Long-Term Fellowships
Application deadline: January 10, 2008* (unless otherwise noted)
Long-term fellowships are available to post-doctoral scholars for periods of six to eleven months. Applicants for post-doctoral awards must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application. These grants support individual research and promote serious intellectual exchange through active participation in the Library's scholarly activities, including a biweekly fellows' seminar. The stipend for these fellowships is up to $40,000 unless specified under the award description. Applicants may combine these fellowship awards with sabbatical or other stipendiary support. Scholars may apply for any of the long-term fellowships using the same application.
- ACM/GLCA Faculty Fellowships
Application deadline: March 1, 2008* for the 2008-09 academic year
These fellowships support faculty from the colleges of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. as they teach a small group of select undergraduate students in an advanced research seminar, while doing their own research. Fellows can come from any of the colleges in ACM or GLCA, from any discipline. More information is at http://www.acm.edu/newberry/faculty.html. Potential applicants should contact Daniel Sack at ACM (312.263.5000; dsack@acm.edu).
- Committee on Institutional Cooperation Faculty Fellowship
Application deadline: January 6, 2008*
This fellowship, available to CIC faculty working in American Indian Studies, supports a minimum of nine months of residential research at the Newberry Library. In addition to carrying out this independent research, the CIC Faculty Fellow will lead a spring seminar at the Library for graduate students at CIC institutions on a topic appropriate to the Newberry's collections and the expertise of the fellow. This fellowship carries a stipend of $40,000. For application guidelines, contact the CIC Program at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at mcnickle@newberry.org, 312-255-3564.
- Lloyd Lewis Fellowships in American History
Lloyd Lewis Fellowships are awarded to post-doctoral scholars pursuing projects in any area of American history appropriate to the Newberry's collections.
- Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Applications are invited from post-doctoral scholars in any field relevant to the Library's collections for awards to support residential research and writing.
- Monticello College Foundation Fellowship for Women
This award is designed for a post-doctoral woman at an early stage of her academic career whose work gives clear promise of scholarly productivity and who would benefit significantly from six months of research, writing, and participation in the intellectual life of the Library. The applicant's topic should be related to the Newberry's collections; preference will be given to proposals particularly concerned with the study of women. The tenure of this fellowship is six months with a stipend of $20,000.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships
Fellowships for post-doctoral scholars to support projects in any field appropriate to the Library's collections. Applicants must be United States citizens or foreign nationals with three years' residence. Preference is given to applicants who have not held major fellowships for three years preceding the proposed period of residency.
- Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowship in Art History
The Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowship at the Newberry Library will enable a scholar to advance a project of significance about historical American art using resources in any collection in Chicago. Studies may focus on painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, decorative arts, or photography. Applicants must have held the Ph.D. for at least three years prior to September 1, 2008. The fellowship carries an academic-year stipend of $70,000 for a full professor (or its equivalent outside the academy) and $50,400 for an Associate or Assistant Professor or independent scholar. The award includes a stipend for a graduate student research assistant and a modest budget for local travel. The Terra Foundation Fellow will participate in the Newberry’s community of scholars, offer two public lectures, and be available to visit at least one graduate seminar in the Chicago area. Metropolitan Chicago offers a vast range of resources in the history of American art. A summary introduction to these resources is available in Betty Blum (1991) Art-related Archival Materials in the Chicago Area available online at: http://aaa.si.edu/resources/publications/guidechicago/pdfs/chicago.pdf
- Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars
Application deadline: September 28, 2008*
The American Council of Learned Societies has a program supporting advanced scholarly work in the humanities. The Newberry Library is one of the residential sites. For information on how to apply, go to www.acls.org.
*All deadlines are post-mark deadlines. Applications should be stamped by the dates listed; they do not need to be received by those dates.