UCLA Clark Library Visiting Fellowships

Affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, the Clark Library holds rare books and manuscripts with particular strengths in English literature and history, Oscar Wilde and the fin de siècle, and fine press printing. It offers a number of fellowships to fund short research trips to consult its collections, ranging from one to three month stays, with most awards at $4,000 per month. Consult the Clark Library website for specific eligibility criteria by fellowship.

• Ahmanson-Getty Core Program Postdoctoral Fellowship: Awards of $69,073 are for three consecutive quarters in residence at the Clark. Fellows are expected to make a substantive contribution to the Center’s conferences and workshops, and their research should pertain to the announced theme.
• Clark Bibliographical Postdoctoral Fellowship: This three-month fellowship supports bibliographical research using the Clark’s collections
• Clark Short-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship: One-to-three-month fellowships available to holders of a PhD whose research projects that require work in any area of the Clark Library’s collections.
• Kanner Fellowship in British Studies: This three-month fellowship supports research at the Clark Library in any area pertaining to British history and culture. The fellowship is open to both postdoctoral and predoctoral scholars.
• Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship: This one-month fellowship is available to all graduate students for research at the Clark Library, using archival and printed book materials, on any subject.
• Clark Predoctoral Fellowships: One-to-three-month fellowships are available to doctoral candidates whose dissertation research involves the area of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies or one of the other areas represented in the Clark Library’s collections.
• Wilde-Holland Fellowship: This one-to-two month fellowship is available to a postdoctoral scholar, graduate student, or visiting scholar for research using materials from the Oscar Wilde collection at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
• Loren and Frances Rothschild Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship: One-to-three-month fellowships available to graduate students for bibliographical research in eighteenth-century British literature and history using the Clark’s collections.

Collections

In addition to the collections for which the Clark Library is well-known, the Library houses a wealth of primary source materials ranging from the 16th to 20th centuries for research on topics including queer, disability, and ecocritical studies, as well as music/musicology, astronomy, geographies, mathematics, games, crime and incarceration, translation, architecture, foodways, and how-to manuals, among many other areas.