Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library | Archives Fellowships Program
Special Collections and Archives is pleased to offer three Fellowships for the 2024/2025 academic year.
Fellows are selected from the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies and/or dual degree program with the History Department. Fellows gain hands-on experience and mentorship in the archives, stipends, and funding for professional development.
Details of the upcoming year’s fellowships can be found below, or by downloading the announcement flyer.
To apply: Please submit your application by Monday, May 13 via the application form. You may send questions to the department email qc.archives@qc.cuny.edu, but only applications received through the above form will be considered.
Asian/American Center Collection Fellowship
Length: Single semester, fall 2024.
Stipend: $2500, generously funded by the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
Description: The Fellow will process the records of the Queens College Asian/American Center (3 boxes), publishing a finding aid for the collection using ArchivesSpace. The Fellow will also catalog digital photos and digitize important documents for sharing on JSTOR. The Asian/American Center at Queens College was founded in 1987 with a mission of developing community-oriented research to analyze the multicultural diaspora experience of Asians in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. The collection includes reports, publications, fliers, and photographs.
Shirley Klein Rare Book and Manuscript Fellowship
Length: Full academic year (no work over winter holidays or January break).
Stipend: $2500 per semester ($5000 total), generously funded by Shirley Klein.
Description: The Fellow will focus on arranging, preserving, and describing oversized archives collections currently housed in flat file drawers. This includes political posters, design renderings/drawings, World War II posters, photographic prints, and more. The Fellow will house these materials in oversized folders and create finding aids for the collections in ArchivesSpace.
Freda S. and J. Chester Johnson Civil Rights and Social Justice Archives Fellowship
Length: Full academic year (no work over winter holidays or January break).
Stipend: $2500 per semester ($5000 total), generously funded by Freda S. and J. Chester Johnson
Description: Continuing the work of the Queering the Archives project of the last two years, the Fellow will process the personal papers of writer, playwright, director, and Queens College alum Edward M. Cohen. Cohen’s corpus spans 50 years, from his first novel $250,000 (published 1967) to the recent prize-winning story collection Before Stonewall (published 2019 and awarded the Awst Press Book Prize that year). His personal papers, donated by his family this past January, include manuscripts and drafts, published works, notes, and a scrapbook. The Fellow will create a finding aid for the collection in ArchivesSpace. Other work may include conducting oral histories and institutional research.
Download the flyer to see a full list of prior participants and their projects.