Call for Applications: 2016 UCLA Library Special Collections Short-term Research Fellowships
2016 UCLA Library Special Collections
Short-term Research Fellowships
The UCLA Library Special Collections
Short-term Research
Fellowships Program supports the use of
special collections
materials by visiting scholars and UCLA
graduate students.
Collections that are administered by UCLA
Library Special
Collections and available for
fellowship-supported research
include materials in the humanities and
social sciences, medicine,
life and physical sciences, visual and
performing arts, and UCLA
history.
THE
FELLOWSHIPS
James and Sylvia Thayer Short-term
Research Fellowships
Thayer fellowships provide support for
research in any
collections administered by UCLA Library
Special Collections.
Stipends range from $500 to $2,500 and
vary yearly; grants
in 2014 averaged $1,530 and in 2015
averaged $1,300.
Awards are funded by an endowment
established by longtime
UCLA benefactors James and Sylvia Thayer.
Barbara Rootenberg Library Research
Fellowship in
the History of Medicine and the Life
Sciences
Rootenberg fellowships promote the use of
materials
in History & Special Collections for
the Sciences in UCLA
Library Special Collections. One annual
fellowship is
awarded in the amount of $1,000. The award
is named
for Barbara Rootenberg, an alumna of the
UCLA
School of Library Service and an
internationally-renowned
antiquarian bookseller.
Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the
Study of
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and
Books
Ahmanson Fellowships support the use of medieval and
Renaissance monographic and manuscript holdings in
UCLA Library Special Collections: the Ahmanson-Murphy
Collection of the Aldine Press;
the Ahmanson-Murphy
Collection of Early Italian Printing;
the Elmer Belt Library of
Vinciana; the Orsini Family Papers;
the Bourbon del Monte
de San Faustino Family Papers;
the Medieval and
Renaissance Manuscripts Collection;
the Richard and
Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval and Renaissance
Manuscripts and Early Printed Books;
and the Medieval
and Renaissance Arabic and Persian Medical Manuscripts.
The fellowships provide $2,500 per month for up to
three
months. Administered by the UCLA Center for Medieval
and Renaissance Studies, this program requires an
application separate from that for Thayer and
Rootenberg
fellowships; information is available on the Center
for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies website at
ELIGIBILITY
Thayer and Rootenberg Fellowships:
United States citizens
and permanent residents with the legal right to work
in the U.S.
who are engaged in graduate-level, post-doctoral, or
independent
research are invited to apply. Research residencies may last
up to three months between February 1
and December 11, 2016.
Ahmanson Fellowships: United
States and international
graduate students or scholars holding a PhD (or the
foreign
equivalent) who are engaged in graduate-level,
postdoctoral,
or independent research are invited to apply. Research residencies
may last up to three months between July
1, 2016 and June 30, 2017.
APPLICATION CONTENTS
Researchers can submit a single
application for “Short-term
Research Fellowships” in order to be
considered for either the
Thayer or Rootenberg fellowships. Applications
must be received
on or before December 1, 2015.
Applications must include:
· Cover
letter
· Curriculum
vitae
· Outline
of research topic and special collections
to be used
(two pages maximum)
· Brief
budget for travel, living, and research expenses
· Dates
to be spent in residence
· Two
letters of recommendation from faculty or
other scholars
familiar with the research project.
Please note
that the committee cannot consider
letters of
recommendation from the librarians or
staff of the
UCLA Library.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Application materials, including letters of
recommendation,
may be submitted in PDF format by email to
lib_lscfellowships@library.ucla.edu.
Letters of recommendation
in PDF format can also be sent by email, either by the
person
writing them or by the applicant.
REVIEW PROCESS AND NOTIFICATION
A committee will evaluate the research proposals,
and applicants will be
notified of the committee’s
decision by email on or before January
15, 2016.
Fellows may be asked to speak briefly
about their recent
or ongoing research at an informal
brownbag session
with local scholars during their visit.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Submit print format applications, or
direct questions
about fellowships, to:
Short-term Research Fellowships Program
UCLA Library Special Collections
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box
951575
Los
Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Phone:
310.825.6940