To promote scholarship at UMass Amherst and encourage original research in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives, the W.E.B. Du Bois Libraries sponsor two annual awards open to the University’s undergraduate and graduate student community.

Du Bois Research Fellowships

to support one month in residence for research in the tradition of W.E.B. Du Bois

Ethir Fellowships in Digital Humanities

to support UMass Amherst graduate students in digital humanities projects using SCUA collections

Friends of the Library Undergraduate Research Award (FLURA)

provides a cash award for excellence in research and writing in the Humanities.

Silverman Book Collecting Contest

open to both graduate and undergraduate students, recognizes achievement in assembling and writing about book collections.