University of Pittsburgh Library System

ASRA Awards are granted to qualified undergraduates every year to fund a semester-long research project using resources from Pitt Libraries.

Archives & Special Collections Graduate Student Assistants (GSA) are placed within the University Library System’s Archives & Special Collections (A&SC) during the fall and spring terms of an academic year. In this program, the GSA will gain experience in the skills of an archivist, rare book librarian, or curator of distinctive collections through project-based work and make a public presentation of their work.

The Specter Fellowship, funded by the Arlen Specter Center of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, provides funding for graduate and post-grad students with focuses in political science, international affairs, or any related field to do work with the collection.

Interested in our Archive of Scientific Philosophy? The Center for Philosophy of Science sponsors a month-long fellowship to do research with these materials.

The Thornburgh Forum offers a number of awards for faculty, undergraduates, and law school students.

The Elsie Hillman Civic Forum sponsors several programs for students to become more involved in their community and connect with local leaders.

This award supports researchers interested in working with the Erroll Garner Archive. The award is designed for intense use of the collection in order to produce a body of work related to Erroll Garner or Martha Glaser. See our guide for more on this collection.

The Homestead Steel Strike and the Growth of America as an Industrial Power is a one week workshop open to K-12 teachers, school administrators, home schooling parents, and graduate students in educations. The workshop, scheduled for July 11-17 and July 18-26, 2021, is funded by The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and will give participants the chance to immerse themselves in the battle from both sides by examining primary sources related to Carnegie and Frick’s business practices, worker conditions, the direct aftermath of the battle, and what came in later years as U.S. business took stock of the relationship between management and labor.