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Humanities Dissertation Fellowships: Original Sources (CLIS) . . . [FND] (01.12.02)


Information as of October 31, 2001
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SCOPE: The Council on Library and Information Services is inviting 
applications for dissertation fellowships for research in the 
humanities using original sources.

DEADLINE: Complete applications must be postmarked by December 1, or, 
if mailed from outside the U.S., by November 15.

FUNDS: The program offers 10 fellowships with a stipend of $1,600 per 
month for up to 12 months. Each fellow will receive an additional $800 
upon participating in a symposium on research in original sources and 
submitting an acceptable report to CLIR on the research experience. 
Thus the maximum award will be $20,000.

ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program in the 
humanities in a U.S. graduate school (students doing master's theses 
research are not eligible in this program); complete all doctoral 
degree requirements except dissertation research and writing before 
the beginning of the fellowship's tenure, including receiving approval 
for the dissertation topic (students already close to completing 
research or ready to begin writing are not eligible); and propose 
research for the dissertation primarily in original source material in 
the holdings of one or more institutional repositories such as 
archives, libraries, historical societies, and museums.

AREAS: This new fellowship program aims to: help humanities doctoral 
candidates who may otherwise not have opportunities to work in 
original source materials, help deepen their ability to develop 
knowledge from original sources, enable candidates to prepare 
dissertations by going where the relevant sources are rather than 
where financial support may happen to be available, and use the 
viewpoint of doctoral candidates to determine how scholarly resources 
can be developed most helpfully in the future. Original source 
material means primary sources such as the following: records, 
documents, manuscripts, and other written material photographs, films, 
sound recordings, and other audio-visual material maps, blueprints, 
drawings, and other graphic material library special collections, and 
books used as primary, not secondary, sources original artwork, 
artifacts, and museum objects.

Eligible fields include: area studies, art history, classics, 
comparative literature, critical theory, cultural anthropology, 
cultural studies, economic history, ethnic studies, ethnomusicology, 
history, history and philosophy of mathematics, history and philosophy 
of science and medicine, language and cultural linguistics, literature 
in any language, music history and theory, philosophy, political 
philosophy and theory, religion (except theological training for the 
ministry), rhetoric, women's studies, and interdisciplinary studies 
involving fields above.

CONTACT: Mellon Fellowships, Council on Library and Information 
Resources, 1755 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 
20036, 202-939-4750, fax 202-939-4765, email info@clir.org, web
http://www.clir.org/ , E-Forms: 
http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/mellon.html .
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