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Fellowship Opportunities New England
Regional Fellowship Consortium
The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, a
collaboration of fifteen major cultural agencies, will offer at least nine
awards in 2008-2009. Each grant will provide a stipend of $5,000 for eight
weeks of research at participating institutions. Applications are welcome
from anyone with a serious need to use the collections and facilities of
the organizations. The Consortium's grants are designed to encourage
projects that draw on the resources of several agencies. Each award will
be for research at a minimum of three different institutions. Fellows must
work at each of these organizations for at least two weeks. Grants in this
cycle are for the year June 1, 2008 - May 31, 2009.
Participants include:
How to Apply
for a Consortium Fellowship:
Applicants must send the following materials:
- A cover letter.
- A current curriculum vitae, not to exceed three pages in length.
- A brief project description (no more than four pages,
double-spaced).
- NERFC Grant Application Form, available in Microsoft
Word for Windows 95/98/XP and Mac OSX (if you would like to enter
the information using your computer in Microsoft Word) or PDF
format (if you would like to type the information using a
typewriter). The application is also available in the older Word
97-2000 format, or you may request an application by mail or email.
- A detailed account of which collections will be used.
- Two letters of recommendation from faculty members (graduate
students) or colleagues (independent scholars and professors) familiar
with the applicant's work and with the project being proposed.
Application Guidelines:
- All Applicants must submit two single-sided 8½" x
11" copies (one original and one photocopy) of their
application packet in a page-size envelope.
- Application packets should not be stapled or folded.
- Pages must be numbered and the applicant's last name and
project title must appear in the upper right-hand corner of
each page. (This will insure that your packet will remain intact and
in order.)
- Applications may be sent as an e-mail attachment in MS Word
format or Rich Text format (choose 'Save As' from the 'File'
menu)
- We cannot accept faxed applications. Please do not address
applications to an individual staff member.
Applications must be postmarked by February 1, 2008.
Send applications to:
Regional Fellowships
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Please direct questions to fellowships@masshist.org
or call (617) 646-0513.
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