SLAVERY, RESISTANCE, AND ABOLITION FELLOWSHIPS AT YALE FOR 2000-2001

Fellowship Description and  Application Guidelines

The Gilder Lehrman Center, part of the Yale Center for International and

Area Studies, has extended the deadline to June 15 for applications to the

Slavery, Abolition And Resistance Fellowship Program for the academic year

2000-2001. The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance,

and Abolition seeks to promote a better understanding of all aspects of the

institution of slavery from the earliest times to the present. Our

particular focus is on the Atlantic slave system and its destruction,

including Africans' resistance to enslavement, black and white abolitionist

movements, and the ways in which chattel slavery finally became outlawed.

The GLC coordinates annual international and interdisciplinary conferences,

lectures, educational outreach, publications and other activities to bring

together the scholars and students from across the spectrum of slavery

studies.

The Fellowship Program is designed to support established and younger

scholars in researching projects that can be linked to the aims of the GLC.

Scholars are welcome to apply in one of two categories, senior or associate

fellows, as described below.

One Senior Fellowship (for a term of three months with a stipend of

$10,000) and two Associate Fellowships (one month each with a stipend of

$3000 each) are available per semester. Established scholars are invited to

apply for Senior Fellowships, while post-doctorates and advanced doctoral

candidates are welcome to apply for Associate Fellowships. Fellows will be

expected to participate in the intellectual life of the GLC and the larger

Yale community, and to acknowledge the support of the GLC and The Yale

Center for International and Area Studies in publications and lectures that

stem from research conducted during the fellowship term. In addition,

Senior Fellows will be expected to offer one public lecture during their

tenure at Yale. Additional lectures may be scheduled with mutual agreement

and interest but would not be required.

These fellowships provide access to the research facilities of Yale

University, to a broad range of related regional research collections, and

to the Gilder Lehrman Collection in New York City.  Collections accessible

to the Slavery, Abolition and Resistance Fellows of the Gilder Lehrman

Center include:

Yale University resources including

          The Sterling Memorial Library

          The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

          The Seeley G. Mudd Library

          The Divinity School Library (including the Day Missions Library)

          The Lewis- Walpole Library and others

The New Haven Colony Historical Society

The Connecticut Historical Society

Mystic Seaport

The Gilder Lehrman Collection at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City

The New-York Historical Society

The New York Public Library (including the Schomburg Center for Research in

Black Culture)

The John Carter Brown  Library at Brown University

The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center

Applications to be appointed as Slavery, Resistance and Abolition Fellows

of the Gilder Lehrman Center, in either senior or associate categories,

should include the following:

*A curriculum vitae

*Three letters of recommendation

*A three-to-four page proposal of the research project, including

proposed term of residence.

Application deadlines have been extended to June 15 for the fall and spring

2001 semester.  Completed applications should be returned to:

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition

Yale Center for International and Area Studies

Attn: Fellowships

P.O. Box 208206

New Haven, CT 06520-8206

For more information, email gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu.