Usa: Alan Lomax Venture Inwards Folklife Studies - Library Of Congress

Overview

The Library of Congress's Kluge Center invites qualified scholars to apply for a post-doctoral companionship for advanced inquiry based on the Alan Lomax Collection. The Lomax Collection is a major collection of ethnographic champaign sound recordings, motion pictures, photographs, manuscripts, correspondence as well as other materials that stand upwards for Lomax’s lifetime of operate to document as well as analyze traditional music, dance, storytelling as well as other expressive genres that arise from cultural groups inwards many parts of the world, specially the United States, England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Spain, as well as the Caribbean. Lomax (1915-2002) was ane of the greatest documenters of traditional civilization during the twentieth century.

The Alan Lomax Fellows Program, established for a stream of 5 years, supports scholarly inquiry that contributes significantly to a greater agreement of the operate of Lomax as well as the cultural traditions he documented over the course of education of a vigorous as well as highly productive seventy-year career. It provides an opportunity, for a stream of upwards to 8 months, for concentrated usage of materials from the Lomax Collection as well as other collections of the Library of Congress, through full-time residency at the Library. The programme supports inquiry projects inwards the disciplines of anthropology, ethnomusicology, ethnography, ethno-history, dance, folklore as well as folklife, history, literature, linguistics, as well as motion analysis, amongst detail emphasis on the traditional music, dance, as well as narrative of the United States, England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Spain, as well as the Caribbean, equally good equally methodologies for their documentation as well as analysis. We encourage interdisciplinary projects that combine disciplines inwards novel as well as productive ways.

Eligibility

Applicants may live of whatever nationality as well as must receive a Ph.D. degree, or equivalent lastly degree, awarded past times the application deadline date.

Tenure & Stipend

The Alan Lomax Fellowship inwards Folklife Studies is for a stream of upwards to 8 months, at a stipend of $4,200 per month, for residential inquiry at the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress volition pay stipends monthly past times agency of electronic transfer to a U.S. banking enterprise account. Transportation arrangements, housing, as well as wellness assist insurance as well as costs are the responsibleness of the Fellow. The Library volition render Fellows amongst data on housing as well as tin render Fellows amongst contacts for commercial providers of wellness assist insurance. The Library is required to ensure that nonresident alien visitors keep minimum levels of medical insurance, as well as volition render data nearly insurers that offering qualifying policies to nonresident aliens.

How to Apply

Applicants must submit an application form, a two-page curriculum vitae which should signal prior scholarship, a one-paragraph projection summary, a bibliography of basic sources, a inquiry proposal of no to a greater extent than than 1,500 words, as well as 3 letters of reference (in English) from people who convey read the inquiry proposal.

Successful proposals volition clearly signal the role as well as principal scholarly contribution of the project, as well as the produce goodness to the projection of working inwards the Library of Congress using the Lomax materials and, if applicable, the Library's other collections.

Deadline: March 31, 2012
Application Form: MS Word - PDF (59kb)

• Research related to the Alan Lomax Collection, housed at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
• Open to scholars worldwide
• Stipend: $4,200 per calendar month (no to a greater extent than than viii months)

Due Date

Application materials must live post-marked past times the deadline appointment to live considered. Applicants are urged to reckon submitting their application materials online at scholarly@loc.gov or past times fax (202-707-3595) to avoid whatever problems caused past times post delivery.

Expectations

The Lomax Fellow is expected to railroad train inquiry of a publishable quality. As a Library of Congress resident scholar, fellows are equally good expected to brand at to the lowest degree ane populace presentation nearly their inquiry as well as to participate actively inwards appropriate Library events as well as programs.

Submitting Your Application

Completed application packets, questions, as well as other requests for data should live sent to the next address. Please greenback that continuing post delivery problems at the Library may scream for submitting the application bundle past times fax or email, to insure delivery past times the deadline date:

The Alan Lomax Fellowship inwards Folklife Studies
Library of Congress, LJ-120
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20540-4860
tel. 202 707-3302; fax 202 707-3595
email: scholarly@loc.gov

http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/lomax.html



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