Winterthur Residential Research Fellowship Program

Winterthur Museum and Country Estate is pleased to announce its Research
Fellowship Program for 2007-2008. Winterthur offers an extensive program of
short and long-term fellowships open to academic, independent, and museum
scholars, including advanced graduate students, to support research in
material culture, architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture,
garden & landscape studies, Shaker studies, travel and tourism, the
Atlantic
World, childhood, sentimental literary culture, and many other areas of
social and cultural history.

Fellowships include 4-12 month NEH Fellowships, 1-2 semester McNeil
Dissertation Fellowships, and 1-2 month short-term fellowships. Fellows have
full access to library collections of more than 87,000 volumes and one-half
million manuscripts and images. Resources for the seventeenth to the early
twentieth centuries include period trade catalogs, auction and exhibition
catalogs, an extensive reference photograph collection of decorative arts,
printed books, and ephemera, searchable online at
www.winterthur.org/research/library_resources.asp Fellows may also conduct
object based research in the museum collections, which include 85,000
artifacts and works of art made or used in America to 1860, with a strong
emphasis on domestic life. Fellowship applications are due January 15, 2007.
For more details and to apply visit
www.winterthur.org/research/fellowship.asp or email program director
Katherine C. Grier <kgrierwinterthur.org>.