The University of Warwick (UK) and the Newberry Library invite applications for two Visiting Research Fellowships at the Newberry Library from 29 May to 23 July, 2007. Each fellowship supports travel to and from the Newberry; a subsistence and accommodation allowance of $540 per week; and a small research fund ($450 per fellow) to facilitate travel to neighbouring libraries and research collections.
The fellowships, funded by a three-year Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant are intended to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between the institutions affiliated with the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies and the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick.
The coming year of activities sponsored by the grant is focussed on European and New World Forms of Knowledge in Colonial Spanish America c.1520-1800 http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/mellon-newberry/2006-7/ and is being co-ordinated by Andrew Laird a classicist and specialist in the Classical Tradition, with the assistance of the early modern historian Catherine Armstrong.
Fellows appointed will be expected to participate in the research culture of the Library, delivering a paper based on their research at the final session of the programme's year-long interdisciplinary seminar series. In addition, each fellow will develop a small research project at the Newberry along lines compatible with the programme theme. This research will be presented during the course of a two-week Residential Workshop to be held at the Newberry Library from July 23 - August 3, 2007. (Visiting Fellows will be provided with accommodation and full board at the Newberry for the duration of the summer workshop.) These projects might include: a case study of a particular neo-Latin or Spanish text, or of a specific intellectual domain (e.g. bibliography, history of science, religion, encounters with indigenous American languages and cultures, emergence of cultural identities etc.)
The application deadline is October 21 2006, and successful applicants will be informed by 1 December 2006. ALL applicants will be automatically considered for places as participants in the residential workshop.
Eligibility:
Applicants should be advanced doctoral and post-doctoral students (who received PhDs in 2004-2007). Doctoral students attending institutions that are members of the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium, and recent post-doctoral graduates of those institutions, are eligible to apply.
The fellows may be drawn from any disciplinary context in Renaissance studies (broadly defined) or in the Classical tradition and who will have an interest in advancing their knowledge and understanding of intellectual and cultural history of colonial Spanish America and its important relation to developments in early modern Europe.
Applications should include:
· a complete cover sheet available for download below
· a full CV
· a chapter or article-length writing sample
· a provisional project description of no more than 1500 words, including a research plan for the period of the fellowship
These materials should be sent by mail or courier as hard copy (without staples) to:
Dr. Catherine Armstrong
Centre for the Study of the Renaissance
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Applicants should also ensure that three letters of recommendation, one of which must be from their doctoral supervisor, are sent separately to Dr. Catherine Armstrong at the same address. Referees should use the coversheet available for download below.
Further details
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/mellon-newberry/vrf
or contact the Project Administrator: Dr Catherine Armstrong, University of Warwick (C.M.Armstrong@warwick.ac.uk).
Previous programs:
Mellon Visiting Research Fellowships in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of Warwick, UK, 2006
Mellon Residential Workshop in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of Warwick, UK : Culture, Space and Power: Peopling the Built Environment in Renaissance England, c.1450-1700, July 9-22, 2006