Grants and Fellowships Archive ilver Award for Mormon Women's History The Mormon History Association (MHA) is pleased to announce a new award for 2011. The Silver Award for Mormon Women’s History will be awarded for an outstanding article published in 2010 on the history of Mormon women in the 19th and 20th centuries. This award includes a prize of $350. All submissions must be sent electronically (as either a Word or PDF document) to subcommittee chair Sheree Bench at shereebench@msn.com. Submissions should include a cover sheet detailing the author’s name, contact information, affiliation, etc. Submissions must be received by February 15, 2011, to be considered. Awards will be presented at the MHA annual meeting in St. George, Utah, in May 2011. The Silver Award is sponsored by the Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team (MWHIT) and funded by the Silver Foundation.
Massachusetts Historical Society Fellowships The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer short-term and long-term research fellowships for the academic year 2011-2012, including two MHS-NEH Long-Term Fellowships made possible by an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Society also offers Short-Term Fellowships and participates in the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. For more information about the Society’s research fellowships, please visit our web site, www.masshist.org/fellowships, or contact Kate Viens (fellowships@masshist.org), 617-646-0568. Application deadlines: MHS-NEH fellowships, January 15, 2011 Kate Viens
The Woodress Visiting Fellowships The Cather Project (based in the Department of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) announces the availability of two new visiting Fellowships. These fellowships are designed to provide financial support for travel to and residence in Lincoln, Nebraska, to conduct research on Willa Cather, drawing on materials and resources at UNL. The creation of these fellowships was enabled by the Roberta and James Woodress Fund (James Woodress is an eminent Cather biographer and emeritus professor of English at University of California-Davis). Applications are invited from early career scholars, namely advanced graduate students, recently completed PhDs, and faculty not yet tenured. Each Woodress Fellowship stipend will be $3,000. Each fellow is expected to be in residence in Lincoln for four consecutive weeks during the period from January 1 through August 31, 2011. The Cather Project will assist with advice about travel and lodging arrangements. We will also help the Fellows to make a research trip to the Willa Cather Foundation in Red Cloud, Nebraska, to conduct research in materials held there. The Cather Project produces the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition and Cather Studies, both published by the University of Nebraska Press. The Archives and Special Collections of the UNL Libraries holds the largest collection of Cather letters of any library, as well as many letter to Cather, edited typescripts and multiple editions of her works, and many other Cather-associated materials. Consult the finding aids on their web site ( http://libraries.unl.edu/spec - look under subject guides, Great Plains history and literature). The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, Archives and Special Collections, and the Cather Project jointly sponsor the Willa Cather Archive, a digital resource for the study of Cather’s life and writings (cather.unl.edu). Please send a c.v. , a statement of no more than 3 pages describing the proposed research project and the importance of materials and resources at UNL to the project, and a sample of scholarly writing (20-25pp: preferably focusing on Cather, though not necessarily exclusively) to Beth Burke, Cather Project, 310 Andrews Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0396. Two letters of recommendation should also be sent to this address. E=mail submission of materials is preferred (please place “Woodress Fellowship” in the subject line and send to eburke3@unl.edu ). These letters should be specific to the fellowship and proposed project rather than general letters of recommendation from your job placement dossier. The deadline is October 21 st, 2010 and we will inform successful applicants by December 18 th, 2010 Maine Women Writers Collection: Research Support Grant Program, 2010-11 The Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England in Portland, Maine, solicits applications for its Research Support Grant Program. These grants are intended for faculty members, independent researchers, and graduate students at the dissertation stage who are actively pursuing research that requires or would benefit from access to the holdings of the Maine Women Writers Collection. MWWC Research Support Grants will range between $250 and $1000, and may be used for transportation, housing, and research-related expenses. For application instructions and more information about the program and the Collection holdings, please see the MWWC website at http://www.une.edu/mwwc/research/grants.cfm Questions may be directed to Cathleen Miller, MWWC Curator, at (207) 221-4334; cmiller10@une.edu. Deadline for receipt of applications: December 1, 2010. The Maine Women Writers Collection, Abplanalp Library, Westbrook College Campus of the University of New England, is a pre-eminent special collection of published and non-published literary, cultural and social history sources, by and about women authors, either native or residents of Maine.
Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellowship The C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and the John Carter Brown Library are pleased to announce a new research and writing fellowship. The fellowship award supports two months of research (conducted at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, R.I.) and two months of writing (at Washington College in Chestertown, Md). Housing and university privileges will be provided. The fellowship includes a stipend of $5,000 per month for a total of $20,000. Deadline for applications for the 2010 fellowship year is *July 15, 2009*. For more information and application instructions, please visit the Starr Center’s website at http://starrcenter.washcoll.edu. The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Early American Literature and Material Texts A major new grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will make possible the appointment of two Early American Literature and Material Texts Fellows for 13-month terms beginning 1 July 2009. Offered in collaboration with the Library Company of Philadelphia, the fellowships will be awarded to scholars in the research and/or writing phase of dissertations in English, American Literature, Comparative Literature, American Studies, History, Art History, or related f The postmark deadline for applications for 2009-2010 is 1 March 2009. More information about this and other MCEAS fellowships is available at: http://www.mceas.org/
Massachusetts Historical Society Fellowships, 2009-2010 The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer about 35 research fellowships for the academic year 2009-2010. For information about all of the research fellowships available through the Society, including eligibility details, please visit our web site, www.masshist.org/fellowships/, or contact Jane Becker, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02215 ( fellowships@masshist.org ) or 617-646-0518. Fellowships for the 2009-2010 academic year include: MHS-NEH Long-Term Research Fellowships (at least two), made possible by an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency. The stipend, governed by an NEH formula, will be no more than $40,000 for a term of six to twelve months or $20,000 for a term of four to five months. Application deadline: January 15, 2009. Short-Term Research Fellowships (approximately twenty) provide a stipend of $1500-$2000 for four weeks of research at the Society sometime between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010. Application deadline: March 1, 2009. Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship (one) on the Civil War, its origins and consequences. This fellowship is offered in conjunction with the Boston Athenaeum; the recipient will conduct research for at least four weeks at each institution. The grant provides a stipend of $4000 for eight weeks of research. Application deadline: February 15, 2009. New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) Fellowships. The Society participates in the NERFC, a collaboration of eighteen major cultural agencies which will offer up to twelve awards in 2009-2010. Each grant will provide a stipend of $5,000 for a total of eight weeks of research at participating institutions. Each award funds research at a minimum of three different institutions. Application deadline: February 1, 2009.
Maine Women Writers Collection Research Support Grant Program, 2008-9 The Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New England in Portland, Maine, solicits applications for its Research Support Grant Program. These grants are intended for faculty members, independent researchers, and graduate students at the dissertation stage who are actively pursuing research that requires or would benefit from access to the holdings of the Maine Women Writers Collection. MWWC Research Support Grants will range between $250 and $1000, and may be used for transportation, housing, and research-related expenses. For application instructions and more information about the program and the Collection holdings, please see the MWWC website at http://www.une.edu/mwwc/research/grants.asp Questions may be directed to Cally Gurley, MWWC Curator, at (207) 221-4324; cgurley@une.edu. Deadline for receipt of applications: December 1, 2008. The Maine Women Writers Collection, Abplanalp Library, Westbrook College Campus of the University of New England, is a pre-eminent special collection of published and non-published literary, cultural and social history sources, by and about women authors, either native or residents of Maine. Massachusetts Historical Society Fellowships, 2009-2010 The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer about 35 research fellowships for the academic year 2009-2010. For information about all of the research fellowships available through the Society, including eligibility details, please visit our web site, www.masshist.org/fellowships/, or contact Jane Becker, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02215 ( fellowships@masshist.org ) or 617-646-0518. Fellowships for the 2009-2010 academic year include: MHS-NEH Long-Term Research Fellowships (at least two), made possible by an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency. The stipend, governed by an NEH formula, will be no more than $40,000 for a term of six to twelve months or $20,000 for a term of four to five months. Application deadline: January 15, 2009. Short-Term Research Fellowships (approximately twenty) provide a stipend of $1500-$2000 for four weeks of research at the Society sometime between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010. Application deadline: March 1, 2009. Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship (one) on the Civil War, its origins and consequences. This fellowship is offered in conjunction with the Boston Athenaeum; the recipient will conduct research for at least four weeks at each institution. The grant provides a stipend of $4000 for eight weeks of research. Application deadline: February 15, 2009. New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) Fellowships. The Society participates in the NERFC, a collaboration of eighteen major cultural agencies which will offer up to twelve awards in 2009-2010. Each grant will provide a stipend of $5,000 for a total of eight weeks of research at participating institutions. Each award funds research at a minimum of three different institutions. Application deadline: February 1, 2009. |
