French Political Pamphlet Fellowship
Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, houses an important collection of political pamphlets printed in France during the period of the Religious Wars (1550) through the reign of Louis XIII (1643). A description of the holdings and an annotated bibliography of the pamphlets can be found online here.
The department of French and Italian at Brigham Young University solicits applications for a fellowship that will support a short-term residency allowing for on-site consultation of the pamphlets. The department will cover airfare, food, and lodging, and will provide a $500 honorarium for a scholar to spend up to two weeks in Provo researching the collection.
The stay must be completed sometime during the fall semester of the year in which the fellowship is offered, at a time agreed upon by the fellow and the sponsoring department. The fellow will give one lecture on their project to a group of faculty and students during the fellowship period.
To apply
Please send a one page research proposal along with a CV and tentative dates by email to the fellowship coordinator, Dr. Christopher Flood at cflood@byu.edu. Applicants must have a US social security or tax ID number and will be responsible for securing their own entry visas where applicable. The review of proposals will begin on May 31, 2024 and the winner will be notified by June 30.
Previous fellows
2016: Rev. Gregory Haake, University of Notre Dame, “Fraud, Philology, and Making it Stick: the Mémoire of the Advocate David and the Discrediting of the Guises”
2017: Natalia Wawrzyniak, Le Mans Université, “Understand Without Touching: Reading Early-Modern Pamphlets in the Era of Dematerialization”
2018: Jonathan Nathan, University of Cambridge, “Accusations of Atheism during the French Wars of Religion”
2019: Scott Francis, University of Pennsylvania, “No Offense? The Weaponization of Scandal in the Reign of Charles IX (1560-74)”
2020: Bruce Hayes, University of Kansas, “The Unusual Origins of Anti-Religious Satire in Early Modern France”
2023: Rosanne Baars, University of Groningen, “Touring the Provinces for Peace and Justice: The Commissioners of the Edict of Nantes in 17th-century France”