The application deadline for ALL 2012-13 short-term Fellowships is 1 March 2012. This is a postmark deadline for all components of the application, including the letters of support.
To apply online, use the link in the menu on the left of this screen. To apply by regular mail, please submit four collated, unstapled copies of the following: the application form, a 1,000-word description of your research project, and 4-page curriculum vitae. Three letters of support complete the application and may be sent via regular mail to the Folger or may be emailed as signed pdf documents to cbrobeck@folger.edu. Do NOT send portfolio letters.
NEW FELLOWSHIPS
The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference/Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship. The Fellow will be awarded a two-month Fellowship to be taken at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The award carries a stipend of $5000. Applicants must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application and must be a member in good standing of SCSC. Applicants must submit a cover letter in the place of the Folger's own application form and all other components as specified above. Apply directly to SCSC. Attn: Donald J. Harreld, Exex. Dir., SCSC, Department of History, Brigham Young University--2145JFSB, Provo, UT 84660.
The American Historical Association/Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship. For research on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century western European history, the Fellow will be awarded a one-month Fellowship to be taken at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Applicants must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application and must be a member in good standing of the AHA. Apply directly to the Folger.
TOPIC SPECIFIC FELLOWSHIP ENDOWMENTS
Of the endowments that support short-term Fellowships, the Folger has a number of endowments that are restricted by research topic or by region. Those endowments are described below:
The Matillda D. Mascioli Fellowship Fund: for scholars from Italy or conducting research on Shakespeare or early modern Italian literature, history, or culture.
The Bess and Philip Rosenblum Fellowship Fund: for scholars from Israel or the Middle East conducting research on Shakespeare and/or the early modern period.
The Susan Snyder Memorial Fellowship Fund: for younger Shakespeare scholars.
The Myra and Charlton Hinman Fellowship Fund: for editorial and/ or bibliographic research.
Applicants need not name the Folger Fellowship for which they are applying as the committee will make these assignments.
Potential applicants are always encouraged to contact Fellowships Administrator Carol Brobeck with any questions about the process of applying for or holding a Fellowship. What follows is the kind of general information potential applicants receive in advance of making an application.
The Folger currently receives roughly 100 short-term Fellowship applications each year.
The proposed research should be relevant to Folger collections. Proposal narratives should indicate which Folger primary sources are critical to the proposed research.
Letters of support should not be job or portfolio letters. Successful applicants generally secure letters of support from scholars who know their work, have read the proposal, and can speak to the importance of the proposed project as well as the applicant’s ability to bring the project to completion.
Applicants should not assume a greater likelihood of success in the competition by asking for fewer months than are needed.
Awardees are expected to be in continuous residence. Ideally, a Fellow will not need to break a 3-month fellowship in half. The unavailability of Folger housing does not serve as a reason for requesting a break in the Fellowship period.
The Folger understands the Fellowship year to begin 1 July 2012 and end 30 June 2013. To accommodate Fellows who wish to take three months in summer 2012, the Folger will allow the residency to begin in June.
Applications by regular mail should be addressed to The Fellowship Committee,
The Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 E. Capitol St., SE, Washington, DC 20003.
Contact:
Carol Brobeck
Fellowships Administrator
cbrobeck@folger.edu
