Huntington Fellowships

Sponsor

The Huntington Library

Description

The Huntington Library awards over 150 research fellowships annually. The Huntington is a collections-based research institute, which promotes humanities scholarship on the basis of its library holdings and art collections. The Art Collections feature European and American art spanning more than 500 years, with diverse strengths ranging from Renaissance Italian bronzes to British grand manner portrait paintings to early American folk art to 20th-century drawings, prints and photography. The Library holds more than 11 million items that span the 11th to the 21st century. Its diverse materials center on 14 intersecting collection strengths.

Eligibility

The Huntington does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national or ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation or age and is dedicated to fair treatment, diversity and inclusion. Eligible candidates may apply in collaboration with a colleague for either a joint short-term fellowship or a joint long-term fellowship.

• Applicants for long-term (yearlong) fellowships must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. at the time of application. That is to say, only those who hold a Ph.D. or who have successfully defended a dissertation by the application deadline are eligible. Applicants do not need to have formally graduated to apply.
• Short-term fellowships (of five months or less) are open to doctoral candidates; master’s students in programs requiring a thesis; faculty members; postdoctoral scholars; and independent researchers working on a scholarly project served by our collections.
• Travel grants/exchange fellowships (for study abroad) are open to doctoral candidates who have advanced to candidacy (ABD) at the time of the application deadline, to faculty members and other postdoctoral scholars

The majority of Huntington fellowships—short- and long-term—are open to scholars of any nationality. Exceptions include the three long-term fellowships funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, which require recipients be either U.S. citizens or foreign nationals who have been in the United States for three years preceding application. Applicants for travel grants and exchange fellowships must be based at institutions in North America but do not need to be U.S. citizens.

Prize

Typically, the peer review committees will award 13 long-term fellowships, 140 short-term fellowships and 12 travel grants and exchange fellowships.

Recipients of all fellowships are expected to be in continuous residence at The Huntington and to participate in, and make a contribution to, its intellectual life. Long-term fellows are expected to present at a two-day introductory symposium in September and to participate in weekly working group sessions from October to May. Fellowship years are defined as starting July 1 of the year awarded through June 30 of the following year.

Fellows are expected to spend twenty working days in the library per month. A “working day” is defined as any day the library is open for use. General hours are Monday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m., Tuesday–Wednesday, 9 a.m.–7 p.m., and Thursday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. If there are fewer than 20 working days available in any month given the calendar or holiday schedule, you should plan to work as many days as are available. Fellows do NOT need to begin fellowships on the first of a calendar month. The Huntington does not offer on-site housing or assume responsibility for securing housing for fellows. Assistance is offered by providing lists of furnished rooms, apartments and houses that are available for rent.

How to Apply

Nominations must be submitted directly to the Huntington Fellowships web page. Please also submit a copy of the full nomination and OR-5 to research.services@uoguelph.ca by the external deadline.

Candidates are required to choose either a short-term or a long-term award and to convey in their proposal a clear sense of what it is that they hope to achieve within the time available. Applications include a project description, CV and letters of recommendation.  Letters of recommendation must be tailored to your individual application and speak to the relevance of The Huntington’s collections and why they are crucial to your project.

For travel grant applications, it must be indicated which materials in foreign archives you wish to consult and the relationship between the research to be conducted abroad and research that either has been or will be conducted on the basis of The Huntington’s collections.

For More Information

Further information can be found on the Fellowships FAQ page, or contact ailsakay@uoguelph.ca.