The 2017 Eccles Centre Fellowship Competition is now open.
The British Association for American Studies will manage the detailed administration of these awards.

Eccles Centre Visiting US Fellow in North American Studies 2018

This award is for post-doctoral scholars resident in the USA whose research, in any field of North American Studies, entails the use of the British Library collection. The award holder must plan to be in research residence at the British Library for a minimum of one month.

The Eccles Centre Visiting US Fellow will be entitled to an award of £2,500 for travel and other expenses connected with the research visit to London. The award holder will have privileged access to the collections and the curatorial expertise of the British Library.

Eccles Centre Visiting Canadian Fellow in North American Studies 2017

This award is for post-doctoral scholars resident in the Canada whose research, in any field of North American Studies, entails the use of the British Library collection. The award holder must plan to be in research residence at the British Library for a minimum of one month.

The Eccles Centre Visiting US Fellow will be entitled to an award of £2,500 for travel and other expenses connected with the research visit to London. The award holder will have privileged access to the collections and the curatorial expertise of the British Library.

Eccles Centre Visiting Fellows in North American Studies

This award is for post-doctoral scholars normally resident in the UK, outside the M25, whose research, in any field of North American Studies, entails the use of the British Library collection. The award holder must plan to be in research residence at the British Library for a minimum of one month.

Each Eccles Centre Visiting Fellow will be entitled to an award of £2,250 for travel and other expenses connected with the research visit to London. The award holder will have privileged access to the collections and the curatorial expertise of the British Library.

Eccles Centre Postgraduate Awards in North American Studies

This award is for doctoral students normally resident in the UK, outside the M25, whose research, in any field of North American Studies, entails the use of the British Library collection. The Eccles Centre Postgraduate Fellows will be entitled to an award of £600 for travel and other expenses connected with the research visit to London.

Eccles Centre Visiting European Fellow in North American Studies

This award is for post-doctoral scholars normally resident outside the UK, in a European country that has membership in the European Association for American Studies, whose research, in any field of North American Studies, entails the use of the British Library collection. The award holder must plan to be in research residence at the British Library for a minimum of one month.

The Eccles Centre Visiting European Fellow will be entitled to an award of £2,500 for travel and other expenses connected with the research visit to London. The award holder will have privileged access to the collections and the curatorial expertise of the British Library.

Eccles Centre European Postgraduate Awards in North American Studies

This award is for doctoral students normally resident outside the UK, in a European country that has membership in the European Association for American Studies, whose research, in any field of North American Studies, entails the use of the British Library collection.

The Eccles Centre European Postgraduate Fellow will be entitled to an award of £800 for travel and other expenses connected with the research visit to London.

The judging panel will only read applications up to the word limit of the prize i.e. CV (no more than two pages) and supporting statement (no more than two pages). Applications that exceed the page limit will not be considered.
Application must be submitted by email to awards@baas.ac.uk; please indicate the name of the award in the subject line.
Applications must be submitted by 5pm on 5 January 2018
Applications by fax will not be accepted.

Further information available here: http://www.baas.ac.uk/eccles-centre-visiting-professorships-fellowships-and-postgraduate-awards-2011/