THE NEWBERRY LIRBARY IS pleased to announce the competition for the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars, owing to the generous assistance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The fellowships are in the amount of $75,000 for one academic year and support long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. Application Deadline: September 26th, 2013 by 9pm (EDT).
ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars in residence at the Newberry Library, Chicago
The Newberry Library is pleased to announce the competition for the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars, owing to the generous assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The fellowships are named for Frederick Burkhardt, President Emeritus of ACLS, whose decades of work on The Correspondence of Charles Darwin constitute a signal example of dedication to a demanding and ambitious scholarly enterprise.
These fellowships support long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.
•Amount: $75,000
•Tenure: one academic year, plus institutional support for an additional period
•DEADLINE: September 26, 2013, 9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
Applications must be submitted through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (ofa.acls.org). Notifications will be sent by the ACLS in mid-February 2014.
This fellowship program is administered through the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
At the Newberry Library, Burkhardt Fellows join a lively community of scholars composed of long- and short-term fellows, local Chicago area scholars, and the Newberry's professional staff. This collegial environment encourages interdisciplinary exchange, deepening and expanding the significance of projects in the humanities and related social sciences.
The Newberry provides a supportive environment for research and for writing time. Additionally, research at the Newberry is enriched by individual consultations with staff curators, librarians, and scholars, and an array of scholarly and public programs. The library's core collection spans many centuries and includes a range of materials, from medieval manuscripts to rich genealogical resources, and from the personal papers of great Midwest authors to one of the world's strongest collections on American Indians and Indigenous peoples. For more information on the Newberry collection, see: www.newberry.org/catalogs-and-guides
For more information about the ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship, including application instructions, see: www.acls.org/programs/burkhardt/.
