Short-Term Fellowships
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Short-Term Fellowships support researchers studying transatlantic slavery, funding on-site work with Schomburg Center collections to advance scholarship on slavery and anti-slavery in the Atlantic World.
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Funder: New York Public Library
Due Dates (Anticipated): January 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $2,000 per month for up to three consecutive months; maximum $6,000
Summary: Supports research on transatlantic slavery through on-site access to Schomburg Center collections not readily available elsewhere.
Key Information: The 2023–2024 short-term fellowship rules required applicants to reside outside the New York metropolitan area.
Description
The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center offers short-term fellowships for researchers whose work benefits from extended access to its collections. The program specifically supports access to materials that are not readily available elsewhere, making the need to work with Schomburg Center holdings central to the fellowship’s purpose.
The Center generates and disseminates scholarship on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in the Atlantic World. Short-term fellows receive monetary support for a continuous research stay, access to the Center’s collections, and opportunities to share their work through Library channels. The fellowships contribute to the Center’s broader goal of making slavery studies a cornerstone of the Schomburg research community.
