Huntington Library Short-Term Fellowships & Travel Grants

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 include seven million manuscripts, 410,000 rare books, 270,000 reference works, and 1.3 million photographs, prints, and ephemera.  The Burndy Library consists of some 67,000 rare books and reference volumes in the history of science and technology, as well as an important collection of scientific instruments.  Within the general fields listed above there are many areas of special strength, including: Middle Ages, Renaissance, 19th- and 20th-century literature, British drama, Colonial America, American Civil War, Western America, and California.  The Art Collections contain notable British and American paintings, fine prints, photographs, and an art reference library.  In the library of the Botanical Gardens is a broad collection of reference works in botany, horticulture, and gardening.

The Huntington will award to scholars over one hundred fellowships for the academic year 2014-2015.  These fellowships derive from a variety of funding sources and have different terms.  Recipients of all fellowships are expected to be in continuous residence at the Huntington and to participate in and make a contribution to its intellectual life.

Huntington Fellowships

Eligibility:  PhD or equivalent; or doctoral candidate at the dissertation stage.
Tenure of fellowship:  One to five months.
Amount of award:  $2,500 per month.
NOTE:  The majority of “Huntington Fellowships” will be awarded to scholars working in the general holdings of the Library; however, we do offer a number of specialized fellowships:

• Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowships in Renaissance England
• Reese Fellowship in American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas
• Trent R. Dames Civil Engineering History Fellowship  
• Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowships
• Francis J. Weber Research Fellowship in Roman Catholic History

Applying for one of the specialized fellowships does not disqualify you from being considered for a “Huntington Fellowship.”

Travel Grants and Exchange Fellowships for Study in Great Britain
Eligibility:  PhD or equivalent; or doctoral candidate at the dissertation stage.
Tenure of fellowship:  One month.
The Huntington offers several travel grants in any of the fields in which the Huntington collections are strong and where the research will be carried out in Great Britain.  We also offer exchange fellowships with Linacre College and Lincoln College, Oxford.

Clark-Huntington Joint Bibliographical Fellowship
Eligibility:  PhD or equivalent.
Tenure of fellowship:  Two months (one month at the William Andrews Clark Library; one month at The Huntington).
Amount of award:  $5,000.
For details and application instructions, please contact Dr. Gerald Cloud at gwcloud@humnet.ucla.edu.

See website for submission guidelines.