Wednesday, November 28, 2007

The Lewis and Clark Fund

FYI due Feb. 15
For more information visit
(http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewisandclark.htm)


The Lewis and Clark Fund (initially supported by the Stanford Ascherman/Baruch Blumberg Fund for Basic Science, established by a benefaction from the late Stanford Ascherman, MD, of San Francisco) encourages exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data and to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation. Applications are invited from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as archeology, anthropology, biology, ecology, geography, geology, linguistics, and paleontology, but grants will not be restricted to these fields.

Graduate students and postdoctoral and junior scientists wishing to pursue projects in astrobiological field studies should consult the program description and forms for the Lewis and Clark Fund in Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology
.

John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship

FYI due April 1
For more information visit
(http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/johnhopefranklin.htm)

This fellowship, named in honor of a distinguished member of the American Philosophical Society, is designed to support an outstanding doctoral student at an American university who is conducting dissertation research. There are two special features to this fellowship.

First, the objective of the John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship is to help remedy the serious shortage of faculty of color in core fields in the arts and sciences, by supporting the Ph.D. projects of minority students of great promise (particularly African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and Native Americans) as well as other talented students who have a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial
disparities and enlarging minority representation in academia.

Second, the John Hope Franklin Fellow is expected to spend a significant amount of time in residence at the APS Library and therefore all applicants should be pursuing dissertation topics in which the holdings of the Library are especially strong, such as quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, computer development, the history of genetics and eugenics, the history of medicine, Early American political and cultural history,
natural history in the 18th and 19th centuries, the development of cultural anthropology, or American Indian linguistics and culture. The APS Library's extensive collections in these and many other fields are fully described on our website at www.amphilsoc.org/library.

Phillips Fund Native American Research Grants

FYI due March 1
For more information visit
(http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/phillips.htm)


The Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society provides grants for research in Native American linguistics, ethnohistory, and the history of studies of Native Americans, in the continental United States and Canada. Grants are not made for projects in archaeology, ethnography, psycholinguistics, or for the preparation of pedagogical materials. The committee distinguishes ethnohistory from contemporary ethnography as the study of cultures and culture change through time. The grants are intended for such costs as travel, tapes, films, and consultants' fees but not for the purchase of books or permanent equipment.

National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships

For more information visit
http://www.arts.gov/grants/apply/Lit/index.html

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE MARCH 2008 DEADLINE (FOR FY 2009 FELLOWSHIPS IN
POETRY) WILL BE AVAILABLE IN JANUARY 2008.

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) offers Creative Writing Literature Fellowships in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) orpoetry to exceptionally talented, published creative writers.Fellowships enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research,travel, and general career advancement.

This program operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose available in FY 2008 and fellowships in poetry available in FY 2009. Creative writers who meet the publication requirements are eligible to apply. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States. See "How to Prepare and Submit an Application" for the documentation that is required to demonstrate eligibility. Ineligible applications will be rejected. An individual may submit only one
application per year.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

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

FYI due Feb. 1
For more information visit
(http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/Postd.htm)

The UCLA Center for 17th and 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library support postdoctoral, predoctoral, and undergraduate research in areas of interest to the Center and the Clark Library.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Glasscock Center Undergraduate Apprentice Accepted to Teach for America

Sydney Bachtell, a senior Communication major and Undergraduate Apprentice at the Glasscock Center, was recently extended an offer to join Teach for America (TFA), as a member of their 2008 Corps. TFA is an organization striving to close the educational achievement gap that is currently found in the United States. According to the organization’s website, they do so by recruiting “outstanding recent college graduates and professionals of all academic majors, career interests, and professional backgrounds who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity”.

Ms. Bachtell, whose hometown is San Antonio, has been offered a position in the Rio Grande Valley Region of Texas, and is tentatively assigned to teach Intermediate or Middle School English. She first became interested in the organization after hearing about it at a College of Liberal Arts career fair her Freshman year. She is currently Vice President of Lambda Pi Eta (the Communication Honor Society) and has played leadership roles in the MSC Wiley Lecture Series.

More information about TFA can be found on their website: www.teachforamerica.org.

Fellowships for Historians of Foreign Relations

For more information visit the websites listed below

* Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize
http://www.shafr.org/prizes.htm#bernathbook
* Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize
http://www.shafr.org/prizes.htm#bernathlecture
* Stuart L. Bernath Article Prize
http://www.shafr.org/prizes.htm#bernatharticle
* Stuart L. Bernath Dissertation Grant
http://www.shafr.org/prizes.htm#bernathdissertation
* Myrna F. Bernath Book Award
http://www.shafr.org/prizes.htm#myrnabook
* Myrna F. Bernath Fellowship Award
http://www.shafr.org/prizes.htm#myrnafellowship
* Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize
http://www.shafr.org/prizes.htm#Ferrell
* Norman and Laura Graebner Award
http://www.shafr.org/prizes.htm#Graebner
* Michael J. Hogan Fellowship
http://www.shafr.org/prizes.htm#hogan
* W. Stull Holt Dissertation Fellowship
http://www.shafr.org/prizes.htm#Holt
* Samuel Flagg Bemis Research Grants
http://www.shafr.org/prizes.htm#travel
* The Betty M. Unterberger Dissertation Prize
http://www.shafr.org/prizes.htm#unterberger
* Lawrence Gelfand-Armin Rappaport Fellowship
http://www.shafr.org/prizes.htm#gelfand
* Arthur S. Link-Warren F. Kuehl Prize for Documentary Editing
http://www.shafr.org/prizes.htm#Link
* Georgetown Travel Grant
http://www.shafr.org/prizes.htm#georgetown


The Bernath Memorial Prizes


The Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, the Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize, the Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize, and the Stuart L. Bernath Dissertation Grant were established through the generosity of Dr. Gerald J. and Myrna F. Bernath, in memory of their late son, Stuart L. Bernath, Ph.D.

The Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize
The purpose of the award is to recognize and encourage distinguished
research and writing by scholars of American foreign relations. The
prize of $2,500 is awarded annually to an author for his or her first
book on any aspect of the history of American foreign relations.

The Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize
The Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize recognizes and encourages excellence in teaching and research in the field of foreign relations by younger scholars. The prize of $500is awarded annually.

The Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize
The purpose of the prize is to recognize and encourage distinguished research and writing by young scholars in the field of diplomatic relations. The prize of $1,000 is awarded annually to the author of a distinguished article appearing in a scholarly journal or edited book, on any topic in United States foreign relations.


The Stuart L. Bernath Dissertation Grant
The Bernath Dissertation Grant of $4,000 is intended to help doctoral
candidates defray expenses encountered in the writing of their
dissertations. The grant is awarded annually at the SHAFR luncheon held
during the annual meeting of the American Historical Association.

Applicants must be actively working on dissertations dealing with some
aspect of U.S. foreign relations history. Applicants must have
satisfactorily completed all requirements for the doctoral degree except
the dissertation. Membership in SHAFR is not required.

The Myrna F. Bernath Fellowship
The Myrna F. Bernath Fellowship was established by the Bernath family to promote scholarship in U.S. foreign relations history by women. The Myrna Bernath Fellowship of $5,000 is intended to defray the costs of scholarly research by women. It is awarded biannually (in odd years) and announced at the SHAFR luncheon held during the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians.

Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize
This prize is designed to reward distinguished scholarship in the history of American foreign relations, broadly defined. The prize of $2,500 is awarded annually. The Ferrell Prize was established to honor Robert H. Ferrell, professor of diplomatic history at Indiana University from 1961 to 1990, by his former students.


The Norman and Laura Graebner Award
The Graebner Award is a lifetime achievement award intended to recognize a senior historian of United States foreign relations who has significantly contributed to the development of the field, through scholarship, teaching, and/or service, over his or her career. The award of $2,000 is awarded biannually. The Graebner Award was established by the former students of Norman A. Graebner, professor of diplomatic history at the University of Illinois and the University of Virginia, to honor Norman and his wife Laura for their years of devotion to teaching and research in the field.

The Michael J. Hogan Fellowship

The Michael J. Hogan Fellowship was established to honor Michael J. Hogan, long-time editor of Diplomatic History.The Hogan Fellowship of $4,000 is intended to promote research in foreign language sources by graduate students. The fellowship is
intended to defray the costs of studying foreign languages needed for research. It is announced at the SHAFR luncheon held during the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians.

The W. Stull Holt Dissertation Fellowship
The W. Stull Holt Dissertation Fellowship of $4,000 is intended to defray the costs of travel, preferably foreign travel, necessary to conduct research on a significant dissertation project. The fellowship is awarded annually at the SHAFR luncheon held during the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians.

Samuel Flagg Bemis Research Grants
The Samuel F. Bemis Research Grants are intended to promote research by doctoral candidates, by untenured faculty members, and by those within six years of the Ph.D. and working as professional historians. A limited number of grants of varying amounts (generally, up to $2,000) will be awarded annually to help defray the costs of domestic or international travel necessary to conduct research on significant scholarly projects.

The Lawrence Gelfand - Armin Rappaport Fellowship
SHAFR established this fellowship to honor Lawrence Gelfand, founding member and former SHAFR president and Armin Rappaport, founding editor of Diplomatic History.
The Gelfand-Rappaport Fellowship of $4,000 is intended to defray the
costs of dissertation research travel. The fellowship is awarded annually at SHAFR luncheon held during the annual meeting of the American Historical Association.

Arthur S. Link-Warren F. Kuehl Prize for Documentary Editing
The Link-Kuehl Prize is awarded for outstanding collections of primary source materials in the fields of international or diplomatic history, especially those distinguished by the inclusion of commentary designed to interpret the documents and set them within their historical context. Published works as well as electronic collections and audio-visual compilations are eligible. The prize is not limited to works on American foreign policy, but is open to works on the history of international, multi-archival, and/or American foreign relations, policy, and
diplomacy.

Georgetown Travel Grants
This grant was designed to subsidize research by doctoral students in the archives of the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area. The prize was discontinued in June 2003.

Truman Library Fellowship

FYI due Feb. 1
For more information visit
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/grants.htm

Dissertation Year Fellowships - Grants of $16,000 will be given to support graduate students working on some aspect of the life and career of Harry S. Truman or of the public and foreign policy issues which were prominent during the Truman years. One or two dissertation year fellowships will normally be awarded each year.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Fellowship

FYI due Feb. 15
For more information visit
(http://www.americancouncils.org/programs.php?program_id=NTc= ).

The National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Fellowship provides support of up to $40,000 for U.S. scholars conducting humanities research in any country of East-Central Europe and Eurasia. A wide range of humanities topics are eligible for support (see below); however, all projects must involve at least one collaborator from the region and field-based research in the region itself. In addition, applicants must hold a Ph.D. or other terminal degree and have a working knowledge of one or more of the languages of East-Central Europe or Eurasia, or be able to demonstrate that such language proficiency is not critical for the successful completion of their particular projects. Applications with a strong regional focus and the potential to strengthen academic linkages beyond the traditional centers are particularly encouraged.

American Historical Association Graduate Student Grants

FYI due Feb. 15
For more information visti
(http://www.historians.org/prizes/Grants.htm ).

The American Historical Association (AHA) offers the following grant opportunities
for graduate students:
a.. Bernadotte Schmitt Grants to support research in the history of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Individual grants will not exceed $1,000.
b.. Albert J. Beveridge Grants to support research in the history of the Western hemisphere (US, Canada, and Latin America). Individual grants will not exceed
$1,000.
c.. Littleton-Griswold Research Grant to support research in US legal history and
in the general field of law and society. Individual grants will not exceed $1,000.
d.. Michael Kraus Research Grant to support research in colonial American history,
with particular reference to the intercultural aspects of American and European
relations. Individual awards will not exceed $800.

Grants are intended to further research in progress. Grants are only available to
eligible AHA members. Funds may be used for, but are not limited to, travel to a library or archive; microfilming, photography, or photocopying; borrowing or access
fees; and similar research expenses. Citizenship: unrestricted.

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Next Week's Events at the Glasscock Center

The following is a list of next week’s events supported by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and/or its affiliated programs:

**Monday, 12 November**
Glasscock Center Lecture “How Do We Keep Knowing?”: Elliott R. Wolfson (New York University) “Knowing the Unknowing: Mysticism and the (A)temporal Quest for Gnosis,” 7:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Tuesday, 13 November**
Co-Sponsored Seminar: Elliott R. Wolfson (New York University) “Alterity, Mysticism, and Ethics: Representations of the Christian and Muslim Others in Medieval abbalah,” 9:30 a.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Wednesday, 14 November**
Glasscock Coffee Come & Go: featuring Humanities affiliates from the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture, 8:30-9:30 a.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Faculty Colloquium: Patricia Phillippy (English) “Women in Document and Monument in Early Modern England,” 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Thursday, 15 November**
Graduate Colloquium: Leslie Gautreaux Edwards (English), “Creating the Domestic: D.H. Lawrence and Modernist Masculinity,” 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**If you are interested in meeting with any of our visiting speakers contact Dr. Donnalee Dox at dox@libarts.tamu.edu
**For further information consult the Glasscock Center website at http://glasscock.tamu.edu/
**For current events at the Glasscock Center consult our blog at http://glasscockcenter.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Puffin Foundation Grants

FYI Deadline: Dec. 30, 2007.
For more information visit
http://www.puffinfoundation.org/grants/prospectiveapplicant.html

The Puffin Foundation continues to make Grants that encourage emerging artists in the fields of art, music, theater, dance, photography, and literature whose works due to their genre and/or social philosophy might have difficulty being aired. The Foundation does not have the means to fund large film/documentary proposals, grants for travel, continuing education, or the writing or publishing of books.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Elliott R. Wolfson of NYU to Present in the Glasscock Center Lecture Series "How Do We Keep Knowing?"

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce a public lecture in its continuing series “How Do We Keep Knowing?” Dr. Elliott R. Wolfson, Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, will present a paper entitled "Knowing and Unknowing: Mysticism and the (A)Temporal Quest for Gnosis," on Monday, 12 November 2007 at 7:00 p.m. in the Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Professor Wolfson has published widely on Kabbalah and other topics related to Judaic Studies, including Luminal Darkness: Imaginal Gleanings from Zoharic Literature (2007), Alef, Mem, Tau: Kabbalistic Musings on Time, Truth, and Death (2006), and Venturing Beyond: Morality and Law in Kabbalistic Mysticism (2006).

Wolfson will also moderate a seminar on his work “Alterity, Mysticism, and Ethics: Representations of the Christian and Muslim Others in Medieval Kabbalah,” on Tuesday, 13 November at 9:30 a.m. in the Glasscock Building, Room 311.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, see our website http://glasscock.tamu.edu/, visit our blog at http://www.glasscockcenter.blogspot.com, or contact the Glasscock Center at glasscock@tamu.edu or at 979-845-8328.

Smithsonian Fellowship and Internship Opportunities

FYI due Jan. 15
For more information visit
(http://www.si.edu/ofg/).

The Office of Research Training and Services (ORTS) has the central management and administrative responsibility for the Institution's programs of research grants, fellowships, and other scholarly appointments. One of its primary objectives is the facilitation of the Smithsonian's scholarly interactions with students and scholars at universities, museums, and other research institutions around the world. The Office administers Institution-wide research support programs, and encourages and assists other Smithsonian museums, research institutes and research offices in the development of additional fellowships and visiting appointments.

Obermann Center and Center for the Book Seminar

FYI due Jan. 30
For more information visit
(http://www.uiowa.edu/obermann/medievalbooks/).

In summer 2008, the Obermann Center in collaboration with the Center for the Book will offer participants an exciting new research opportunity by bringing book artists and medieval scholars together in a two-week seminar that integrates scholarly study and engaged artistic practice. We welcome applications from book artists with demonstrated interest in medieval production techniques and from scholars of the Middle Ages whose study of manuscripts would most benefit from intimate, engaged materialist knowledge of the book. We encourage applicants from a broad range of disciplines that rely on manuscripts. Scholars in art history, history, languages, literature, musicology, and religion are encouraged to apply. Our objective is to advance scholarship of the medieval disciplines through an informed understanding of material manuscript evidence.Applications should demonstrate that a participant will bring topics of interest and importance to the seminar that would clearly benefit from a greater understanding of the physical nature of a single manuscript.

David Library of the American Revolution Research Fellowships

Deadling March 7
For more information visit
(http://www.dlar.org/).

The David Library of the American Revolution offers short-term Library Resident Research Fellowships for conducting research in its collections. The Library's rich resources in microfilm and print on virtually every aspect of the era of the American Revolution (1750-1800) are fully listed at this web site. The stipend is $1600 per month (plus housing), and the term of the Fellowship is a minimum of one month and a maximum of three. Both doctoral and post-doctoral applicants are welcome; doctoral candidates must have passed their general examinations before beginning their fellowships.