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The Lewis Walpole Library is delighted to announce the resumption of its Visiting Fellowship and Travel Grant program. The 2023-24 fellowship year will run June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2024.

 

Applications are being accepted through the Monday, January 9 deadline.

 

The Lewis Walpole Library funds 4-week visiting fellowships, including the Lewis Walpole Library/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies residential fellowship, and 2-week travel grants to support research in the library’s rich collections of materials from the British world of the long 18th-century.

 

Fellowship and Travel Grant Award recipients also have access to additional resources at Yale, including those in the Sterling Memorial Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Yale Center for British Art.

 

ELIGIBILITY: who is invited to apply

 

• Scholars pursuing postdoctoral or advanced research or

 

• Doctoral candidates at work on a dissertation

 

EXPECTATIONS: all Award recipients are expected to

 

• complete fellowships within the fellowship year (June 1 through May 31).

 

• be in residence at the library

 

• be free of other significant professional obligations during their stay

 

• take their fellowship in one uninterrupted period

 

• focus research substantially on the Lewis Walpole Library’s collections

 

AWARDS INCLUDE:

 

• the round-trip cost of travel between the Lewis Walpole Library and the recipient’s home institution or residence

 

• reimbursement of the cost of a rental car or local travel expenses

 

• accommodation for four weeks (fellowships) or two weeks (travel grants) in an eighteenth-century house on the Library’s campus

 

• a per diem living allowance to cover living expenses for four-week Fellows and two-week Travel Grant Recipients.

 

For further information: https://walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/visiting-fellowships-and-travel-grants

To apply: http://apply.interfolio.com/111103

 

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Susan Odell Walker

Head of Public Services

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Mailing Address:

The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Library

P.O. Box 1408
Farmington, CT 06034

 

Street Address (for FedEx, UPS, etc.):

The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Library

154 Main Street

Farmington, CT 06032

 

Telephone: 860 677-2140

Fax: 860 677-6369

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