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The competition will conclude at the 2026 APTI conference in Indianapolis, October 26-30. Engineering and other students from across the U.S. are invited to participate! Begin the process by attending the Information Session on November 24.
Sponsor- Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI)'s Preservation Engineering Technical Committee (PETC)
Dates- Monday, November 24, 2025, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST (Timber Bridge Specifications Information Session)
Details- The objective of this competition is to engage more students in the Preservation/Conservation Engineering field. Students will learn how to approach historic buildings and how these structures differ from new design, with the emphasis placed on maintenance and durability of historic materials.
The 2026 APT PETC Student Design-Build Competition will kick off during the Information Session, when committee members release the specification package to any team interested in participating. The specifications provide detail on the theme, requirements for submission at each phase, as well as technical descriptions and limitations on the build during Phase 3. The bulk the Phase 3 occurs during the annual APTI conference, when teams present their studies performed in Phase 2 to attendees, and conclude with a timed build and load test of their built structure.
This is a hands-on challenge for students with an interest in historic buildings and structures.
Contact- APTPETC@gmail.com with questions.
Register- To attend the Student Competition Information Session on November 24, 2026, learn more and register at apti.org/25PETCstudentsinfo.
Details- Candidates for this fellowship are either established scholars or doctoral students who have completed their coursework and are at the stage of writing their dissertations. Grantees are expected to be in residence during the term of their award, which may be taken any time during the year.
The American Geographical Society Library Research Fellowship program is intended to help bring to the AGSL scholars who reside beyond commuting distance of UWM, and whose research would benefit from extensive use of the Library.
Research projects supported by the Fellowship program must fall within the wide range of subject areas that could be supported by the Library. Examples include history of cartography (including cartobibliography), history of geographic thought, discovery and exploration, historical geography, and other history themes with a significant geographical component.
Fellowships can last up to four weeks and provide a weekly stipend of $500.00 ($2,000 maximum) to help defray the travel and living expenses relative to the residency.
Location- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Sponsor- American Geographical Society Library at UW-M has a collection of nearly 2 million items, including maps, atlases, globes, photographs, monographs, serials, and digital geospatial data.
Deadline- Apply by December 7, 2025. Awards will be announced in late December 2025 for fellowships to be held during 2026.
Contact- Email browngl@uwm.edu for information about the fellowship program. Send general inquiries to agsl@uwm.edu
Apply- For instructions on how to apply, visit here →. Electronic submission is encouraged.
Now Accepting Applications for 2026 Funding- Mid-career and design professionals may apply for either the Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship or the Robert Silman Award.
Sponsor- James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation
Deadline- Apply by December 15, 2025, at 6PM EST
Details- The mission of the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation is to support professionals in the field of historic preservation. This is done, in part, by providing grants to those working in the field or related disciplines.
The Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship is a research grant of up to $15,000 available to those with an academic background, professional experience, and an established identity in historic preservation, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, architectural history, environmental planning, and the decorative arts. The Robert Silman Award is given to an engineer, architect, or other design professional for a proposal exploring the preservation, restoration, or adaptive reuse of the built environment. Up to $15,000 is available.
Contact- Rachel Levy at director@fitchfoundation.org with questions.
Application Link- Read about eligibility requirements, proposal details, and apply online for the Fitch Fellowship at fitchfoundation.org/grants/fitch. For the Silman Award, visit fitchfoundation.org/grants/silman.
Registration is now open! Discover session details, speakers, city insights, and registration info at the link.
Location- Hilton Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Dates- September 16-18, 2025
Details- Register today for THE national event for those who work to save, sustain, and interpret historic places.
PastForward 2025 is where leaders in the field come together to generate solutions for today's preservation movement and the various communities they serve. Sessions and speakers will highlight how their work- spurs economic development; nurtures a healthier environment; and fosters a stronger, shared sense of civic duty and belonging.
Come together with peers to build ideas, share efforts, and amplify collective impact. Register by August 23 for savings and to sign up for the Milwaukee area Field Studies before they sell out.
Contact- Email nthp@sswmeetings.com, or Phone 1 866 792-5399 with questions.
Online Registration LINK → Early bird registration ends August 23, 2025
College students, professionals, craftspeople, academics, and the interested public are invited to attend one or more sessions to learn hands-on skills in a unique landscape setting in Portland, OR.
Location- Elk Rock Garden, Portland, Oregon
Sponsor-University of Oregon, National Park Service, Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, and others.
Deadline- Apply by August 15, 2025
Details- The Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School (PNWFS) has been teaching hands-on preservation skills at historic sites across Oregon, Washington, and Idaho for 30 years. In 2025, the Field School will be held at Elk Rock Garden, a 10-acre historic estate in Portland's Dunthorpe neighborhood.
This year's sessions will support the ongoing stewardship of this important landscape with 1-week sessions on historic wood and leaded-glass window restoration (Aug 31 - Sept 5), dry-stacked masonry, stair and bridge reconstruction (Sept 7-12), and landscape preservation (Sept 14-19). Workshops and lectures will be led by experienced professionals. Tuition is charged; scholarships may be available. Academic credit is available for UO students, and AIA continuing education credits are available upon request.
Contact- Email pnwfs@uoregon.edu with questions.
Come study with us this fall! -- Cornell University's Graduate Program in Historic Preservation Planning has reopened the application portal for Fall 2025
Deadline- June 10, 2025
Description- Do you want to enhance your professional qualifications, opening yourself to new opportunities? Are you pivoting from undergraduate studies to a new career?
Given these uncertain times, admissions have been reopened for fall 2025 for a master's degree in Cornell's Historic Preservation Planning Program (HPP). The university offers a two-year professional degree (M.A.) with excellent potential for employment in this life-changing vocation. Historic preservation is a great career with jobs at the local, state, national, and international levels, in corporate, government, and nonprofit settings. You will learn why historic preservation is of critical importance to society- it helps the public understand heritage and identity, informs decision-makers and developers about community character and creative reuse, promotes environmental sustainability and resource conservation, values the tangible and intangible contributions of marginalized communities, and connects past lives to future generations.
The program is located on Cornell University's main campus in Ithaca, NY, an Ivy League, New York State Land Grant institution ranked #16 globally by QS World University Rankings 2025. World-leading faculty, labs, and libraries provide unique opportunities for in-depth research and cross-disciplinary collaboration. In addition to coursework in historic preservation, classes in urban planning, design, landscape architecture, real estate, and many other fields are offered. Our faculty, classes, and research are deeply rooted in Upstate New York, as well as places worldwide.
The Master of Historic Preservation Planning Program has been an institutional member and has met the academic standards of the National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE) since 1979.
Learn More- Attend one of the Information Sessions hosted by Program Director Prof. Michael Tomlan, held daily on Zoom from May 27 to June 9, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern. Use this link → or Meeting ID 932 2330 2113, Passcode 966838.
To Apply- Visit Here →
Questions? Contact crp_admissions@cornell.edu or Prof. Tomlan at mat4@cornell.edu
Dates - June 4-5, 2025
Description-Hosted by the NJ Historic Trust, NJ Historical Commission, and Friends of New Jersey Heritage, this 2-day conference takes place in Burlington County (Mount Holly and Mount Laurel) and includes tours, workshops, lectures, poster sessions, and vendor exhibits. This event is the annual state-wide educational and networking opportunity for history and historic preservation professionals and volunteers in the fields of architecture, planning, heritage site and museum management, public history, archaeology, municipal preservation commissions, county heritage offices, developers, students, and others.
Tickets- For a description of events and instructions on how to purchase tickets, visit here →
To Learn more, visit here →
Deadline - April 25, 2025
Description- Based in Hallowell, Maine, the Center for Painted Wall Preservation is dedicated to the research and preservation of 18th and early 19th century paint-decorated plaster walls. The research scholarship is open to undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and artisans, established or in training, to develop educational projects to further the mission of CPWP through documentation, conservation, and preservation.
How to Apply- For an Application Process summary and Application Form, contact info@pwpcenter.org with Scholarship Fund in the subject line.
To learn more, visit here →
Deadline - March 3, 2025
Description- A program of Partners for Sacred Places in collaboration with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Fund for Sacred Places provides financial and technical support for community-serving historic houses of worship across America.
The National Fund provides matching grants of $50,000 to $500,000 to congregations undertaking significant capital projects at historic houses of worship, along with wraparound services including training, technical assistance, and planning support.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has other preservation grant programs. Details can be found at savingplaces.org/grants
To learn more, including how to apply, visit here →
Description- Two free and open-to-the-public webinars sponsored by the NTHP in December.
December 5 - Building Connections to the Traditional Trades Through Training, 3:00 p.m. ET. A conversation with experts of three successful traditional trades initiatives about building connections, expanding reach, and ensuring the expertise of traditional trades is passed on and shared for years to come.
December 12 - African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund- Revitalization & Culture, 2:00 p.m. ET. Join urbanist and preservationist Justin Garrett Moore for a conversation with today's leaders who are leveraging the significance of historic communities, assets, and cultural legacies to rescue vacant buildings and revitalize historic Black neighborhoods.
Deadline- December 1, 2024
Description- The Vernacular Architecture Forum invites paper and poster proposals for its 46th Annual Meeting- From New Castle to Sussex- Big Stories from a Small State, will take place in Wilmington, DC, May 14-17, 2025. The paper and poster sessions will be on Saturday, May 17. Topics relating to vernacular and everyday buildings, sites, or cultural landscapes worldwide and of importance to Delaware, are welcome.
Students and emerging professionals may apply for the Pamela H. Simpson Presenter's Fellowships, which support presenting papers at the annual conference.
Link- To learn how to submit a proposal, presenter requirements, and to apply for a fellowship, visit here →.
Deadline- December 1, 2024
Description- With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, NCPH promotes professionalism and best practices by recognizing excellence by public historians and raising awareness about their activities. NCPH offers 12 monetary awards, among them- Outstanding Public History Project Award, Grassroots Public History Award, Excellence in Consulting Awards, Michael C. Robinson Prize for Historical Analysis, Diversity Travel Awards, New Professional Awards, and Student Awards.
To review a list of the 2024 awardees, visit here →
Link- To learn how to submit a nomination, visit ncph.org/about/awards
Deadline for the Winter Call for Proposals- December 1, 2024
Description- HPEF's Partners in Training Program solicits proposals for the Partners in Training Program, which funds training opportunities on preservation technology. Financial assistance will support a wide range of training initiatives undertaken by U.S. educational institutions and nonprofit organizations that address specialized topics associated with the technical aspects of preservation.
To see the types of topics funded in the past, review the list of past PiT grant recipients at www.hpef.us/pit-recipients
Link- To read the guidelines and for application details, visit www.hpef.us/pit-guidelines
Deadline- October 8, 2024
Description- Do you know an important but threatened place in your community that could benefit from national advocacy and attention? The National Trust for Historic Preservation is now accepting nominations for the 2025 list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.
Since 1988, the National Trust has published an annual list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places to raise awareness about the threats facing some of our nation's greatest treasures. The list, which has identified more than 350 sites to date, has proven so successful in galvanizing preservation efforts that only a handful of sites have been lost.
The 11 Most program uplifts and catalyzes community-led preservation work through a high-impact public awareness campaign resulting in increased visibility, public attention, and new resources to save and activate historic places for the public good. Placement on the list raises public awareness and can be a powerful tool for local advocates to rally support around the country to help save a threatened site.
Link- To learn more about the 11 Most program and to nominate an important but threatened site or landscape in your community, visit here →
Sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. PastForward is the annual conference of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, held this year at the Sheraton New Orleans, October 28 - 30, 2024. Register now through September 23 to take advantage of the pre-conference rate; after that, online registration will be available until the start of the conference.
PastForward 2024 will kick off a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the evolving practice of preservation in one of the country's most historic cities. Because preservation is an interconnected practice, PastForward 2024 sessions and speakers will address three of the nation's biggest challenges- Creating Climate Resilience Through Historic Preservation, Ensuring a Representative Preservation Movement, and Encouraging Historic Preservation-Based Community Development.
Deadline for Preconference Registration Rates- September 23, 2024
For more information and to register visit here →
Deadline- September 15, 2024
Description- On March 19-22, 2025, in Boston, Massachusetts, the Preserving the Recent Past 4 (PRP4) conference will offer a national forum to share the latest strategies for identifying, protecting, and conserving significant structures and sites from the recent past.
Thirty years after the inaugural Preserving the Recent Past conference, PRP4 will build upon its groundbreaking legacy with a new conference of concurrent presentation sessions, plenary talks, workshops, and tours. Since PRP's first meeting in Chicago in 1995 (and its follow-ups in 2000 and 2019), many new resources have reached fifty years of age; innovation continues in the treatment of postwar materials and assemblies; and new survey and documentation techniques have emerged. Buildings and sites from the recent past reflect the dynamism, creativity, and tensions of the society that created them. They tell stories—of culture and community, of environmental change, of multiple and successive modern styles, design practices, innovative products, and movements of social consciousness and activism.
Prospective speakers are encouraged to submit abstracts of no more than 250 words for individual presentations or complete multi-speaker sessions on topics related to recent past preservation. A typical conference presentation length will be 25 minutes. Proposals related to structures and sites less than sixty years old are encouraged. Submissions will be accepted until September 15, 2024.
Link- For more information about the conference and instructions on how to submit a proposal, visit here.
Deadline- January 1, 2024
Description- Two free and open-to-the-public webinars sponsored by the NTHP in December.
NAISA announces a call for nominations for three publication prizes- Best 2024 First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize by one or two authors on any topic related to the field; edited volumes are not eligible. Best 2024 Subsequent Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize by one or two authors for whom this is the second book or beyond. And Most Thought-Provoking 2024 Article in Native American and Indigenous Studies on any topic related to the field published in a scholarly journal or edited volume/anthology.
To be considered for the first or second award, write to the Prize Committee Chair Katrina Phillips at kphilli2@macalester.edu with the subject line of either "Submission to 2024 First Book Prize" or "Submission to 2024 Subsequent Book Prize." To be considered for the third prize, send a PDF of the article to NAISA Council member Nick Estes at nestes@umn.edu with the subject line "Submission to Most Thought-Provoking 2024 Article".
Link- For details and to learn more about NAISA, visit naisa.org/memberships/awards/
This archive dates back to June 2024.