Event Details

End: February 17, 2017
Contact: dsears@illinois.edu
More Info: http://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/research_fellowships.html

The John "Bud" Velde Visiting Scholars Program

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 2017-18 Program Cycle

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library annually awards two stipends of $3,000 to scholars and researchers (unaffiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) who would like to spend a month or more conducting research with our materials. 

The holdings of The Rare Book & Manuscript Library are comprehensive and support studies in printing and printing history, Renaissance studies, Elizabethan and Stuart life and letters, John Milton and his age, emblem studies, economic history, Italian history, and works on early science and natural history.

The library also houses the papers of the modern literary figures Carl Sandburg, H.G. Wells, William Maxwell, W.S. Merwin, and the world's single largest collection of Marcel Proust's correspondence. In addition, it is anticipated that the papers of Gwendolyn Brooks will be open to the public for this latest program cycle.

For information about this program, how to apply, and to find out more about The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, please visit our Website at:

http://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/research_fellowships.html

Please contact Dennis Sears with further questions about the program or The Rare Book & Manuscript Library:

    Dennis Sears

    The Rare Book & Manuscript Library

    University of Illinois Library, Room 346

    1408 West Gregory Drive

    Urbana, IL 61801

    USA

    (217) 333 7242 voice, (217) 244 1755 fax

Or email Dennis: dsears (at) illinois (dot) edu.   

Deadline for application: *17 February 2017*.