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The John Carter Brown Library is an independently funded and administered center for advanced research in history and the humanities, founded in 1846 and located on the campus of Brown University since 1901. The library’s collection consists almost entirely of primary printed sources (books, pamphlets, maps) with some manuscripts, relating to all aspects of the discovery, exploration, settlement, and development of the Americas, from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, during the colonial period (1493 - ca. 1825). The library’s principal holdings emphasize such diverse areas as European accounts of the Americas, Braziliana, native American languages, American revolutionary pamphlets, and Caribbeana. Maritime history and the comparative history of the Americas — Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, English, African, Amerindian — are particular subjects of interest, as is the general history of European expansion to the West before ca. 1800.

The library awards approximately twenty five short-term fellowships (two to four months) each year, which are open to citizens of every country and to both pre- and post-doctoral scholars, and five or six long-term post-doctoral fellowships (five to ten months), supported by the NEH, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and other agencies. NEH fellowships are restricted to U.S. citizens or to foreign nationals who have been legal residents of this country for the three years immediately preceding the application deadline for the grant. Candidates for long-term fellowships may not be engaged in work leading to a graduate degree. Prospective applicants should write to the John Carter Brown Library for further details and for application forms or may access the Library’s web site. Two or three NEH fellowships will be available for 2008-2009.

Application deadline: January 10, 2008

Write to:
Fellowship Coordinator
The John Carter Brown Library
Box 1894
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
Telephone: 401/863-2725
FAX: 401/863-3477
E-Mail: JCBL_Fellowships@Brown.edu
website: http://www.JCBL.org