University of Chicago anthropologist Shannon Lee Dawdy has received a 2010 MacArthur Grant in recognition of her scholarship. In recent years, her work has largely focused on New Orleans. Read more/watch a video here.
Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans is available through Tulane University Libraries.
Showing posts with label fellowships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fellowships. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
AAS Fellowship
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) invites applications for its 2010-11 visiting academic fellowships. At least three AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships will be awarded for periods extending from four to twelve months. Long-term fellowships are intended for scholars beyond the doctorate; senior and mid-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply.Over thirty short-term fellowships will be awarded for one to three months.The short-term grants are available for scholars holding the Ph.D. and for doctoral candidates engaged in dissertation research, and offer a stipend of $1850/month. Special short-term fellowships support scholars working in the history of the book in American culture, in the American eighteenth century, and in American literary studies, as well as in studies that draw upon the Society's preeminent collections of graphic arts, newspapers, and periodicals. Accommodations are available for visiting fellows in housing owned by AAS.
The deadline for applications is January 15, 2010.
For further details about the fellowships, as well as application materials, consult the AAS website <http://www.americanantiquarian.org/fellowships.htm >
The AAS is a research library whose collections focus on American history, literature, and culture from the colonial era through 1876. The Society's collections are national in scope, and include manuscripts, printed works of all kinds, newspapers and periodicals, photographs, lithographs, broadsides, sheet music, children's literature, maps, city directories and almanacs, and a wide range of ephemera.
For detailed descriptions of the collections, you may wish to review the AAS Guidebook, Under Its Generous Dome, available online at <http://www.americanantiquarian.org/collections.htm >
The deadline for applications is January 15, 2010.
For further details about the fellowships, as well as application materials, consult the AAS website <http://www.
The AAS is a research library whose collections focus on American history, literature, and culture from the colonial era through 1876. The Society's collections are national in scope, and include manuscripts, printed works of all kinds, newspapers and periodicals, photographs, lithographs, broadsides, sheet music, children's literature, maps, city directories and almanacs, and a wide range of ephemera.
For detailed descriptions of the collections, you may wish to review the AAS Guidebook, Under Its Generous Dome, available online at <http://www.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Ephemera Society Fellowship Opportunity
The Ephemera Society of America invites applications for the Philip Jones Fellowship for the Study of Ephemera. This competition is open to any interested individual or organization for research on any aspect of ephemera -- material defined as transitory printed documents. It is expected that this research will further one or more aims of the Society: To cultivate and encourage interest in this material; to further the understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of ephemera by people of all backgrounds and levels of interest; to contribute to cultural understanding; to promote personal and institutional collections, preservation, exhibition, and research of ephemeral materials. The $1,000 stipend can be applied to travel and research expenses.
Ephemera includes paper material such as advertisements, airsickness bags, baseball cards, billheads, bookmarks, bookplates, broadsides, cigar box labels and bands, cigarette cards, clipper ship cards, currency, board and card games, greeting cards, invitations, labels, menus, paper dolls, postcards, posters, puzzles and puzzle cards, stock certificates, tickets, timetables, trade cards, valentines, watch papers, and wrappers. For more information go to: http://www.ephemerasociety.org/fellowship.html
Monday, July 20, 2009
Graduate Student Fellowship Announcement
LSU Libraries recently announced the availability of graduate student fellowships to support research related to the history of Louisiana and the greater southern United States. Six fellowships of $900 each will be awarded to graduate student researchers whose projects require the use of LSU's Special Collections.
LSU's Special Collections include the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections (LLMVC), which document the region's history and culture. LLMVC is considered the largest collection of materials focused on Louisiana and the lower Mississippi Valley, consisting of more than 5,500 archival collections; 120,000+ volumes of books, periodicals, maps, Louisiana newspapers, and other published material; 2,500 tape-recorded oral history interviews; and approximately 200,000 historic photographs. Coverage extends from colonial land grants to the most current publications on post-Katrina New Orleans.
1. a statement outlining your research project and how that project will benefit from work in the LSU Libraries' Special Collections;
2. a brief statement indicating how you will use the fellowship funds (e.g. travel, living expenses, duplication expenses, etc.);
3. a schedule indicating when you plan to conduct your research at LSU;
4. your curriculum vitae; and
5. letters of reference from two persons familiar with your scholarship to Library Fellowships, ATTN: L. Browning, 295 Middleton Library, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-3300; email: lbrow17@lsu.edu; fax: 225-578-6825.
LSU's Special Collections include the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections (LLMVC), which document the region's history and culture. LLMVC is considered the largest collection of materials focused on Louisiana and the lower Mississippi Valley, consisting of more than 5,500 archival collections; 120,000+ volumes of books, periodicals, maps, Louisiana newspapers, and other published material; 2,500 tape-recorded oral history interviews; and approximately 200,000 historic photographs. Coverage extends from colonial land grants to the most current publications on post-Katrina New Orleans.
Eligibility/Application Information:
Applicants must be currently enrolled graduate students in an appropriate discipline with a research focus involving Louisiana history or history of the southern United States. Recipients must use the LSU Libraries' Special Collections for research.
In order to receive the payment of the fellowship stipend, each recipient must write and send to the Head of Special Collections a brief report (1 to 2 pages) stating what Special Collections resources were used and what was accomplished during the recipient's research in Special Collections. This report must be received within one month of
the scheduled completion of the recipient's research as noted in his/her application.
Application Procedure:
In order to receive the payment of the fellowship stipend, each recipient must write and send to the Head of Special Collections a brief report (1 to 2 pages) stating what Special Collections resources were used and what was accomplished during the recipient's research in Special Collections. This report must be received within one month of
the scheduled completion of the recipient's research as noted in his/her application.
Application Procedure:
To apply, send the following:
1. a statement outlining your research project and how that project will benefit from work in the LSU Libraries' Special Collections;
2. a brief statement indicating how you will use the fellowship funds (e.g. travel, living expenses, duplication expenses, etc.);
3. a schedule indicating when you plan to conduct your research at LSU;
4. your curriculum vitae; and
5. letters of reference from two persons familiar with your scholarship to Library Fellowships, ATTN: L. Browning, 295 Middleton Library, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-3300; email: lbrow17@lsu.edu; fax: 225-578-6825.
There is no deadline. The selection committee (composed of one library faculty member and two faculty members in the Department of History) will consider applications as they are received. Selections will be based on merit until all six fellowships have been awarded.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Fellowship Opportunity: Utopias/Dystopias
The Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ), which supports socially engaged interdisciplinary humanities research, invites applications for two visiting fellowships.The theme of Utopias/Dystopias and Social Transformation is designed to stimulate scholarship that addresses the nature, value and meaning of utopias/dystopias for social transformation. Projects should utilize humanities perspectives and methodologies within and across such fields as history, literary studies, art history, film and media studies, philosophy, religious studies, gender studies, and related humanities disciplines.
Application deadline is March 2, 2009. Additional information is available at http://ihr.asu.edu/funding/
Image above: Film Still, Brazil (1985 directed by Terry Gilliam; written by Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown).
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