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The Alexander O. Vietor Fellowship in Cartography
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Yale University
 
     As part of its Visiting Fellowship Program, the Beinecke Rare Book &
Manuscript Library offers the Alexander O. Vietor Fellowship in
cartography, discovery, exploration, and related fields. This short-term
fellowship, awarded each year to a visiting scholar pursuing post-doctoral
or equivalent research, supports travel to and from New Haven and pays a
living allowance of $1,800 per month. The fellowship is designed to
provide access to the Yale collections for scholars who live outside the
greater New Haven area. The length of a grant, normally one month, will
depend on the applicant's research proposal. The fellowship must be taken
up during the academic year, and the recipient is expected to be in
residence during the period of the grant. The next award will be made for
the academic year September 1994 through May 1995 (deadline for
applications is January 15, 1994).
     The combined resources of the Beinecke Library and Map Collection in
Sterling Memorial Library include over 200,000 map sheets, more than 2,000
pre-1900 atlases, important works on cosmography, and extensive materials
on voyages, travel, and exploration. The Map Collection is particularly
strong for the American colonial period and in American maps of the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while the Western Americana
Collection at Beinecke holds specialized materials on the
Trans-Mississippi West. The Beinecke's Taylor Collection contains books
and manuscripts on navigation and the exploration of America.
     There is no application form. Applicants are asked to submit a resume
and a brief research proposal (not to exceed three pages) to the Director,
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Box 1603A Yale Station, New
Haven, Connecticut 06520-1603. The proposal should emphasize the
relationship of the Yale collections to the project and state the
preferred dates of residence. The applicant must arrange to have two
confidential letters of recommendation sent to the Director.
 
All application materials must be received by January 15, 1994. Awards
will be announced in March 1994 for the period September 1994 through May
1995.
 
E-mail inquiries may be sent to Christa Sammons:
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