Please note: the grants and fellowships listed
here are not funded by MARC; further information should be obtained from the
sponsoring institution or foundation.
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy)
Awards 3 research grants to foreign students (not Italian citizens) for the
Academic Year for the following disciplines: classical philology, linguistics,
and history; modern philology and linguistics; history; art history; philosophy.
The applicants must have obtained their laurea or MA no longer than four
years ago and they cannot be older than 32. The recipients of the one-year fellowship
will attend courses and seminars at the SNS in Pisa and will receive a stipend
of 20.000.000 Italian Lire (approximately $11.000). The application should be
sent to:
Direttore della Scuola Normale Superiore
Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7
56100 Pisa
Italy
Please e-mail the SNS directly at: Segreteria.studenti@sns.it
for additional details and application information.
The William B. Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship
Award
sponsored by the American Branch of the Richard III Society
Awards usually in the amount of $500 to $1000 to graduate students pursuing
studies in a field or fields relating to the life and times of King Richard
III, or more generally to late fifteenth-century English history and culture.
An application form and instructions may be downloaded from the Richard III
and Yorkist History server, at http://www.r3.org/edu3.html
Deadline for applications: February 28 for the following academic year.
Winners announced June 1.
For more information, contact
Nancy Northcott
1915 Euclid Avenue
Charlotte, NC 28203-4707
R3award@aol.com
Residential Fellowships at the Newberry Library
These fellowships provide assistance to researchers who
wish to use the collections of the Newberry Library in Chicago. The Newberry's
holdings number more than 1.5 million volumes and 5 million manuscript pages.
The Newberry's collections concern the civilizations of Western Europe and the
Americas from the late Middle Ages to teh early twentieth century. Long-term
fellowships are available to post-doctoral scholars for periods of six to
eleven months. Applicants must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application;
stipends are up to $30,000. Deadline for applications in in mid-January.
Short-term fellowships are intended for post-doctoral scholars or Ph.D.
candidates who have a specific need for the Newberry collections. The tenure
of short-term fellowships varies from one week to two months; the amount of the
award is generally $1200 per month. Deadline for applications is March 1.
For information on specific Newberry Fellowships, and
to download applications, please visit www.newberry.org.
If you would like materials sent by mail, write to the Committee
on Awards,
60 West Walton Street,
Chicago IL 60610-3380.
Phone: 312-255-3666;
email: research@newberry.org
The John Leyerle-CARA Prize for Dissertation Research
In recognition of John Leyerle's outstanding contributions
and continous service to CARA, to the Medieval Academy, and to the general conduct
of medieval studies in North America, CARA is pleased to announce the establishment
of an annual prize in the amount of $1000 for disseration reserach. The
prize is intended to support the doctoral research of a dissertator who needs
to consult materials available in the University of Toronto's Robarts Library,
the collections of the Dictionary of Old English and the Records of Early English
Drama projects, and the library of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
The selection committee will be composed of the Chair of CARA and medievalists
on the University of Toronto faculty.
Applications must include three items: (1) a proposal
of not more than three pages outlining the research project, including a statement
that specifically addresses the pertinence of material in Toronto collections
to the dissertation research; (2) a brief curriculum vitae; and (3) a letter
of support from the dissertation director or major professor. Graduate
students of the University of Toronto currently in residence are not eligible.
Applications should be sent to the Director, Centre for
Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 39 Queen's Park Crescent East, Toronto,
ON M5S 2C3, Canada.
