Call for Applications: 2020 UCLA Library Special Collections Research Fellowships

Russell Johnson Announcement
Location
California, United States
Subject Fields
American History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Humanities, Public History

 

The UCLA Library Special Collections Research Fellowships Program supports the use of special collections materials by visiting scholars and UCLA graduate students. Collections that are administered by UCLA Library Special Collections and available for fellowship-supported research include rare books, journals, manuscripts, archives, printed ephemera, photographs and other audiovisual materials, oral history interviews, and other items in the humanities and social sciences; medical, life and physical sciences; visual and performing arts; and UCLA history.

 

 

The Fellowships

 

James and Sylvia Thayer Short-term Research Fellowships

Thayer fellowships are on hiatus for 2020. They will return for 2021.

 

Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Research Fellowship in UCLA Library Special Collections

The Karmiole fellowship supports the use of UCLA Library Special Collections materials by visiting scholars and graduate students. One annual fellowship will be awarded in the amount of $5,000 to allow scholars to pursue research lasting from one to three months. The award is funded by an endowment established by Kenneth Karmiole, an internationally-renowned antiquarian bookseller who earned his master’s degree in library science from UCLA in 1971. The benefactor made previous gifts to the UCLA Library for the Kenneth Karmiole Endowment for Rare Books and Manuscripts, and to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. He has owned and operated Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, since 1976.

 

Barbara Rootenberg Short-term Research Fellowship in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences

The Rootenberg fellowship promotes the use of materials in History & Special Collections for the Sciences in UCLA Library Special Collections. One annual fellowship is awarded in the amount of $2,000 to allow scholars to pursue research lasting from two to six weeks. The award is named for Barbara Rootenberg, an alumna of the UCLA School of Library Service and an internationally-renowned antiquarian bookseller.

 

Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Books

Ahmanson Fellowships support the use of medieval and Renaissance monographic and manuscript holdings in UCLA Library Special Collections: the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of the Aldine Press; the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of Early Italian Printing; the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana; the Orsini Family Papers; the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection; the Richard and Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Early Printed Books; and the Medieval and Renaissance Arabic and Persian Medical Manuscripts. The fellowships provide $2,500 per month for up to three months. Administered by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, this program requires an application separate from that for Thayer, Karmiole, and Rootenberg fellowships; information is available on the Center website at: https://www.cmrs.ucla.edu/awards-fellowships/ahmanson/ .

 

 

Eligibility

 

Karmiole Fellowships

United States citizens and permanent residents with the legal right to work in the U.S. who are engaged in graduate-level, post-doctoral, academic, or independent research are invited to apply. Research residencies may last from one to three months between February 3 and December 18, 2020.  Complete information and application details are available at https://www.library.ucla.edu/special-collections/about/karmiole-fellowships.

 

Rootenberg Fellowships 

United States citizens and permanent residents with the legal right to work in the U.S. who are engaged in graduate-level, post-doctoral, academic, or independent research are invited to apply. Research residencies may last for two to six weeks between February 3 and December 18, 2020. Complete information and application details are available at https://www.library.ucla.edu/special-collections/about/rootenberg-fellowships.

 

Ahmanson Fellowships

United States and international graduate students or scholars holding a PhD (or the foreign equivalent) who are engaged in graduate-level, postdoctoral, or independent research are invited to apply. Research residencies may last up to three months between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021.

 

 

 

Application Deadline

 

Completed applications for Karmiole or Rootenberg fellowships must be received on or before November 1, 2019.

 

Contact Information

 

Russell Johnson, Chair

Library Special Collections Research Fellowships Program

UCLA Library Special Collections

A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library

Box 951575

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575

 

Phone:  310.825.6940

 

Contact Email
lib_lscfellowships@library.ucla.edu