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Fellowships to Study Slavery

The Gilder Lehrman Center, New Haven, has announced the Gilder Lehrman Center Fellowship Program, designed to support established and younger scholars in researching projects that can be linked to the aims of the GLC. These fellowships provide access to the research facilities at Yale University to a broad range of related regional research collections, and to the Gilder Lehrman Collection in New York City.

One senior fellowship (for a term of three months) and two associate fellowships (one month each) are available per semester. The stipend is $ 10,000 for the Senior Fellowship and $ 3,000 for the Associate Fellowship. Fellows will be expected to participate in the intellectual life of the GLC, and to acknowledge the support of the University and the GLC 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.

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. The 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 slavery finally came to an end. 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.

Applications for Gilder Lehrman Center Fellowships should include the following: A curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, a three to four page proposal of the research project.

Application deadlines are July 30 for the Fall 1999 semester and December 1 for the Spring 2000 semester. Completed applications should be returned to: ilder Lehrman Center. Attn: Fellowships, PO Box 208206, New Haven, CT 06520-8206

Contact: Robert P Forbes, Executive Coordinator, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition, PO Box 208206, New Haven, CT 06520-8206; Tel: (203)432-3339; Fax: (203) 432-6943; email: gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu

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