Long-Term Fellowships
Researchers with long-term fellowships spend four to nine months immersed in the Newberry collection and in our community of learning. While pursuing significant works of scholarship, they make discoveries, present works in progress, and take their projects to the next level.
Aaron Hyman, 2021-22 Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Long-Term Fellow, studies a music manuscript in the Newberry's Special Collections Reading Room.
Applications for the 2024-25 academic year are closed.
General Fellowships
Supporting scholarship in any field relevant to the Newberry’s collection.
Stipend: $5,000/month
Length: 4 - 9 months
Who can apply: Applicants must be United States citizens or foreign nationals with three continuous years’ residence in the US. Having a PhD (or equivalent terminal degree) by the application deadline is required.
Deadline: November 1
Supporting scholarship in any field relevant to the Newberry’s collection.
Stipend: $5,000/month
Length: 4 - 9 months
Who can apply: Having a PhD (or equivalent terminal degree) by the application deadline is required.
Deadline: November 1
Supporting scholarship in any area of American history that is relevant to the Newberry’s collection.
Stipend: $5,000/month
Length: 4 - 9 months
Who can apply: Having a PhD (or equivalent terminal degree) by the application deadline is required.
Deadline: November 1
Supporting scholarship in music related to the Newberry's collection.
Stipend: $5,000/month
Length: 4 - 9 months
Who can apply: Having a PhD (or equivalent terminal degree) by the application deadline is required.
Deadline: November 1
Supporting scholarship in any area of American history that is relevant to the Newberry’s collection.
Stipend: $5,000/month
Length: 4 - 9 months
Who can apply: Having a PhD (or equivalent terminal degree) by the application deadline is required.
Deadline: November 1
Supporting scholarship related to history and literature in the Late Medieval and Early Modern period. Preference will be given to projects focusing on the colonial Americas and Romance cultures, especially translations and topics focusing on Portuguese, Spanish, and Latin American Studies.
Stipend: $5,000/month
Length: 4 - 9 months
Who can apply: Having a PhD (or equivalent terminal degree) by the application deadline is required.
Deadline: November 1
Supporting a pre-tenure woman whose work points to a future of scholarly productivity and who would benefit significantly from being in residence at the Newberry. Preference will be given to projects concerned with the study of women.
Stipend: $5,000/month
Length: 4 - 9 months
Who can apply: Having a PhD (or equivalent terminal degree) by the application deadline is required.
Deadline: November 1
Consortium Fellowships
This fellowship is intended to support faculty members from institutions participating in the Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Preference will be given to scholars at an early stage of their career who are working on a project in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Fellows can be in continuous or intermittent residence at the Newberry or complete their fellowships entirely offsite, conducting research in existing digital collections or the collections of other institutions. Fellowship recipients are required to be in residence at the Newberry the week of the annual NCAIS Graduate Student Conference, which is held on the second weekend of February each year. The fellow is expected to attend and engage with students as a mentor at the conference, as well as work with McNickle Center Staff prior to the conference to shape the event's keynote address.
Stipend: $5,000/month
Length: 4 - 9 months
Who can apply: Faculty from NCAIS member institutions.
Deadline: November 1
Other Fellowships
The Rudolph Ganz Fellowship supports researchers using the Rudolph Ganz Papers and other late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century materials related to Chicago music in that period. Ganz’s papers include musical compositions of the world-renowned concert pianist, composer, conductor, and educator, as well as articles, speeches, lectures and essays by him, and two recordings.
Stipend: $5,000/month
Length: 4 - 9 months
Who can apply: Having a PhD (or equivalent terminal degree) by the application deadline is required.
Deadline: November 1
This fellowship adds one additional month of support to a long-term fellowship for research at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. The proposed project must describe the materials to be consulted at both the Newberry Library and the Herzog August Bibliothek. The recipient should plan to visit the libraries sequentially to ensure continuity of research.
Stipend: 1,800 Euro/month from the Herzog August Bibliothek, plus up to 650 Euro for travel expenses.
Length: 1 additional month added to an awarded Newberry fellowship listed above + 1 month at the Herzog August Bibliothek
Who can apply: Anyone with a PhD by the application deadline.
Deadline: November 1
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