Funding: Fellowships at UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies

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Fellowships at UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies

The UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th Century Studies awards a number of postdoctoral and graduate fellowhips each year.

The deadline is February 1st 2011. More detail can be found on their website http://www.c1718cs.ucla.edu/#

Fellowships include:

Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships

This theme-based resident fellowship program, established with the support of the Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles and the J. Paul Getty Trust, is designed to encourage the participation of junior scholars in the Center’s yearlong core programs.

The core program for year 2011–2012: Rivalry and Rhetoric in the Early Modern Mediterranean - directed by Clark Professor Barbara Fuchs (UCLA) more detail here

Stipend: $37,740 for the three-quarter period together with paid medical benefits for scholar.

Clark Short-Term Fellowships

Fellowship support is available to scholars with research projects that require work in any area of the Clark’s collections. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. degree or have equivalent academic experience. Awards are for periods of one to three months in residence.

Stipend: $2,500 per month.

ASECS/Clark Fellowships

Fellowships jointly sponsored by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Clark Library are available to postdoctoral scholars and to ABD graduate students with projects in the Restoration or the eighteenth century. Fellowship holders must be members in good standing of ASECS. Awards are for one month of residency.

Stipend: $2,500 for the month of residency.

Kanner Fellowship in British Studies

This three-month fellowship, established through the generosity of Penny Kanner, supports research at the Clark Library in any area pertaining to British history and culture. The fellowship is open to both postdoctoral and predoctoral scholars.

Stipend: $7,500 for the three-month tenure.

Clark-Huntington Joint Bibliographical Fellowship

Sponsored jointly by the Clark and the Huntington Libraries, this two-month fellowship provides support for bibliographical research in early modern British literature and history as well as other areas where the two libraries have common strengths. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. degree or have appropriate research experience.

Stipend: $5,000 for two months in residence.

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