 THE FELLOWSHIP
The John H. Daniels Fellowship supports researchers at the National Sporting Library, a research center for horse and field sports, for periods of up to one year. Disciplines include history, literature, journalism, art history, anthropology, area studies, and history of sport.
The application deadline for the 2010-2011 fellowship year has passed (all applications had to be postmarked by February 1, 2010 - all others will be marked as late).
2010-2011 fellows will be selected in mid-March and all applicants will be notified by the end of March.
The next deadline for applications is February 1, 2011 for the 2011-2012 fellowship year. Please stay posted for more information on the next round of applications and any changes in guidelines, or contact Elizabeth Tobey, Director of Communications and Research at fellowship@nsl.org or 540-687-6542 x 11.
HISTORY
The program began in 2007 in honor of sportsman and book collector, John H. Daniels (1921-2006), a longtime supporter of the Library. Since 2007, the fellowship has supported fifteen researchers-in-residence at the Library from all regions of the United States and four foreign countries.
APPLICATION GUIDELINES for 2010-2011
Who is eligible
University faculty and graduate students; museum curators and librarians; and writers and journalists are encouraged to apply. Legal U.S. citizens and residents may apply for fellowships for periods of 12 months or less. Citizens of Canada and Bermuda may visit for 180 days or less without a Visa. Citizens of countries that participate in the U.S. Department of State’s Visa Waiver Program may apply for periods of 90 days or less (see website for list of countries). Fellows will receive • Monthly stipend (max. $2,000/month) and complimentary housing near the Library. • Workspace and access to computer and photocopier.. To Apply
Applications must be postmarked by February 1, 2010. Applicants will be notified of a decision by late March. Detailed descriptions of the book collections, including a full list of archives and manuscript collections (with box descriptions) and with instructions for searching and a link to the card catalog, can be found online. The website also contains a page with links to articles about highlights of the collections.
Two useful booklets, Treasures of the National Sporting Library and This is the National Sporting Library contain descriptions and essays about some of the most important individual works and collections, and free copies of these publications may be obtained by contacting Elizabeth Tobey, Director of Communications & Research at fellowship@nsl.org or 540-687-6542 x11.
Through the Internet Archive project, rare books from research libraries around the world have been digitized and are available for free in digital format (including downloadable PDF documents through the Internet Archive website. Though not affiliated with the NSL, Internet Archive has digitized many titles from Libraries throughout the world. Although no books from the NSL collections have been scanned for the Internet Archive, some of the available titles from other libraries are identical to titles in our rare book collections (including works by by Federico Grisone, Peter Beckford, Nimrod, Theodore Roosevelt, etc.), although editions or publication dates may be different. Among the books digitized on Internet Archive include selections of hunting and equestrian titles from the Fairman Rogers Collection at the University of Pennsylvania.
The application should contain the following: • Cover letter with current contact information,including where you learned of the fellowship. • A title for your project with a two-sentence synopsis. • Research proposal of no more than 1000 words.Applicants must show how their research will utilize the Library’s collections.
• Short bibliography of titles to be consulted
• Monthly budget of $2,000 or less with estimate of expenses (housing and utilities are provided by NSL).
• Tentative first- and second-choice of dates of residency from 2 weeks to 12 months in duration. Residency must be scheduled after May 15, 2010 and no later than May 15, 2011. Fellows are expected to be present at the Library during its hours of operation throughout the period selected for their fellowship.
• Letter of recommendation, mailed separately, from an advisor or colleague. • Curriculum vitae or detailed resume including a list of publications or talks.
Submit all materials by mail, postmarked by February 1, 2010 to:
John H. Daniels Fellowship Committee
National Sporting Library
P.O. Box 1335
Middleburg, VA 20118-1335 USA
NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
| Former Daniels Fellow Dr. Horace Laffaye, M.D., publishes The Evolution of Polo (McFarland and Co., 2009). |
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| Former Daniels Fellow Susan McHugh (2008) has secured a book contract from University of Minnesota Press for Animal Narratives: Forms of Species and Social Agency for publication in 2010. The book chapter, “Velvet Revolutions: Professions of Girl-Horse Stories,” came from her NSL fellowship. |
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| Former Daniels Fellow Amy Freund (2008) will present a lecture based on her NSL research on hunting in 18th century French portraiture, titled
“Pray, Sir, Whose Dog Are You? Nobility and Animality in Eighteenth-Century French Hunting Pictures," at the 2010 College Art Association meeting in Chicago (CAA is the professional organization for art historians and studio art professors). |
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| Former Daniels Fellow Noel Mullins (2008) has been invited to lecture on his research on Edith Somerville and Martin Ross in Dublin, Ireland, as part of the Royal Dublin Society’s 2010 Speaker Series. |
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| Former Daniels Fellow Mike Huggins, Ph.D.(2008), publishes journal article on Anglo-American connections in horse racing ("The proto-globalisation of Horseracing 1730-1900: Anglo American Interconnections, Sport in History (England), 29:3 (September 1, 2009), 367-391. |
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| John H. Daniels Fellows Participate in International Conferences read more |
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| Former Daniels Fellow and Photojournalist Noel Mullins publishes The Origins of Irish Horse Fairs and Horse Sales: 3,000 Years of Selling Irish Horses |
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BLOGS
Samuel Snyder, Ph.D., (JHDF 2010), "Headwaters of History." |
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| Glenye Cain Oakford, (JHDF 2009), "Full Cry: A Hound Blog." |
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Copyright © 2010 National Sporting Library
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 John H. Daniels, 1921-2006
John H. Daniels, a longtime friend and supporter of the Library, donated 5,000 books in the mid 1990s with his wife, Martha. This magnificent collection was the catalyst for the new 15,000 square-foot facility that opened in 1999. |
"Here in the National Sporting Library, the scholar will find a wealth of material on the manners, mores and customs of past centuries…He has a window into the age-old interdependence and partnership between man and beast, fish and fowl."
--John H. Daniels
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Colored lithograph by Henry Alken of foxhunting, bound with autograph manuscript, D’ye ken John Peel by John Graves, c. 1855. |
| The National Sporting Library has more than 17,000 books in its collection, which includes horse sports, angling, beagling, falconry, dueling, blood sports, and sport shooting. Its horse sports, include works on Thoroughbred racing, foxhunting, steeplechasing, show jumping, eventing, polo, dressage, horse-drawn transportation, harness racing, and general horsemanship. Works from the 16th century onwards cover veterinary practices, horse training and care, cavalry and the horse in war, and farm management. |
This c. 1578 bound edition of Venationes with engravings by Johannes Stradanus illustrates ancient & contemporary methods of hunting, shooting, and fishing. The NSL has the only known copy of this edition in the United States. |
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