FELLOWSHIPS

Applying for All Fellowships / Lists of Fellows

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University's principal repository for literary papers and for rare books and early manuscripts, offers fellowships for visiting scholars and Yale graduate students pursuing research in its collections. The Library also offers the long-term James M. Osborn Post-doctoral Fellowship in British Literature.

The Beinecke collections afford opportunities for interdisciplinary research in such fields as medieval, Renaissance, and 18th-century studies, art history, photography, American studies, the history of printing, music, and modernism in art and literature.

The following named fellowships are among those that may be granted to applicants selected for graduate and visiting fellowship awards.

• Frederick W. Beinecke Fellowship in Western Americana
• Hermann Broch Fellowship in modern German literature
• H.D. Fellowship in English or American literature
• Jonathan Edwards Fellowship in the Jonathan Edwards Papers or related areas of American religious history
• Elizabethan Club Fellowship in the literature or history of the English or European Renaissance
• Edith and Richard French Fellowship
• Donald C. Gallup Fellowship in American literature
• A. Bartlett Giamatti Fellowship
• Archibald Hanna, Jr. Fellowship in American history
• John D. and Rose H. Jackson Fellowship
• Jackson Brothers Fellowship
• H. P. Kraus Fellowship in early books and manuscripts
• Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski Fellowship
• MacKinnon Family Fellowship in Western Americana
• Czeslaw Milosz Fellowship
• James M. Osborn Fellowship in English literature and history
• Reese Fellowship in American bibliography and the history of the book in the Americas
• Frederick A. and Marion S. Pottle Fellowship in 18th-century British studies
• Betsy Beinecke Shirley Fellowship in American children's literature
• Thornton Wilder Fellowship in Wilder studies
• Marjorie G. Wynne Fellowship in British Literature

Books and manuscripts at Yale have been extensively described since 1926 in the Yale University Library Gazette, which is available in many libraries. The Beinecke Library's holdings in printed materials are catalogued online in the Yale Orbis system, available on site and via the Internet. Many of the library's finding aids for manuscript collections are similarly available via the Internet. Links to these resources may be found at the Beinecke Library home page.

The Beinecke Library is open for research Monday through Thursday, 8:30 am to 8:00 pm, and Friday, 8:30 am to 5 pm, throughout the year except the following holidays: Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the following Friday, December 24-January 1, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Memorial Day, and Independence Day.

APPLYING FOR FELLOWSHIPS

Fellowships for Visiting Scholars (short-term)

Fellowships for Yale Graduate and Professional Students

The James M. Osborn Post-doctoral Research Fellowship (long-term)

LISTS OF FELLOWS

LONG-TERM FELLOWS

Frederick W. Beinecke Senior Fellow
in Western Americana

David Weber, current year
Clyde Milner II, 2006-2007
David Wrobel, 2005-2006
Martha Sandweiss, 2004-2005
Susan Armitage, 2003-2004
Denis Michael Quinn, 2002-2003

James M. Osborn Post-doctoral Research Fellow
in British Studies

Juliet Shields, current year
Michael Londry, 2006-2007
Karen Junod, 2005-2006
Emma Jay, 2004-2005
Nicholas Smith, 2003-2004

VISITING FELLOWS

Current month
BRIEF BIOS -- September 2007 Visiting Fellows

Current year
All 2007-2008 Visiting Fellows, List of names and topics

Previous years
2006-2007
2005-2006
2004-2005
2003-2004
2002-2003
2001-2002
2000-2001
1999-2000

YALE GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL FELLOWS
Current
2006-2007
2005-2006
2004-2005
2003-2004
2002-2003

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8240
Telephone: 203 432-2956
Fax: 203 432-4047
Email: beinecke.fellowships@yale.edu