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RSA Research Grants

Announcing Research Grants for the Year 2009 for Members of The Renaissance Society of America

The Renaissance Society of America will award tweleve grants for a total amount of $26,000 in the year 2009. The grants will be available to applicants in all fields.

There are three series of grants:
(1) RSA RESEARCH GRANTS (9)
(2) RSA-INSR GRANT FOR FLORENCE (1)
(3) SAMUEL H. KRESS FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP IN RENAISSANCE ART HISTORY (2)
  1. The Renaissance Society of America will award up to nine RSA Research Grants in amounts ranging from $1,000 to $3,000, with the average amount expected to be about $2,000, for a total amount of $18,000. Three grants will be awarded in each of the three categories of Non-doctoral Scholar, Younger Scholar, and Senior Scholar. These Research Grants are available to applicants in all disciplines and topics dealing with the Renaissance.
  2. RSA-INSR GRANT FOR FLORENCE - The RSA has entered into an agreement with the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento in Florence to award one research grant for research in Florence or the environs. The purpose of the grant is to enable a scholar to use the archival, manuscript, and printed book collections of Florence and/or study the works of art in Florence and the surrounding area. The RSA will award the recipient $2,000 toward travel and other costs. The Istituto Nazionale will provide lodging in a pensione in Florence for up to four weeks and access to its collections. For 2009 the grant will be available to applicants in all three categories.
  3. There will be two Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship in Renaissance Art History of $3,000 each, open to art historians in all three categories.
There will be a single competition for all eleven awards. Please note that all applicants must be members of the Renaissance Society of America for the required number of years (see below for the minimum requirement in each category). Research Grants will be awarded in three categories according to the career stage and employment circumstances of applicants. Applicants will compete for grants within ONE category only.

NON-DOCTORAL:These awards will support doctoral candidates, pre-university teachers, and other applicants lacking doctorates.

YOUNGER SCHOLAR: These awards will support assistant professors; associate professors in the first two years of appointment at that rank; temporary, adjunct, and/or part-time professors; and younger independent scholars holding the Ph. D.

SENIOR SCHOLAR: These awards will support associate professors with more than two years at that rank, full professors, retired professors, and senior independent scholars.

Research projects in all subjects and language areas within Renaissance Studies are eligible for support. Students must be members of RSA for at least one year at the time of application, i.e., since the year preceding the application. All other applicants must be members of RSA for at least three years at the time of application, i.e., at the time of application they must be at least in their fourth year as members of the RSA.

The Executive Board will appoint a jury drawn from different disciplines within Renaissance studies. The criteria for judgment will be the scholarly excellence of the project and applicant, and the demonstrated need for access to research materials. The jury reserves the right to award fewer or more grants in one category, but only if there are insufficient applications of merit in one category. The deadline for applications will be 1 January 2009. Awards will be announced at the RSA Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, March 19-21, 2009.