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Brigham Young University
The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University invites applications for its Visiting Scholar Program in Western Studies for 2009-2010. University faculty of all ranks, independent scholars, freelance authors and other public intellectuals who are working on a significant article- or book-length study are eligible to apply for this position. The Visiting Scholar may be in residence for 2-4 months. The Center will provide a housing stipend of $750 per month which may be used for on-campus family housing or may be applied toward the cost of an off-campus apartment. Office space, a networked computer, telephone, access to fax, and limited photocopying privileges will also be provided. Upon request the Center will provide typing assistance and a part-time research assistant. Applications for May 2009-April 2010 are due April 1, 2009.
Application packages should contain:
1) A formal letter describing the applicant's background, research interests and desired dates of stay
2) A Curriculum Vita
3) A one-page discussion of the applicant's research project and its significance
4) The names and contact information for two references.
Electronic applications are encouraged and should be submitted to:
Alternately, applications can be mailed to:
Charles Redd Center for Western Studies
366 SWKT
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602
Applications must be postmarked by the deadline of April 1, 2009.
Incomplete applications will not be considered. Announcement of the awards will be made by May 1, 2009. Award recipients will be required to submit a one-page report of work completed by October 1, 2010.
Visiting Scholars enjoy the luxury of time away from heavy teaching loads and other responsibilities so that they can focus almost exclusively on their research and writing. Visiting Scholars fully participate in the intellectual life of the Center and the University. During their time at BYU they give a public talk on their research and lead a seminar session with interested faculty and students. They also make themselves available for a small number of guest presentations to BYU classes on their research. Each class lecture carries with it an honorarium of $300.
BYU, with a student body of 32,000, is located 50 miles south of Salt Lake City at the foot of the Wasatch Mountain Range and within an hour's drive of several world-class winter sports resorts.
Visiting Scholars will enjoy library privileges including access to BYU's extensive western and Mormon archival collections. Major western collections at BYU include the papers of Zane Grey, Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala Sa), Elizabeth Custer, William Henry Jackson, Charles R. Savage, Thomas F. O'Dea, Arthur Watkins, Reed Smoot, Wallace Bennett, Walter Mason Camp, Earl A. Briningstool, Robert Spurrier Ellison, Finis Ewing and the Utah Parks Company as well as over 50 overland trail journals. Major Mormon collections include the papers of Newell K. Whitney, Hyrum Smith, Emmeline Wells, Thomas and Elizabeth Kane, John Steele, L. John Nuttall, J. Reuben Clark, Adam S. Bennion, David M. Kennedy, Gustive O. Larson and Ernest L. Wilkinson as well as a rich array of LDS missionary diaries.