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In partnership with Indiana University Bloomington repositories and with support from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, the Institute for Advanced study offers a short-term Summer Research Fellowship to support immersive collections research. This initiative is intended to support research in the rich collections of the IU Bloomington campus and to build partnerships between scholars at and beyond IUB.
Started in Summer 2015, this program funds a short-term Summer Research Fellowship for a visiting faculty member or community scholar researcher to conduct in-depth research in the collections of one or more of our partner repositories. Applications from faculty members at Minority Serving Institutions and community colleges and from source community scholars are welcome.
Visiting researchers may apply independently or jointly with an IUB faculty research partner. Applications for collaborative research with Indiana University Bloomington faculty members will be given preference.
The fellowship provides an allowance for travel, lodging, and per diem as well as a two-week stipend for the visiting researcher and for the IUB faculty researcher.
Award funding includes:
- $2,000 travel, lodging, and per diem (maximum allowance)
- $3,000 two-week stipend for visiting researcher
- $3,000 two-week stipend for IUB faculty research partner
- Maximum award amount is $8,000.
While in residence, the visiting researcher or research team will be expected to conduct at least two weeks of research and make an informal presentation about the project in progress.Resulting analyses or conclusions should be disseminated online, in print, or through exhibition.
Project proposals should clearly articulate the research question and approach, how it fits with any larger research agenda, and the importance of the specified collection(s) to the project. Applications will be reviewed by staff at the partner repositories and by a small committee of scholars in diverse fields. Project descriptions and research dissemination plans should be composed with such audiences in mind.
Please note that this fellowship is intended to support research in IU Bloomington’s unique collections, so research focus should be on materials that cannot be accessed elsewhere. Projects focusing on items that can be purchased, borrowed through interlibrary loan, or utilized effectively from a distance via digital surrogates are not within the scope of this program.
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Note: Applicants must receive approval of dates and proposed research from the archive, library, or museum where they propose to conduct research before submitting application materials. List the name and contact information for the staff member/s you speak with on the application.
Questions may be addressed to IAS Associate Director Suzanne Godby Ingalsbe at sgodby@indiana.edu.
Applications should be submitted electronically in ONE PDF FILE to Kristina Downs, Communications and Projects Manager, at ias@indiana.edu by Monday, March 20, 2017. Notification of awards will be made in April 2017.
2017 PARTNER REPOSITORIES
Archives of African American Music and Culture
The Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) is a repository of materials covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era. Our collections highlight popular, religious, and classical music, with genres ranging from blues and gospel to R&B and contemporary hip hop. The AAAMC also houses extensive materials related to the documentation of black radio.
Archives of Traditional Music
The Archives of Traditional Music is an audiovisual archive that documents music and culture from all over the world. With over 100,000 recordings that include more than 2,700 field collections, it is one of the largest university-based ethnographic sound archives in the United States. Its holdings cover a wide range of cultural and geographical areas, vocal and instrumental music, linguistic materials, folktales, interviews, and oral history, as well as videotapes, photographs, and manuscripts.
Black Film Center/Archive
The Black Film Center/Archive was established in 1981 as the first archival repository dedicated to collecting, preserving, and making available historically and culturally significant films by and about black people. The BFC/A's primary objectives are to promote scholarship on black film and to serve as an open resource for scholars, researchers, students, and the general public; to encourage creative film activity by independent black filmmakers; and to undertake and support research on the history, impact, theory, and aesthetics of black film traditions. Collections include films, interviews, photographs, posters, press kits, pressbooks, and materials documenting the careers of individual filmmakers.
Indiana Geological Survey
The IGS is the repository for more than 1,100 rock cores collected in the state of Indiana. The cores have geospatial coordinates and are accompanied by paper and digital geological logs; these data are available via the IGS’s Petroleum Database Management System. The collection serves as an Indiana and midwestern resource for sedimentologic, stratigraphic, paleontologic, and paleoecologic research, as well as for applied research on industrial minerals, petroleum, and gas. With permission, the collection may be directly sampled. The IGS collections also include other large collections accessible to researchers, such as 84,000+ petroleum records, 10,000+ lithologic strips, and 5000+ gamma log records.
Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology
The Glenn Black Laboratory is a repository for archaeological artifacts, data, and documentation for sites in the Midwest including those associated with Indiana’s largest archaeological site, Angel Mounds State Historic Site. GBL collections include objects, papers, maps, microfilms, photographic negatives and prints, slides, films, digital files, illustrations, and artwork.
IU Herbarium
The IU Herbarium is a research museum with 150,000 specimens. It is the official herbarium for the State of Indiana, it holds the collections of Charles Deam (the basis of The Flora of Indiana), it is the specimen repository for faculty and student researchers at IU, and it is an essential campus facility for specimen-based research because specimens are loaned only to established herbaria, not individual researchers. etc
What are the dates of the summer research residency?
The Summer Research Fellowship period may be scheduled between May and August. Exact dates are proposed by the researcher(s) and must be approved by the host repository.
May graduate students apply for the Summer Repository Research Fellowship?
This program is intended for faculty members and community scholar researchers, especially those who might be engaged in collaborative research with IU Bloomington faculty members.
May I stay for longer than two weeks?
Yes, in arrangement with the host repository, you may schedule a longer stay. However, we will only provide stipend funds for the first two weeks, and the housing and per diem allowance cannot be increased.
Do my two weeks in residence have to be consecutive?
No, if the partner institution agrees with a non-consecutive schedule, you do not have to complete your research weeks consecutively. But the travel allowance will not be increased if you travel to and from Bloomington more than once.
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https://ias.indiana.edu/fellows/summer-research-fellowship