Special Collections and Archives Fellowships
Through generous endowed funds, Goucher College Special Collections and Archives offers paid research opportunities for students and scholars to use its collections. The fellowships are to increase the awareness of and access to original collection materials. Each fellowship results in a tangible product, such as a research paper, website, short story, documentary, finding aid, or artwork that is available to the Goucher community.
Undergraduate Research in Special Collections Fellowships
The Brooke and Carol Peirce Center for Undergraduate Research in Special Collections
The Brooke & Carol Peirce Center for Undergraduate Research in Special Collections seeks to engage undergraduates in original research that takes advantage of the rich resources in Special Collections & Archives at the Goucher College Library. Through a fellowship students work under the guidance of Special Collections staff and faculty to learn to interpret information, evaluate context, and engage in original scholarship.
The Center supports a variety of activities to engage the students in original research such as internships, research fellowships, course development and enhancement, lectures, master classes, field trips, digitization projects, exhibits, and other programs. The Center also partners with faculty to incorporate rare and special materials into their curricula and pedagogies, enhancing Goucher's reputation for offering innovative learning opportunities.
The Brooke & Carol Peirce Center for Undergraduate Research website offers more information on the fellowships and how to apply.
Post-Graduate Research Fellowship
The Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence
The Special Collections and Archives and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) have partnered to jointly fund a fellowship to promote scholarship using the Alberta Hirshheimer Burke-Jane Austen Collection housed at Goucher College.
The Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence website provides more information on the fellowship and how to apply.
Library Artist-in-Residence
The Library Artist-in-Residence
The year 2025 marks the 250th birthday of Jane Austen. To honor her birthday, Goucher College Library seeks an Artist-in-Residence to creatively engage with the Jane Austen Collection in the Library’s Special Collections & Archives. The program invites visual artists to interact with one of the largest Austen collections in the world and produce works based on that interaction. The artist will produce an exhibition in Goucher College’s Athenaeum as well as provide two public presentations/student interactions.
Possible projects can include but are not limited to painting, photography, sculpture, digital media, or installation art. Artists will have access to the Jane Austen Collection at Goucher College which includes rare books, foreign translations of Austen’s work, and manuscript collections from renowned collectors of Austen’s work.
For more information, please visit the Library Artist-in-Residence website.
Applications due September 20, 2024
Residency run November 1, 2024 - October 31, 2025.