Florida Atlantic University-Huntington Fellowship Grant

Funder: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (The Huntington)

The Florida Atlantic University-Huntington Fellowship offers advanced graduate students a unique opportunity to conduct research using the Weiner Spirit of America Collection and the Huntington Library's extensive resources. Each year, three fellows will receive $6,000 to cover travel expenses and spend two months in residence. This fellowship emphasizes interdisciplinary studies in political philosophy, history, and literature, fostering scholarly contributions through academic research and collaborative efforts between the two esteemed institutions.

The Huntington Library
The Huntington is a collections-based research institute, which promotes humanities scholarship on the basis of its library, art, and botanical collections.
Each year, some 2,000 scholars in the fields of history, literature, botanical science, art history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine come from around the world to conduct academic research in The Huntington’s library, art, and botanical collections. The scholarship that is carried out in the reading rooms results in academic monographs and scholarly articles, in bestselling and prizewinning books, in acclaimed documentary films, and in many of the history and social studies texts used to educate the nation’s schoolchildren. The Huntington also disseminates research through an extensive program of academic conferences, workshops, seminars, and lectures.
Florida Atlantic University and the Huntington Library jointly offer three Collaborative Short-Term Fellowships to facilitate the research of advanced graduate students in the complementary holdings of the Weiner Spirit of America Collection and the Huntington Library.
The collections are particularly strong in Anglo-American political philosophy, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and religion and reform movements.

Eligibility

Open to doctoral candidates in fields related to the collections (including but not limited to History, English, Material Texts, Political Philosophy, American Studies, etc.) who have completed their qualifying exams and received approval for their dissertation proposal from their department.Candidates generally may apply for and hold additional fellowships issued by the Huntington in the same award cycle, such as a standard short-term fellowship, as long as the recipient is in Boca Raton during the required time period.