The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library is now accepting applications for their 2023-2024 research travel grant program.
Donor Name: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
State: North Carolina
County: Durham County (NC)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/24/2023
Size of the Grant: $1500
Details:
The program is open to all kinds of researchers– artists, activists, students, and scholars—whose work would be supported by sources from the Rubenstein Library’s research centers.
Research travel grants of up to $1500 are offered by the following Centers and research areas:
- Archive of Documentary Arts
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Travel Grants
- Harry H. Harkins T’73 Travel Grants for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
- History of Medicine Collections
- Human Rights Archive
- John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture
- John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
- Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture (Mary Lily Research Grants)
Eligibility Criteria
- Anyone who wishes to use materials from the designated collections for research may apply, including, but not limited to students at any level of education; faculty members; visual and performing artists; writers; filmmakers; public historians; and independent researchers.
- All applicants must be over the age of 18; reside beyond a 100-mile radius of Durham, N.C.; and may not be current Duke students or employees.
Potential Projects Rubenstein Library Research Travel Grants support projects that present creative approaches, including historical research and documentation projects resulting in dissertations, theses publications, exhibitions, educational initiatives, documentary films, or other multimedia products and artistic works. The research topic and collections identified for research must be appropriate to the individual Centers offering travel grants.
Evaluation Criteria
Applications will be evaluated on how well they meet the following requirements: The majority of the collections identified in the proposal are unique to the Center(s) of application; Research focus clearly matches the Center grant subject(s) focus; Application demonstrates reasonable expectations for budgeting, length of stay, amount of materials to be used, and consultation with RL staff; Research project should render a tangible outcome which contributes to expanding cultural and/or intellectual bodies of knowledge.
For more information, visit Research Travel Grants.