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Fellowship Description and Application Guidelines Five generations on Smith's Plantation Beaufort, South Carolina The Gilder Lehrman Center, part of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, is pleased to announce the Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Fellowship Program for the academic year 2009-2010. The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC) seeks to promote a better understanding of all aspects of the institution of slavery from the earliest times to the present. Our focus is on the chattel slave system, its destruction, and its legacies including Africans' resistance to enslavement, black and white abolitionist movements, and the comparative study of the ways in which chattel slavery became outlawed around the world. The GLC coordinates annual international and interdisciplinary conferences, lectures, educational outreach, publications, and other activities to bring together scholars and students from across the spectrum of slavery studies. The GLC Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is designed to support both established and younger scholars in research projects that can be linked to the aims of the GLC. One 4-month fellowship with a stipend of $12,800 and three 1-month fellowships with a stipend of $3,200 each are available each spring and fall semester. Scholars currently holding the Ph.D. are invited to apply for either term of fellowship between August 2009 and May 2010. Fellows will be expected to participate in the intellectual life of the GLC and the larger Yale community, and to acknowledge the support of the GLC and the MacMillan Center in publications and lectures that stem from research conducted during the fellowship term. In addition, Fellows will be expected to offer one public lecture during their tenure at Yale. The Africans of the slave bark "Wildfire" These fellowships provide access to the research facilities of Yale University, to a broad range of related regional research collections, and to the Gilder Lehrman Collection in New York City. Collections accessible to the Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance Fellows of the Gilder Lehrman Center include: The Sterling Memorial Library The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library The Seeley G. Mudd Library The Divinity School Library (including the Day Missions Library) The Lewis-Walpole Library The New Haven Museum and Historical Society The Connecticut Historical Society Mystic Seaport Gilder Lehrman Collection on deposit at the New-York Historical Society The New-York Historical Society The New York Public Library (including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center Applications for Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Fellowships of the Gilder Lehrman Center, in either 4-month or 1-month categories, should include two copies of the following: Application cover sheet (download here). Evidence of completion of the Ph.D., together with a statement of the date on which the degree is to be conferred. If the degree is not conferred by the projected date, the postdoctoral appointment shall be terminated. A curriculum vitae. Two letters of recommendation. A three- to four-page proposal of the research project. Applications must be received by March 31, 2009 for the Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 semesters. Completed applications should be returned to: Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition The Betty and Whitney MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale Attn: Fellowships P.O. Box 208206 New Haven, CT 06520-8206 Website: www.yale.edu/glc E-mail: gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu