Doctoral Fellowships in Archival Studies are currently available through a new eight-campus initiative for individuals who are interested in pursuing careers as educators and scholars and who would be entering doctoral programs in Fall 2009.  Applicants must apply for both the Fellowship and admission to School of Information Sciences at University of Pittsburgh and/or any of the other seven participating doctoral programs: UCLA; University of Michigan; University of Maryland; University of Texas, Austin; Simmons College; University of Wisconsin, Madison; and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  Each Fellowship will provide full tuition and annual stipends of $20,000 to Fellows for the first two years of their doctoral study at partnering academic programs. Those academic programs will provide full tuition and stipends to their Fellows for two additional years of study.

The application deadline is January 9, 2009. Details on the Fellowship and how to apply may be found at http://aeri.gseis.ucla.edu/.  For questions about the application process, please contact Joshua Sternfeld: joshuas@ucla.edu. For specific questions about School of Information Science's doctoral program, please contact Richard Cox at rcox@sis.pitt.edu.

To underscore the Fellowship initiatives‚ emphasis on strengthening archival education and scholarship, all Doctoral Fellows will attend, expenses-paid, annual Archival Education and Research Institutes (AERI). These weeklong summer institutes will be held each year for doctoral students and faculty in Archival Science from academic institutions nationally and around the world and will address a broad range of research methodologies, pedagogical techniques, and curriculum development. The first institute will be held at UCLA in July 2009. A limited number of additional scholarships to attend the institutes will be available each year for doctoral students who are enrolled in any U.S. Program. Further information about the AERI is available at http://aeri.gseis.ucla.edu/.

This initiative is directed by the UCLA Center for Information as Evidence [www.gseis.ucla.edu/cie] and is made possible in part by support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services [www.imls.gov].