Friends of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Libraries Grants-in-Aid
FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MADISON, LIBRARIES GRANTS-IN-AID: Offers several grants-in-aid annually, each of which is for one month’s duration, for research in the humanities in any field appropriate to the library’s collections. The purpose is to foster the high-level use of the libraries’ rich holdings and to make them better known and more accessible to a wider circle of scholars. Awards are $2,000 each, or $3,000 for those traveling from outside North America. Memorial Library, the university’s principal research library, is distinguished in almost every area of scholarship. It boasts world-renowned collections of history of science from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment; pseudo science and medical and scientific quackery; the largest American collection of avant-garde “Little Magazines”; a rapidly growing collection of American women writers to 1920; Scandinavian and Germanic history and literature; Dutch post-Reformation theology and church history; French political pamphlets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; and many other fields. Generally, applicants must have a PhD or be able to demonstrate a record of solid intellectual accomplishment. Scholars and graduate students who have completed all requirements except the dissertation are also eligible. The grants-in-aid are designed primarily to help provide access to library resources for people who live beyond commuting distance. Preference will be given to younger researchers who are within ten years of completing their PhD or terminal degree and to scholars who reside outside a 150-mile radius of Madison. The grantee is expected to be in residence during the term of the award, which may be taken up at any time during the year. Applications are due 1 February. For application forms or more information, visit http://library.wisc.edu/friends or write to Friends of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Libraries, 330H Memorial Library, Univ. of Wisconsin, 728 State St., Madison 53706 (608 265-2505; fax: 608 265-2754; friends@library.wisc.edu).