Calls for Fellowship, New Scholars, Prize Applications
July 29, 2021
The Fellowship, New Scholars, and Schiller Prize Committees all welcome applications and submissions for the 2022 awards cycle.
New Scholars Program – Deadline Sept. 3, 2021
The New Scholars Program promotes the work of scholars new to bibliography, broadly defined to include the creation, production, publication, distribution, reception, transmission, and subsequent history of all textual artifacts. This includes manuscript, print, and digital media, from clay and stone to laptops and iPads.
The committee strongly encourages applications from those who have not previously published, lectured, or taught on bibliographical subjects. Bibliographical scholarship pursuing new methods and new approaches, including applications from candidates applying bibliographical theory and principles to diverse materials and media, is welcome. Guided by the Society’s Equity Action Plan, the committee also welcomes submissions that embrace diverse, multicultural perspectives.
Visit the New Scholars page on our website for application and eligibility information.
The Fellowship Program – Deadline Oct. 1, 2021
In keeping with the central value the Society places on bibliography as a critical framework, the BSA funds a number of fellowships to promote inquiry and research in books and other textual artifacts in both traditional and emerging formats.
Bibliographical projects may range chronologically from the study of clay tablets and papyrus rolls to contemporary literary texts and born-digital materials. Topics relating to books and manuscripts in any field and of any period are eligible for consideration as long as they include analysis of the physical object – that is, the handwritten, printed, or other textual artifact – as historical evidence.
A number of topical and other types of fellowships are available. We strongly recommend that you visit the Fellowships page on our website to peruse the opportunities available, and for application and eligibility information.
The Justin G. Schiller Prize – Deadline Oct. 1, 2021
Endowed by Justin G. Schiller, a dealer in antiquarian children’s books and past member of the BSA Council, the Schiller Prize for Bibliographical Work on Pre-20th-Century Children’s Books is intended to encourage scholarship in the bibliography of historical children’s books. It brings a cash award of $3,000 and a year’s membership in the Society.
The next Schiller Prize will be awarded at the Society’s 2022 Annual Meeting. Works put into nomination, which must be in English, may concentrate on any children’s book printed before the year 1901 in any country or any language. Submissions should involve research into bibliography and printing history broadly conceived and should focus on the physical book as historical evidence for studying topics such as the history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Studies of the printing, publishing, and allied trades, as these relate to children’s books, are also welcome.
Visit the Justin G. Schiller Prize page on our website for more information about Prize and the submission process.