2009 VISITING SCHOLARS GRANT PROGRAM

The Southern Historical Collection (SHC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will award three visiting scholar grants in June 2009:

Joel Williamson Visiting Scholar Grant ($1200 award)
African Americans in the American South

Guion Griffis Johnson Visiting Scholar Grant ($1000 award)
American South with a preference for topics on women

John Eugene and Barbara Hilton Cay Visiting Scholar Grant ($1000 award)
American South with a preference for literary topics

ELIGIBILITY AND REQUIREMENTS:

Graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars who plan to use the resources available in the Southern Historical Collection are eligible. Foreign nationals must independently obtain a social security number and a visa before grant funds can be issued to them.

Applicants must include a brief prospectus of their current project and indicate which collections held in the Southern Historical Collection they intend to explore in connection with this research.

Each recipient must make at least one in-person research visit to the SHC and make use of the collections between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010.

Following the research visit, each recipient will submit a brief written statement describing the research visit and summarizing the results of research in the SHC's collections. This statement must be submitted to the SHC no later than July 31, 2010.

APPLICATION:

Submit an application form, a brief prospectus of your research project (no more than one page), and one letter of recommendation from either an advisor or a colleague to:

2009 Visiting Scholars Grant Program
Southern Historical Collection
Wilson Library, CB# 3926
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890

The application form is available online and from the Southern Historical Collection.

All applications must be postmarked no later than March 31, 2009.

If you have any questions, please contact the Head of Public Services at 919.962.1345 or via email at mss@email.unc.edu.

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