Appel à candidature : « Short-Term Research Fellowships, Newberry Library, Chicago »

Short-term fellowships are generally restricted to postdoctoral scholars, PhD candidates, or holders of other terminal degrees who live and work outside of the Chicago area and who have a specific need for Newberry collection.  The tenure of short-term fellowships is one continuous month, unless otherwise noted. Scholars who have an extensive need for use of the collections may request two months of fellowship support.  The award is $2,500 per month for most short-term fellowships.

Applications must be received electronically by January 15, 2014, 11:59 pm C.S.T. This includes the applicant’s own materials and all letters of reference.

List of Short-Term Fellowships

Newberry Short-Term Resident Fellowships for Individual Research
This fellowship provides access to the Newberry’s collection for PhD candidates or postdoctoral scholars. Applicants may request one or two months of support; most awards are for one month.

Charles Montgomery Gray Fellowship
This fellowship provides access to the Newberry’s collection for PhD candidates or postdoctoral scholars. This fellowship is open to applicants in all areas of study appropriate to the library’s collection. Preference may be given to those working in the early modern period or Renaissance, as well as in English history, legal history, or European history.

Arthur and Janet Holzheimer Fellowship in the History of Cartography
This fellowship for PhD candidates or postdoctoral scholars supports work on projects related to the history of cartography, which focus on cartographic materials in the Newberry’s collection.

Newberry Library-École Nationale des Chartes Exchange Fellowship
This fellowship is for students, faculty, and alumni of the École Nationale des Chartes who wish to pursue research projects in the Newberry collection. Applications must be made directly to the École Nationale des Chartes (not to the Newberry) at the following address:
Relations internationales et Stages
International relations
École nationale des chartes
19, rue de la Sorbonne
75005 Paris – France

Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) Fellowship
This fellowship for PhD candidates or postdoctoral scholars supports one month’s work in residence at the Newberry. Preference will be given to those working in the early modern era, broadly defined (ca. 1450 – ca. 1660). Applicants must be members of the SCSC at the time of application and through the period of the fellowship.

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Fellowship
This fellowship is for PhD candidates or postdoctoral scholars wishing to use the Newberry’s collection to study the period 1660–1815. Applicants must be members of the ASECS at the time of the award.

Newberry Library-Jack Miller Center Fellowship
This fellowship for PhD candidates or postdoctoral scholars supports one or two months’ research at the Newberry; while in residence, fellows will deliver one public lecture based on research findings in the Newberry collection. This fellowship is intended to advance scholarship in those fields of study that will contribute to a deeper understanding of America’s founding principles and history and wider traditions that influenced its development.

Application Review
The Newberry considers three primary criteria:

1. The significance of the proposed project
2. The applicant’s ability to complete the proposed project
3. The appropriateness of the proposed project to the Newberry’s collection

For short-term awards, criterion three takes on added significance. The Newberry collection must be necessary to a short-term fellowship project since these fellowships are intended to enable individuals to have access to the Newberry collection. The Newberry’s Core Collection concerns the civilizations of Western Europe and the Americas from the late Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Particular collection strengths include:

• American History and Culture
• American Indian and Indigenous Studies
• Chicago and the Midwest
• Genealogy and Local History
• History of the Book
• Manuscripts and Archives
• Maps, Travel, and Exploration
• Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies
• Music
• Religion

Applications will be read by an interdisciplinary committee of scholars who will evaluate projects in a broad range of fields and periods; this committee might not include a scholar familiar with any particular applicant’s field. The most successful application is usually that which articulates the project in terms that are clear to non-specialists, including why the project may be significant to those outside the field.

For more information, see: http://www.newberry.org/short-term-fellowships