The Cuba Fellowship for the Study of Hemingway and Cuba

FELLOWSHIP

The Cuba Fellowship $1,000 annual fellowship, open to all scholars (undergraduate, graduate, independent, and professors at all ranks), to support projects of any sort that explore Hemingway’s Cuban connections. The deadline for applications is February 1.

APPLICATION

Submit in a Microsoft Word attachment or send by mail, by 1 February, the following information and agreements:

1. Full Name

2. Addresses, Phone Numbers and E-mail addresses (including summer and between-session)

3. Degree Program/Professional Position and School (if appropriate)

4. Winners will also need to provide a Social Security or Tax Identification Number before payment can be made

Description of Hemingway Project (2000-word limit) to include:

1) 50-word Abstract

2) Detailed Plan of Project, including information about its intended purpose (undergraduate or master’s thesis, dissertation, scholarly article, book, etc.)

3) Statement of the Project’s Importance to Hemingway Studies

4) One-page, single-spaced Selected Bibliography

5) Letter of Recommendation (may be sent by fax or email as scanned document)

6) Current Status of Project, What Needs to Be Done, and Expected Date of Completion

7) Declaration of all other fellowships received and/or applied for (for this project), with dollar amount. (Please see evaluation criteria below.)

8) Itemized Budget and Explanation of How You Will Use the $1,000 Award. (The fellowship can fund many project-related expenses including but not limited to the following: travel, photocopying, photo duplication, or the purchase of project-related software, materials, or equipment.)

9) At the bottom of your application, quote, sign, and date the following two statements (may be sent by fax or email as scanned documents):

“As a Cuba Scholar, I agree to submit to the chair of the Scholarship Committee an end-of-project report within six months of the termination of the award.”

“I also agree to acknowledge this fellowship on any publication that results from work done during the year of the award.”

 EVALUATION

Applications will be evaluated by no fewer than four members of the Smith-Reynolds Memorial Fellowship Committee, which will, by ranked vote, determine each year’s Cuba Fellowship winner. The criteria for judging projects will be the clarity, originality, and feasibility of the project; its value in furthering scholarship on Hemingway’s connections to Cuba; and the likelihood of its publication.