The American Folklife Center Announces the Alan Lomax Fellowship in
Folklife Studies at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress's Kluge Center invites qualified scholars to
apply for a post-doctoral fellowship for advanced research based on
the Alan Lomax Collection. The Lomax Collection is a major collection
of ethnographic field audio recordings, motion pictures, photographs,
manuscripts, correspondence and other materials that represent
Lomax’s lifetime of work to document and analyze traditional music,
dance, storytelling and other expressive genres that arise from
cultural groups in many parts of the world.  Lomax (1915-2002) was
one of the greatest documenters of traditional culture during the
twentieth century and his collection (spanning six decades) is
archived at the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress.

The Alan Lomax Fellowship, established for a period of five years,
supports scholarly research that contributes significantly to a
greater understanding of the work of Lomax and the cultural
traditions he documented over the course of a vigorous and highly
productive seventy-year career.  Fellows are in residence at the
Library for a period of up to 8 months and have the opportunity to
access and use original materials from the Lomax Collection and other
collections of the Library of Congress. The Fellowship program
supports research in the disciplines of anthropology,
ethnomusicology, ethnography, ethno-history, dance, folklore and
folklife, history, literature, linguistics, and movement analysis,
with particular emphasis on the traditional music, dance, and
narrative of the United States, England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy,
Spain, and the Caribbean, as well as methodologies for their
documentation and analysis. Interdisciplinary projects that combine
disciplines in novel and productive ways are encouraged.

The Alan Lomax Fellow is expected to develop research of a
publishable quality. As a Library of Congress resident scholar,
fellows also present at least one public lecture  about their
research and participate actively in Library events and programs as
appropriate. The annual application deadline is February 28, with the
fellowship commencing anytime after September 1st of that same year.

For an application and additional information on other Kluge Center
fellowships, see: www.loc.gov/loc/kluge or please contact The Kluge
Center at (202) 707-3302 or scholarly@loc.gov. For more information
about the Lomax Collection, see: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/lomax/

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