CFAs: Stacy Lloyd III Fellowship for Bibliographic Study

OSGF intends to award the Fellowship to an exceptional researcher who is developing a new body of research that would especially benefit from access to Oak Spring’s library. The Fellow will be scheduled to visit when there are other Interdisciplinary Residents or Fellows on-site. This scheduling will allow the Fellow to join in communal meals, and optional activities and field trips with other artists, ecologists, researchers, or scholars working on projects related to OSGF’s mission. These optional activities provide Fellows time to learn from, and interact with their staff.

Funding Information

• The award includes a $10,000 individual grant and requires a 2 – 5 week stay at Oak Spring.

Costs Covered

• The selected Fellow should make travel arrangements to Dulles International Airport, where Oak Spring will arrange ground transportation for them to their estate in Upperville, VA.
• The Fellow will be housed in nicely appointed shared accommodations. The Fellow will have a private bedroom and bathroom, and share a living room and kitchen with 1 – 3 other Residents or Fellows.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible applicants must be early-career researchers completing a terminal degree, or who have completed a terminal degree within the past five years.
• The selected early-career researcher must be self-directed and able to work independently while on site.
• Applicants are expected to show exceptional promise with an ability to state how use of Oak Spring’s library will contribute to their research objectives, exceptional promise, good communication skills and excellence in what they have accomplished or plan to accomplish.

Selection Criteria

• Fellows are carefully selected through a multi-round review process in which OSGF staff, Residency alumni, and external jurors review and score applications.
• Fellows are ultimately selected by panels of external reviewers who are established and working in fields or practices relevant to OSGF’s mission.
• The primary criteria for scoring applicants include: an applicant’s current work’s relationship to the OSGF mission; potential of applicant; and quality of work samples.

Application Requirements

• You will be asked to submit:
  • A resume/curriculum vitae (not to exceed two pages),
  • A 200–300-word statement on your current research or scholarship,
  • A 200 – 300 word statement on how your work relates to Oak Spring Garden Foundation’s mission,
  • Any and all relevant links/up to 10 pages of writing that demonstrates your research outputs and current scholarly interests.

For more information, visit OSGF.