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RSA Research Grants

Announcing Research Grants for the 2010 for
Members of the Renaissance Society of America

The Renaissance Society of America will award sixteen grants for a total amount of $39,000 in the year 2010. The grants will be available to applicants in all fields.

There are four series of grants:

(1) RSA Research Grant (9 grants)
(2) Paul Oskar Kristeller Memorial Grant (1 grant)
(3) Rensselaer W. Lee Memorial Grant in Art History (1 grant)
(4) Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship in Renaissance Art History (5 grants)

  1. 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. Research Grants are available to applicants in all disciplines and topics dealing with the Renaissance.
  2. The Paul Oskar Kristeller Memorial Grant of $3,000 is open to applicants in any field in any of the three career categories.
  3. The Rensselaer W. Lee Memorial Grant in Art History is open to applicants in any of the
    three career categories.
  4. The five H. Kress Foundation Fellowships in Renaissance Art History of $3,000 each are
    open to art historians in the younger scholar and senior scholar categories as mid-career fellowships.

There will be a single competition for all sixteen grants. Please note that all applicants must be
members of the Renaissance Society of America for the required number of years (see below).
Grants will be awarded in three categories according to the career stage and employment
circumstances of applicants. Applicants will compete for grants within ONE career 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.

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. Other applicants must be members of the 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 of the RSA will appoint a jury drawn from different disciplines within Renaissance studies. 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 career category, but only if there are insufficient
applications of merit in a category. The deadline for applications will be 1 January 2010. Awards will be announced at the RSA’s annual meeting in Venice, 8-10 April 2010.