All completed applications must include:

· Cover form (Application)
· Curriculum vitae
· Narrative description of the project, its contribution to the field, how much you will have completed by the time of the proposed fellowship, and your plan for using the time of the fellowship
· A one-page bibliography of major, related books, and articles
· A budget
· Two letters of recommendation. You should ask individuals who know your work well and who can comment on the value of your project to write to the committee chair. These letters should be sent to the ASECS Business Office as well and must be received by the due date.

Reports submitted by participants

Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship - $1500
Application Deadline: 1 November 2009
Eligibility: All ASECS members who are resident in North America, and all members of ASECS' Irish sister organization, the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, who are resident in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.
Purpose: To support documentary scholarship on Ireland in the period between the Treaty of Limerick (1691) and the Act of Union (1800), by enabling North American-based scholars to travel to Ireland and Irish-based scholars to travel to North America for furthering their research.
Restrictions:
None by academic discipline or sub-period of specialization within 18th-century Ireland. The fellowship is restricted to documentary scholars, whose research centers on primary sources from the eighteenth century (printed matter, manuscripts, buildings, works of art, or other artifacts), rather than on the secondary literature already extant.

Application

Gwin J. and Ruth Kolb Research Travel Fellowship - $500
Application Deadline: 1 January 2010
Eligibility: All members of ASECS who are faculty and independent scholars within the first five years of receipt of their Ph.D. Advanced doctoral candidates with a demonstrable need for specific collections necessary for their dissertation also are encouraged to apply.
Purpose: To supplement costs for younger eighteenth-century scholars to travel to distant collections in North America and abroad.

Application

Robert R. Palmer Research Travel Fellowship - $500
Application Deadline: 1 January 2010
Eligibility: All members of ASECS.
Purpose: To support documentary research related primarily to the history and culture of France.

Application

Aubrey L. Williams Research Travel Fellowship - $1500
Application Deadline: 1 January 2010
Eligibility: ASECS members resident in North America.
Purpose: To support documentary research in eighteenth-century English literature, by American based scholars.
Restrictions: None by academic discipline or subperiod of within eighteenth-century English literature. The fellowship is restricted to doctoral students at work on a dissertation in the field of eighteenth-century English literature.

Application

Richard H. Popkin Research Travel Fellowship - $250
Application Deadline: 1 January 2010
Eligibility: All members of ASECS
Purpose: To supplement costs for scholars to travel to collections in North America and abroad

Application

Theodore E.D. Braun Research Travel Fellowship - $750
Application Deadline: 1 January 2010
Eligibility: All members of ASECS
Purpose: 1) support documentary research on Jean-Jacques Le Franc de Pompignan or (2) to support non-tenured persons working on Voltaire, or (3) to support researchers, regardless of rank, who are working in French literary studies.

Application

Paula Backscheider Archival Fellowship - $500
Application Deadline: 1 January 2010
Eligibility: All members of ASECS
Purpose: To support those researchers whose projects necesitate work in archives, repositories, and special collections (public and private) in foreign countries and/or in the United States.

Application

Application forms are available from: ASECS, PO Box 7867, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109. (Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship applications are also available from Dr. Máire Kennedy, Divisional Librarian, Special Collections, Dublin City Libraries, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, Ireland or from Prof. James E. May, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, DuBois Campus, College Place, DuBois, PA 15801-3199.) Applications are also available following the description of each grant. There are no restrictions by age, sex, race, religion, or academic rank.

No applicant may accept more than one fellowship in any give year.