Fellowship Program

Promoting New Scholarship

Each year, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center offers a limited number of research stipends for promising and established visiting western scholars. Scholars research, write, and develop ideas and manuscripts that expand the horizon of western studies. Fellows may pursue field research in the Cody area (i.e., the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem or the Big Horn Basin and Mountains), or work in the collections of the McCracken Research Library or one of our museum galleries.

For more information on fellowships:

E-mail Chris Searles or call her at 307.578.4089.

Areas of Research & Collections

• Western American art and artists
• William F. Cody and Buffalo Bill's Wild West
• Western exploration, settlement, and the rise of American Western culture
• Plains Indian cultures
• History of firearms technology
• Western American literature and music
• Distribution, movements, and ecology of Greater Yellowstone Area wildlife in relation to environmental change and human dimensions of wildlife conservation and management in the American West

Call for Proposals, 2012 – 2013 Fellowships

The Buffalo Bill Historical Center is now accepting proposals for our 2012 – 2013 Resident Fellowships. Click here to view the Call for Proposals for details and submit your proposal, current curriculum vitae, and two professional references by April 15, 2012 to the following address:

ATTN: Chris Searles
Resident Fellows Program
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
720 Sheridan Avenue
Cody, WY 82414-3428

Past Fellows

2011 – 2012 Fellows:

Chris Dixon (University of Strathclyde, Scotland): Buffalo Bill in Barcelona

Andrew Hershberger (Bowling Green State University): Photography and Geology: Interdisciplinary Readings on Early USGS-Era Photographers

Gregory Hinton (author, filmmaker, and independent curator): Out West at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center

Ashley Hlebinsky (University of Delaware): Westerns and Western (Classical) Theatre: The Glamorization and Demonization of Firearms in the Arts

Jameson Sweet (University of Minnesota): Indians, Dressed and Half Dressed and Undressed: Army Wives, Indian Women, and Clothing in the West, 1848 – 1890

See our 2010 – 2011 Fellows

See our 2008 – 2009 Fellows

See our 2007 – 2008 Fellows

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