Topic ID #16512 - posted 2/19/2012 3:08 AM
Jennifer Palmer
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The American Folklife Center Research Awards and Fellowships
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Research Awards and Fellowships
The American Folklife Center's competitive awards provide modest financial awards for scholars interested in working with ethnographic collection materials at the Library of Congress and for those individuals conducting fieldwork on topics related to the aims and scope of folklife research. Descriptions of these programs and awards follow.
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The Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Fund Award
The Parsons Fund Committee for the Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Fund for Ethnography at the Library of Congress is now accepting applications for 2012. The maximum available for grants this year is $2,000. Historically the available amount has usually been divided among more than one recipient. The deadline for submitting applications is March 12, 2012. The committee is composed of the professional staff of the American Folklife Center.
Purpose of Award and Eligibility
The purpose of the fund is to increase awareness of the ethnographic collections at the Library of Congress and to make the collections of primary ethnographic materials housed anywhere at the Library available to the needs and uses of those in the private sector. Awards may be made either to individuals or to organizations in support of specific projects.
Scope of Projects
Projects may lead to publication in media of all types, both commercial and non-commercial; underwrite new works of art, music, or fiction; involve academic research; contribute to the theoretical development of archival science; explore practical possibilities for processing ethnographic collections in the Archive of Folk Culture or elsewhere in the Library of Congress; develop new means of providing reference service; support student work; experiment with conservation techniques; and support ethnographic field research leading to new Library acquisitions.
The Blanton Owen Fund Award
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The Blanton Owen Fund Committee at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress accepts applications every other year. The next application period will be announced in January 2013. The award was established in 1999 in memory of folklorist Blanton Owen by his family and friends to support ethnographic field research and documentation in the United States, especially by young scholars and documentarians. Currently, this award is offered every other year. Historically the available amount has been about $1000 and may be split between more than one recipient.
Archie Green Fellowships
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The next application period for the Archie Green Fellowships begins on February 1, 2012. The application deadline is March 16, 2012 (Read all the instructions carefully. See the application deadlines below.)
Background
To honor the memory of Archie Green (1917-2009), a fellowship program has been established at the American Folklife Center. Green was a pioneering folklorist who championed the establishment of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. As a scholar, he documented and analyzed the culture and traditions of American workers, and encouraged others to do the same. The Archie Green Fellowships will support new research in this area, and will generate significant digital archival collections (audio recordings, photographs, videos, and fieldnotes), which will be preserved in the American Folklife Center archive and made available to researchers and the public
Program Description
The American Folklife Center will award up to three fellowships of up to $45,000 each, for the period July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013, which will support new, original, independent field research into the culture and traditions of American workers and/or occupational groups found within the United States. Applicants must submit proposals via email to be received by the Center no later than March 16, 2012.
The original documentary materials generated during the course of each fellowship will become part of the American Folklife Center's Archie Green Community Documentation Collection. The American Folklife Center was established by Congress to support research and scholarship in American folklife and to preserve, support, revitalize, and disseminate American folk traditions. Materials in the Center's archive are available to researchers and the general public.
More info: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/grants.html
The American Folklife Center's competitive awards provide modest financial awards for scholars interested in working with ethnographic collection materials at the Library of Congress and for those individuals conducting fieldwork on topics related to the aims and scope of folklife research. Descriptions of these programs and awards follow.
""
The Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Fund Award
The Parsons Fund Committee for the Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Fund for Ethnography at the Library of Congress is now accepting applications for 2012. The maximum available for grants this year is $2,000. Historically the available amount has usually been divided among more than one recipient. The deadline for submitting applications is March 12, 2012. The committee is composed of the professional staff of the American Folklife Center.
Purpose of Award and Eligibility
The purpose of the fund is to increase awareness of the ethnographic collections at the Library of Congress and to make the collections of primary ethnographic materials housed anywhere at the Library available to the needs and uses of those in the private sector. Awards may be made either to individuals or to organizations in support of specific projects.
Scope of Projects
Projects may lead to publication in media of all types, both commercial and non-commercial; underwrite new works of art, music, or fiction; involve academic research; contribute to the theoretical development of archival science; explore practical possibilities for processing ethnographic collections in the Archive of Folk Culture or elsewhere in the Library of Congress; develop new means of providing reference service; support student work; experiment with conservation techniques; and support ethnographic field research leading to new Library acquisitions.
The Blanton Owen Fund Award
""
The Blanton Owen Fund Committee at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress accepts applications every other year. The next application period will be announced in January 2013. The award was established in 1999 in memory of folklorist Blanton Owen by his family and friends to support ethnographic field research and documentation in the United States, especially by young scholars and documentarians. Currently, this award is offered every other year. Historically the available amount has been about $1000 and may be split between more than one recipient.
Archie Green Fellowships
""
The next application period for the Archie Green Fellowships begins on February 1, 2012. The application deadline is March 16, 2012 (Read all the instructions carefully. See the application deadlines below.)
Background
To honor the memory of Archie Green (1917-2009), a fellowship program has been established at the American Folklife Center. Green was a pioneering folklorist who championed the establishment of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. As a scholar, he documented and analyzed the culture and traditions of American workers, and encouraged others to do the same. The Archie Green Fellowships will support new research in this area, and will generate significant digital archival collections (audio recordings, photographs, videos, and fieldnotes), which will be preserved in the American Folklife Center archive and made available to researchers and the public
Program Description
The American Folklife Center will award up to three fellowships of up to $45,000 each, for the period July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013, which will support new, original, independent field research into the culture and traditions of American workers and/or occupational groups found within the United States. Applicants must submit proposals via email to be received by the Center no later than March 16, 2012.
The original documentary materials generated during the course of each fellowship will become part of the American Folklife Center's Archie Green Community Documentation Collection. The American Folklife Center was established by Congress to support research and scholarship in American folklife and to preserve, support, revitalize, and disseminate American folk traditions. Materials in the Center's archive are available to researchers and the general public.
More info: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/grants.html
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