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        Date: 2019-10-14 20:52:32+00:00
        From:  Rare_Book_School 
        Subject: M.C. Lang Fellowship at Rare Book School

Dear Humanist Mailing List members,

For the first time, Rare Book School invites applications for the M. C. Lang
Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching with
Historical Sources. The Lang Fellowship is a new two-year program designed to
animate humanities teaching and equip educators to enlarge their students’
historical sensibilities through bibliographically informed instruction with
original historical sources. The deadline is 2 December 2019.

The Lang Fellowship is open to employees of liberal arts colleges and small
universities (defined as institutions which do not award earned doctorates in
any field) in the United States who are:

  *   full-time tenured faculty
  *   full-time tenure-track faculty who have passed their third-year review, or
  *   full-time library/curatorial staff members.

The goal of the Lang Fellowship program is to re-seed American colleges and
small universities with humanities teachers who make maximal use of special
collections resources in their undergraduate courses. The fellowship includes
tuition waivers for two RBS courses: an introductory course, “Book History,
Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching,” required of all participants during
their first year, and an elective course from the extensive RBS course
offerings. The fellowship also includes an annual $1,500 stipend for travel,
housing, and other costs related to the Fellow’s RBS course attendance.

Lang Fellows will also be encouraged to help make book-historical humanities
teaching with original primary sources a central aspect of the local educational
culture. To this end, fellows will be eligible to apply for matching funds of up
to $1,000 per year of the fellowship to help improve their own teaching, create
student-learning experiences, build book-historical culture on campus, foster
book-related public outreach programs, or organize an event to raise awareness
about humanities teaching with original textual artifacts.

For more information about program details, please visit:
https://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/lang/

Inquiries about the M. C. Lang Fellowship can be directed to
rbs_scholarships@virginia.edu.

Finally, please also be aware of upcoming November and December deadlines for
our other previously-announced fellowship and scholarship opportunities:


  *   RBS-awarded scholarships (https://rarebookschool.org/admissions-
awards/scholarships/) offer tuition assistance to applicants with financial need
who wish to take RBS classes. (Deadline: 1 November 2019) NB: The RBS course
schedule for the summer of 2020 will be announced in late October.
  *   The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
(SoFCB, https://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/mellon/) at RBS
invites applications from early-career scholars for its Junior Fellows Program,
which focuses on enriching the study of texts, images, and artifacts as material
objects through capacious, interdisciplinary scholarship. (Deadline: 1 November
2019)
  *   The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural
Heritage at RBS (https://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/mellon-
diversity/) seeks applicants interested in advancing multicultural collections
through innovative and inclusive curatorial practice. (Deadline: 2 December
2019)

RBS is committed to supporting diversity and to advancing the scholarship of
outstanding persons of every race, gender, sexual orientation, creed, and socio-
economic background, and to enhancing the diversity of the professions and
academic disciplines it represents. We apologize for cross-posting this
announcement broadly in trying to reach a broad range of eligible applicants; we
would be grateful to you if you would consider passing this announcement on to
anyone you know who might be interested.

Best regards,
Donna Sy

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Donna A. C. Sy
Administrative Director, Andrew W. Mellon
  Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
Rare Book School
at the University of Virginia
(434) 924-8851 main office
(434) 924-8824 fax






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