Winterthur Fellowships
Winterthur Research Fellowship Program for 2011-2012
Applications due by 15 January 2011
Winterthur, a public museum, library, and garden supporting the advanced study of American art, culture, and history, announces its Research Fellowship Program for 2011-12. Winterthur offers an extensive program of short- and long-term fellowships open to academic, independent, and museum scholars, including advanced graduate students, to support research in material culture, architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture, garden and landscape studies, Shaker studies, travel and tourism, the Atlantic World, childhood, literary culture, and many other areas of social and cultural history. Fellowships include 4-9 month NEH fellowships, 1-2 semester dissertation fellowships, and 1-2 month short-term fellowships. Fellows have full access to the library collections, including more than 87,000 volumes and one-half million manuscripts and images, searchable online. Resources for the 17th to the early 20th centuries include period trade catalogues, auction and exhibition catalogues, an extensive reference photograph collection of decorative arts, printed books, and ephemera. Fellows may conduct object-based research in the museum’s collections, which include 85,000 artifacts and works of art made or used in America to 1860, with a strong emphasis on domestic life.
Winterthur also supports a program of scholarly publications including Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture. Fellows may reside in a furnished stone farmhouse on the Winterthur grounds and participate in the lively scholarly community at Winterthur, the nearby Hagley Museum and Library, the University of Delaware, and other area museums. Fellowship applications are due January 15, 2011. For more details and to apply, visit Winterthur’s website or e-mail Rosemary Krill at rkrill@winterthur.org.
CASVA Fellowships Announced
A selection of projects in the (long) eighteenth century to be pursued by this year’s CASVA Fellows, as noted in a press release from the National Gallery:
Samuel H. Kress Professor
Joseph J. Rishel — The position of Samuel H. Kress Professor was created in 1965. It is reserved for a distinguished art historian who, as the senior member of CASVA, pursues scholarly work and counsels predoctoral fellows in residence. Rishel, the Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Paintings and Sculpture and curator of the Rodin Museum, has been at the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1972. He received a BA from Hobart College and earned his MA at the University of Chicago. He has served as the chairman of the Barnes Foundation College Assessment Advisory Committee and has been a member of the American Federation of Arts Exhibitions Committee since 2000. Rishel is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was made an officier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2002. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2010 and has been an editor, author, and contributor to many exhibition catalogues specializing in 18th- and 19th-century art.
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor
Victor I. Stoichita — The position of Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor was established in 2002 through a grant from the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation. The Safra Professor serves for up to six months, forging connections between the research of the curatorial staff and that of visiting scholars at CASVA. At the same time, the Safra Professor advances his or her own research on subjects associated with the Gallery’s permanent collection. The Safra Professor may also organize colloquia for predoctoral fellows and for emerging scholars and curators. The Safra Professor’s area of expertise varies from year to year, spanning the Gallery’s permanent collection—from sculpture, to painting, to works on paper of all periods. Victor Stoichita is a professor of modern and contemporary art history at Université de Fribourg in Switzerland. He earned a Doctorat d’état from the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and his PhD from the University of Rome. He was the Rudolf Wittkower Visiting Professor at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut, in Rome in 2005 and received a fellowship from the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin in 2002. Stoichita is the author of The Pygmalion Effect: From Ovid to Hitchcock (2008), Goya: The Last Carnival (with Anna Maria Coderch, 1999), A Short History of the Shadow (1997), Visionary Experience in the Golden Age of Spanish Art (1995), and L’instauration du tableau: Métapeinture à l’aube des temps modernes (1993), all of which have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese, among other languages.
Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellows, Fall 2010
Heather McPherson (University of Alabama at Birmingham), The Artist’s Studio and the Image of the Artist in Nineteenth-Century France
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellows, Fall 2010
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan (Todd Longstaffe-Gowan Limited, Landscape Design), The London Square, 1580 to the Present
Predoctoral Fellows (in residence)
Christina Ferando (David E. Finley Fellow, 2008–2011, Columbia University), Staging Canova: Sculpture, Connoisseurship, and Display, 1780–1822
Dipti Khera (Ittleson Fellow, 2009–2011, Columbia University), Picturing India’s “Land of Princes” between the Mughal and British Empires: Topographical Imaginings of Udaipur and Its Environs
Jason David LaFountain (Wyeth Fellow, 2009–2011, Harvard University), The Puritan Art World
Predoctoral Fellows (not in residence)
Razan Francis (Twenty-four-Month Chester Dale Fellow, 2010–2012, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Secrets of the Arts: Enlightenment Spain’s Contested Islamic Craft Heritage
Meredith Gamer (Paul Mellon Fellow, 2010–2013, Yale University), Criminal and Martyr: Art and Religion in Britain’s Early Modern Eighteenth Century
Anna Lise Seastrand (Ittleson Fellow, 2010-2012, Columbia University), Praise, Politics, and Language: South Indian Mural Paintings, 1500–1800
Walpole Library Fellowships for 2010-2011
The Lewis Walpole Library is delighted to announce the recipients of Fellowships and Travel Grants for the 2010-2011 year. Fourteen visiting Fellowships, two Travel Grants, and two Summer Fellowships for Yale Graduate Students were awarded.
Visiting Fellowships
- Ileana Popa Baird (University of Virginia), Spaces, Things, Heterotopias: A Duncical Map of Early Eighteenth-Century British Culture
- Tim Cassedy (New York University), The Character of Communication, 1790-1810
- David Flaherty (University of Virginia), The British Board of Trade, Visions of Empire, and the Aggressive Imperial Project for the North American Frontier, 1713-1783
- Michael Gamer (University of Pennsylvania), Staged Conflicts: A History of English Theatre, 1641-1843
- William Gibson (Oxford Brookes University), Reverend Doctor John Trusler (1735-1820): Sermons, Theology, and Politics
- Heather Ladd (University of Toronto), Comic Representations of Booksellers and Authors in Eighteenth-Century Imaginative Literature, 1660-1830
- Crystal Lake (Georgia Institute of Technology), Radical Things: Politics and Artifacts in British Literature
- Peter Lindfield (University of St. Andrews), Reconstructions of the Past: Strawberry Hill, the Gothic, and the Furnishing of a National Aesthetic
- Simon Macdonald (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge), British Expatriates in Late Eighteenth-Century France
- Temi-Tope Odumosu (King’s College, Cambridge), The ‘Image of Black’ through a Walpole Lens
- Charlotte Roberts (St. John’s College, Cambridge), Images of Historical Spectatorship, 1776-1837
- Eric Weichel (Queen’s University), ‘Most Horribly Done, and so Unfortunately Like’: Francophilia, Cross-Cultural Influences, and the Emergence of the Rococo in Early Eighteenth-Century British Visual and Material Culture
- Alex Wetmore (Carleton University), The Mechanical in the Age of Sensibility: Technology, Sentimentalism, and Eighteenth-Century British Culture
- Amit Yahav (University of Haifa), Moments: Duration and the English Novel
Travel Grants
- Rachel Brownstein (The Graduate Center, CUNY), James Gillray and Jane Austen
- David Hayton (Queen’s University Belfast), Biography of Sir Lewis Namier
Summer Fellowships for Yale Graduate Students
- Christian Burset, The Use of Indigenous Law and Legal Traditions Within the British Empire in the Eighteenth Century
- Meredith Gamer, Criminal and Martyr: Art and Religion in Britain’s Early Modern Eighteenth Century
Fellowships at UCLA
Fellowship Opportunities at UCLA sponsored by UCLA Center for 17th-& 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
All Applications due by 1 February 2010
Clark Short-Term Fellowships
Stipend of $2500 per month. Fellowship support is available to scholars with research projects that require work in any area of the Clark’s collections. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. degree or have equivalent academic experience. Awards are for periods of one to three months in residence.
ASECS/Clark Fellowships
Stipend of $2,500 for the month of residency. Fellowships jointly sponsored by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Clark Library are available to postdoctoral scholars and to ABD graduate students with projects in the Restoration or the eighteenth century. Fellowship holders must be members in good standing of ASECS. Awards are for one month of residency.
Kanner Fellowship in British Studies
Stipend of $7,500 for the three-month tenure. This three-month fellowship, established through the generosity of Penny Kanner, supports research at the Clark Library in any area pertaining to British history and culture. The fellowship is open to both postdoctoral and predoctoral scholars.
Clark-Huntington Joint Bibliographical Fellowship
Stipend of $5,000 for two months in residence. Sponsored jointly by the Clark and the Huntington Libraries, this two-month fellowship provides support for bibliographical research in early modern British literature and history as well as other areas where the two libraries have common strengths. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. degree or have appropriate research experience.
Ephemera Fellowship
Ephemera Society of America Fellowship
Applications due by 1 February 2010
The Ephemera Society of America invites applications for the Philip Jones Fellowship for the Study of Ephemera. This competition is open to any interested individual or organization for research on any aspect of ephemera — material defined as transitory printed documents. It is expected that this research will further one or more aims of the Society: To cultivate and encourage interest in this material; to further the understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of ephemera by people of all backgrounds and levels of interest; to contribute to cultural understanding; to promote personal and institutional collections, preservation, exhibition, and research of ephemeral materials. The $1,000 stipend can be applied to travel and research expenses.
Ephemera includes paper material such as advertisements, airsickness bags, baseball cards, billheads, bookmarks, bookplates, broadsides, cigar box labels and bands, cigarette cards, clipper ship cards, currency, board and card games, greeting cards, invitations, labels, menus, paper dolls, postcards, posters, puzzles and puzzle cards, stock certificates, tickets, timetables, trade cards, valentines, watch papers, and wrappers. (more…)
Fellowship Opportunities for Americanists
American Antiquarian Society Visiting Academic Fellowships, 2010-2011
Applications due by 15 January 2010
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) invites applications for its 2010-11 visiting academic fellowships. At least three AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships will be awarded for periods extending from four to twelve months. Long-term fellowships are intended for scholars beyond the doctorate; senior and mid-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply. Over thirty short-term fellowships will be awarded for one to three months. The short-term grants are available for scholars holding the Ph.D. and for doctoral candidates engaged in dissertation research, and offer a stipend of $1850/month. Special short-term fellowships support scholars working in the history of the book in American culture, in the American eighteenth century, and in American literary studies, as well as in studies that draw upon the Society’s preeminent collections of graphic arts, newspapers, and periodicals. Accommodations are available for visiting fellows in housing owned by AAS.
The AAS is a research library whose collections focus on American history, literature, and culture from the colonial era through 1876. The Society’s collections are national in scope, and include manuscripts, printed works of all kinds, newspapers and periodicals, photographs, lithographs, broadsides, sheet music, children’s literature, maps, city directories and almanacs, and a wide range of ephemera. Of particular interest to members of SHARP is our extensive collection of materials related to the history of publishing and the book trades in the U.S. and Canada.
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A selection of the ASA’s print holdings can be seen in the following collection, as described on the association’s website:
The Charles Peirce Collection of Social and Political Caricatures and Ballads originally consisted of a bound volume of 65 mounted prints of British and American origin dating from the years 1796-1807. The prints were disbound from their album, individually foldered and treated by AAS Conservation in 1992. The folders are not organized by date, place, subject or artist, but instead preserve the original order the prints appeared in the Charles Peirce album. Those of American origin have bibliographic records in the Catalogue of American Engravings [CAEP]. Prints of a British origin have their British Museum number listed which was supplied by the Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (AAS Call number: BIB Prints Brit C870). The box list of the entire collection, which also serves as an inventory, is fully illustrated.
Supplied in this inventory is the sheet size, title of print, publisher/artist information and year in addition to a brief description. Researchers interested in viewing additional British prints can consult the collection of European Political Prints where the British Museum prints are arranged chronologically. While thumbnail images and 150 dpi scans are available for every work, those interested in ordering higher quality reproductions may visit the Society’s Rights and Reproductions page.
Sporting Library Fellowship
John H. Daniels Fellowship at the National Sporting Library in Middleburg, Virginia
Applications due by 1 February 2010
The National Sporting Library, a research institution specializing in horse and field sports, invites applications for research fellowships from university faculty in the humanities and social sciences, museum and library professionals, journalists, and independent scholars. Research disciplines include history, art history, literature, American studies, and area studies. Past projects include the development of foxhounds in 18th-century Britain, hunting imagery in 18th-century French portraiture, and Early Modern horsemanship manuals. Located 42 miles west of Washington, D.C., the Library holds an extensive collection of over 17,000 books, periodicals, manuscripts, and sporting art. The collection covers many aspects of equestrian and outdoor sports, including foxhunting, horse racing, dressage, polo, eventing, coaching, shooting, hunting, fly fishing and angling. The F. Ambrose Rare Book Room contains over 4,000 rare volumes from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries in several languages. The Library has a permanent art collection of European and American sporting art, and will open the National Sporting Art Museum next door in 2011. The fellowship covers approved projects of 12 months or less, and applicants must demonstrate their need to use specific works in the collections. A monthly stipend, workspace, and complimentary housing (for those outside of the immediate area) are provided. Applications must be postmarked by February 1, 2010.
Newberry Fellowships
Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities, 2010-2011
Applications due by 11 January 2010 (Long-Term) and 1 March 2010 (Short-Term)
Newberry Library, Chicago (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
The Newberry’s fellowships support humanities research in our collections. Our collections are wide-ranging, rich, and sometimes a little eccentric. If you study the humanities, chances are good we have something for you. We promise you remarkable collections; a lively interdisciplinary community of researchers; individual consultations on your research with staff curators, librarians, and scholars; and an array of scholarly and public programs.
Long-Term Fellowships — Long-term fellowships support research and writing by scholars with a doctorate. Fellowship terms range from six to eleven months with stipends of up to $50,400.
Short-Term Fellowships — Ph.D. candidates and post-doctoral scholars are eligible for short-term travel-to-collections fellowships. These are usually awarded for a period of one month. Most are restricted to scholars who live and work outside the Chicago area. Stipends are $1600 per month.
New: We invite short-term fellowship applications from teams of two or three scholars who plan to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive project. The stipend is $1600 per fellow per month. Teams should submit a single application, including cover sheets and CVs from each member.
Fellowships at the Walpole Library
Lewis Walpole Library Fellowships and Travel Grants for 2010-2011
Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT
Applications due by 18 January 2010
Library at Strawberry Hill
The Lewis Walpole 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.
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.
For Graduate Students and Artists
Terra Summer Residency in Giverny Fellowship
Giverny, France, Summer 2010
Applications due by 15 January 2010
Since 2001, the Terra Summer Residency in Giverny has provided artists and scholars with an opportunity for the independent study of American art within a framework of interdisciplinary exchange and dialogue. Located in an environment rich in historical and cultural significance, the residency fosters a community for the creation, exploration,and discussion of transatlantic cultural contributions and their contemporary resonance while building an intellectual network for lifelong exchange.
The Terra Foundation for American Art offers ten summer fellowships to artists and scholars from the United States and Europe. These fellowships are awarded to artists who have completed their studies at the Master’s level and to doctoral students engaged in research on American art (from the eighteenth century to the 1980s). During their eight-week stay, senior artists and art historians are in residence to mentor fellows and pursue their own work.
Each Terra Summer Residency Fellow is provided with lodging and study or studio space, daily lunches, and a program consisting of independent study, meetings, and seminars. Terra Summer Residency fellows are awarded a stipend of $5,000 and artists receive an additional $200 for the purchase of materials.
Applicants must be nominated by a professor at an academic institution. Such nominees must fall within one of the two following categories: American and European doctoral candidates researching a subject that contains a significant American art component, or that examines artistic exchange between America and Europe. Candidates should be at an advanced stage of their doctoral research and writing. American and European artists who have completed a Master’s program (or its equivalent) in mixed media and/or painting. Preference is given to applicants who completed a Master’s program within the past five years. All applicants are expected to be fluent in English. Knowledge of French is desirable, but not required. (more…)
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