Other Grants

The Newberry¹s 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. Deadline: January 11, 2010.

SHORT-TERM FELLOWSHIPS
Ph.D. candidates and scholars with a doctorate are eligible for short-term travel-to-collections fellowships. 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: We invite short-term fellowship applications from teams of two or three scholars who plan to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive project. $1600 per fellow per month. Teams should submit a single application, including cover sheets and CVs from each member.

Deadline: March 1, 2010.

For more information or to download application materials, visit our website at: www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html
Or contact:
Research and Education
The Newberry Library
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610
312.255.3666
research@newberry.org

Each year, the Terra Foundation for American Art runs a summer residency program in Giverny offering ten summer fellowships to European and American doctoral students and artists. These fellowships are awarded to artists who have completed their studies at Masters level (or its equivalent) and doctoral students engaged in research on American art or transatlantic artistic exchange. Throughout the eight-week program, senior artists and art historians are also in residence to mentor the fellows and pursue their own work.

Terra Summer Residency fellows are awarded a stipend of $5,000, and artists receive an additional $200 for the purchase of materials.

The Terra Foundation for American Art Research Travel Grants support travel to the United States for research purposes. Foreign nationals enrolled in European universities whose research projects concern American art or transatlantic artistic relations prior to 1980 are eligible. Three pre-doctoral grants of $5,000 and three post-doctoral grants of $7,500 (for researchers who have been awarded their doctorate within the past ten years) are available. Applications must be received by one of the partnering institutions: the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (www.courtauld.ac.uk); the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris (www.inha.fr); the John F. Kennedy Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität, Berlin (www.jfki.fu-berlin.de) or the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich (www.zikg.eu).

Application deadline: January 15, 2010

The Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize recognizes excellent scholarship by a non-U.S. scholar in the field of historical American art (circa 1500—1980). The winning manuscript should advance understanding of American art and demonstrate new findings and original perspectives. It will be translated and published in American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s scholarly journal, which will also cover the cost of image rights and reproductions, and the winner will receive a $500 award. This prize is made possible by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

The aim of the award is to stimulate and actively support non-U.S. scholars working on American art, foster international exchange of new ideas and create a broad, culturally comparative dialogue on American art. To be eligible, essays should focus on historical American painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, decorative arts, photography or visual culture of the same period. Preference will be given to studies that address American art within a cross-cultural context as well as new ways of thinking about American art. Manuscripts previously published in a foreign language are eligible if released within the last two years. For scholars from English-language countries, only unpublished manuscripts will be considered. Authors of eligible essays are invited to submit their own work for consideration. We urge scholars who know of eligible articles written by others to inform those authors of the prize.

The length of the essay (including endnotes) shall not exceed 8,000 words with approximately 12 illustrations. Manuscripts submitted in foreign languages should be accompanied by a detailed abstract in English. Six copies of the essay, clearly labelled “2010 Terra Foundation for American Art International Essay Prize,” along with the scholar’s name, mailing address, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, and fax number must be received by January 15, 2010, at the following address: American Art journal, Research and Scholars Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington D.C. 20013-7012.

For more information, please contact executive editor Cynthia Mills (millsc@si.edu). For more information on American Art, please consult www.americanart.si.edu/research/journal. For details on the Terra Foundation for American Art, please visit www.terraamericanart.org.