Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Research Fellowships for Graduate Students

The Beinecke Library Fellowship Program offers, on a competitive basis, fellowships to support graduate students who wish to pursue onsite research with Yale Library Special Collections materials for one to four months. The fellowship program welcomes applications from students enrolled in graduate programs at Yale and at any other university or college, locally or globally. The program aims to facilitate research by the broadest possible group of students, regardless of institutional association, race, cultural background, ability, sexual orientation, gender, or socioeconomic status. Students applying for a fellowship should be at an advanced stage in their research or prospectus development and propose a fully conceptualized project related to their degree program. Applications from students utilizing traditional methods of archival and bibliographic research are encouraged as are applications from students who wish to pursue creative, interdisciplinary, and non-traditional approaches to conducting research in the collections. This is a residential fellowship and fellows are expected to spend the majority of their time in the reading room and participate in the intellectual life of the university.