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The grant covers a period of one week to three months in residence and provides a stipend up to $5,000. A time frame for fulfilling the grant requirements will be established in consultation with the director of the New Netherland Research Center (NNRC). No housing, travel funds, or health insurance are provided. Applications are due by February 15.

The New Netherland Institute is pleased to offer research grants with financial support from the estate of Charles W. Wendell. These annual grants honor the memory of Dr. Charles W. Wendell, a valued trustee, vice-president, and president of the New Netherland Institute’s Board of Trustees from 2000 to 2015.

The New Netherland Institute provides a grant of $6,000 for research, which is intended to defray the cost of a three-month residence at the NNRC, with the research taking place at the NNRC itself, the New York State Library and the New York State Archives in Albany, New York. The research must take place in the field of New Netherland History and the Dutch Atlantic World, using the Records of New Netherland. Genealogical research is excluded.

The New Netherland Institute is the recipient of an annual grant from the Alice P. Kenney Memorial Trust Fund that enables the Institute to award an annual prize of $5,000 to an individual or group who has made a significant contribution to colonial Dutch studies and/or has encouraged understanding of the significance of the Dutch colonial experience in North America by research, teaching, writing, speaking, or in other ways.

The Van Slyke Article Prize is supported by Sandra Lazo, Clague’s niece and Carol’s daughter. It is given in their memory, and in honor of their New Netherland ancestry.T he New Netherland Institute offers an annual $1,000 prize for the best published article relating to the Dutch colonial experience in the Atlantic world, with a special sensitivity to New Netherland or its legacy.