ASECS’ A. C. Elias Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship, 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.”
Prize winners are chosen by an independent jury of three scholars from different disciplines after each is seen by readers in the applicant’s field.
Eligibility
- Projects conducting original research on any aspect of 18C Ireland qualify for consideration, but recipients
- Must be members of ASECS who have permanent residence in the United States or Canada or be members of its Irish sister organization
Benefits
- Travel grant, with $2500 in annual funding
Application Process
- Applications consist of a cover letter, a short C.V. (1-3 pp.), a description of the project (3 pp. or less, treating its contribution to the field and work did and to be done during the proposed research period), a one-page bibliography of related books and articles, a short budget, and two signed letters of recommendation
- Please try to submit all the materials but the letters as one Word file or PDF. If the two letters of support cannot be supplied as PDFs of signed letters, the original copies should be mailed to one of the trustees
Note:
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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. There are no restrictions by age, sex, race, religion, or academic rank
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No applicant may accept more than one ASECS grant or fellowship in any given year
