Helmerich Center Travel to Collections Grants

Description

The Helmerich Center for American Research offers several travel to collections grants to support research projects that require on-site use of its collections. The travel grants are $500 per week for a maximum length of two weeks.

We are pleased to announce that complementary housing can be arranged on the University of Tulsa's campus, upon request and depending on availability. HCAR is a 13-minute drive (6.5 miles) from TU's campus.

While Gilcrease Museum is under construction, many artworks are not accessible for research purposes. Gilcrease staff will determine whether any requested item from the art collection is available or not.

About the Helmerich Center for American Research

The University of Tulsa's Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum houses the Gilcrease Library and Archive containing more than 100,000 rare books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and unpublished works. The collection dates back to the time of Columbus and details the Spanish arrival in the Americas, the New England colonies, the founding of democracy in the United States, and Anglo-Indian contact and conflict in the American West. The center also holds a large Native American collection of manuscripts, photographs, maps, and rare books. Materials housed at the University of Tulsa's McFarlin Library Special Collections on the TU campus complement many of the center's strengths, but offers unique research opportunities in English and American literature. The McFarlin Library Special Collections holds one of the five largest collections in the world on the celebrated Irish writer James Joyce and the life archive of Nobel Laureate Sir V.S. Naipaul. Other significant collections include a wide variety of British, Irish, and American modernist literature, a large and varied collection of materials on World War I, Native American history and culture, and Tulsa race relations.

Qualifications

Fellows are expected to be active researchers at the center, and they are encouraged to participate in the intellectual life of the center and The University of Tulsa. A brief report will be due within 30 days of completion of the travel grant, and a copy of any publications resulting from the research should also be sent to the center.

Application Instructions

To apply, please submit the following:

• Project Proposal in English, should include the following:
  
  
  • Explanation of the project's significance and progress to date
  • Detailed list of materials and collection items to be consulted at HCAR and, if applicable, McFarlin Special Collections
  • Plan for completion of the work while in residence
  • Document should not exceed 1000 words
• Curriculum Vitae, not to exceed three pages
• One letter of reference via Interfolio

Questions may be submitted to: View email address on click.appcast.io

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