FELLOWSHIPS

Applying for Fellowships / Lists of Fellows

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University's principal repository for literary papers and for rare books and early manuscripts, offers fellowships to visiting scholars and to Yale graduate students pursuing research in its collections. The Beinecke collections afford opportunities for interdisciplinary research in such fields as medieval, Renaissance, and 18th-century studies, art history, photography, American studies, the history of printing, music, and modernism in art and literature.

The following named fellowships are among those that may be granted to applicants selected for awards.

• Frederick W. Beinecke Fellowship in Western Americana
• Hermann Broch Fellowship in modern German literature
• H.D. Fellowship in English or American literature
• Jonathan Edwards Fellowship in the Jonathan Edwards Papers or related areas of American religious history
• Elizabethan Club Fellowship in the literature or history of the English or European Renaissance
• Edith and Richard French Fellowship
• Donald C. Gallup Fellowship in American literature
• A. Bartlett Giamatti Fellowship
• Archibald Hanna, Jr. Fellowship in American history
• John D. and Rose H. Jackson Fellowship
• Jackson Brothers Fellowship
• H. P. Kraus Fellowship in early books and manuscripts
• Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski Fellowship
• MacKinnon Family Fellowship in Western Americana
• James M. Osborn Fellowship in English literature and history
• Reese Fellowship in American bibliography and the history of the book in the Americas
• Frederick A. and Marion S. Pottle Fellowship in 18th-century British studies
• Betsy Beinecke Shirley Fellowship in American children's literature
• Thornton Wilder Fellowship in Wilder studies

Books and manuscripts at Yale have been extensively described since 1926 in the Yale University Library Gazette, which is available in many libraries. The Beinecke Library's holdings in printed materials are catalogued online in the Yale Orbis system, available on site and via the Internet. Many of the library's finding aids for manuscript collections are similarly available via the Internet. Links to these resources may be found at the Beinecke Library's website.

The Beinecke Library is open for research Monday through Thursday, 8:30 am to 8:00 pm, and Friday, 8:30 am to 5 pm, throughout the year except the following holidays: Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the following Friday, December 24-January 1, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Memorial Day, and Independence Day.

APPLYING FOR FELLOWSHIPS

Fellowships for Visiting Scholars

Fellowships for Yale Graduate and Professional Students

LISTS OF FELLOWS

Visiting Fellows
Current
2004-2005
2003-2004
2002-2003
2001-2002
2000-2001
1999-2000

Yale Graduate and Professional Student Fellows
Current
2004-2005
2003-2004
2002-2003

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8240
Telephone: 203 432-2956
Fax: 203 432-4047
Email: beinecke.fellowships@yale.edu