The Clements Center-DeGolyer Library Research Travel Grants

The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies offers Research Travel Grants to applicants who live outside the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area to encourage a broader and more intensive use of the special collections at DeGolyer Library.

Major subject strengths include the European exploration and discovery of America, the development of the Spanish and Mexican borderlands, and the history of the Trans-Mississippi West. The library also possesses significant collections in the fields of business, transportation, especially related to railroads, and science and technology with notable holdings in the history of geology. Other collections are devoted to major and minor figures in English and American literature and there is significant material related to tourism in Mexico.

The DeGolyer Library preserves over 120,000 volumes of rare and scholarly works, over 2,500 separate manuscript collections, over 500,000 photographs, several thousand maps, hundreds of rare periodicals and newspapers, and a large and growing collection of printed ephemera.

The library’s website is http://www.smu.edu/cul/degolyer.

Three separate research travel are available:

The Clements Center-DeGolyer Library Research Travel Grants

The Bonham Chapter of the Daughters of the Texas Research Grant in Texas History

The Ruth Morgan Women of the Southwest Research Fellowship