LINGUIST List 22.4286
Sat Oct 29 2011
Support: PhD Student, John Carter Brown Library, USA
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1. Margot Nishimura ,
PhD Student, John Carter Brown Library, USA
Message 1: PhD Student, John Carter Brown Library, USA
Date: 27-Oct-2011
From: Margot Nishimura <margot_nishimurabrown.edu>
Subject: PhD Student, John Carter Brown Library, USA
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Department: Fellowships
Web Address: http://www.jcbl.org
Level: PhD
Specialty Areas: Anthropological Linguistics
Indigenous Languages, Americas
Description:
2012-2013 Research Fellowships at the John Carter Brown Library
The John Carter Brown Library (JCB), an independently funded institution foradvanced research at Brown University, will award approximately forty residentialFellowships for the year July 1, 2012, to June 30, 2013. The Library contains oneof the world's premier collections of primary materials related to the discovery,exploration, and settlement of the New World to 1825: books, maps, newspapers,and other printed objects, including many in languages indigenous to theAmericas, north and south. JCB Fellowships are open to doctoral candidates,scholars, and writers working on all aspects of the Americas in the early modernperiod, with preference given to those applicants who might make best use of theLibrary's resources. Both short- and long-term Fellowships are available.
Short-term Fellowships are for two to four months with a monthly stipend of$2,100. These are open to American and foreign citizens who are engaged in pre-or post-doctoral, or independent, research. Graduate students must have passedtheir preliminary or general examinations at the time of application.
Long-term Fellowships are for five to ten months with a monthly stipend of$4,200. Some of these are funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities(NEH), for which an applicant must be an American citizen or have been residentin the US for the three years preceding the application deadline. The JCB hasother long-term fellowships for which all nationalities are eligible. Graduatestudents are not eligible for long-term Fellowships.
Recipients of all Fellowships must relocate to Providence and be in continuousresidence at the JCB for the full term of the award. Rooms are available forFellows to rent at Fiering House (which is reserved just for JCB Fellows), abeautifully restored 1869 house four blocks from the Library. (Those living withincommuting distance of the Library - within a 45-mile radius -- are ordinarily noteligible for JCB Fellowships.)
The deadline for both short- and long-term fellowships is December 15, 2011.
For more information and application instructions:www.jcbl.orgE-mail: jcbl_fellowshipsbrown.eduCall: Valerie Andrews, Fellowship Coordinator, 401-863-5010
Applications Deadline: 15-Dec-2011
Mailing Address for Applications:
Attn: Valerie Andrews John Carter Brown Library Box 1894 Providence RI 02912 USA
Web Address for Applications: http://www.jcbl.org
Contact Information:
Valerie Andrews valerie_andrewsbrown.edu Phone:401-863-5010
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