16 June: fyi -- scholarship, DC
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The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress
Kluge Fellowship Competition
Deadline for receipt of applications: August 15, 2005
The Library of Congress invites qualified scholars of the humanities
and social sciences to conduct research in the John W. Kluge Center
using the Library's collections and resources. Interdisciplinary,
cross-cultural, or multilingual research is particularly welcome.
Eligibility: Scholars who have received a terminal advanced degree
within the past seven years in the humanities, 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.
Tenure and Stipend. Fellowships may be held for periods from six to
eleven months at a stipend of $4000 per month. Constraints of space
and the desirability of acommodating the maximum number of Fellows may
lead to an offer of fewer months than originally requested. Stipends
will be paid monthly, usually by electronic transfer to a bank
account.
Applications: All applications must be written in English. The
application must include a research proposal (no longer than three
single-spaced pages) and a single paragraph summary, a two-page
curriculum vita which should indicate major prior scholarship, an
indication of the collections at the Library of Congress that will be
used for research and three letters of reference (in English) from
individuals who know the quality of the applicant's scholarship. The
application form and reference form may be printed from the website
referenced below.
Deadline: Applications (with nine collated copies) must be received at
the Office of Scholarly Programs, Library of Congress, by August 15,
2005. The Library continues to experience lengthy delays in the
delivery of mail by the U. S. Postal Service. To ensure that your
application arrives by the receipt deadline, please consider using a
commercial delivery service.
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 twelve Kluge Fellowships will be awarded annually by the
Library of Congress. Awards will be announced by March 15 of the year
following that in which the application is due. For further
information contact The John W. Kluge Center, Office of Scholarly
Programs, Library of Congress, LJ120, 101 Independence Avenue, SE,
Washington, DC 20540-4860.
Phone: 202-707-3302
fax: 202-707-3595
email: scholarly@loc.gov
web: http://www.loc.gov/kluge
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