Newberry Library
NEWBERRY LIBRARY: Long-term fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars for periods of six to eleven months, unless otherwise noted under the fellowship description. Applicants must hold a PhD at the time of application. Applications for long-term awards are due 1 November. Short-term fellowships are intended for postdoctoral scholars or PhD candidates (or equivalent for the field) from outside of the Chicago area who have a specific need for Newberry collections. Scholars whose principal residence or place of employment is within the Chicago area are generally not eligible. The tenure of short-term fellowships varies from one week to two months unless otherwise noted under the award description (a majority of fellowships are one month or less). Applications for short-term fellowships are due 15 December unless otherwise noted.
Long-Term Fellowships
Lloyd Lewis Fellowship in American History: The fellowship is awarded to postdoctoral scholars pursuing projects in any area of American history appropriate to the Newberry’s collections.
Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Fellowship: This fellowship is for postdoctoral scholars who wish to use the Newberry’s extensive holdings in late medieval and Renaissance history and literature. Preference will be given to projects focusing on Romance cultures. This fellowship may be combined with nonresidential fellowships.
Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowships: These fellowships support residential research and writing by postdoctoral scholars in any field relevant to the library’s collections.
Monticello College Foundation Fellowship for Women: This fellowship is designed for a postdoctoral woman at an early stage of her academic career whose work gives clear promise of scholarly productivity. Preference will be given to proposals particularly concerned with the study of women.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships: A fellowship for established postdoctoral scholars to support projects in any field appropriate to the library’s collections. The applicant must be a United States citizen or a foreign national with three years’ residence.
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars: The American Council of Learned Societies has a program supporting advanced scholarly work in the humanities. The Newberry Library is one of the residential sites. For more information on how to apply, visit http://www.acls.org. Applications are due early fall.
Short-Term Fellowships
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship: This short-term fellowship is for scholars wishing to use the Newberry’s collections to study the period 1660–1815.
Lester J. Cappon Fellowship in Scholarly Editing: This award for postdoctoral scholars provides up to $5,000 to support historical editing projects based on Newberry sources. It supports residential research in the Newberry’s collections in preparation of the edition and also can defray other costs related to its preparation and publication.
Charles Montgomery Gray Fellowship: This fellowship provides access to the Newberry’s collection for PhD candidates or postdoctoral scholars. These fellowships are open to applicants in all areas of study appropriate to the library’s collection.
Arthur and Lila Weinberg Fellowship for Independent Scholars and Researchers: This 9–12-month fellowship is for an independent scholar or researcher who wishes to participate in the rich and varied scholarly and public programming of the Newberry.
Midwest Modern Language Association Fellowship: This short-term fellowship offers up to a month’s support for work in residence at the Newberry. MMLA membership must be current at the time of application and through the period of the fellowship.
Newberry Library Short-Term Resident Fellowships for Individual Research: These short-term fellowships provide access to the Newberry’s collections for PhD candidates or postdoctoral scholars who live or work outside Chicago.
Susan Kelly Power and Helen Hornbeck Tanner Fellowship: This fellowship for PhD candidates and postdoctoral scholars of American Indian heritage supports up to two months of residential research using the collections of the Newberry Library in any field in the humanities.
Northeast Modern Language Association Fellowship: This one-month fellowship for work in residence at the Library by a member of the Northeast Central Modern Language Association carries a $2,000 stipend.
Special Awards and Fellowships
Frances C. Allen Fellowships: These fellowships are for women of Native American heritage. While candidates for this award may be working in any graduate or preprofessional field, the particular goal of the fellowship is to encourage Native American women in their studies of the humanities and social sciences. The tenure of the fellowship is from one month to one year; the fellowship provides up to $8,000 in approved expenses. The application deadline is 1 March.
École des Chartes Exchange Fellowship: This fellowship provides a monthly stipend and free tuition for an American graduate student at the École Nationale des Chartes in Paris for a period of three months in the fall of 2009. Preference will be given to students from schools supporting the Center for Renaissance Studies. The application deadline is 10 January.
Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel Fellowship: Applicants for long- and short-term fellowships at the Newberry may also ask to be considered for this joint fellowship providing an additional two-month fellowship at the HAB. The proposed project should link the collections of both libraries. The award pays €1,050 per month and up to €600 for travel expenses. The application deadlines are 10 January for linked long-term fellowships and 1 March for linked short-term fellowships.
Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award: With support from the Roger W. Weiss and Howard Mayer Brown Fund, the Newberry Library will award up to $15,000 to subsidize the publication of a scholarly book or books on European civilization before 1700 in the areas of music, theater, cultural studies, or French or Italian literature. The application deadline is 10 January.
For more information or to download application materials, visit the Newberry Library’s Web site at www.newberry.org.