

Position Type: Fellowship

Qualifications:

For summer 2026 applicants: Each fellowship applicant will be required to have a virtual or in-person consultation with a member of the WHC curatorial team. The purpose of the consultation is to ensure needed research materials will be available for an applicant's proposed fellowship project. Please send your consultation request to westernhistorycollections@ou.edu. Your request should include the scope of your fellowship project and a list of collections to be utilized during the fellowship. If an applicant does not carry out this requirement, their application will not be considered for funding.

Application Instructions:

NOTE: Consultation with a WHC curatorial team member is required prior to application. See the fellowship descriptions outlined above for more information.

Apply here: https://apply.interfolio.com/178346

Candidates for the Jack Haley and Dale Society Fellowships must submit the following:

• Indicate the fellowship for which you wish to be considered
• A research proposal (1,500 words) outlining the research project and plan of work, citing specific WHC collections and their centrality to the research project
• A curriculum vitae
• Candidates for the Jack Haley and Dale Society Fellowships must submit transcripts (unofficial transcripts accepted) demonstrating a GPA of no less than 3.5 and
• One letter of support from an OU faculty member familiar with their work

Successful applications will describe the importance and impact of the research inquiry and will identify defined resources in the Western History Collections that are essential to their work. Applicants are encouraged to contact us to help identify resources.

Fellows will be required to present their work to the OU community as part of their award.

Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Description:

Fellowships for University of Oklahoma Graduate Students

DEADLINE: February 13, 2026

Graduate fellowships support summer appointments in the Western History Collections for students in masters or doctoral programs at OU. Graduate fellows will evenly divide their time between using WHC materials to advance their dissertation or thesis research, and working on assigned WHC projects that will provide practical experience in archival science, librarianship, or information science (archival processing, collection digitization, etc.). The stipend for the graduate student fellowships is $1,500 per month. The fellowships are eight weeks long and involve 20 hours of work per week.

• The Jack Haley Fellowship, endowed by Fred and Patricia Schonwald of Oklahoma City, provides fellowships for graduate students in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma. Fellowships will be awarded for an eight-week period for 2026.
• The Dale Society Fellowship, supported by the Associates of Western History Collections Endowment, supports a graduate student (or students) in other University of Oklahoma graduate programs outside the Department of History. The fellowship residency period will be eight weeks for 2026.

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