[LCC] lgbt visiting scholar program at nypl

[Alice Browne]

Not strictly classics related, but might be of interest to some  
people on this list.
Link below:

http://www.nypl.org/press/releases/?article_id=193

text follows:
The New York Public Library New LGBT Visiting Scholars Program

Stipends Available for Research with Library’s LGBT collections

The New York Public Library continues to expand, build, and make  
accessible it’s extensive Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender  
(LGBT) collections by announcing the creation of the LGBT Visiting  
Scholars Program. Created with the generous support of LGBT Committee  
Ambassador Martin Duberman and his partner Eli Zal, the program  
enables the Library to provide travel stipends to New York City for  
up to three visiting scholars to do LGBT research in the Library’s  
collections. The awards will be limited to emerging scholars or those  
who are unaffiliated with an academic institution. The selected  
Martin Duberman Scholars will receive travel grants that range from  
$1,000 to $8,500 and will as be provided with workspace at the  
Library to pursue their research.

Interested applicants should send a three to five page research  
proposal specifying the collections at the Library relevant to their  
project, a draft budget, and itinerary for their trip, a cover  
letter, and an appropriate letter of recommendation. Applications  
should be sent to Jason Baumann, The New York Public Library, 11 West  
40th Street, South Court 3, New York, NY 10018. Applications must be  
received by January 31, 2009. Notification of awards will be sent  
beginning March 1, 2009. Recipients must make their trip within the  
year of 2009.

The LGBT collection at The New York Public Library continues to be  
one of the largest and most thorough in the country. The collections  
include the archives of pioneering LGBT activists, such as Morty  
Manford, and Barbara Gitting and Kay Tobin Lahusen; the papers of  
scholars, such as Martin Duberman, Jonathan Ned Katz, and Karla Jay;  
organizational archives of pivotal civil rights groups, such as the  
Mattachine Society of New York and Gay Activist Alliance; and the  
papers of LGBT writers, such as W.H. Auden, Virginia Woolf, and  
Joseph Beam. The Library’s collections also include major archives in  
the history of the AIDS crisis, extensive holdings in the history of  
LGBT theatre, and the Black Gay and Lesbian archive.