This award for post-doctoral scholars provides support for historical editing projects based on Newberry sources. It supports residential research in the Newberry’s collections in preparation of a scholarly edition. Applicants may request up to three months of support.
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École Nationale des Chartes Exchange Fellowship
This fellowship covers auditor tuition and a portion of living expenses, for up to one term, for an American or Canadian graduate student in a PhD program to study at the École Nationale des Chartes in Paris.
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship
This short-term fellowship is for scholars wishing to use the Newberry’s collections to study the period 1660-1815. The tenure of the short-term fellowships is one month. Applicants must be members of the ASECS at the time of the award.
Arthur and Janet Holzheimer Fellowship in the History of Cartography
This fellowship for PhD candidates or post-doctoral scholars supports work on projects related to the history of cartography, which focus on cartographic materials in the Newberry’s collection. The award is $2000 for one continuous month of residency at the Newberry.
Newberry Library Short-Term Resident Fellowships for Individual Research
This fellowship provides access to the Newberry’s collection for PhD candidates or postdoctoral scholars. Applicants may request one or two months of support; most awards are for one month.
Newberry Library – American Musicological Society (AMS) Fellowship
This fellowship for PhD candidates or postdoctoral scholars supports one month’s work in residence at the Newberry. Preference will be given to a scholar working in music or musicology. Applicants must be members of the AMS at the time of application and through the period of the fellowship.
Susan Kelly Power and Helen Hornbeck Tanner Fellowship
This fellowship for PhD candidates and post-doctoral scholars of American Indian heritage provides up to two months of residential research in any field in the humanities using the Newberry collection. Scholars are awarded $2000/month.
Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois Fellowship
This short-term fellowship for PhD candidates or post-doctoral scholars offers up to one month’s support for work in residence at the Newberry. Preference will be given to those working in early American History. The award is for $2000.
Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel Fellowship
Applicants for long- and short-term fellowships at the Newberry may also ask to be considered for this joint fellowship providing an additional two-month fellowship in Wolfenbuttel, Germany. The proposed project should link the collections of both libraries.
Frances C. Allen Fellowships
This fellowship is for women of American Indian heritage. The tenure of the fellowship is from one month to one year; the standard award is $2,000 per month; supplemental funding may also be available.