The Bill and Rita Clements Research Fellowships, USA

June 17, 2010

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Job Description: The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies welcomes applications for residential research fellowships. Fellowships are normally for a full academic year but we also welcome applications from scholars interested in a half-year fellowship. Competition is open to individuals in any field in the humanities or social sciences doing research on Southwestern America or the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The fellowships are designed to provide time for senior or junior scholars to bring book-length manuscripts to completion. One of the fellowships, funded by the generosity of the Summerlee Foundation, supports work on Texas history. The fellowships cannot be used to complete a dissertation.

Fellows will be expected to spend the 2011-2012 academic year or single semester at SMU and to participate in Clements Center activities. Each fellow will receive the support of the Center and access to the extraordinary holdings of the DeGolyer Library. Full-year fellowships carry a stipend of $40,000, benefits where appropriate, a $3,000 allowance for research and travel expenses, and a publication subvention. Single-semester fellowships will receive a $20,000 stipend, benefits where appropriate, a $1,500 research allowance, and a publication subvention. Full-year fellows have the option of teaching one course during the duration of the fellowship for an additional stipend.

Applicants should send a copy of their curriculum vita, a description of their research project, and a sample chapter or extract (if the sample is from a dissertation, please include the introduction), indicate if they are applying for a full-year or single-semester fellowship. Applicants must arrange to have letters of reference sent from three persons who can assess the significance of the work and the ability of the scholar to carry it out.

Please download Reference Letters Confidentiality Form (pdf. file) and have referees include with reference letters. (To download Adobe Acrobat Reader – the free software necessary to view this file – directly from Adobe, click here)

Send applications by regular mail to:

Benjamin H. Johnson, Interim Director
Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Southern Methodist University
P.O. Box 750176
Dallas TX 75275-0176

Send applications by express mail to:

Benjamin H. Johnson, Interim Director
Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Southern Methodist University
3225 University Drive, Room 356
Dallas, TX 75205

Applications must be received by Friday, January 21, 2011.

This page contains all the information necessary to complete the application process.
If you have questions, please call (214) 768-3684 or send an email to swcenter@smu.edu.

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