About the Fellowship Program

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Since its inception the Medici Archive Project relies on a thriving fellowship program with the goal of expanding the documentary database, training post-doctoral scholars and future academics in the areas of paleography and archival research, and giving these scholars the time and the support needed to conduct their own research and produce original scholarship. This is how the Fellowship Program functions: Periodically and regularly MAP applies to foundations in the US and in Italy for funding for the program. A three-year fellowship is the preferred format, but MAP has applied, and received funding, also for two-year fellowships. Once the fellowship is granted by the funding institution, MAP conducts a search for candidates by advertising it in the appropriate academic forums and by inviting applications. Applications undergo an initial in-house examination to select only those that are relevant to the program, and these are passed on to an outside Selection Committee who ranks the applicants based upon selection criteria. The Committee then recommends to MAP, a list of finalists who are invited to a site visit to the Archive in order to meet the President, the Research Director, and the current Fellows. Finally the President recommends one applicant to the Chair of Board of Trustees for funding. Each fellow divides his/her time between work on the database (four semesters) and his/her own research project (two semesters). Frequently a three-year fellowship also produces original research based on primary sources in the form of a book that can be published in the forthcoming Medici Archive Project Book Series. Currently MAP is also looking into the possibility of extending the fellows’ experience to educational programs, in the form of paleography and archival research technique courses to willing hosting institutions.

COMPAGNIA DI SAN PAOLO three-year fellowship for Sep 2009 - Jul 2012 was awarded in May 2009 to Dr. Roberta Piccinelli. See www.medici.org/fellow/dr-roberta-piccinelli

SAMUEL H. KRESS two-year fellowship for Feb 2010 – Feb 2012 was awarded in January 2010 to Dr. Julia Vicioso. See www.medici.org/fellow/dr-julia-vicioso