Long-Term Fellowships
Application deadline: January 11, 2010 (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 stipends for these fellowships range from $25,200 to $50,400. 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.
All deadlines are post-mark deadlines for paper submissions. Electronic submissions must arrive by 11:59 p.m. on the deadline.
- 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. The fellowship carries an academic-year stipend of $50,400.
- 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. The fellowship carries an academic-year stipend of $50,400.
- Lloyd Lewis Fellowship in American History. The Lloyd Lewis Fellowship is awarded to post-doctoral scholars pursuing projects in any area of American history appropriate to the Newberry's collections. The fellowship carries an academic-year stipend of $50,400.
- Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Fellowship. The Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Fellowship is for post-doctoral scholars who wish to use the Newberry's extensive holdings in late medieval and early modern history and literature. Preference will be given to projects focusing on Romance cultures, including work that draws on sources from the colonial Americas. Topics in Portuguese, Spanish, and Latin American studies are especially welcome, as are translation projects. Recent recipients of the Ph.D. are encouraged to apply. The tenure of this fellowship is six months with a stipend of $25,200.
- 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 5-6 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 or gender. The tenure of this fellowship is 5-6 months with a stipend of $25,500.
- Newberry Consortium on American Indian Studies Faculty Fellowship. This award is designed for faculty members at institutions participating in the consortium. Preference is given to scholars at an early career stage. The tenure of the fellowship is one semester (5-6 months) with a stipend of $25,200. Applicants should apply directly to the Newberry’s D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History (mcnickle@newberry.org).
- ACM/GLCA Faculty Fellowships. Application deadline: March 1, 2010 for the 2010-11 academic year. These fellowships support faculty from the colleges of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. Fellows teach a small group of select undergraduate students in an advanced research seminar. Applicants 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 John Ottenhoff at ACM (312) 263-5000 or jottenhoff@acm.edu.
- Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars. Application deadline: September 30, 2010. 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/programs/burkhardt/.