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Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection

TSAKOPOULOS HELLENIC COLLECTION: The University Library at California State University, Sacramento, is pleased to announce the continuation of the Hellenic Research Fellowship Program (HRFP) to support the use of the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection by fellows for scholarly research in Hellenic studies while in residence in Sacramento. The program provides a limited number of fellowships ranging from $1,500 to $5,000 to help offset transportation and living expenses incurred during the tenure of the awards and is open to external researchers anywhere in the world at the doctoral through senior scholar levels (including independent scholars) working in fields encompassed by the collection’s strengths who reside outside a 75-mile radius of Sacramento. The term of fellowships can vary between two weeks and three months, depending on the nature of the research, and for the current cycle will be tenable from 1 September 2023 to 31 August 2024.  Please note that the HRFP is contingent on continued on-campus operations beginning fall 2023. Should this not be possible due to the pandemic or other causes, fellowship offers will be deferred until such time as awardees can opt to accept or decline them. The fellowship application deadline is 23 May 2023. No late applications will be considered.

Consisting of the holdings of the former Speros Basil Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism, the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection is the premier Hellenic collection in the western United States and one of the largest of its kind in the country, currently numbering approximately 75,000 volumes. It comprises a large circulating book collection, journal holdings, electronic resources, non-print media materials, rare books, archival materials, art and artifacts. With its focus on the Hellenic world, the collection contains early through contemporary materials across the social sciences and humanities relating to Greece, the Balkans, the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, and the surrounding region, with particular strengths in Byzantine, post-Byzantine, and Modern Greek studies, including the Greek diaspora worldwide. There is a broad representation of over twenty languages in the collection, with a rich assortment of primary source materials. Since 2009 the collection has experienced particularly dramatic growth through several major gift acquisitions. For further information about the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection, visit http://library.csus.edu/tsakopoulos-hellenic-collection.

For the full Hellenic Research Fellowship Program description and application instructions, see https://library.csus.edu/tsakopoulos-hellenic-collection/hrfp. Questions about the program can be directed to George I. Paganelis, curator of the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection (paganelis@csus.edu).