THE HUMANITIES INSTITUTE: A DIVISION OF THE LuESTHER T. MERTZ LIBRARY AT THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN Call for Fellows The Humanities Institute, a division within the LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden, announces an inaugural fellowship program. The Institute is pleased to offer two Mellon Fellowships for the year 2015 for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. Potential fellows are invited to submit an application for a project Fellowship that would expand the Garden’s role in humanities scholarship. *Fellows will conduct research that involves innovative interdisciplinaryapproaches to areas such as landscape and garden design, environmentalhistory and policy, urban design and urban social history, and culturalanthropology, exploration, botanical illustration and book-arts with aprimary focus on areas that connect the built and natural landscape to thehuman experience.* Specific collections in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library and Archives could also be taken into consideration as part of the research topic. We are especially interested in combining knowledge from fields within the arts and sciences to promote new thought about the history of botany, landscape and garden design, and forward new solutions for modern society’s relationship with the built environment. Participants will be given full access to the collections of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, the Archives, the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, and the Living Collections, including the 250 acre historic landscape of the Garden. Eligibility: Current graduate students (PhD candidates) and post-doctoral researchers, who like to further their studies in a large, international plant-based research center. Tenure of fellowship: nine to twelve month Annual Stipend awarded: $42,000 Fellows are expected to participate in the Humanities Institute’s activities, including symposia, colloquia, exhibitions, and various lectures in other Departments Campus-wide, and give a short presentation about their own research. For a complete description of the Fellowship, including what to include in the application, please see http://www.nybg.org/files/FELLOWSHIP-HUMANITIES-INSTITUTE-11-4-14.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~