Scholars invited to apply for two residential library fellowships for 2025/2026

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Fellowship Program encourages research in Yale’s special collections by the broadest possible group of researchers.

Applications are now being accepted for two residential fellowships—one for graduate students and one for postdoctoral scholars. Students who employ traditional methods of archival and bibliographic research and also those who wish to pursue creative, interdisciplinary, and nontraditional approaches to research are encouraged to apply.

• Research Fellowships for Graduate Students

  This fellowship is open to students in a graduate program at Yale or at any other local or international university or college. Applicants should propose a fully conceptualized project related to their degree program.

  The application deadline is Sept. 16, 2024. This fellowship is one to four months in duration. 
   

• The Walter O. Evans Fellowship for the Study of Slavery or Race

  This fellowship is offered in conjunction with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University’s MacMillan Center. The fellowship will support scholars who wish to work with any of the Walter O. Evans collections to study the American or global experience of slavery or race.

  The application deadline is Jan. 6, 2025. This fellowship is one semester in duration.

Fellowships are awarded in the amount of $5,000 per month.  

Interested applicants may email with questions or to request additional information.

—Deborah Cannarella