Clark Postdoctoral and Graduate Fellowships
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Clark Postdoctoral and Graduate Fellowships support scholars and graduate students in primary-source research, dissertation work, and library practice to study, teach from, and care for Clark collections.
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Funder: Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies
Due Dates (Anticipated): February 2027 (Research fellowships) | March 2027 (Instruction & Engagement and Technical Services)
Funding Amounts: Research awards: $4,000–$36,000 for one to nine months; library-work fellowships: $36,500 plus standard tuition and fees
Summary: Fellowships support residential primary-source research, dissertation work, and practical library experience at UCLA’s Clark Library.
Key Information: All 2026–27 fellowships require in-person residence at the Clark Library; remote and hybrid participation are unavailable.
Description
UCLA’s Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library administer fellowships supporting research with the library’s sixteenth- through twentieth-century primary sources. Awards serve postdoctoral scholars, independent researchers, and graduate students, with eligibility defined by fellowship. Projects may examine the Restoration and eighteenth century, bibliography and textual scholarship, book and manuscript production and circulation, or Oscar Wilde and his circle.
The collections also support queer, disability, and ecocritical studies; music and musicology; astronomy; geography; mathematics; games; crime and incarceration; translation; architecture; foodways; and how-to manuals. Separate Instruction & Engagement and Technical Services fellowships give UCLA graduate students practical experience using primary sources in teaching and outreach or working in special collections cataloging, description, management, and collections care.
