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The Bill and Rita Clements Research Fellowships
for the Study of Southwestern America
The
William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
welcomes applications for residential research
fellowships.
Clements Center Research
Fellowships provide senior or junior scholars with an
essential element for producing successful books, and
that is time. Scholars not only need time to do
research, a task that often requires travel, but as
Pauline Yu, the president of the American Council of
Learned Societies has written, "Scholars need time to
write. In the humanities the expression of the idea is
the source of its power, and
 crafting that expression is
essential to the process of research."
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 2013-2014 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
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click here)
Send applications by regular mail
to:
Andrew R. Graybill, Director
Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Southern Methodist University
P.O. Box 750176
Dallas TX 75275-0176
Send applications by
express mail to:
Andrew R. Graybill, Director
Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Southern Methodist University
3225 University Drive, Room 356
Dallas, TX 75205
Applications must be received by Friday, January 25,
2013.
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
raelmore@smu.edu.
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