TEST Short-Term Resident Research Fellowships

American Philosophical Society•Philadelphia, PA

8d•$3,000 - $3,000•Onsite

About The Position

The American Philosophical Society's Library & Museum in Philadelphia invites applications for short-term residential research fellowships. These funding opportunities provide one to three months of support for researchers in residence and are open to scholars in all fields who show a demonstrated need to use the Library & Museum’s collections for their project. Approximately 25-30 short-term fellowships are awarded each year. The APS's collections make it among the premier institutions for documenting and exhibiting the history of the American Revolution and founding, the history of science from Newton to NASA, and Indigenous languages and cultures. The Society’s collections include more than 14 million pages of manuscripts, 275,000 bound volumes, 250,000 images, thousands of hours of audio tape, and 3,360 three-dimensional artifacts and fine art objects. It is home to four research centers: the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR), which has worked with over 80 Native American and Indigenous communities since 2014; the Center for Digital Scholarship, which interprets and expands access to APS collections through digital projects and open source data; the David Center for the American Revolution, a partnership with the David Library of the American Revolution that formed a new research center for the study of the American Revolution at the APS; and the Center for the History of Science, which supports research in Society's science collections that run the gamut from A to Z—astronomy to zoology—and many fields in between. Comprehensive, searchable guides and finding aids to our collections are available online at https://www.amphilsoc.org/library/search-collections and http://amphilsoc.pastperfectonline.com/.

Requirements

Demonstrated need to use the Library & Museum’s collections for their project.
Holders of the Ph.D. or its equivalent.
Ph.D. candidates who have passed their preliminary examinations and are working on their dissertation research.
Degreed independent scholars (without current academic affiliation).
U.S. citizens or foreign nationals.

Nice To Haves

Candidates who live 75 or more miles from Philadelphia receive some preference.

Responsibilities

Conduct research using the American Philosophical Society's Library & Museum collections.
Be in residence at the APS's Library & Museum for 4 to 12 consecutive weeks, depending upon the length of the award.