Prior to its merger with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies maintained an active fellowship program.  This legacy of support for scholarship in ethnic and immigrant studies has been continued at HSP with the Balch Institute Fellowships.  Each year, two fellows are awarded a stipend to support one month of residency in Philadelphia to enable them to research on topics related to the ethnic and immigrant experience in the United States and/or American cultural, social, political, or economic history post-1875. Past Balch fellows have done research on immigrant children, Italian American fascism, German Americans in the Civil War, Pan-Americanism, African American women's political activism, and much more.

The Balch Institute Fellows for 2009-2010 are:

Simone Cinotto, University of Turin, Italy, Pubic Housing and Cultural Pluralism in Italian Harlem, 1937-1941

Dolores Janiewski, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Philadelphia and the Construction of a Reactionary Culture, 1878-1918