The Wolfsonian–FIU Fellowship Program
The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

• The Wolfsonian–FIU Fellowship program promotes scholarly research on The Wolfsonian’s collections. Since its inception in 1995, the program has supported projects from a wide range of academic fields. Proposals on any theme in the humanities that can be supported by the museum’s collections are welcome.
• Fellowships are awarded for full-time research at The Wolfsonian, generally for periods of three to five weeks. Fellowships include a stipend, accommodations, and round-trip travel. The timing of dates will be negotiated with individual awardees. As a rule, The Wolfsonian prefers to host fellows from September through June.
• The program is open to holders of master’s or doctoral degrees, Ph.D. candidates, and to others who have a significant record of professional achievement in relevant fields. Scholars from outside of the United States are eligible. Fellowships are awarded without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, or disability.
• Deadline: December

For more information, contact:
The Wolfsonian - Florida International University
1001 Washington Avenue
Miami Beach, FL  33139
Tel: (303) 535-2613
Fax: (303) 531-2133
Email: research@thewolf.fiu.edu
Website:
http://www.wolfsonian.fiu.edu/education/research/index.html

Summer Research Fellows
Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University

• Each summer Emory University’s Robert W. Woodruff Library, in partnership with the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, offers short-term fellowships to visiting scholars to support scholarly use of the Library’s research collections.
  
  
• The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library of Emory University offers short-term fellowships to support scholarly use of the Library's research collections. The fellowships have a value of up to $2,000 United States dollars and are meant to help defray expenses in traveling to and residing in Atlanta for the duration of the fellowship. The length of the fellowship will depend on the applicant's research proposal, but is normally one month. The next fellowship deadline will be May 30, 2008 for projects beginning after July 1, 2008.
  
  
• Fellowships in Literature
  The Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL) has extensive holdings related to the Irish literary renaissance and the finest collection outside of Ireland for the study of contemporary Irish poetry. The Library also holds the literary archive of the late poet laureate of England, Ted Hughes, and related British literary collections. For more information, please see our guide to Manuscript Sources for British and Irish Literature.
  
  
• Fellowships in African American Studies
  MARBL also houses extensive collections focusing on black print culture, the civil rights and post-civil rights movements, communism and the Left, and African American religion, literature, music and culture. The Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Archives at Emory contains an extensive collection of African American play scripts and many rare periodicals. For more information about these holdings, please see our guide to Manuscript Sources for African American History and Culture.

For more information, contact:
Center for Humanistic Inquiry
Emory University
1715 North Decatur Road
Atlanta, GA  30322
Tel: (404) 727-6424
Fax: (404) 727-1669
Email: chi@emory.edu
Websites:           http://marbl.library.emory.edu/Visiting/Fellowships/fellowships-marbl.html
http://chi.emory.edu/fellowships/index.html

Research Fellowships
Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library

• The Folger Shakespeare Library offers research fellowships to encourage access to its exceptional collections and to encourage ongoing cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars of the early modern period.  Each year, scholars may compete for a limited number of long-term (six to nine months) and short-term (one to three months) fellowships.
• Short-term fellowships are supported by the Library’s endowments and carry a stipend of $2,000 per month.
• Two Mellon Research Fellowships will be awarded and carry stipends of $50,000.  Three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships will be awarded and carry maximum stipends of $40,000. NEH Fellowships are restricted to US citizens or to foreign nationals who have been living in the United States for at least three years. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are open to scholars from any country.

For more information, contact:
Carol Brobeck, Fellowships Administrator
Folger Institute
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003-1094
Tel: (202) 675-0333
Fax: (202) 544-4623
Email: cbrobeck@folger.edu
Website:
http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=298

Fellowships
John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress

• The John W. Kluge Center accommodates up to two dozen post-doctoral Fellows pursuing resident research, usually for periods from six to twelve months. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural topics of a kind normally not encouraged in specialized departmental settings are welcome. Selection of a diverse group of Fellows is by various competitions. Post-doctoral Fellows have an opportunity to discuss their research with the Kluge Scholars and to explore possibilities for intellectual collaboration with other Fellows.
  
  
• Henry A. Kissinger Award
  Made possible by generous donations of many friends and admirers of Dr. Kissinger, the Kissinger Scholar is one part of a wider Kissinger Chair Program that supports a range of activities in the study of foreign policy and international relations.
  
  
• Distinguished Chairs
  The Kluge Chairs are unique in Washington, D.C. Designed for people of great scholarly accomplishment, they are chosen solely for their intellectual and communicative abilities by the Librarian of Congress in consultation with a distinguished Scholars Council.
  
  
• Kluge Fellowship
  The Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to conduct research in the Congress collections and resources for a period of up to eleven months.
  
  
• David B. Larson Fellowship in Health and Spirituality
  The Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to apply for a post-doctoral fellowship in the field of health and spirituality. Made possible by a generous endowment from the International Center for the Integration of Health and Spirituality (ICIHS).
  
  
• Kislak Fellowship in American Studies
  The Library of Congress' Kluge Center invites qualified scholars to apply for a post-doctoral fellowship for advanced research based on the Kislak Collection.
  
  
• Kislak Short-Term Fellowship Opportunities in American Studies
  The Library of Congress offers short-term fellowships for independent scholars, undergraduate and college and university faculty to conduct research based on items from the Kislak Collection.
  
  
• The J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship Research in American History
  The Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History is offered annually by the Library of Congress and the American Historical Association to support significant scholarly research for one semester in the collections of the Library of Congress by scholars at an early stage in their careers in history.

For more information, contact:
John W. Kluge Center
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave, SE
Washington, DC 20540-4860
Tel: (202) 707-3302
Fax: (202) 707-3595
Email: scholarly@loc.gov, rsal@loc.gov
Website:
http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/kluge-home.html
http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/