Newberry Consortium

Newberry Travel Grant Program

Newberry Travel Grants are available because of the College’s participation in the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium (CRSC). Our membership offers the opportunity for short-term fellowships at the Center (one fellowship for an ABD student, and one for a faculty member). A limited number of awards ranging from $500 to $1,000 will be made to help cover travel expenses to the Newberry Library. In addition, our enhanced membership guarantees that at least one graduate student has the opportunity to serve as graduate conference organizer and contributing editor of the online proceedings publication and another has a place on the program to present a paper at the Library’s Annual Graduate Student Conference.

Project proposals may consider any subject in medieval, Renaissance, and eighteenth century studies.

Program Announcements and Proposal Deadline

Announcements for upcoming Newberry funding are usually sent out around the middle of September. Proposals will be due around the beginning of November.

Award Period

Travel and project expenses must occur between January 1 and December 31 of the award year. Awards are actually approved reimbursements and must be requested by award recipients after their travel to the Newberry Library.

Eligible Applicants

Tenured and tenure-track faculty members and graduate students in the Arts & Humanities.

Proposal Format (proposal must not exceed 2 pages and CV must not exceed 2 pages)

Proposals must follow the outline below, be single-spaced with one inch margins on all sides, and use a font in 11 points or larger. Applicant’s name and department should be listed within the header in the upper right hand corner of each page.

Proposal Title
Project Description:
- Proposals should address the nature of the research to be conducted.
- What Center for Renaissance Studies event(s), if any, does the applicant plan to attend?
- How does this travel and/or this/these event(s) relate to the applicant’s scholarly work?
- How does this research assist in the completion of some type of scholarly output (e.g., conference papers, articles, exhibit, artwork, etc.)?
Amount requested: Award amounts will be from $500 to $1,000. Costs can include travel expenses and professional images of works and/or permission for image publication at $50 each.
CV: Abbreviated CV (2 pages or less), including current and pending grants relevant to this application and publications for the last three years.

Selection Criteria

Applications will be ranked according to the following criteria:

How well the applicant describes his or her project;
How well the CV demonstrates expertise and/or relevance of the Newberry collections and/or Center for Renaissance Studies events to the applicant’s research; and
Quality and clarity of writing.

Review Process and Funding Notification

Applications will be reviewed by a panel of anonymous reviewers from the College’s Arts & Humanities departments. Results of this competition will be announced around the beginning of December, prior to the beginning of the award year.

Deliverables

Grant recipients may be expected to participate in an OSU-sponsored Newberry symposium to describe their project.

*Awardees will receive a 1099 tax form from the Newberry Library for amounts over $600.00.