2025-2026 Walter O Evans Fellowship for the Study of Slavery or Race
2025-2026 Walter O Evans Fellowship for the Study of Slavery or Race
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The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in conjunction with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery and Abolition (GLC) at the MacMillan Center at Yale University is pleased to invite applications for a onesemester postdoctoral fellowship in honor of Walter O. Evans to study the American or global experience of slavery or race in the fall of 2024 or spring of 2025. The fellowship will support scholars who wish to use any of the Walter O. Evans collections including the Evans Collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family Papers the Evans Collection of James Baldwin and the Evans Collection of Ollie Harrington. The fellowship is also open to researchers interested in other collections related to race in the Beinecke Library or at any of Yale University Librarys other special collections repositories including the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters the Yale Collection of Western Americana and the Early Modern and Modern Collections.
The fellowship program aims to facilitate research in Yales special collections by the broadest possible group of researchers regardless of institutional association race cultural background ability sexual orientation gender or socioeconomic status. We welcome applications from scholars utilizing traditional methods of archival and bibliographic research as well as from individuals who wish to pursue creative interdisciplinary and nontraditional approaches to conducting research in the collections.
The application opens on Wednesday June 5 2024.
The application closes on Monday January 6 2025.
The fellowship must be conducted either in the fall 2025 semester or the spring 2026 semester.
For more information visit: Advisory Note
Our ability to award fellowships to visiting researchers will be dependent on public health conditions and university guidelines. Current library policies can be viewed on theUniversity librarys website.
- Applicants cannot be enrolled in a degree program at the time of their fellowship.
- Students currently enrolled in degreegranting programs should apply to the graduate student fellowship program.
- Note: Applicants to the Evans Fellowship may also apply to the ShortTerm Research Fellowship. You may use the same materials for both applications. For your letter of recommendation request that your recommender submit a letter to each application.
Employment Type
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