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End: February 15, 2022
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National Woman’s Party Research Fellowship

The National Woman’s Party (NWP) Research Fellowship is made possible by a generous donation of the National Woman’s Party in 2020, during the centennial year of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. The National Woman’s Party collaborated with the Library of Congress throughout much of the twentieth and now into the twenty-first century to preserve the organization’s history by donating collections materials for scholarly research. See the following press release for additional information about the National Woman Party’s most recent donation in 2020 to the Library of Congress.

The purpose of the fellowship award is to ensure long-term support for research within the National Woman’s Party collection and other unparalleled women’s history collections at the Library of Congress into the future. Generally, one fellowship will be awarded annually (with a stipend of up to $2,000) to be used to cover travel to and from Washington, D.C., overnight accommodations, as well as other research expenses. Awards will assist fellows in their ongoing scholarly research and writing projects on the National Woman’s Party or more broadly related topics within the fields of women’s and gender history, equality studies, women’s studies, or related fields linked to the legacy of National Woman’s Party. The fellowship will be awarded to applicants proposing well-conceived projects that will use the National Woman’s Party records, the National Woman’s Party library, or other research resources at the Library that engage with National Woman’s Party history. Proposals must demonstrate the need for onsite access to focus on collections that are not yet completely digitized or readily available remotely. The Library of Congress reserves the right not to award the fellowship or to award more than one fellowship in a given year.

Eligibility:

Graduate students, independent scholars, and other researchers with a need for the fellowship support are encouraged to apply. All researchers must meet the requirements of the reading rooms that they plan to visit, including the Manuscript Reading Room requirements. Individuals who are not U.S. residents, but who otherwise meet the qualifications may also apply and be considered for a fellowship, contingent upon the applicant's visa eligibility.

In the interest of increasing awareness and extending documentation of Library of Congress collections, fellows are required to make use of the Library's extensive collections and be in residence for a minimum of at least 5 business days during the award period. Fellows are also required to share information derived from their research at the Library through a publication (a Library of Congress blog post or other online publication is encouraged), a public lecture (in-person or virtual), or other deliverable (documentary video, form of artistic expression, event, etc.) either during their residency or within six months of completing their research at the Library. Each fellowship recipient must also notify the selection committee once their dissertation, thesis, or postgraduate or other publication, is completed and provide a hyperlink to the work. There must be some form of acknowledgment within all related presentations, events, and publications that research was supported from the fellowship.

Completed applications are due on February 15, 2022, and notification will occur in spring 2022. The fellowship can be taken from July through November. Sixty percent of the award will be given before the fellow is in residence at the Library and the remaining 40 percent of the award will be distributed after the fellow has completed the requirement of sharing information derived from their research with the public (via blog post, lecture, special event, etc.). Send completed applications, letters of recommendation, and questions to: mssfellowships@loc.gov