Syracuse University Library and the SU Humanities Center, along with
their partners in the Central New York Humanities Corridor (Colgate
University, Cornell University, Hamilton College, Syracuse University,
and the University of Rochester), will award four visiting scholar
grants of $2,500 each in 2012 to support research at two or more
Corridor institutions. This program’s primary goal is to attract
national and international attention to Central New York’s primary
source collections. Applicants, therefore, need not be based at a
Corridor institution. Similarly, projects need not focus on central or
upstate New York topics, but rather draw upon shared collection
strengths of Corridor institution libraries.

Those strengths include:

•Abolitionism (Gerrit Smith, Samuel J. May, Frederick Douglass archives)
•Design and Architecture (Marcel Breuer, William Lescaze, Claude Bragdon, Andrew
Dickson White archives)
•Archival Sound (Belfer Audio Archive, Hip Hop Collection, Sibley
Music Library)
•Cultures of Print, in particular New York State
•Gender and Sexuality (Human Sexuality Collection, Grove Press
Records, Suffrage Collections)
•Modern Literature (T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Walt Whitman, Rudyard
Kipling, Joyce Carol Oates Papers)
•Photography (Andrew J. Russel and Margaret Bourke White Papers,
George Eastman House)
•Popular Culture (Dime Novels, Pulp Magazines, Children’s Literature,
War Posters)
•Post-colonialism & Ethnic Studies, in particular Native American Studies
•American Religion (Shaker and Oneida Communities, other Communal
Societies, Anti-Catholic and Masonic propaganda, Norman Vincent Peale
papers)

Current faculty and graduate students are eligible to apply. It is
expected that each visiting scholar will spend one to two weeks in
residence; however, the amount of time spent at each institution need
not be equal. Visiting scholars will be expected to present their work
at Syracuse University towards the close of their stay. Criteria for
selection include the anticipated impact of the project on the
applicant’s field of inquiry (and on the humanities generally), the
degree to which targeted collections support the proposed project, and
the innovative use of primary sources in research.

Applications should include the following elements:

•Narrative. The narrative should frame the overall scope of the
project and detail the project’s significance within the context of
the applicant’s discipline. It should identify specific target
collections from at least two corridor institutions. (3 pages)
•Project timeline. This should include start and end dates for the
project and the amount of time the scholar will spend at each
institution. Applicants may wish to designate a “home base” and then
detail how he or she will access other collections in the Corridor. (1
page)
•Budget. The budget should show expenses for transportation, lodging,
and board. Other expenses may be allowed. (1 page)
•Curriculum vita. (2 pages)
•2 letters of support. (Sent with other application materials.)

Please send completed applications no later than April 15, 2012 to:

Barbara Brooker
Assistant to the Senior Director
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Library
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Applications will be evaluated by a selection committee composed of
directors, curators, and faculty from each Corridor institution. Grant
recipients will be announced in May 2012. Research visits may commence
as early as the summer of 2012.

Special Collections in the CNY Humanities Corridor

Syracuse University Library, Special Collections Research Center
URL: http://library.syr.edu/find/scrc/

Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
URL: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/

University of Rochester, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation
URL: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=169

Hamilton College Library, Special Collections
URL: http://www.hamilton.edu/library/collections/specialcollections

Colgate University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives
URL: http://exlibris.colgate.edu/speccoll/

About the CNY Humanities Corridor

The Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor
(http://www.syracusehumanities.org/mellon/) is a unique regional
collaboration between Syracuse University, Cornell University, and
University of Rochester in seven different areas of research and
humanistic inquiry. Each institution brings a vibrant and
distinguished humanistic scholarly tradition to the collective work of
the CNY Humanities Corridor. In the aggregate, the Corridor’s programs
bolster the relationships, productivity, and reciprocity common to the
region’s humanities community, as well as heightened visibility,
enhancing public engagement in its activities. The initiative is today
regarded as a highly visible scholarly presence in the region, if not
nationally, as a new model of collaboration and resource-sharing that
can also be adapted to other regions and inter-university
partnerships.

Since its establishment in 2006, through a one million dollar award by
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the CNY Humanities Corridor’s mission
has gradually evolved over the last five years to represent the
following objectives:

• To sustain a scholarly network of faculty members and graduate
students who share teaching, research, and public engagement across
the humanities.
• To support research in specialized disciplinary areas under fiscal duress.
• To support emergent areas of interdisciplinary inquiry that are not
consolidated or financially supported at the academic level.
• To enhance the overall profile, scholarly prominence, and impact of
the interdisciplinary humanities in Central New York through the
advancement of individual and collaborative teaching, research, and
public engagement.
• To increase connectivity and collaboration among academic humanists
throughout the Central New York region.
• To foster cross-institutional partnerships and resource-sharing
mechanisms in emerging and established scholarly fields through
thematic research clusters and faculty working groups.

Sean M. Quimby
Senior Director of Special Collections
Special Collections Research Center │ Belfer Audio Archive
Syracuse University Library
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