MARBL Fellowships

MARBL offers short-term fellowships to support scholarly use of the Library's research collections in three strategic areas:

  • English-language literature
  • The Raymond Danowski Poetry Library
  • African American history and culture

The fellowships have a value of up to $2,000 United States dollars and are meant to help defray expenses in traveling to and residing in Atlanta for the duration of the fellowship. The length of the fellowship will depend on the applicant's research proposal, but is normally one month.

The next fellowship deadline will be February 26, 2010 for projects beginning after March 31, 2010.

Application Process

To apply for a Fellowship, please submit the following:

  1. An application cover sheet. (Available by request and online as a PDF.)
  2. A curriculum vitae of no more than three pages.
  3. A concise description (no more than two double-spaced pages long) of your proposed research project and its significance for scholarship. In this narrative, clearly indicate the specific research materials at Emory you intend to consult, and note the current status of the project and your plans and schedule for completing for publication or submission as a dissertation.
  4. A list of sources, with amounts and dates, of any other funding (past, present, or future) awarded for your present project. Please also list any other grants for which you may presently be applying.


Please mail, fax, or email the four parts of the application to:

Fellowship Program
Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library
Robert W. Woodruff Library
540 Asbury Circle
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322-1006

Fax: 404-727-0360

marbl@emory.edu




Other Fellowship Announcements

Jean Harvey Slappy Research Fellowship

This newly created fellowship – named in honor of Jean Harvey Slappy, a long-time board member of the Marcus Garvey Memorial Foundation – looks to support doctoral candidates working on aspects of the history of the U.N.I.A., the A.C.L. (African Communities League), and Marcus Garvey's organizational activities, and who wish to use the recently deposited papers of Thomas W. Harvey, located at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Research fellows receive grants of $500 to help defray expenses associated with travel to and use of the archival collection.

Applying for the Fellowship

****All applications & attachments must be received by March 17, 2010****
Decisions will be announced on May 1, 2010

While proposals are welcome on a wide variety of research topics (and in a wide variety of disciplines), proposals will be evaluated based on their relevance to key questions in the field of African and African diaspora studies and on the basis of their unique contribution to scholarship.

Required application materials:

  1. 2-page summary of the larger research project
  2. 1-page description of the specific project with a line-item budget (for up to $500.00) and timeline for the specific research to be carried out with the grant
  3. CV (no longer than 2 pages)
  4. One recommendation from an advising professor

For more information, please contact the Garvey Foundation at: GarveyFoundation@gmail.com or at:

ATTN: Dr. Horace Russell
Marcus Garvey Foundation
P.O. Box 42379
Philadelphia, PA 19101

The Marcus Garvey Memorial Foundation, Inc., established in 1961 in New York City, is a non-profit organization whose work is informed by the educational philosophy and ideals of Marcus Mosiah Garvey.