Kluge Fellowship Competition (Library of Congress)

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Kluge Fellowship Competition

 

Location: District of Columbia, United States

Fellowship Deadline: 2001-09-30 (in 30 days)

Date Submitted: 2001-08-30

Announcement ID: 128315

 

Library of Congress Kluge Fellows Competition

Deadline for receipt of applications at the Library: September

30,

2001

 

Kluge Fellowships are for residential research in the collections

of

the Library of Congress. Fellowships are for a period of from six

to

twelve months with a stipend of $3,500 per month.

 

Eligibility: Scholars who have received a terminal advanced

degree

within the past seven years in the humanities, the social

sciences, or

in a professional field such as architecture or law are eligible.

Exceptions may be made for individuals without continuous

academic

careers. Applicants may be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals.

 

Applications: The application form and reference form may be

printed

from the website www.loc.gov/kluge. Applications must include a

three-page single-spaced research proposal, a two-page curriculum

vitae indicating major prior scholarship, an indication of the

collections at the Library of Congress that will be used for

research,

and two letters of reference from individuals who know the quality

of

the applicant's scholarshp. All application materials must be

written

in English.

 

Language certification: For applicants whose native language is

not

English, there must be evidence that the applicant is fluent in

English so as easily to conduct research, discuss work with

colleagues, and make a public presentation, although the ultimate

product of the research may be written in the applicant's native

language. For English speakers who seek to do research in the

Library's foreign language collections, there must be evidence

that

they have a command of the relevant language or languages at the

level

requisite for serious research.

 

Awards: Up to 12 Kluge Fellowships will be awarded annually.

Awards

are announced no later than March 15 of the following that in

which

the application was submitted.

 

For further information, contact the Office of Scholarly

Programs,

Library of Congress at scholarly, telephone 202-707-3302

or

fax 202-707-3595.

 

Office of Scholarly Programs

Library of Congress, LJ120

101 Independence Ave., S.E.

Washington, D.C. 20540-4860

 

Email: scholarly

Visit the Fellowship website at http://www.loc.gov/kluge