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Winterthur Museum Research Fellowship Program, 2014–15
Applications due by 15 January 2014

Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library announces its Research Fellowship Program for 2014–15, consisting of short- and long-term fellowships open to academic, independent, and museum scholars, to support advanced study of American art, culture, and history.

Fellowships include NEH, dissertation, and short-term fellowships. Fellows have full access to library collections of more than 87,000 volumes and one-half million manuscripts and images, searchable online at winterthur.org. Fellows may conduct object-based research in the museum’s collections of 90,000 artifacts and artworks made or used in America to 1860.

Applications are due January 15, 2014. For more details and to apply, visit the website or e-mail Rosemary Krill at rkrill@winterthur.org.

The Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Applications due by 15 October 2013

The Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship allows emerging scholars to become fully integrated into a curatorial department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and conduct research on a specific pre-determined curatorial project. Projects are available in European Paintings, Modern and Contemporary Art, Islamic Art, Musical Instruments, or The Robert Lehman Collection. Alongside departmental curators and with guidance from a supervisor, fellows gain comprehensive training through exposure to a full range of curatorial work and opportunities to conduct scholarly research within the Museum. One Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial fellow will be selected for 2014–2016.

Candidates must hold a doctoral degree (or international equivalent) in art history or archaeology in a field related to one of the areas listed above and conferred within five years from the start date of the fellowship (between September 1, 2008, and September 1, 2013). The fellow will receive an annual salary of $50,392 plus research and travel expenses up to a maximum of $6,000 and fringe benefits.

Further information is available here»

The Society of the Cincinnati Research Fellowships for 2014
Applications due by 8 November 2013

The Society of the Cincinnati is offering four research fellowships for 2014: The Tyree-Lamb Fellowship, two Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowships and, new this year, the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maryland Fellowship (the latter specifically for a scholar whose work is focused in the American colonial period, 1607–1775). Each fellowship provides $1,000 to support the cost of travel, housing, and per diem expenses for a scholar wishing to use the Society’s library for a period of at least five days. The fellowships are open to graduate students and other scholars who are conducting research that may benefit from the library’s holdings.

The Society of the Cincinnati library collections include contemporary books, manuscripts, maps, and works of art on paper which support the in-depth study of 18th-century naval and military history and the art of war in the age of the American Revolution. The library also houses books and archives related to the formation and history of the Society of the Cincinnati, as well as materials related to the life of Larz and Isabel Anderson, whose Gilded Age home now serves as a museum, and the headquarters of the Society.

Recipients will be required to fulfill their fellowship research in the library within a period of one year from the date of the award. Further, the recipient will be required to submit a two-to-three-page written report and summary of research findings, which may be published in the Society’s journal, Cincinnati Fourteen. In addition, the library requests a single copy of any subsequent publication (article, thesis, dissertation, or book) that may result.

The recipients of each of the three research fellowships will be chosen from a single round of applications. Applicants should submit the following:
• A curriculum vitae, including educational background, publications and professional experience
• A brief outline of the research proposed (not to exceed 2 pages)
• (For current graduate students only) Two confidential, sealed letters of recommendation from faculty or colleagues familiar with the applicant and his or her research project. Note: If letters are to be mailed independently, please include the names of recommenders when submitting the application.

Applications for the 2014 fellowships must be received by November 8, 2013. Applicants will be notified by January 15, 2014.

Applications should be mailed to:
Ellen McCallister Clark, Library Director
The Society of the Cincinnati
2118 Massachusetts Ave, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008

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The Society of the Cincinnati is the oldest patriotic organization in the United States, founded in 1783 by officers of the Continental Army and their French counterparts who served together in the American Revolution. Its mission is to promote knowledge and appreciation of the achievement of American independence and to foster fellowship among its members. Now a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the principles and ideals of its founders, the modern Society maintains its headquarters, library, and museum at Anderson House in Washington, D.C. Members of the Society are qualified male descendants of officers of the Continental Army and Navy and their French counterparts during the Revolutionary War.

Getty Research Institute Library Research Grants
Applications due by 15 October 2013

The Getty Research Institute invites applications for its Library Research Grants. Getty Library Research Grants provide partial, short-term support for costs relating to travel and living expenses to scholars whose research requires use of specific collections housed in the Getty Research Institute.

Eligibility
Library Research Grants are intended for scholars of all nationalities and at any level who demonstrate a compelling need to use materials housed in the Research Library, and whose place of residence is more than eighty miles from the Getty Center. Projects must relate to specific items in the library collection.

Terms
Library Research Grants are intended to provide partial support for costs relating to travel and living expenses. Grants range from $500 to $2,500, depending on the distance traveled. The research period may range from several days to a maximum of three months, but must take place between February 15, 2014, and January 15, 2015. These terms apply as of June 2012 and are subject to future changes.

Application Availability and Deadline
Complete application materials are now accepted through an online application process only. The next deadline for these grants is 6:00 p.m. PDT, October 15, 2013.

Further information and application forms are available here»

From the call for applications:

Fondazione 1563 Fellowship | Culture, Art, and Society in the Times of Juvarra
Applications due by 31 July 2013

Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura, an Operating Body of Compagnia di San Paolo, pursues among its statutory objectives “the implementation of research and advanced education activities in humanities.” The Foundation is entrusted with the management and the promotion of the Historical Archives of Compagnia di San Paolo and the development of studies on the Age and the Culture of Baroque, in order to encourage research in humanities and to facilitate the access of young scholars to
academic and cultural institutions.

The fellowships intend to promote studies on Baroque literary, philosophical, musical, theater, artistic and architectural culture and on the political, social, and technical-scientific history of the Age of Baroque, also from a comparative international perspective. Research proposals for the 2013-14 call will need to pertain to the following theme: “Culture, art and society in the times of Juvarra.”

The career of Filippo Juvarra (1678-1736) is marked by two cultural experiences that he contributed to in terms of shapes, images, suggestions and models. On the one hand was Rome in the early 18th century and the inner circle of Cardinal Ottoboni, who was open to the reforms put forward by the Academy of Arcadia and who promoted the renewed primacy of the artist championed by the “Accademia di San Luca” in line with a reflection on the complexity of Baroque tradition. On the other hand there was Vittorio Amedeo II and his request to Juvarra to be part of a plan to create and consolidate a modern State, a project that would reflect in contemporary politics and society, as well as literature, philosophy, music, theater, architecture and the visual arts.

The call is open to researchers born on or after 1st January 1975 holding a University or master’s degree from an Italian University or equivalent from foreign Universities. Priority will be given to applicants holding a Ph.D. or equivalent from Italian or foreign universities. The fellowship will refer to the following fields of study: social history, political history, economic history, history of science and technology, history of literature, history of philosophy, history of music, history of theater, art history, history of architecture. . .

More information is available here»

National Humanities Center Fellowships
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 2014-15

Applications due by 1 October 2013

The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities for the period September 2014 through May 2015. Applicants must have doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials. Young scholars as well as senior scholars are encouraged to apply, but they must have a record of publication, and new PhDs should be aware that the Center does not normally support the revision of a doctoral dissertation. In addition to scholars from all fields of the humanities, the Center accepts individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects. The Center is also international and gladly accepts applications from scholars outside the United States.

Areas of Special Interest. Most of the Center’s fellowships are unrestricted. Several, however, are designated for particular areas of research. These include a fellowship for a young woman in philosophy and fellowships for environmental studies, English literature, art history, Asian studies, and theology. (more…)

Daiches–Manning Memorial Fellowship in 18th-Century Scottish Studies
Applications due by 1 January 2014

Co-sponsored by ASECS and the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society (ECSSS), this $3000 fellowship honors the memory of David Daiches (1912–2005) and Susan Manning (1953–2013), eminent eighteenth-century literary and cultural historians of Scotland and America, recipients of the ECSSS Lifetime Achievement Award, and directors of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh. It supports at least two-six months of research on eighteenth-century Scotland as a Fellow in residence at IASH.

Eligibility: Post-doctoral scholars without regard to nationality, residence, or academic discipline. Fellows must be members of ASECS and ECSSS at the time the fellowship is awarded.

Application Procedure: Consult the websit of IASH (www.iash.ed.ac.uk) and ECSSS (www.ecsss.org)

The Lewis Walpole Library is delighted to announce the recipients of fellowship and travel grant awards for the 2013-2014 academic year.

Lewis Walpole Library-ASECS Fellows
Kevin Bourque (Southwestern University), Seriality, Singularity, and Celebrity: Pictures in Motion from 1680 to 1810
Wolfgang Brückle (Inst. für Kunstgeschichte, Zurich), Displays for Medieval Art in Eighteenth-Century Collections: Twickenham and Beyond
Huw Davies (King’s College London), The Rise of British Military Power, 1750–1850
Eoin Devlin (University of Cambridge,) Anglo-European Sociability, Diplomacy, and Cultural Exchange, c. 1680–1770
Carlos Fernández Pérez (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artas, La Habana, Cuba), Learning British Art through Multimedia
Amanda E. Herbert (Christopher Newport University), Spa: Faith, Health, and Politics in Early-Modern Britain

Roger W. Eddy Fellow
Michael Printy (Wesleyan University), Hogarth’s German Enlightenment

Charles J. Cole Fellow
Thierry Rigogne (Fordham University), Café Culture and the Birth of Modernity: The French Coffeehouse in History, 1660–1800

George B. Cooper Fellows
Matthew Risling (University of Toronto), Burlesque Natural Philosophers: Negative Representations of Science and Scientists in the Eighteenth Century
Amy Torbert (University of Delaware), Going Places: The Material and Imaginary Geographies of Prints in the Atlantic World, 1770–1840
Cynthia Wall (University of Virginia), The Impress of the Invisible
Claude Willan (Stanford University), Hostile Takeover: The Tory Seizure of Eighteenth-Century Literary History
Anne Wohlcke (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona), Musical Work and Commemoration in the Eighteenth-Century British World

Travel Grant Recipients
Paul Davis (Princeton University), Making Peace with the Past: British Historical Culture, 1730–1776
Taylor Spence (Monash University), The Transplantation of the Culture of the Commons into the Eighteenth-Century Colonies from Great Britain