Major Outside Fellowships and Grants:
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Summer Stipend, 2016: $6,000. Project: “‘Nkrumah Never Dies’: History, Culture, and the Power of Postcolonial Afterlives.”
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for Research in European, African, or Asian History: American Historical Association (AHA), 2013: $1,000
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2011-2012: $46,000
Carter G. Woodson Institute Predoctoral Residential Research Fellowship: Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, University of Virginia, 2009-2011: $40,000
Frederick Douglass Institute Predoctoral Fellowship: Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, University of Rochester, 2009-2010 (declined): $23,000
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources: Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), 2007-2008: $20,000
WARA Predoctoral Research Fellowship: West African Research Association (WARA), 2006: $5,000
Competitive Internal Funding:
Kahn Institute Faculty Fellow: Smith College, Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, 2014-2015: $3,000. Project: “The Power of Disappearance.”
Jean Picker Fellowship: Smith College, Office of the Associate Provost, 2013-2014: Course Release to advance book project Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana
Student-Faculty Summer Research Grant: Smith College, Office of the Associate Provost, 2013 (with Jona Elwell ‘14): $3,800 to hire student research assistant. Project: “Family, Home, and Citizenship in the Pan-African Nation”
Departmental Dissertation Research Fellowship: Department of History, University of Illinois, 2008-2009: $16,000
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Arabic): Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois, 2007-2008 (declined): $15,000
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Akan/Twi): Center for Global Studies, University of Illinois, 2007: $2,500
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Arabic): Center for African Studies, University of Illinois, 2006-2007: $15,000
Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Grant for Global and Transnational Studies: Department of History, University of Illinois, 2006: $2,000
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Arabic): Center for African Studies, University of Illinois, 2005-2006: $14,500
Graduate College Fellowship: Graduate College, University of Illinois, 2004-2005: $14,000
Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience Grant: Office of Undergraduate Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2002-2004: $4,400
Jeffrey Ahlman, PhD 