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2008-2009 Fellows |
Fellowships at the Newberry Library provide assistance to researchers who wish to use our collections, but who cannot finance a visit on their own.
Because the Newberry Library is open to anyone over the age of sixteen who has a need to use its collections, researchers are not required to hold fellowships in order to use Library materials. Qualified individuals who present themselves at the Reader Registration Desk with a valid form of identification will be issued a reader's card and be admitted to the reading rooms. For more information on gaining access to the Newberry's collections, visit the collections page or call (312) 255-3506.
Fellowships at the Newberry Library are of two types: short-term fellowships with terms of one week to two months and long-term fellowships of six to eleven months. Short-term fellowships are generally restricted to individuals from outside the metropolitan Chicago area and are primarily intended to assist researchers with a need to examine specific items in the Library's collection. Long-term fellowships are generally available without regard to an applicant's place of residence and are intended to support significant works of scholarship that draw on the Library's strengths.
No fellowships are available for tuition or other educational expenses, with the exception of the École des Chartes exchange fellowship. Most fellowships are restricted to doctoral candidates or postdoctoral researchers, although some fellowships are available for other categories of applicants. Our fellowship program rests on the belief that all projects benefit both from engagement with the materials in the Newberry's remarkably diverse collections and from the lively community of researchers that gathers around those collections. Therefore Newberry Library fellowships, with the exception of our exchange fellowships in Britain and France, require a residential period at the Library. Fellows make the Library their research home during their fellowship period and work here full time on the projects for which they have received funding.
Applicants with individual questions regarding eligibility or other matters should read these pages carefully before forwarding their questions to the Committee on Awards at research@newberry.org or (312) 255-3666.
NOTE: Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this Web site do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Funds for these fellowships have been provided by: