BEINECKE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS: GENERAL INFORMATION

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University's principal repository for literary papers and for rare books and early manuscripts, offers short-term fellowships for visiting scholars and Yale graduate students pursuing research in its collections. These fellowships are open to applications; please click on the links for more information.

For a list of named awards, please click here.

The Beinecke Library also welcomes three additional long-term fellows each year, the Frederick W. Beinecke Senior Fellow in Western Americana, the James Weldon Johnson Senior Fellow in African American Studies, and the E.J. Beinecke Postdoctoral Fellow (currently in the field of Papyrology for 2008-2009). These positions are not currently open for applications.

The James M. Osborn Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in British Studies program is currently on hold.

For more information about all current and past fellows, please click on Lists of Fellows.

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.

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 and other Library resources may be found at the Beinecke Library home page.

For additional information about the collections of the Beinecke Library, please click here.
For more information about the Library fellowship programs, please contact the Coordinator of Fellowship and Educational Programs by email at Beinecke.Fellowships@yale.edu, by phone at 203-432-2956, or at the above postal address.