The National Sporting Library, a research institution specializing in horse and field sports, invites applications for research fellowships from university faculty in the humanities and social sciences, museumand library professionals, journalists, and independent scholars. Research disciplines include history, art history, literature, American studies, and area studies. Past and current projects include the history of ethics in fly fishing, hunting imagery in 18th-century French portraiture, and Early Modern horsemanship manuals.
Located 42 miles west of Washington, D.C., the Library holds an extensive collection of over 17,000 books, periodicals, manuscripts, and sporting art. The collection covers many aspects of outdoor sports, including fly fishing and angling. The F. Ambrose Rare Book Room contains over 4,000 rare volumes from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries in several languages. The John H. Daniels Collection contains a wealth of rare angling literature, including 90 editions of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler, Joseph Seccombe's Business and Diversion Inoffensive to God (1739) (the first angling text printed in America); Edmund Davis' Salmon Fishing on the Grand Cascapedia; F.M. Halford's Dry Fly Entomology; several limited editions art books published by the Lyons Press; historical and current sporting periodicals; and
contemporary titles by popular writers.
The fellowship covers approved projects of 12 months or less, and applicants must demonstrate their need to use specific works in the collections. A monthly stipend, workspace, and complimentary housing (for those outside of the immediate area) are provided.
Applications must be postmarked by *February 1, 2010*.
For more information, visit our website at
http://www.nsl.org/fellowship.html or contact the Director of Communications and Research at 540-687-6542 x 11 or fellowship@nsl. org.
Elizabeth Tobey, Director of Communications & Research
National Sporting Library
P.O. Box 1335 (102 The Plains Rd.)
Middleburg, VA 20118-1335
540-687-6542 x 11
etobey@nsl.org
http://www.nsl.org/
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