Research
Fellowship and Travel Grant Information
Fellowship and Travel Grant Applications Invited
Applications for Summer Fellowships for Yale graduate students will be accepted beginning in March. Once again the Library offers one- and two-month Fellowships to Yale Graduate Students who are engaged in or preparing for dissertation research and whose topic of study supported by the Lewis Walpole Library collections. Summer Fellowships include accommodations on-site in Farmington and a stipend. Last year's award is announced below. For further details click here.
The application deadline for the Library's Visiting Fellowship and Travel Grant program for the upcoming academic year has now passed. Awards will be announced in April. Fellowships, typically for one month, and travel grants, usually for two weeks, afford opportunities for research focused in the Library's collections. For further details click here.
The applications for the Charles A. Ryskamp Travel Grant for Yale seniors, class of 2013 has now passed. For further details about this travel grant program click here.
Fellowships and Travel Grant Awards Announced
The Library will announce the recipients of Fellowships and Travel Grants for the 2013-2014 year in April. For the 2012-2013 year, seventeen visiting Fellowships, and three Travel Grants were awarded. A complete list of 2012-2013 recipients can be found by clicking here.
Lucian Ghita, doctoral student in Comparative Literature, was awarded a Summer Fellowship for 2012 to work on “The Eighteenth-Century Reception of Shakespeare: Literary Adaptation and Stage Practice” in connection with his dissertation.
Class of 2012 Yale senior Tatiana Schlossberg was the recipient of the Charles A. Ryskamp Travel Grant award for the 2011-2012 academic year. Ms. Schlossberg's research project explored the communities that grew out of the relationship between runaway slaves and coastal New England Native American tribes, particularly on Martha's Vineyard in the nineteenth century. Library staff members and Yale Indian Papers Project editors Paul Grant-Costa and Toby Glaza, both of whom have extensive experience in the topics she was exploring, were available to Ms. Schlossberg for consultation. For further details about the Charles A. Ryskamp Travel Grant 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.
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Visiting fellowships and travel grants
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The 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 $2,100 living allowance stipend. The Library's travel grants typically cover transportation costs for research trips of shorter duration and include on-site accommodation. |
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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 double-spaced 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
Application materials may also be submitted electronically to margaret.powell@yale.edu
Two confidential letters of recommendation are also required by the application deadline. Letters should specifically address the merits of the candidate's project and application for the Lewis Walpole Library fellowship or travel grant. General letters of recommendation or dossier letters are not appropriate.
The application deadline was January 18, 2013. Awards will be announced in April and are expected to be taken up between July 2013 and June 2014.
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Summer fellowships for graduate students at Yale
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The 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 $1,950 or $3,900, 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 double-spaced 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.
Applications for the 2013 Summer Fellowships will be accepted beginning in March.
For more information, please contact Margaret Powell, W.S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director, 860-677-2140, or margaret.powell@yale.edu
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The Charles A. Ryskamp Travel Grant
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The Charles A. Ryskamp Travel Grant is awarded on a competitive basis to a rising Yale College senior.
The grant provides funds for regular travel during the academic year to Farmington in support of senior essay research in the Library's collections, and, as necessary, occasional overnight accommodation in an eighteenth-century house on the Library's campus.
The Library's staff will be available for research consultation and guidance throughout the year.
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Members of the Yale College class whose senior essays or projects would benefit from research conducted at the Lewis Walpole Library should send the following to margaret.powell@yale.edu :
A résumé
A research proposal of not more than 1000 words, including an explanation of how the collections of the Library would play a role in research for the senior essay
A letter of reference addressing the merit of the project should be sent by each applicant’s senior essay adviser.
Charles A. Ryskamp, director of the Pierpont Morgan Library (1969-1986) and of the Frick Collection (1987-1997), was a member of the Lewis Walpole Library Board of Managers from 1980 until his death in 2010.
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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
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Award Recipients
2012 Fellowship and Travel Grant Awards
2011 Fellowship and Travel Grant Awards
2010 Fellowship and Travel Grant Awards
2009 Fellowship and Travel Grant Awards
2008 Fellowship and Travel Grant Awards
2007 Fellowship and Travel Grant Awards
2005 Fellowship and Travel Grant Awards
2004 Fellowship and Travel Grant Awards
2003 Fellowship and Travel Grant Awards
2002 Fellowship and Travel Grant Awards
2001 Fellowship and Travel Grant Awards
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