The John "Bud" Velde Visiting Scholars Program

Aberta a todos os professores universitários atuantes ou aposentados, a biblioteca The Rare Book & Manuscript, na Universidade de Illinois, oferece anualmente duas bolsas de estudo no valor de US$3,000.

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The John "Bud" Velde Visiting Scholars Program
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:

Open to all active scholars from graduate students to retired professors, The Rare Book & Manuscript Library annually awards two John "Bud" Velde Visiting Scholar stipends of $3,000 to facilitate a period of intense individual study -- usually one month -- in The Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

The research strengths of The Rare Book & Manuscript Library are manifold. Comprehensive collections support studies in printing and printing history, Renaissance studies, Elizabethan and Stuart life and letters, John Milton and his age, emblem studies, economic history, and works on early science and natural history. The library also houses the papers of the modern literary figures Carl Sandburg, H.G. Wells, William Maxwell, and W.S. Merwin.

For further information about this program and how to apply, and to find out more about The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, please visit our Web site at:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/rbx/research_grants.htm

Or contact the Public Programs Manager, Dennis Sears:
217 333 7242
dsears@uiuc.edu

Deadline for applications: *9 March 2009*.