2026-2027 Lewis Walpole Library Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants
2026-2027 Lewis Walpole Library Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants
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The Lewis Walpole Library is a renowned research center for the study of Britain in the long 18th century. Its collections include important holdings of eighteenth-century British prints drawings manuscripts rare books paintings and decorative arts. Given to Yale by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (1895-1979) and Annie Burr Lewis (1902-1959) the Lewis Walpole Library is located in Farmington Connecticut in several eighteenth-century buildings on a fourteen-acre campus. The Lewis Walpole Library is a department of Yale University Library.
The Lewis Walpole Library funds four-weekvisiting fellowships including theLewis Walpole Library/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies residential fellowshipand two-weektravel grantsto support research in the librarys rich collections of materials from the British world of the long eighteenth-century.
Fellowship and Travel Grant Award recipients also have access to additional resources at Yale including those in the Sterling Memorial Library the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Yale Center for British Art.
EXPECTATIONS: all Fellowship and Travel Grant Award recipients are expected to
- complete fellowships within the fellowship year (June 1 through May 31).
- be in residence at the library and reside in the Timothy Root House fellows residence on the librarys campus
- be free of other significant professional obligations during their stay
- take their fellowship in one uninterrupted period
- focus research substantially on the Lewis Walpole Librarys collections
AWARD FUNDING INFORMATION:
- the round-trip cost of travel between the Lewis Walpole Library and the recipients home institution or residence
- reimbursement of the cost of a rental car or local travel expenses
- accommodation for four weeks (fellowships) or two weeks (travel grants) in an eighteenth-century house on the Librarys campus
- a per diem living allowance to cover living expenses for four-week Fellows and two-week Travel Grant Recipients*. The per diem is calculated using the US General Services Administrations current per diem rates (M & IE portion) for the Hartford CT area.
*Payments tonon-U.S. citizens (nonresident alien for U.S. tax purposes) are subject to 30% federal tax withholding per Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations.
For any Fellowship questions please contact the Lewis Walpole Library
Scholars pursuing postdoctoral or advanced research anddoctoral candidates at work on a dissertation.
Employment Type
Grant
