The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has launched the sixth round of its Library of Congress (LoC) Scholarship scheme offering AHRC funded award holders the opportunity to spend up to six months in the USA researching the World-Renowned Library of Congress collections.
If you are an AHRC funded PhD student, postdoctoral fellow or research assistant than this scheme offers access to the internationally renowned research collection at the Library of Congress, based in the Kluge Center. It is by no means limited to American studies as, with over 142 million items the full AHRC Subject domain is covered.
The successful applicants will receive a stipend towards their flight costs and a monthly allowance in addition to their normal monthly stipend paid as part of their award holder funding.
Last year 26 AHRC researchers were successful in getting funding to work at the Kluge Center through this scheme and their project titles included:
• Ensuring Human Rights and Pro-Development Investment in Conflict Settings: Afghanistan as a Case Study
• Alexander Graham Bell and Vocal Physiology
• Networks of exchange at the edge of empire: the role of trade in colonial encounters in North America c. AD 1600-1775
• Landscapes of Secrecy: the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Contested Record of US Foreign Policy, 1947-2001
• The diffusion of Ciceronian rhetoric in 18th-century Anglo-American political literature
The closing date for this round of the scheme will be 01/04/2011.
Matthew Frances, a 2008/9 AHRC funded Library of Congress scholar talks about his experiences in an AHRC podcast.
Library of Congress homepage – http://www.loc.gov/index.html
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How to make an application-
Application guidance notes and an application form can be downloaded from the Library of Congress scheme page.
Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Each year the AHRC provides approximately £112 million from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities, from languages and law, archaeology and English literature to design and creative and performing arts. In any one year, the AHRC makes approximately 700 research awards and around 1,300 postgraduate awards. Awards are made after a rigorous peer review process, to ensure that only applications of the highest quality are funded. The quality and range of research supported by this investment of public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic success of the UK.
The USA Library of Congress and the Kluge Center:
The Library of Congress is the USA's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. The Kluge Center at the Library presents a new opportunity to attract to Washington the best available minds in the scholarly world, facilitate their access to the Library's remarkable collection of the world's knowledge, and engage them in conversation with the U.S. Congress and other public figures. The John W. Kluge Center occupies inspirational and capacious study and meeting spaces within the Library's magnificently restored Thomas Jefferson Building.