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 interdisciplinary
approaches to areas such as landscape and garden design, environmental
history and policy, urban design and urban social history, and cultural
anthropology, exploration, botanical illustration and book-arts with a
primary focus on areas that connect the built and natural landscape to the
human 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.