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Fellowships in the Humanities 2010-2011: The Newberry Library, Research and Education, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610; ph. 312.255.3666. Contact: research@newberry.org.

The Newberry’s fellowships support humanities research in the library’s collections. The collections are wide-ranging, rich, and sometimes a little eccentric. If you study the humanities, chances are good there is something for you. The  Newberry Library offers remarkable collections; a lively interdiscipli- nary 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: These awards support research and writing by scholars with a doctorate. Their purpose is to help fellows develop or complete larger-scale studies that draw on our collections, and to foster intellectual exchange among fellows and the Library community. Fellowship terms range from six to eleven months with stipends of up to $50,400. Applications are due January 11, 2010.

Short-term Fellowships: Ph.D. candidates and scholars with a doctorate are eligible for short-term travel-to-collections fellowships. Their purpose is to help researchers study specific materials at the Newberry that are not readily available to them elsewhere. Short-term fellowships 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: The Newberry Library invites short-term fellowship applications from teams of two or three scholars who plan to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive project. The individual scholars on a team awarded a fellowship will each receive a full stipend of $1600 per month. Teams should submit a single application, including cover sheets and CVs from each member. Applications are due March 1, 2010.

Exchange fellowships with British, French and German institutions are also offered, along with a fellowship for American Indian women pursuing any post-graduate education, and a fellowship for published independent scholars.

For more information or to download application materials visit The Newberry Library’s website.

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CALL FOR PAPERS - The Materiality of Early Modern Prints; College Art Association Conference, Chicago (Illinois), February 10-13, 2010.

Ephemeral and cost-effective, early modern prints (ca. 1450-1700) offered a greater diversity of subject matter and more uses than paintings or sculpture. Printed pilgrimage souvenirs, scientific instruments and even erotica survive with signs of heavy use. Prints were embellished, altered, inscribed, collected and displayed in numerous ways throughout the early modern period, a versatility recently emphasized in major publications and exhibitions including David Landau and Peter Parshall’s The Renaissance Print and Susan Dackerman’s Painted Prints.

This CAA session examines the contemporary treatment of prints as physical objects, whether on paper, printed in books or pasted onto other supports (i.e. albums, cloth, wood, or walls). While some talks may touch on the history of collections, presentations focusing on surviving prints with visible signs of use, misuse, or alternate states will be particularly apt. Application deadline May 8, 2009.

Please contact Suzanne Karr Schmidt (Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Prints and Drawings, 111 South Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60603) and Lia Markey (Princeton University Art Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, Princeton, NJ 08544). Feel free to send applications via email, including a two-page, double-spaced abstract, CV, and letter of interest. 

For more conference details, visit the site of the College Art Association

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The Newberry Library, an independent research library in Chicago, Illinois, invites applications for its 2009-2010 Fellowships in the Humanities. Newberry Library fellowships support research in residence at the Library, and all proposed research must be appropriate to the collections (excluding the Terra Foundation Fellowship and certain short-term awards). Our fellowship program rests on the belief that all projects funded by the Newberry benefit from engagement both with the materials in the Newberry’s collections and with the lively community of researchers that gathers around those collections. Long-term residential fellowships are available for periods of six to eleven months to postdoctoral scholars who must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application. The stipend for these fellowships ranges from USD25,500 to USD 70,000.
In 2008-2009 the Library inaugurated a new Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowship in Art History carrying an academic-year stipend of USD 70,000 for a full professor (or its equivalent outside the academy) and USD 50,400 for all other awardees. Short-term residential fellowships are intended for postdoctoral scholars or Ph.D. candidates from outside the Chicago area who have a specific need for Newberry collections. The tenure of short-term fellowships varies form one week to two months. The amount of the award is generally USD 1600 per month. Applications for long-term fellowships are due January 12, 2009; applications for most short-term fellowships are due March 2, 2009.
If you would like materials sent to you by mail, write to the Committee on Awards, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Il 60610-3380. If you have questions about the fellowships program, contact research@newberry.org or (312) 255-3666.

For more information or to download application materials, visit the website of the  Newberry Library 

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