Appel à candidature « Winterthur Research Fellowship Program, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Delaware »

Winterthur, a public museum, library, and garden supporting the advanced study of American art, culture, and history, announces its Research Fellowship Program for 2014-2015. Winterthur offers an extensive program of short- and long-term fellowships open to academic, independent, and museum scholars, including advanced graduate students, to support research in material culture, architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture, garden and landscape studies, Shaker studies, travel and tourism, the Atlantic World, childhood, literary culture, and many other areas of social and cultural history. Fellowships available to foreign applicants include 1-2 semester dissertation fellowships and 1-2 month short-term fellowships.

Dissertation Fellowship

Doctoral candidates conducting research or writing a dissertation receive four- to nine-month fellowships. Stipend: up to $7,000 per semester.

Short-term Research Fellowships

Academic, museum, and independent scholars, including graduate students receive one- to three-month short term fellowships. Stipend: $1,500 per month. Applicants need not apply for a specific named fellowship, but we do designate certain awards as:

• Faith Andrews Fellowships for the study of Shaker life and material culture
• Robert Lee Gill Fellowships for research on American decorative arts, painting, architecture, or historic preservation
• Neville McD. Thompson Fellowships for the study of domestic life, late 19th- and early 20th-century design and material culture

Fellows have full access to the library collections, including more than 87,000 volumes and one-half million manuscripts and images, searchable online athttp://winterthur.org/research/library_resources.asp. Resources for the 17th to the early 20th centuries include period trade catalogues, auction and exhibition catalogues, an extensive reference photograph collection of decorative arts, printed books, and ephemera. Fellows may conduct object-based research in the museum’s collections, which include 90,000 artifacts and works of art made or used in America to 1860, with a strong emphasis on domestic life. Fellows may reside in a furnished stone farmhouse on the Winterthur grounds and participate in the lively scholarly community at Winterthur, the nearby Hagley Museum and Library, the University of Delaware, and other area museums.

Fellowship applications are due January 15, 2014. Visa fees will not be covered.

For more details and to apply, visit winterthur.org/fellowship