Call for Applications: 2020 UCLA Library Special Collections Research Fellowships (deadline: 1 November 2019)
2020 UCLA Library Special Collections Research Fellowships
The
UCLA Library Special Collections 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 rare books, journals, manuscripts,
archives, printed ephemera, photographs and other audiovisual
materials, oral history interviews, and other items
in the humanities and social sciences; medical, life and physical
sciences; visual and performing arts; and UCLA history.
The Fellowships
James and Sylvia Thayer Short-term Research Fellowships
Thayer fellowships are on hiatus for 2020. They will return for 2021.
Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Research Fellowship in UCLA Library Special Collections
The
Karmiole fellowship supports the use of UCLA Library Special
Collections materials by visiting scholars and graduate students. One
annual fellowship will be awarded in the amount
of $5,000 to allow scholars to pursue research lasting from one to three months.
The award is funded by an endowment established by Kenneth Karmiole, an
internationally-renowned antiquarian bookseller who earned his master’s
degree in library
science from UCLA in 1971. The
benefactor made previous gifts to the UCLA Library for the Kenneth
Karmiole Endowment for Rare Books and Manuscripts, and to the William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library and the
UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. He has owned
and operated
Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, since 1976.
Barbara Rootenberg Short-term Research Fellowship in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences
The
Rootenberg fellowship promotes 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 $2,000 to allow scholars to pursue research lasting from
two to six weeks. 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 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, Karmiole, and Rootenberg
fellowships; information is available on the Center
website at: https://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/
Eligibility
Karmiole 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, academic, or
independent research are invited to apply.
Research residencies may last from one to three months between
February 3 and December 18, 2020. Complete information and application details are available at
https://www.library.ucla.edu/
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, academic, or
independent research are invited to apply.
Research residencies may last for two to six weeks between
February 3 and December 18, 2020. Complete information and application details are available at
https://www.library.ucla.edu/
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, 2020 and June 30, 2021.
Application Deadline
Completed applications for
Karmiole or Rootenberg fellowships must be received on or before
November 1, 2019.
Contact Information
Submit applications or direct questions about fellowships to:
Library Special Collections Research Fellowships Program
UCLA Library Special Collections
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Phone: 310.825.6940