The Library welcomes applications to four programs with application deadlines in March — two for UVA-affiliated instructors and researchers, two for non-UVA researchers who are seeking to pursue study in Special Collections.
For UVA instructors, staff, and faculty
Research Sprints offer an intensive work environment for a specific project or a component of a broader project. During the sprints, faculty or staff work intensively with librarians for three full working days. The goal is to work without distractions during that period to produce a tangible product or outcome.
- Open to faculty, research staff, or university staff engaged in research. Individuals or teams may apply.
- Sprints will be held during the weeks of May 12, May 19, and May 26.
- Application deadline: 3/10/2025
- Learn more and apply for a Research Sprint.
Course Enrichment Grants provide support to enhance students’ abilities to seek, evaluate, manage, and use information and data, as well as create or improve on media-rich class assignments. Recipients receive a $2,500 award (as summer wages or to a research account) and dedicated support from experienced librarians, technologists, or other library staff.
- This program is open to any faculty member at the University of Virginia holding a semester-long course appointment.
- Application deadline: 3/14/2025
- Learn more and apply for a Course Enrichment Grant.
For visiting researchers
The Harrison Institute’s William A. Elwood Fellowship in Civil Rights and African American Studies supports research in the history of African Americans, in particular their struggle for equal rights. Relevant civil rights manuscript collections include the papers of activists Julian Bond and Sarah Patton Boyle; papers and records of organizations such as the Southern Student Organizing Committee and the Virginia Council on Human Relations; the Social Movements Collection covering various radical political organizations and social action groups; and many others.
The Harrison Institute’s Lillian Gary Taylor Fellowship in American Literature supports research in the literary works of authors residing in what is now the United States. Proposals may encompass any time period or genre, and may be bibliographical, biographical, critical, historical, or textual in focus. The Small Special Collections Library is home to one of the world’s most comprehensive holdings of American literature and literary manuscripts, including the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, the Taylor Collection of American Best-Sellers, and the papers of William Faulkner, John Dos Passos, and many other authors of note.
- The Elwood and Taylor Fellowships are open to non-UVA students and scholars.
- $2,500 award for travel to the UVA Special Collections Library; must be used between 7/1/25 – 6/30/26.
- Deadline: 3/31/2025
- Learn more and apply for the Elwood or Taylor Fellowship.