Archive for the 'Short-term Research' Category

Ernst Mach Grant for Research in Austria

Deadline: March 1
Length: 1-9 months (short-term research given priority)
Comments: “Applicants must not have studied/pursued research/pursued academic work in Austria in the last six months before taking up the grant”; must have been born on or after October 1, 1974; good knowledge of German required; all nationalities except Austrian
URL: http://www.cas.umn.edu/awards/OTHER.HTML#mach

St. Olaf Kierkegaard Visiting Scholars Program

Deadline: None
Length: Varies, less than 4 months
Comments: All arrangements depend on circumstances of student or scholar
URL: http://www.stolaf.edu/collections/kierkegaard/visitingscholars.html

St. Olaf Kierkegaard Residency Fellowship

Deadline: at least 6 months prior to beginning of residency
Length: 4-12 months
Comments: For long-term work in the Kierkegaard Library
URL: http://www.stolaf.edu/collections/kierkegaard/otherfellowships.html

Princeton Library Research Grants

Deadline: January 15
Length: “ordinarily” up to 1 month
Comments: 4 funds available: Seeger fund for Hellenic Studies; Cotsen Fund for Children’s Literature; Maxwell Fund for work on Portuguese-speaking cultures;and Lapidus Fund for Studies of the Age of Revolution and the Enlightenment in the Atlantic World”Applications will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, [...]

American Philosophical Society Library Residence Research Fellowship

Deadline: March 1
Length: 1-3 months
Comments: For research in collections; PhD students must have passed preliminary exams
URL: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/resident

Herzog-Ernst-Scholarship Gotha

Deadline: October 30
Length: 3-9 months (3-6 for postdocs)
Comments: For research in “one of the most important collections of old printings and manuscripts in the Federal Republic of Germany—220,000 volumes with prints from before 1851 and over 10,500 volumes of writings”
URL: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=169776 (H-Net posting)

UVA Library Taylor Fellowship in American Literature

Deadline: November 6
Length:1-3 months
Comments: Fellows must “either hold the Ph.D. or have already advanced to Ph.D. candidacy”
URL: http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/harrison/TaylorFellowship.html

Henry Moore Leeds Institute Research Fellowship

Deadline: January 11
Length: 1 month
Comments: For sculptors, curators, and scholars (including ABD PhD students) “working on historic and contemporary sculpture [and wish to use] the resources at the Institute”
URL: http://www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/matrix_engine/content.php?page_id=405

Walter L. Arnstein Prize For Dissertation Research in Victorian Studies

Deadline: February 1
Length: N/A; $1,500
Comments: For work in British Victorian Studies in “literature, history, art history, or
musicology but [with] significant interdisciplinary component”
URL: http://www.midwestvictorian.org/arnstein.html

National Organization of Italian American Women Scholarships

Deadline: Feb 20 in 2009 (2010-11 announcement not yet posted)
Length: N/A ($2,000)
Comments: Must have “[o]ne parent of Italian American descent”
URL: http://noiaw.org/pages/scholarships/scholarships.php