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The YCBA Visiting Scholars Program is now accepting applications for the award period from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017.  The program offers short-term residential awards to scholars in the humanities from predoctoral to senior levels. 

Yale Center for British Art Visiting Scholar Awards
New Haven, 1 July 2016 — 30 June 2017

Applications due by 11 January 2016

Visiting Scholar Awards are intended to enable scholars and doctoral students working in a variety of disciplines to study the Center’s collections. Awards are offered to scholars and predoctoral students working in any discipline, including history, the history of art, literature, and other fields related to British visual and material culture. Predoctoral applicants from North America must be ABD to qualify.

One award per annum is reserved for a member of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. In addition, scholars may apply to the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, and the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, for awards in the same year; every effort will be made to offer consecutive dates.

Postdoctoral awards may be held between one to four months. While all applications are given equal consideration, stays of at least two months are encouraged. Predoctoral awards may be held from one to two months.

Awards cover the cost of travel to and from New Haven, and provide accommodation as well as a living allowance. Recipients are required to be in residence in New Haven for the duration of their award and must be free of all other significant professional responsibilities during their stay.

The closing date for awards is Monday, January 11, 2016. Applicants should complete the online application and upload a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, and a statement of no more than two thousand words (single-spaced) outlining the proposed research project and the preferred months of tenure. Applicants should provide a title for their research project and place their full name on each page of the application. Two confidential letters of recommendation should be e-mailed to Research (ycba.visitingscholars@yale.edu) under separate cover by the same deadline. For further information, please contact Research, ycba.visitingscholars@yale.edu.