Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant
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Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant supports scholars traveling to Cambridge to use library collections for research on East Asian history, literature, culture, and society.
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Funder: Harvard Library
Due Dates (Anticipated): September 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $2,000 per grant; 10 grants available each cycle
Summary: Supports scholars outside the Boston area traveling to Cambridge to use Harvard-Yenching Library collections for research.
Key Information: Open to non-tenured faculty, dissertation-writing PhD candidates (or ABDs), and independent scholars.
Description
The Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant helps scholars from outside the Boston area travel to Cambridge to conduct research using the library’s collections. Administered by the Harvard-Yenching Library and supported by the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the program offers merit-based awards each year. Priority goes to researchers whose institutions have limited or no East Asian language library resources and those without major East Asian library collections nearby.
Supported research spans Chinese, Japanese, and Korean history, literature, culture, and society, including maritime exchanges and colonial relationships. Past projects have examined early medieval Chinese calligraphy, motherhood in modern China, religion and belonging in Japan, and the effects of Korean division and war on orphans and refugees. The program centers on access to specific library resources needed for applicants’ research.
