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Research Grants for Scholars
Heckman Stipends
The Hill Monastic Manuscript Library is soliciting applications (see below) for
research stipends, made possible by the A. A. Heckman Fund. Up to five stipends
in amounts up to $1,500 will be awarded for work in the Library between January
and June of 1999. The stipends may be used to defray the cost of travel, room
and board, microfilm reproduction, photo-duplication and other expenses
associated with research at the Library. Length of residency may range from two
weeks to six months. Undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral scholars (those
who are within three years of completing a terminal master or doctoral degree)
are eligible. The program is specifically intended to help scholars who have not
yet established themselves professionally and whose research cannot progress
satisfactorily without consulting materials to be found in the collections of
the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library.
The Hill Monastic Manuscript Library is located on the campus of St. John's
University,
Collegeville, Minnesota. Its collections contain more than 90,000 microfilms of
pre-1600
manuscripts, archival documents, and papyri from Austria, Germany, Ethiopia,
Malta, Spain, Portugal, and England. The Library contains three research centers
that focus on Austria and Germany, Ethiopia, and Malta. The Library's collection
of modern printed materials is strong in the areas of manuscript catalogues,
paleography, codicology, calligraphy, and manuscript illumination. Web users may
browse an index of the Library's holdings at its website:
http://www2.csbsju.edu/hmml/
Application Information:
Applicants should send a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a brief
description of their research project and an explanation of how the Library's
resources will enable them to advance it. Applicants should also provide a
confidential letter of recommendation from their advisor, thesis director,
mentor, or, in the case of postdoctoral candidates, a colleague who is a good
judge of their work.
Please direct all inquiries and materials to the Committee on Research, Hill
Monastic Manuscript Library, Box 7300, Saint John's University, Collegeville, MN
56321.
The deadline for materials is November 30, 1998, for all internships and
residencies that occur from January to June, 1999.
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