The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church announced $14,000 in grant awards to 14 recipients at its Annual Meeting on July 31, 2024. Grant funds support research, publication and projects related to preserving and sharing the history of the Episcopal Church and churches of the Anglican Communion. Over $400,000 in grants have been awarded since the inception of the grants program in 1988.

Applications are considered by the Grants and Research Committee then awarded by the Board of Directors. Grants are made from budgeted funds. Additional grants were made from proceeds of the 2023 Advent Appeal to members of the Historical Society. Award recipients are encouraged to share the research and projects, especially in the peer-reviewed, quarterly journal of the Society, Anglican and Episcopal History. Details about the grant program may be found at hsec.us/grants.

Recipients with their areas of awarded research are:

• Tucker Adkins, a postdoctoral student at Calvin College, for researching and editing the journals of William Seward with David Ceri Jones.
• Christopher Arnold, a doctoral student at Syracuse University, for studying the papers of Emmett Jarrett, the first Anglican to lead a Catholic Worker intentional community.
• Mikkaela Bailey, a doctoral student at the Catholic University of America, for doctoral research on late medieval guilds in England.
• Tyson House, the Episcopal and Lutheran ministry at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, for digitization work of their historical records.
• Christian Clement-Schlimm, doctoral student at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, for doctoral research in England on Edward Bickersteth.
• Robert Flanagan, chaplain at General Theological seminary, to defray the costs of researching and publishing an edited collection of essays on Phillips Brooks.
• Neil Fleming, faculty member at the University of Warcester, for a research trip to Lambeth Palace Library to study archival material on relations between the Church of England and the Church of the East after World War I.
• Alan Guenther, faculty member at Briercrest College, for archival research in England Ram Chandra Bose, a late-nineteenth century evangelist in North India and advocate of episcopacy.
• Marianna Klaiman, independent scholar, for continuing research on ecclesiastical textiles in New York.
• Matthew Lukens, chaplain at the Episcopal Student Foundation/Canterbury House at the University of Michigan, for oral history research and interviewing on Canterbury House.
• Cameron Nations, D.Min student at Sewanee, for research on the ministry of John Claypool.
• Samuel Richards, social science and history teacher at the International School of Kenya, for research on how colonial clergy responded to violence in the Kenya Colony perpetrated during the Kenyan War for Independence.
• Anthony Sammarco, independent scholar, for research on the history of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Mattapan, Massachusetts.
• Phil Sinitiere, Scholar in Residence at the W.E.B. Du Bois Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, for research on the Rev. William Howard Melish and civil rights at the Church of the Holy Spirit, Brooklyn.