The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Arizona State University Library are excited to announce our membership in the Newberry Library’s Renaissance Studies Consortium. As part of our membership, ACMRS and the ASU Library, in collaboration with the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, offer the annual Newberry Library Fellowships to support ASU graduate students and faculty looking to research at the Newberry or participate in Center for Renaissance Studies programming.

This year, ACMRS and ASU Libraries will be offering four fellows an award of up to $1,500 to conduct research and/or participate in Center in Renaissance Studies programming at the Newberry Library. The list of current and upcoming Newberry Programming can be found online here.

Qualifications

Applicants must be ASU faculty members, post-doctoral students, or graduate students.

Application Instructions

Applications should consist of a 750-1,000-word proposal, a curriculum vitae, and contact information for two references. Proposals should establish what the fellowship will be used for (research, programming, etc.) and include a brief approximate budget for how the funds will be used. For graduate students, one reference must be their doctoral advisor or chair.

Applications for Newberry Fellowships are accepted on a rolling basis throughout the academic year contingent on remaining yearly funding.

Building the field of premodern critical race studies will depend on new ideas and new practitioners. RaceB4Race is pleased to offer a dynamic mentorship network, connecting established career scholars with early career scholars. The network offers new scholars support as they develop the research that will drive the academic conversation forward. The RaceB4Race Mentorship Network is designed to be cross-institutional, pairing mentors with mentees from all over the world.

Fifteen mentors–mid-career and senior scholars of premodern critical race studies–will be matched with 2-3 mentees for quarterly virtual meetings over two semesters to discuss career development, work-life balance, writing, publishing, and cutting-edge research happening within the field of premodern critical race studies. In the fall all mentors and mentees will participate in a semester-long virtual reading/research group, meeting monthly to connect participants with a larger network of premodern critical race scholars. Learn more about the mentors here.

The mentorship network and reading/research group are part of the fully virtual RaceB4Race Mentorship Network, a Mellon-funded initiative and directed by Patricia Akhimie. 

Details

• The Mentorship Network runs from August through May each year. 
• The accompanying reading/research group runs from August to December.
• All participation in the mentorship network and reading/research group will be virtual via Zoom. 
• Early and mid-career scholars invited to apply. 
• Graduate students seeking a PhD in a premodern field who have achieved candidacy (completion of degree requirements except for a dissertation) are eligible to apply. This includes its equivalent in other postgraduate degree programs outside of the US.
• Scholars based outside the US are eligible to apply.

We are currently accepting applications for the 2024 cohort of mentees.