Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World

Graduate Research Opportunities

Doctoral students are eligible for a broad range of grants and fellowships at Brown.

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Graduate Research Opportunities

Doctoral students are eligible for a broad range of grants and fellowships at Brown.

In addition to the Early Modern World Travel & Research Grant offered through the center, doctoral students are eligible for several fellowship opportunities and certificate programs on campus including the Cogut Collaborative Humanities Fellowship (for doctoral students entering the second to fourth year of their program) and the Cogut Institute Graduate Fellowship (for doctoral students entering the fourth to sixth year of their program).

The Graduate School coordinates interdisciplinary opportunities in the humanities and social sciences for advanced graduate students entering their fifth or sixth year. Among these, fellowships offered by the John Carter Library and the John Hay Library are of particular relevance for students of the early modern world.

At Brown

John Hay Library Fellowship in Early Modern Studies

The John Hay Library and the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World are, in most years, jointly able to host one fellow annually. Applicants are invited to propose an undergraduate course, exhibition, curatorial project, conference, or symposium that will promote collaboration between scholars of the early modern period and the John Hay Library.

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John Carter Brown Library Fellowships

The J.M. Stuart Fellowship and the Interdisciplinary Opportunities Fellowship are open to Brown Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences whose dissertation work relates to the early history and culture of the Americas and whose research and writing would benefit from privileged and sustained access to the resources of the John Carter Brown Library.

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Beyond Brown

The center maintains an active collaboration with the Folger Institute, which also offers research and writing fellowships. Several libraries and research institutions, such as the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library and the Newberry Library, support work on their collections. External opportunities, from call for abstracts to fellowship applications, are circulated via email and listed on this site. 

 

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