Program Description
The Latin American Library at Tulane University is pleased to announce the Richard E. Greenleaf Library Fellowships to support research at the library. These fellowships are made possible through the generosity of Tulane emeritus professor and distinguished historian Richard E. Greenleaf. Their purpose is to offer researchers who permanently reside in any country of Latin America or the Caribbean short-term residential fellowships to use the resources of the Latin American Library at Tulane to conduct research in any field of the humanities or social sciences.
Up to three fellowships will be granted every year, beginning in 2007. Each fellowship will cover the cost of round-trip airfare as well as housing and living expenses, for a period of one to three months. Fellowships are available to any qualified scholar--including independent researchers and advanced graduate students--who resides permanently in any country in Latin America or the Caribbean. Applications from scholars of any nationality who are permanent residents of any country in the region will be considered, but preference will be given to citizens of Latin American or Caribbean nations. Fellowship winners will be expected to relocate to New Orleans for the duration of the fellowship and to give a public presentation at Tulane of their work-in-progress during their stay. Fellowships may be held at any time between July 20, 2008 and June 30, 2009. The application deadline for fellowships for 2008-2009 is 5pm Central Time, April 18, 2008.
Aside from the residential requirement, criteria for selection include:
- The merit of the research project and proposal, which should be in any field of the humanities or social sciences
- The relevance to the project of the resources of the Latin American Library
- The scholarly achievements and merit of the candidate, and the significance of his/her project
Application Information and Deadline
The application deadline for the 2008 - 2009 cycle has ended. Information for the next cycle will be available here beginning in early 2009.
Contact
Hortensia Calvo, Doris Stone Director, The Latin American Library
About the Latin American Library
The Latin American Library at Tulane University is among the world's foremost collections of research materials from and about the region and one of only a handful of discreet collections of Latinamericana in the United States. Established in 1924 by the predecessor of Tulane's Middle American Research Institute, the collection is one of the most comprehensive of its kind, comprising more than 420,000 volumes, and including materials from the pre-contact period to the present day. In addition to the rare books, manuscript collections, photographic archive and Mayan rubbings, the Latin American Library's special collections include historic newspapers, over 4,000 maps and broadsides, and substantial collections of printed ephemera from several countries in the region.
Specific strengths of the collections include but are not limited to:
- History, politics, socio-economics and cultural production of Latin America in general, with an emphasis on Mesoamerica, the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean.
- Art and art history, for all periods, from ancient Mesoamerican iconography to contemporary Latin American artists, including an extensive collection of 20 th and 21 st century museum and gallery catalogs.
- The Merle Greene Robertson Collection of Rubbings of Maya Relief Sculpture, notebooks, slides and other documentation, containing nearly 2,000 rubbings made on handmade Japanese rice paper with either thick sumi ink or oil paints. This corpus is of major importance for art historians, archaeologists, and Maya epigraphers, as it provides full-scale records of Maya sculpture and hieroglyphic writing primarily from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.
- An extensive photographic archive spanning the region, from the mid-19 th century to the present, including glass slides and postcards .
- For more detailed information on the collections, please visit http://lal.tulane.edu/
About Richard E. Greenleaf
Until his retirement in 1998, Richard E. Greenleaf served as the France Vinton Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History, and as the Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. He also served as Chair of the Department of History. Dr. Greenleaf grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and took his Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees at the University of New Mexico, where he studied under the dean of Inquisition scholars, France V. Scholes. Greenleaf's doctoral dissertation, "Zumárraga and the Mexican Inquisition 1536-1543," served as the basis for his many excellent publications on the history of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Latin America.
Greenleaf has authored eleven major scholarly books, co-authored or contributed to seventeen others, and published almost four dozen articles in the field of Latin American and New Mexico history. He has been the recipient of many distinguished awards, among them the Silver Medal, the Sahagún Prize (Mexican National History Award), and the Serra Award of the Academy of American Franciscan History for Distinguished Scholarship in Colonial Latin American History. In his long and distinguished teaching career in New Mexico, Mexico City and New Orleans, Greenleaf has served as mentor to 34 doctoral students at Tulane, and countless masters and undergraduate students.
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