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Fellowship and Travel Grant Applications Invited for 2010-2011

Applications are invited for Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants for the 2010-2011 academic year. Recipients of awards will be expected to take up their fellowships between July 2010 and June 2011. For further details click here.

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2009-2010 Fellowships

The Library is delighted to announce that eleven fellowships and one travel grant have been awarded for the 2009-2010 academic year.

For a full list of award recipients for 2009-2010, click here.

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Introduction

The Library, a department of the Yale University Library located in Farmington, Connecticut, forty miles from New Haven, has significant holdings of eighteenth-century prints, drawings, manuscripts, books, and paintings. It is able to support advanced research in most aspects of British eighteenth-century studies. The Library offers visiting fellowships, normally for four weeks, as well as travel grants of lesser duration, to scholars engaged in post-doctoral or equivalent research and to doctoral candidates at the dissertation stage. In a typical year the Library awards up to a dozen fellowships and travel grants. Fellows in residence also have access to additional materials at Yale, including those at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Yale Center for British Art. Summer fellowships for graduate students at Yale are also offered.

The Library’s unrivaled collection of Walpoliana includes three-quarters of the traceable volumes from Horace Walpole’s famous library at Strawberry Hill and many letters and other manuscripts by him. Its book and manuscript collections of considerable depth cover all aspects of eighteenth-century British culture: theater, literature, politics, history, art history, antiquarianism, scientific history, and many other fields. Materials include books, pamphlets, broadsheets, periodicals, and almanacs, and there is a particularly fine collection of extra-illustrated books. The Manuscript collection holds international diplomatic correspondence, Exchequer account books, and literary manuscripts: parliamentary, personal, and travel diaries; and cookbooks. The Library is also the home of the world’s largest and finest collection of eighteenth-century British graphic art outside the British Museum. Indexed in great detail, its 35,000 satirical prints, portraits, and topographical views are an incomparable and easily accessible resource of visual material on every aspect of English eighteenth-century life. The Walpole Digital Library, which holds close to 10,000 images from the Library's collection of prints and drawings, is available for consultation both on site and remotely. Online access to Yale’s catalogs and information sources is provided, and the Library offers a wide range of specialized indices.

Self-catering accommodation is available to visiting researchers in an adjacent historic house belonging to the Library.

Visiting fellowships and travel grants

Library at Strawberry Hill - lwlpr15507The Library offers short-term residential fellowships and travel grants to support research in the Library's rich collections of eighteenth-century--mainly British--materials, including important holdings of prints, drawings, manuscripts, rare books, and paintings, as well as a growing collection of sources for the study of New England Native Americans.

Scholars undertaking post-doctoral or equivalent research, and doctoral candidates at work on a dissertation, are encouraged to apply. Recipients are expected to be in residence at the Library, to be free of other significant professional obligations during their stay, and to focus their research on the Lewis Walpole Library's collections. Fellows also have access to additional resources at Yale, including those in the Sterling Memorial Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Yale Center for British Art.

Lewis Walpole Library fellowships, usually for one month, include the cost of travel to and from Farmington, accommodation in an eighteenth-century house on the Library's campus, and a living allowance stipend (now $2,000). The Library's travel grants typically cover transportation costs for research trips of shorter duration and also include accommodation on site.

Application Details

To apply for a fellowship or travel grant, candidates should send a curriculum vitae, including educational background, professional experience and publications, and a brief outline of the research proposal (not to exceed three pages) to:

Margaret K. Powell
W.S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director
The Lewis Walpole Library
P.O. Box 1408
Farmington, CT 06034
USA

Fax: 860-677-6369

While application materials may initially be submitted electronically, a hard copy is required for the application to be considered complete.

Two confidential letters of recommendation are also required by the application deadline. Letters of recommendation should specifically address the merits of the candidate's project and application for the Lewis Walpole Library fellowship. General letters of recommendation or dossier letters are not appropriate.

The application deadline for the 2010-2011 Fellowships is January 18, 2010. Awards will be announced in March.

Summer fellowships for graduate students at Yale

Northeast view of ClivedenThe Lewis Walpole Library offers one- and two-month summer fellowships to students enrolled in a doctoral program at Yale University who are engaged in or preparing for dissertation research and whose topic of study is supported by the Lewis Walpole Library collections.

The program affords students the opportunity to spend four or eight weeks during the months of June, July, and August in residence at the Library to delve into its collections of eighteenth-century British books, manuscripts, and graphic materials.  Fellowship awards include accommodations on-site in Farmington and a stipend of either $3,900 or $1,950, depending upon the duration of the fellowship. Students are expected to be in residence and focus their research on the Library collections.

There is no application form. Applicants should submit the following materials to the Librarian of the Lewis Walpole Library:

  • A résumé
  • A brief research proposal (not to exceed three pages), explaining the relationship between the Lewis Walpole Library’s collections and the applicant’s dissertation research
  • An approved dissertation prospectus or equivalent statement outlining the scope of the doctoral thesis

The applicant must also arrange to have two confidential letters of recommendation sent to the Librarian, one of which should come from the applicant’s dissertation advisor.

For more information, please contact Margaret Powell, W.S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director, at 860-677-2140, or at margaret.powell@yale.edu

Mailing address for application materials

Margaret Powell
W.S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director
The Lewis Walpole Library
P.O. Box 1408
Farmington, CT 06034

Fax: 860-677-6369

More information about the scope of the collections may be obtained by phone: 860-677-2140, or by e-mail: walpole@yale.edu

Recipients

2009 Fellowship and Grant Awards
2008 Fellowship and Grant Awards
2007 Fellowship and Grant Awards
2005 Fellowship and Grant Awards
2004 Fellowship and Grant Awards
2003 Fellowship and Grant Awards
2002 Fellowship and Grant Awards
2001 Fellowship and Grant Awards

   
   
   
   
   
   
 
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