David and Ann Vincent Fellowship
Student Fellowship Fund
Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation (RBSCP) at the University of Rochester offers two competitive, short-term student fellowships to support research for one undergraduate and one graduate student in the summer of 2026. The fellowships are available to undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral researchers at the University of Rochester or such students outside the Rochester, NY metropolitan area. They are intended to support academic research and creative projects that would benefit from research conducted on-site in RBSCP. The fellowships support visits of one to two weeks in the summer.
The fellowship program aims to facilitate research in RBSCP’s special collections by a broad group of emerging scholars, regardless of institutional association, race, academic or cultural background, sexual orientation, gender, socioeconomic status, or experience using special collections. We welcome applications from traditional academic scholars as well as from individuals who wish to pursue creative, interdisciplinary, and non-traditional approaches to conducting research in special collections.
Stipend
- Fellowships run six weeks, from May 15 to June 30, 2026
- Graduate fellowship is $7,000 for the six-week period
- Undergraduate fellowship is $5,000 for the six-week period
Eligibility
Undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs who are U.S. citizens or international applicants based at the University of Rochester or outside the Rochester, NY metropolitan area.
Applications
Applicants will be required to submit provide a CV, one letter of recommendation, and a project proposal (up to 300 words) that includes a general description of the research projects, the collection(s) that will be consulted during the fellowship, and an explanation of how collections existing only at RBSCP are essential to the research project.