About Grant- in-Aid
The Friends of the UW-Madison Library are pleased to offer a minimum of four grants-in-aid annually, each one month in duration, for research in the humanities in any field appropriate to the collections. The purpose is to foster the high-level use of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library's rich holdings, and to make them better known and more accessible to a wider circle of scholars.
Awards are $2,000 each for recipients in North America, and $3,000 for those from elsewhere in the world.
Memorial Library is distinguished in almost every area of scholarship. It boasts world-renowned collections of:
- history of science from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment
- the largest American collection of avant-garde "Little Magazines"
- a rapidly growing collection of American women writers to 1920
- Scandinavian and Germanic history and literatures
- Dutch post-Reformation theology and church history
- French political pamphlets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- many other fields
Generally, applicants must have a Ph.D. or be able to demonstrate a record of solid intellectual accomplishment. Foreign scholars and graduate students who have completed all requirements except the dissertation are also eligible.
The grants-in-aid are designed primarily to help provide access to UW-Madison library resources for people who live beyond commuting distance. Preference will be given to scholars who reside outside a 75-mile radius of Madison. The grantee is expected to be in residence during the term of the award, which may be taken up at any time during the year.
The annual application deadline is February 1.
To Get a Grant-in-Aid Application
One may obtain an application to the Grant-in-Aid program in one of four ways:
- Filling out and submitting our online application.
- Downloading and printing a copy of the application form as a PDF file.
- Requesting a printed application by writing to:
Friends of the UW-Madison Library Award Committee
976 Memorial Library
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706 - Contacting the Friends at:
Phone: 608-265-2505
Fax: 608-265-2754
E-mail the Friends
Grants-in-Aid Scholars
The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries Grant-in-Aid program began in 1991 with a single $800 grant. Since then, the program has grown to give out at least four $1,500 grants per year. The program has provided more than $50,000 to visiting scholars in a variety of fields, from Italian Renaissance culture to modern "Little Magazines."
2007
Lorenzo Benadusi, University of Rome “La Sapienza”: The image of the soldier; militarism, masculinity and nation from the two World Wars
Rachel Melis, Kansas State University: Prairie pioneers of the Cairns Collection of American Women Writers
Kathryn J. Norlock, St. Mary’s College of Maryland: American women, social arrangements and cultural legacy
Ilaria Pavan, Scuola Normale Superiore di Piza (Italy): History of fascist racism and anti-Semitism 1919-1945.
Christian Quendler, University of Innsbruck (Austria): Exchanges of media across filmic, literary and theoretical discourses 1895-1945.
Roberto Villa Garcia, King Juan Carlos University (Spain): Leftist parties and Democracy in Spain.
2006
Antonella Barzazi, University of Naples: Books, libraries, and culture in Venice between the Counter-Reformation and the Enlightenment
Elena Brambilla, University of Milan: Administration of the sacraments in Western Europe 1550-1800
Lisa Kolhmeier, Claremont Graduate University (California): Life, writings, and influence of Olgivanna Lazovich Wright
Nils Langer, University of Bristol: German usage in the United States 1830-1880
Karl Schoonover, Independant Scholar: Early twentieth-century fascination of the visual residue from the photographic blur
2005
Giorgio Caravale, Fondazioine Luigi Firpo (Italy): Early modern religious history - Francesco Pucci
David Rohrbacher, New College of Florida: Late Antique Classical History
2004
Ian Stewart, University of King's College: Renaissance and early-modern natural philosophy; Translation of Willaim Gilbert's New Philosophy Concerning our Sublunary World
Carmen Menchini (Mosse Fellow), University of Naples: Treatment of European Jews in 16th Century
Sarah Nelson, University of Idaho: French Female Autobiography
Vasileios Syros (Mosse Fellow), Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium): Constitutional History of Renaissance Venice
Ignacio Fernandez de Mata, University of Burgos: Spanish Civil War
2003
Renata Segre, Independent Scholar: Italian and Jewish early modern history
Jonathan Judaken, University of Memphis: Cultural and Intellectual History
Mark Solovey, Independant Scholar: History of American Social Science
Paul Harvey, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs: American History; Freedom's Coming: Religion, Race and Culture in the South, 1865-2000
Matthew Klemm, John Hopkins University: Medieval Intellectual History
James Stokes, UW-Stevens Point: Early English Drama; The Dramatic Records of East Anglia
Tony Cousins, Macquarie University (Australia): Renaissance Literature
Federica Francesconi, University of Haifa (Isreal): Italian Jewish History during the17th to the 19th century
2002
Stefania Pastore, University of Pisa (Italy): The Life of Agostino Boasio
Adelisa Melana, University of Pisa (Italy): Women's Autobiographies in the Early Modern Age
Riccardo Caporale, University of Bologna (Italy): 20th Century Fascist Italian Police Brutality
2001
Klementyna Czericka, University of Wroclaw (Poland): Witold Gombrowicz in Argentina
Elizabeth McCartney, University of Oregon-Eugene: Early Modern French History
2000
Lisa Surwillo, University of California-Berkeley: Literature of 19th Century Spain
Stephen Brockmann, Carnegie Mellon University: German Literature during 1945-1949
Steven Williams, New Mexico Highlands University: Medieval History - Pope Gregory IX's Relationship to Aristotle
Mark Chavalas, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse: Ancient Near East History; Life and culture in the ancient Near East. Editors, Richard E. Averbeck, Mark W. Chavalas, David B. Weisberg. CDL Press, c2003.
1999
Nancy Berke, Hunter College: Modern American Poetry; Women poets on the left : Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, Margaret Walker. University Press of Florida, 2001.
Mark Chavalas, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse: Ancient Near East History
Ana Santos Olmsted, University of Massachusetts-Amherst: Cronicas in Brazilian Literature
Scott MacPhail, University of Indiana-Bloomington: Lyric Poetry and National Identity in America
1998
Andrey Pilgun, University of St. Louis: Cosmological Imagery in Medieval Book Illustration
Stephen Burnett, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Christian Hebraism
Mark Omelnitski, London, United Kingdom: History of Religion in Anglo-Saxon England
Mark Box, University of Alaska-Fairbanks: Philosophy of David Hume
Chaela Pastore, University of California-Berkeley; History of Haiti and the French Revolution
1997
Maria Paola Saci, University of Viterbo (Italy): Early Modern History of Human Sciences
Fabio Troncarelli, University of Viterbo (Italy): 15th and 16th Century Witchcraft in France
Ku-Ming Chang, University of Chicago: Cultural context of German Enlightenment chemistry
1996
Julia Ehrhardt, Yale University: 19th and 20th Century American Female writers
E. Nicole Meyer, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay: Female French Autobiographies; French and Francophone Women's Autobiography in the Twentieth Century, Women in French Studies, 2002
Kathleen Comerford, Hanover College: Fiesolan Diocese - 16th/17th century Clergy; Ordaining the Catholic Reformation: Priests and Seminary Pedagogy in Fiesole, 1575-1675. Leo S. Olschki, 2001
1995
Carol Jean Poore, Brown University: Labor and national identity in 20th century Germany; The bonds of labor: German journeys to the working world, 1890-1990. Wayne State University Press, 2000.
Matthew Edney, Binghamton University: History of Cartography
Barbara Obrist, NSRC-Strasbourg: History of medieval alchemy; "Art et nature dans l'alchimie medievale". Revue d'histoire des sciences, 49
Gloria Anzilotti, University of Florence (Italy): Socio-linguistics of English grammer texbooks
1994
Jessica Ann Sheetz, Marquette University: Familial structure in Victorian London
E. Nicole Meyer, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay: Contemporary French Fiction
1993
John Bryan Williams, University of Chicago: 13th century Genoese slave trade
Francesco Erspamer, University of Rome (Italy): Renaissance Italian Literature - Galvano Fiamma