Winterthur Museum and Country Estate

Winterthur is a public museum, library, and garden that supports the advanced study of American art, culture, and history. The collections consist of American material culture with strong supporting resources in British and Continental art and culture. Winterthur offers an extensive program of short and long-term fellowships open to academic, independent, and museum scholars, including advanced graduate students. The library holds more than 87,000 volumes and one-half million manuscripts and images. Resources for research from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries include period trade catalogs, auction and exhibition catalogs, an extensive reference photograph collection of decorative arts, printed books, and ephemera. These may be searched online, and from remote locations. Museum collections include 85,000 artifacts and works of art made or used in America to 1860, with a strong emphasis on domestic life. Winterthur supports a program of scholarly publ

Winterthur’s collections support research in architectural and art history, design history and the decorative arts, and social and cultural history. Past fellowships have focused on such topics as the history of manners, changing perceptions of the body and dress, the history of advertising, the development of consumer society, American painting, vernacular architecture, Shaker studies, travel and tourism, domestic life, cultural memory and commemoration, gendered culture, colonial culture in the Atlantic World, the history of childhood, sentimental literary culture, food and nationalism, the American arts and crafts movement, and the visual culture of early America.

One to three NEH fellowships are available for 2008-2009. NEH Fellows must have received the Ph.D. prior to beginning the fellowship. NEH Fellows receive office space and computer support, 24-hour access to the library’s circulating collections, and circulating privileges at nearby Morris Library at the University of Delaware. Collections access is available for artifact-based research. A furnished stone farmhouse on the Winterthur grounds serves as the fellows’ residence. NEH Fellows also participate in the lively scholarly community at Winterthur, the nearby Hagley Museum and Library, the University of Delaware, and area museums.

Application deadline: January 15, 2008

Contact:
Katherine C. Grier
Professor of Material Culture Studies
Director, Research Fellowship Program
Winterthur Museum and Country Estate
Winterthur, Delaware 19735
Telephone: 302/888-4627
E-Mail: kgrier@winterthur.org
Website: http://www.winterthur.org/