UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive Anne Frank Visiting Researcher Award

DEADLINE: March 27, 2015

The UC Irvine Libraries is pleased to offer an award of $500 to one individual to use the research collections in the Southeast Asian Archive, part of the UC Irvine Libraries Special Collections and Archives.

The award is intended for a researcher who lives outside of Orange County and is not affiliated with UC Irvine.  Faculty, students, and independent researchers (including film makers, scriptwriters, playwrights, biographers, novelists, and other writers) are encouraged to apply.  The $500 award is intended to defray expenses for traveling to Irvine and conducting research in the Southeast Asian Archive.  Funds will be distributed in two installments–before and after the completion of the research project.

Applications will be judged according to the relevance of the proposal to the holdings of the Southeast Asian Archive, the proposed outcome of the research, and the qualifications of the applicant.  The research should be conducted at UC Irvine between June 2015 and March 2016.  Shortly after visiting the Southeast Asian Archive, the recipient must provide a one-page statement of his or her research findings, which may be edited and used in the UC Irvine Libraries’ publications.

This award is in honor of Anne Frank, the librarian who founded the Southeast Asian Archive, who retired in 2007. A generous gift from an anonymous donor has made this annual award possible.

Send the following information in an email with the subject heading “AF Award Application” to spcoll@uci.edu:

1. Up-to-date resume or CV
2. Applicant name:
3. Address:
4. Telephone:
5. Email:
6. Title of project
7. Brief description of proposed research (no more than 500 words)
8. Collections or items that you anticipate using and how they are relevant to your proposed research (no more than 500 words). For information about the collections’ strengths, make sure to consult the following page: http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/special/coll/seaa/strengths.html
9. Proposed outcome of the research (no more than 500 words)
10. One letter of reference from someone familiar with your research
11. Proposed dates for visiting the Southeast Asian Archive

More information about traveling to the UC Irvine campus is available at http://www.lib.uci.edu/about/visit/visiting-the-library.html. For more information about the Southeast Asian Archive and the award, please contact Thuy Vo Dang, Archivist for the Southeast Asian Archive, at thuy.vodang@uci.edu.