The Society of Civil War Historians on behalf of the McWhiney Group offers a $2,000 stipend in even-numbered years to the best dissertation that takes the US Civil War era as its main point of focus.

The Medieval Academy of America offers nine dissertation grants to help students with research costs.

Presented by the CCWH, a $500 award that recognizes extraordinary mentorship and service to women and the LGBTQI community in the historical profession.

Presented by the Society of American Historians, the prize is awarded annually for the best-written doctoral dissertation on a significant subject in American history. 

Presented by the American Journalism Historians Association, the prize is awarded annually for the best doctoral dissertation dealing with mass communication history.

Presented by the Business History Conference: any dissertation in business history completed in the three calendar years immediately prior to the annual meeting is eligible once for consideration.

Presented by the American Society for Legal History, the prize is awarded annually to the best dissertation in any topic of American legal history completed in the past year.

A $500 prize awarded by the CCWH to a scholar of any rank for a superlative article published in any field of history.

Presented by the CCWH, a $1000 award that recognizes a superlative first article published in any field of history.

The North American Conference on British Studies awards 3 dissertation fellowships to support dissertation research in the British Isles on any topic of British (including Scottish, Irish and Imperial) history or British Studies.

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society presents two awards. The Pozzetta award to any Ph.D. candidate completing qualifying exams that year and whose thesis focuses on American immigration, emigration, or ethnic history. And an Outstanding Dissertation Award in the same field.

Awarded by the Labor and Working Class History Association to the best dissertation in U.S. labor and working class history defended during the previous academic year.

Granted to the best doctoral dissertation in German history at a North American university; includes an invitation and travel reimbursement to present at the annual symposium in Washington, DC.

A $1000 award to a graduate student completing a historical dissertation, not necessarily in a history department, that interrogates race and gender. Awarded by the CCWH.

Presented by the Western History Association to a doctoral candidate who has completed comprehensive examinations for their dissertation subject on the North American West.

The Western History Association and the Huntington Library select a doctoral student at the dissertation stage or Ph.D (or equivalent degree) holder for a one-month fellowship.

Presented by the American Conference for Irish Studies to the best dissertation in Irish Studies.

The Western History Association awards up to ten students with a funding package to attend the WHA conference.

A $1000 award to a graduate student completing a dissertation in history.

The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies grants the fellowship to support doctoral candidates with demonstrable need to consult a specific collection to complete a dissertation on an aspect of eighteenth-century studies.

Presented by the CCWH. A $20,000 award given to a scholar who has not followed a traditional academic path of uninterrupted study.  The award is open to applicants with a PhD and graduate students advanced to candidacy.

Awarded to a doctoral student in the field of Catholic Studies with a promising, but not-yet-completed dissertation.

The Society for Austrian and Habsburg Studies awards the prize every other year to a dissertation in the humanities, social sciences, or the arts and deal with Central Europe, including the successor states of the Habsburg Empire.

The History of Science Society awards a prize for the best unpublished essay on the history of science by a graduate student.

The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations offers four dissertation grants to help students with research costs.

The North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) awards up to $3,000 for one award, or for fractional awards for several applicants, at the discretion of the Committee.

The North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) awards $1,000 on a biannual basis recognizing outstanding doctoral dissertations in the field of sport history.