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HARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE
RESEARCH GRANTS PROGRAM
The Harry S. Truman
Library Institute for National and International Affairs is the private,
non-profit partner of the Harry S. Truman Library. The Institute's purpose
is to foster the Truman Library as a center for research and as a provider
of educational and public programs. Applications for funding will be considered
by the Institute's Committee on Research, Scholarship and Academic Relations.
I. RESEARCH GRANTS
- Research
Grant Application Form
Grants of up
to $2,500 are awarded biannually and are intended to enable graduate
students, post-doctoral scholars and other researchers to come to
the Harry S. Truman Library for one to three weeks to use its collections.
Awards are to offset expenses incurred for this purpose only.
Eligibility:
Graduate students and post-doctoral scholars are particularly encouraged
to apply, but applications from others engaged in advanced research
will also be considered. Preference will be given to projects that
have application to enduring public policy and foreign policy issues
and that have a high probability of being published or publicly disseminated
in some other way. The potential contribution of a project to an applicant's
development as a scholar will also be considered. An individual may
receive no more than two Research Grants in a five year period.
Deadlines: April
1 and October 1. The Committee will notify applicants in writing of
its decision approximately six weeks after these dates.
Budgets: Budgets
are calculated on the following basis: 1) $75 per day for lodging
and meals. 2) Airfare based on the best advance coach fare
available. 3) Up to $100 allowance for photocopying. 4) Roundtrip
mileage for grantees using personal vehicles to drive in is currently
reimbursable at 48.5 cents per mile (subject to change). Area ground
transportation (airport shuttles, cabs, local bus service, etc.) is
the responsibility of the grantee.
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End-of-Grant Reporting
Responsibilities: Grantees will provide the following to the Institute:
1) A copy of any thesis, dissertation, and/or published work based
in part on grant-funded research at the Truman Library. 2) A statement
of about 750 words which describes the grantee's project and the contribution
toward its development made by research conducted at the Truman Library.
Grantees give the Institute the right to publish this statement if
it chooses to do so.
II. DISSERTATION
YEAR FELLOWSHIPS
- Dissertation
Year Fellowship Application Form
Grants of $16,000
will be given to support graduate students working on some aspect
of the life and career of Harry S. Truman or of the public and foreign
policy issues which were prominent during the Truman years. One or
two dissertation year fellowships will normally be awarded each year.
Eligibility: Applicants
should have substantially completed their research and be prepared
to devote full time to writing their dissertation. Preference will
be given to projects based on extensive research at the Truman Library.
There is no requirement that applicants conduct further research at
the Truman Library.
Deadline: February
1. The Committee will notify applicants in writing of its decision
within approximately four weeks after the deadline date.
Budget: No Budget
is required. The annual stipend will be awarded in two installments,
September and January. The award is intended to support a graduate
student for one year.
- End-of-Grant Reporting
Responsibilities: Awardees will provide the Institute with the following:
1) A copy of any dissertation and/or other published work written or
substantially prepared during the grant period; 2) A statement of about
1,500 words which describes the awardee's dissertation and its place
in the historiography of the Truman era, and the contribution toward
its development made by research conducted at the Truman Library. Awardees
give the Institute the right to publish the statement if it chooses
to do so.
III. SCHOLAR'S AWARD
- Scholar's
Award Application Form
Grants of up to
$30,000 are made to post-doctoral scholars engaged in work on some
aspect of the life and career of Harry S. Truman or of the public
and foreign policy issues which were prominent during the Truman years.
The award is intended to free a scholar from teaching or other employment
for a substantial period of time. The awarding of the Scholar's Award
is contingent upon the receipt of underwriting support and of strong
proposals from applicants. If, in the opinion of the Institute's Committee
on Research, Scholarship and Academic Relations, the quality of available
applications does not justify the making of an award in any given
year, none will be made. When possible, the Institute intends to award
a Scholar's Award every other year, in even numbered years.
Eligibility: An
applicant's work should be based in part on extensive research at
the Truman Library and be intended to result in the publication of
a book-length manuscript. An individual may receive a Scholar's Award
only once.
Deadlines: Applicants
should submit a proposal by December 15 of odd numbered years. This
proposal should describe work already done on a project and work which
remains to be done, and should include a bibliography. The Committee
will advise applicants in writing of the outcome of their preliminary
screening no later than February 1. Applicants selected to continue
in the second phase of the awarding process will be contacted by February
15 and asked to submit 1) A description of Truman Library materials
that an applicant has already examined and those that he or she intends
to examine; 2) A projected timeline for completion of the applicant's
project; and 3) An estimate of an applicant's income during the year
when the award will be given. Applicants will be notified of the Committee's
final decision in writing by April 15.
Budget: No budget
is required.
End-of-Grant
Reporting Responsibilities: Awardees will provide the following to
the Institute: 1) A detailed progress report is due six months after
the first installment is paid. The second installment will not be
processed until the progress report has been submitted. 2) A copy
of the book and/or published work written or substantially prepared
during the grant period. 3) A statement of about 1,500 words which
describes the awardee's thesis and its place in the historiography
of the Truman era, and the contribution toward its development made
by any research conducted at the Truman Library. The awardee would
give the Institute the right to publish this statement if it chooses
to do so.
Application forms
are available via the Library's web page: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/grants/
or by writing to:
Grants Administrator,
Harry S. Truman Library Institute,
500 West U.S. Highway 24
Independence, Missouri, 64050-1798.
USA
Telephone: (816)
268-8248
Facsimile: (816) 268-8299
E-Mail: lisa.sullivan@nara.gov
Archivist questions
should be directed to: Randy Sowell
or David Clark.
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