Winterthur Research Fellowships
Winterthur invites scholars, graduate students, artists, and craftspeople to begin brainstorming and planning projects for application to the 2020–2021 Research Fellowship Program at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, where research takes flight!
A research fellowship at Winterthur offers:
Unparalleled Collections: Printed and rare books, manuscripts and ephemera, images, and museum and garden collections.
A Broad Range of Scholarly Topics and Academic Disciplines. We welcome new and critical approaches to any of the following topics and the study of our collections:
- Topics in social and cultural history, ethnic and religious history, art history, literary studies, American studies, design history and decorative arts, geography and landscape studies, material culture, museum studies, and conservation studies
- Topics related to the colonial Americas and the United States in a global context from the 17th to the 20th centuries
A Collegial Atmosphere: Access to the expertise of librarians, curators, conservators, graduate students, and other research fellows with related interests
A Material Culture Perspective: Experience gained in seeking new knowledge from the study of the material world
Fellowships Offered:
- Fellowships include a 4-month postdoctoral fellowship, a 1–2 semester dissertation fellowships, and 1–3 month short-term fellowships.
- And we are proud to announce our NEW National Endowment for the Humanities 4-month post-doctoctoral fellowship.
Fellows have full access to the library collections, including more than 87,000 volumes and one-half million manuscripts and images, searchable online. Resources for the 17th to the early 20th centuries include printed and rare books, manuscripts, period trade catalogues, auction and exhibition catalogues, printed ephemera, and an extensive reference photograph collection of decorative arts. Fellows may conduct object-based research in the museum collection, which includes 90,000 artifacts and works of art made or used in America from about 1600 to 1860, with a strong emphasis on domestic life. Winterthur also supports a program of scholarly publications including Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture.
Fellows may reside in a furnished stone farmhouse on the Winterthur grounds and participate in the lively scholarly community at Winterthur.
Fellowship applications are due January 15, 2020. For more details and to apply, visit the Research Fellowship webpage or e-mail academicprograms@winterthur.org.
Contact Info:
Thomas A. Guiler, PhD Assistant Professor of History and Public Humanities
Contact Email:
tguiler@winterthur.org
or visit http://www.winterthur.org/education/academic-programs/research-fellowships/