AmericanScholarship - Update on Scholarships in America

The American Academy in Rome is one of the leading centers for independent study and advanced research in the arts and humanities. For over 100 years, the Academy has offered support, time, and an inspiring environment to some of America’s most gifted artists and scholars. In the historic setting of Rome, Academy artists and scholars pursue their work independently and collaborate with each other and with Italian colleagues. The Academy’s significant resources include a library, photographic archive, and archaeology study collection. The Library is strong in the fields of classical studies and the history of art and architecture. The Photographic Archive provides a visual record of the architecture and topography of ancient Rome and Italy and the Roman Empire, as well as collections on archaeology, art and architecture, landscape architecture, and gardens. Objects in the Archaeology Collection are available for study and educational purposes.
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The Council of Independent Colleges administers the American Graduate Fellowships to promote and support doctoral study in the humanities by accomplished graduates of small and mid-sized private liberal arts colleges. Two fellowships, worth up to $50,000 each and renewable for a second year, will be awarded annually through 2011. The fellowships will be available to students from eligible institutions who enroll in doctoral programs at any of 23 leading independent research universities in the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland. Eligible fields of study include history, philosophy, literature and languages, and fine arts. (more…)

Winterthur is a public museum, library, and garden that supports the advanced study of American art, culture, and history. The collections consist of American material culture with strong supporting resources in British and Continental art and culture. Winterthur offers an extensive program of short and long-term fellowships open to academic, independent, and museum scholars, including advanced graduate students. The library holds more than 87,000 volumes and one-half million manuscripts and images. Resources for research from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries include period trade catalogs, auction and exhibition catalogs, an extensive reference photograph collection of decorative arts, printed books, and ephemera. These may be searched online, and from remote locations. Museum collections include 85,000 artifacts and works of art made or used in America to 1860, with a strong emphasis on domestic life. Winterthur supports a program of scholarly publications, including Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture.
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The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research unit of the New York Public Library. It is devoted to collecting, preserving, and providing access to research resources on the black experience. Established in 1926 as a reference collection, it has evolved into a comprehensive research library whose collections number more than 10 million items. They include more than 170,000 bound volumes, 9,000 serials, 84,000 microforms, over 800 manuscript collections, 20,000 works of art, 750,000 photographic images, and over 25,000 sound recordings, 5,000 hours of spoken arts, 4,500 video recordings, and 450 motion picture films.
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