H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship
To apply for a fellowship or grant:
1.
Review the fellowship description
below.
2.
Applications may be submitted
through the SAH Website. Click here to access the online applications for fellowships. Please
note that the application will not be available until April 1, 2013.
3.
Recommendation form coming soon.
Fellowship
Description
Purpose
The Society of Architectural Historians’
prestigious H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship will be offered for the first
time in 2013 and will allow a recent graduate or emerging scholar to study by
travel for one year. The Fellowship is *not* for the purpose of doing research
for an advanced academic degree. Instead, Prof. Brooks intended the recipient
to study by travel and contemplation while observing, reading, writing, or
sketching.
The goals are to provide an opportunity for a recent graduate with an advanced degree or an emerging scholar to
1.
see and experience architecture and
landscapes first-hand
2.
think about their profession deeply
3.
acquire knowledge useful for the
recipient’s future work, contribution to their profession and contribution to
society
The fellowship recipient may travel
to any country or countries during the one-year period. This Fellowship
is funded completely by the Society of Architectural Historians’ H. Allen
Brooks Travelling Fellowship Fund.
The Award
In 2013 the Brooks Fellowship will
be $50,000 and will cover expenses incurred by the Brooks Fellow for one year
of travel. The award is non-renewable and award amounts may vary in future
years. SAH suggests that if additional financial support is needed to cover
other related expenses, that the applicants contact their respective
university/college, academic advisor, department head, employer or outside
foundations to investigate the financial opportunities afforded them. The Award
will be paid in quarterly installments.
2013 Schedule
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April 1, 2013
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Application Period Opens
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October 1, 2013
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Application Period Closes at
11:59 pm Central US time
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October 2 – Nov. 15, 2013
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Jury Deliberations
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December 1, 2013
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Award Announced
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January 1, 2014
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Travel may begin as soon as
this date
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Criteria for Application
The H. Allen Brooks Travelling
Fellowship is open to a scholar who will earn a PhD or advanced terminal degree
in the first half of 2013 (by June 30,2013) or an emerging scholar who was
awarded a PhD or advanced terminal degree in 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 or 2008 in
a field related to the built environment. Such degrees include PhDs in the
history, theory or criticism of architecture, landscape architecture, or
urbanism; historic preservation; the practice of architecture, landscape architecture
and urban planning; or other fields of advanced study related to the built
environment including an M.Arch, MUP, MLA or a Masters in Historic Preservation
program. Priority will be given to those whose chosen profession is relevant to
the interests and objectives of the Society of Architectural Historians, i.e.,
the history of the built environment, historic preservation, conservation, and
social implications of architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism.
The Fellowship is intended to be a
special honor for the recipient and is to be awarded to a truly outstanding
candidate, based on distinguished academic achievement, leadership potential,
personal motivation and promise. This is an international fellowship so
candidates from any country may apply. All applicants must be current members of the Society of Architectural Historians.
The Brooks Fellowship will be selected by the H. Allen Brooks Travelling
Fellowship Committee which is appointed by the President of SAH.
Reporting Requirements
The Brooks Fellowship recipient will
be expected to keep an online journal by posting at least once per month to a
blog on the SAH website. The blog will document the Fellow’s travels in text
and images, including photographs, video, drawings or other media. This record
will be used by the SAH office to approve payment distribution. One payment of
$12,000 will be made at the beginning of the Fellowship and three subsequent payments
of $12,000 each will made throughout the year. A final payment of $2000 will be
made upon the submission of an SAH eNewsletter article reflecting upon the
Fellowship recipient’s travel (see below).
Fellowship recipients will write a
summary article for the SAH eNewsletter (1000-2000 words) that documents their
travel, explains how the Fellowship contributed to the recipient’s
understanding of the built environment and details how they anticipate the
Fellowship will influence their future work. While travelling or shortly
thereafter, the Fellowship recipient also will be expected to upload images to
SAHARA, the SAH shared image archive. The recommended number of images to
upload is 500. Upon their return, Fellowship recipients will make themselves
available to their local SAH chapter, should the chapter wish to hear a
presentation about the Fellowship year.
Application Details
Deadline for Application is October 1, 2013.
Applicants must be current members
of SAH. To renew or join click here. To
apply, follow the instructions at the top of this page. In the application you
will be asked to provide:
- A statement (in English, 1000 words max) that details
- The applicant’s academic and career goals.
- What the applicant hopes to achieve intellectually during the Fellowship period.
- How this Fellowship will advance the applicant’s academic interests and will make a difference in their professional work.
- A travel proposal outlining travel sites and buildings or landscapes in those sites. Submitting a Google map outlining the sites would be a plus.
- A proposed budget for the Fellowship year.
- A two-page writing sample.
- Proof of terminal degree and date (photocopy of diploma), see above criteria.
- Curriculum vitae (5 pages maximum)
- Five representative photographs taken by the applicant (low res).
Also required are:
Two recommendations submitted by October 1, 2013.
Recommendations should be submitted
by thesis advisors or individuals who can critically assess the applicant’s
academic and/or professional work. Recommenders will be asked to assess the
applicant’s intellectual curiosity, scholarly ability, and potential to benefit
from the Fellowship. They also will be asked to provide evidence of applicant’s
distinguished academic achievement, leadership potential and personal
motivation.
Send this page to your recommenders and ask that they complete step 3 at the top of this page.
Send this page to your recommenders and ask that they complete step 3 at the top of this page.
About H. Allen Brooks
The H. Allen Brooks Travelling
Fellowship was created by a 2010 bequest from noted scholar and architectural
historian, H. Allen Brooks. As a person who benefitted greatly by taking a
grand tour of Europe after he was awarded his PhD in 1957, Brooks decided to
create fellowships at several institutions to afford others the same
opportunity to learn through travel. In addition to the H. Allen Brooks
Travelling Fellowship offered by SAH, there are now fellowships named in his
honor at two of his alma maters—Yale and Dartmouth Universities—and at
Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Brooks, an active member of
the SAH leadership and a Professor of Architectural History at University of
Toronto for decades, is best known for his groundbreaking 1972 book, The
Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright and His Midwest Contemporaries, which is
still in print today. In 1973 Brooks received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work
on Le Corbusier which resulted in the 1997 book, Le Corbusier’s Formative
Years. This was followed by several books in the
thirty-two-volume Le Corbusier Archive which included all the original
drawings at the Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris. In his lifetime Brooks
travelled and lectured extensively all over the world and his final wish was to
enable the most outstanding PhDs and design professionals to learn about and
develop a passion for the built environment through first-hand experience.
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