Scholarship Finder

Scholarship Finder
A.C. Elias, Jr. Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship
Organization
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
2397 NW Kings Blvd.
Corvallis, OR 97330
Phone Number (845)202-0672
Emails asecsoffice@gmail.com
office@asecs.org
Award Type Fellowship
Grant
Purpose To support documentary scholarship in Ireland in the period between the Treaty of Limerick (1691) and the Act of Union (1800) to enable North American-based scholars to travel in Ireland and Irish-based scholars to travel in North America for furthering their research.
Focus General studies/Field of study not specified.
Qualifications Applicants need be members of ASECS who have permanent residence in the United States or Canada or be members of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society who reside in Ireland or Northern Ireland; projects conducting original research on any aspect of 18C Ireland qualify for consideration, but recipients must be members of ASECS who have permanent residence in the United States or Canada or be members of its Irish sister organization, the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, residing on the island of Ireland; there are no restrictions by age, sex, race, religion, or academic rank.
Criteria Selection will be selected based on submitted materials.
Funds $2,500
Duration Annual.
Number of Awards 1.
To Apply Applicants must be submit online nomination form; applications consist of a cover letter, providing contact information, research destination, and qualifying society membership, a short C.V. a description of the project (3 pp. or less, treating its contribution to the field and work done and to be done during the proposed research period), a one-page bibliography of related books and articles, a short budget, and two signed letters of recommendation. Please submit all the materials but the letters as one Word file or PDF. If the two letters of support cannot be supplied as PDFs of signed letters, the original copies should be mailed to one of the trustees.
Deadline November 15.
Contact Dr. Jason McElligott,Dr. James May; 1423 Hillcrest Road, Lancaster, PA 17603, USA; Email: jason.mcelligott@marshlibrary, jem4@psu.edu.
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