Summer fellowship: Library invites rising seniors to create an exhibition
Yale Library invites Yale College juniors to apply for the 2026 Senior Exhibit Fellowship at Yale Library. Proposal submissions are due on or before Fri., March 7. The fellowship begins this summer.
This fellowship will provide one rising senior with training in planning, curating, and installing an exhibition based on the topic of the student’s senior essay. Both the essay and exhibition must rely on research conducted in any of Yale Library’s many diverse collections and will feature materials and facsimiles from those collections.
Students may sign up for information sessions now and can learn more about the fellowship and the requirements here.
Four online information sessions will be held in February via Zoom.
- Tues., Feb. 4, from 4 to 5 p.m.
- Fri., Feb. 7, from 12 to 1 p.m.
- Mon., Feb. 10, from 12 to 1 p.m.
- Tues., Feb. 11, from 4 to 5 p.m.
Throughout the nine-month fellowship, the student will receive ongoing mentoring and support from a faculty advisor, a librarian advisor, and members of the library’s exhibition-production staff. The student will also receive a $4,200 stipend to subsidize a five-week summer research fellowship between junior and senior years—to be completed on Yale’s campus, working with Yale Library collections.
The Senior Exhibit will open in May in the spring of the student’s senior year and will be on view in Sterling Memorial Library Exhibition Corridor through October 20265.
Learn more about the Senior Exhibit Fellowship at Yale Library and the student curator’s role and responsibilities.
Submit a proposal for the 2026 Student Exhibit Fellowship at Yale Library by Fri., March 7.
Read more about the last year’s Senior Fellowship exhibit, “Whaling Logbooks: Records of a Maritime Industry,” curated by A. J. Laird ’24. Anne Gross ’25 will open her exhibit “Sensation! Reported Bodies in 19th-Century American Media” this spring.
Images: Curator A. J. Laird ’24 delivers opening remarks to the exhibit “Whaling Logbooks”; Laird poses with Barbara Rockenbach, Stephen F. Gates ’68 University Librarian, who presented the curator with a framed commemorative poster of the exhibit; Senior Exhibit Fellow Anne Gross ’25 with advisors Michael Printy (at left), librarian for Western European Humanities, and Caleb Smith (at right), professor of English and American Studies. Photos of A. J. Laird by Harold Shapiro; photo of Anne Gross by Grace O’Brien