The John Carter Brown Library
Deadline: January 10, 2010
Description:
The John Carter Brown Library will award approximately thirty short- and long-term Research Fellowships for the period June 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011.
Short-term fellowships are available for two to four months with a monthly stipend of $2,000. Short-term fellowships are open to foreign nationals as well as to U.S. citizen who are engaged in pre- and post-doctoral, or independent, research. It is mandatory that graduate students pass their preliminary or general examinations before the application deadline and be at the dissertation-writing stage.
Long-term Fellowships are underwritten by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); InterAmericas; Donald R. Saunders; and R. David Parsons. (NEH recipients should either be U.S. citizen or resident in the U.S. for three years immediately preceding the application deadline.) Long-term awards are five to ten months with a monthly stipend of $4,000. Applications for long-term fellowships are required to have their Ph. D. before January 2010.
Research proposals must be suited to the holdings of the Library. The Library's collection is focused on the history of the Western Hemisphere during the colonial period (1492 to ca. 1825), emphasizing the European discovery, exploration, settlement, and development of the Americas, the indigenous response to the European conquest, the African contribution to the development of the hemisphere, and all aspects of European relations with the New World, including the impact of the New World on the Old. All fellows must relocate to Providence and be in continuous residence at the Library for the entire term of the fellowship. The JCB maintains a comfortable residence nearby for its research fellows.
Several fellowships are restricted to particular areas of research: history of cartography; maritime history; the West Indies and the Caribbean basin as a whole; comparative history of the colonial Americas; family and women's history; the history of printing and bibliography; the Jewish experience in the Americas; early exploration and discovery; Luso-Brazilian studies; Spanish American history; and other special categories. A few fellowships are available only to scholars who are citizens and permanent residents of countries in Spanish America.
Contact information:
The John Carter Brown Library
Box 1894
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
ph: 401-863-2725
fax: 401-863-3477
email: JCBL_Fellowships@Brown.edu
web address: http://www.jcbl.org
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