The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)

The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) program supports distinguished graduate students in the humanities and social sciences conducting dissertation research outside the United States. Seventy-five fellowships will be awarded in 2008 with funds provided bythe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Find more information at
(<http://www.mellon.org/> ).

NINES Workshop in Digital Scholarship

NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship) is offering a week-long workshop for scholars undertaking digital projects in nineteenth-century British and American literary and cultural studies. The workshop will be held at Miami University, Ohio, 22-29 July 2008. Deadline is 15 October 2007.

The workshop will provide a practical setting where scholars can develop their individual digital projects with other scholars who have shared interests, goals, and problems to be addressed. The workshop will focus on theoretical, technical, administrative, and institutional issues relevant to the needs of the specific projects. A three-day seminar on scholarly text encoding (with TEI) run by Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman of Brown University will begin the workshop. Michael Eberle-Sinatra of the University of Montreal will conduct a seminar on online journals, and Amy Earhart, Texas A&M, as well as Britt Carr, of Miami, will conduct seminars on incorporating Google MAP APIs into projects. Artist Ira Greenberg, author of Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art, will teach a seminar on visualizing data. Other Miami faculty and staff will teach seminars on scanning, project management, editing theories,
database design, and usability. Everyone accepted into the workshop will have lodging and meals provided. There will be a workshop fee of $400.

HOW TO APPLY
Applications should not exceed two single spaced pages. They should be headed with a
project title and a one-sentence description of the project. They should include as well a
developed project description that addresses each of the following matters:
• The scholarly rationale for the project.
• The technical and theoretical problems that face the project and that can be addressed in the NINES workshop.
• The expected duration of the project, its phases, and some description of the current state of work.
• The digital technology used or needed by the project.
• The technical support available to the scholar at his/her home institution.
Send applications by October 15th to: workshops@nines.org

UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library fellowships

The UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library offer numerous fellowships for senior and postdoctoral scholars, as well as for graduate students. Note that not all of the latter are aimed at UCLA students.
Find more information at (http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/Postd.htm). Fellowship deadlines are 1 February 2008.

Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Program

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program (http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/pdf/E7-17526.pdf). Deadline 5 November 2007.

This program provides opportunities to doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. The program is designed to contribute to the development and improvement of the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States.

Stanford Humanities Center External Fellowships

1. Stanford Humanities Center Fellowships - http://shc.stanford.edu/ (click on Fellowships)

The Stanford Humanities Center offers various fellowships with various deadlines, some as early as October:

RESIDENTIAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
EXTERNAL FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS
DIGITAL HUMANITIES FELLOWSHIP
HUMANITIES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FELLOWSHIP

Applicants will normally be at least three years beyond receipt of the PhD by the beginning of the fellowship term. Eligible areas include, but are not limited to: history, philosophy, languages, literature, linguistics, archeology, ethics, comparative religion, and history and criticism of the arts. Proposals are welcome from the social sciences employing historical or philosophical approaches, such as social and cultural anthropology, sociology, political theory, and other subjects concerned with questions of value.

American Antiquarian Society post-dissertation residential fellowship

Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship at AAS(http://www.americanantiquarian.org/post-diss.htm) Deadline 15 October 2007.

Scholars who are no more than three years beyond receipt of the doctorate are eligible to apply for a special year-long residential fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society to revise their dissertation for publication. Established as the Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellowship in 1998, the fellowship has been renamed in honor of John B. Hench, who retires in August 2007 as vice president for collections and programs after thirty-three years on the staff of the American Antiquarian Society.
The purpose of the post-dissertation fellowship is to provide the recipient with time and resources to extend research and/or to revise the dissertation for publication. Any topic relevant to the Society's library collections and programmatic scope--that is, American history and culture through 1876--is eligible.
Applicants may come from such fields as history, literature, American studies, political science, art history, music history, and others relating to America in the period of the Society's coverage. The Society welcomes applications from those who have advance book contracts, as well as those who have not yet made contact with a publisher. The twelve-month stipend for this fellowship is $35,000.

Mellon Humanities Post-Doc at Wesleyan University

Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (http://www.wesleyan.edu/chum/mellon.html). Deadline 1 November 2007.
Scholars who have received their Ph.D. degree after June 2005 in any field of inquiry in the humanities or humanistic social sciences—broadly conceived—are invited to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship, made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Wesleyan University. The purpose of this Fellowship is to provide scholars who have recently completed their Ph.D.’s with free time to further their own work in a cross-disciplinary setting, and to associate them with a distinguished faculty.
One Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow will be appointed to the Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities for the whole academic year, 2008-2009, and each Fellow will be awarded a stipend of $40,000. He or she will teach a one-semester undergraduate course; participate in the collegial life of the Center for the Humanities, which sponsors conferences, lectures, and colloquia; and give one public lecture. The Fellow will be provided with an office at the Center for the Humanities, and will be expected to work there on weekdays while the university is in session, and to reside in Middletown. The Theme for 2008-2009 will be “The Business of the University in an Age of Knowledge Transformations”, please visit our website www.wesleyan.edu/chum for a complete description of the theme. Scholars whose interests bear upon this theme are encouraged to apply for the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship.