The Black Metropolis Research Consortium Requests Proposals for Two National Fellowship Programs

The Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) is an unincorporated Chicago-based association of libraries, universities, and other archival institutions. Its mission is to make broadly accessible its members' holdings of materials that document African American and African diasporic culture, history, and politics, with a specific focus on materials relating to Chicago. The University of Chicago serves as the BMRC’s host institution.

The Black Metropolis Research Consortium is accepting applications for two fellowship programs:


The BMRC Short-Term Fellowship Program in African American Studies supports scholars, professional artists and writers who wish to conduct research in BMRC member institutions’ collections relating to African American and African diasporic culture, history, and politics. The fellowship period is for one or two months during summer 2010. Fellows will receive a stipend of $3,000 per month while conducting research in Chicago. Qualified scholars, composers, media artists, musicians, visual artists, and writers are encouraged to apply. The BMRC Short-Term Fellowship Program in African American Studies is made possible by the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information on the program and past fellows go to the BMRC website http://www.blackmetropolisresearch.org.

The BMRC is also administering the Timuel D. Black, Jr. Short-Term Fellowship in African American Studies. The Timuel D. Black, Jr. Fund, a standing committee of the Vivian G. Harsh Society, Inc., is providing short-term research fellowships related to the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature housed at the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library of the Chicago Public Library. The fellowship program supports scholars, writers, educators and institutional researchers who would benefit from research conducted at the Vivian G. Harsh Collection. The fellowship period is for one or two months during summer 2010. Fellows will receive a stipend of $2,000 per month while conducting research in Chicago.

The application deadline for both programs is January 11, 2010. For more information on how to apply go to the BMRC website.