Southeast European Language-Training Grants

Funding for summer study of Albanian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, or Romanian, intended for people who will use these languages in academic research or teaching. In most cases, proposals for beginning or intermediate level should be for attendance at intensive courses offered by institutions of higher education in the US, although, in exceptional cases, proposals for study in Southeast Europe will be considered. Proposals for study at the advanced level will ordinarily be for courses in Southeastern Europe.

Salvatori Research Award

The Salvatori awards are stipulated for short-term research projects in any area of Italian Studies and are open to all graduate students and standing faculty at Penn. The awards focus directly on planned research with a definite program of endeavor: this means that general academic study or "fishing expeditions" in Italy will not be considered for funding.

Princeton Library Research Grant

Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the research collections. The Program in Hellenic Studies also supports a limited number of Library Research Grants in Hellenic studies, and the Cotsen Children's Library supports research in its collection on aspects of children's books. The Maxwell Fund supports research on materials dealing with Portuguese-speaking cultures.

John Carter Brown Library Fellowships

The John Carter Brown Library awards approximately twenty-five Research Fellowships each academic year. Regular John Carter Brown Library Fellowships are available for periods of two to four months. Sponsorship of research at the John Carter Brown Library is reserved exclusively for scholars whose work is centered on the colonial history of the Americas, North and South, including all aspects of the European, African, and Native American involvement.

Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

The Huntington is an independent research center with holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, and the history of science and medicine. The Library collections range chronologically from the eleventh century to the present and includes 600,000 photographs, a half-million rare books, nearly six million manuscripts, and a large ephemera collection, supported by a half-million reference works. The Art Collections contain notable British and American paintings, fine prints, photographs, and an art reference library.

Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation Fellowships, Williams College

In 1985 Williams College established the Gaius Charles Bolin Fellowships to underline the importance of diversity on college faculties by encouraging able minority students to complete the doctoral degree and to pursue careers in college teaching. The Bolin Fellowships enable at least two graduate students from underrepresented groups to devote the bulk of their time during the academic year to the completion of dissertation work in residence at Williams College.