The Oberlin College Archives announces the establishment of the Frederick B. Artz Summer Research Grants Program. This research program, which is made possible by a grant from the Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization, is intended to encourage and facilitate the publication of scholarly, humanistic studies based on archival and special collections sources at Oberlin College, with special emphasis on the history of the institution, Oberlin Community and liberal arts education. Studies of a local nature involving the resources of both archival and special collections departments are especially encouraged.

Researchers will be selected on the quality and significance of their research proposal, its relationship to the holdings of the Oberlin College Archives and Oberlin College Library, and on the potential for publication.

Frederick B. Artz Scholars and Their Topics, 1990-2012

The Oberlin College Archives houses the permanently valuable records of the institution as well as those of individuals, families and organizations affiliated with Oberlin College and/or the town of Oberlin. Included are materials on movements with which Oberlin has been associated, such as antislavery, black education, coeducation, missions, and temperance. There are also 322 collections of personal papers of faculty and graduates; eighty-three collections of local organizations; municipal government records of the City of Oberlin and of Russia Township; and over 260,000 photographs. The 6,400 linear feet of records are organized around 56 Record Groups.

The Special Collections Department of the College Library houses works of a rare, valuable or fragile nature. Among the more important collections are the following: antislavery books and pamphlets (over 2,500 items); Oberliniana (printed materials relating to Oberlin College and town or written by Oberlin graduates, faculty or staff); pamphlets on women; Ohio Congregational Church records; history of printing (from incunables to modern fine press editions); Violin Society of America/Goodkind collection (over 2,500 books, journals and ephemera about the making and playing of stringed instruments and their makers and players); and nineteenth century travel and exploration.

Applicants must submit a letter of interest and a completed application form by January 15th of the year in which support is requested.

Announcements of Research Grant Awards will be mailed no later than April 1 of that grant year.

For further information, contact:

Ken Grossi, Archivist
Oberlin College Archives, Oberlin College
420 Mudd Center, Oberlin, OH 44074

(440) 775-8014

archives.office@oberlin.edu

The application to this program can be downloaded directly, in two formats:

Microsoft Word 12/09     (220 kB)

Adobe Portable Document Format     (87 kB)

If you have any problems with these files, please let us know.