Greetings Colleagues, Our community should be represented in this fellowship opportunity. If interested, please apply. Respectfully, Sandra Rare Book School's Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage invites applications for its first cohort of fellows (2020-2022). The deadline for submitting applications is midnight on December 2, 2019. Fostering new models for diverse and inclusive cultural heritage programming, this fellowship seeks to advance multicultural collections through innovative curatorial practice and leadership. The fellowship will provide professional development opportunities for early- to mid-career professionals currently working in a special collections library, archive, or other cultural heritage institution located in the United States. Fellows will build connections with diverse communities and publics through a combination of strategic programming, outreach, advocacy, and training. The selected fellows will identify with diverse racial or ethnic communities and/or work primarily with collections that document minority, immigrant, and non-Western cultural traditions. Individuals coming from or working primarily with other groups who have been historically excluded from the cultural record are also eligible (these include professionals who identify as LGBTQ+, professionals who come from low-income backgrounds, or professionals with disabilities). The fellowship includes tuition waivers for three Rare Book School courses, funding to attend the annual conference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, and an opportunity to participate in one cultural heritage field school. Fellows will receive funding to organize symposia at their home institutions, and fellows will also be given funds to attend conferences of their own choosing during their second and third years of participation in the program. The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage is committed to promoting career advancement for qualified individuals working with special collections, museum collections, archives, and/or other cultural artifacts. We warmly encourage prospective applicants to apply to this opportunity. For more information and to apply, please visit: https://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/mellon-diversity/ All the best, -- Vanesa Evers (she, her, hers) Program Manager for the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage Rare Book School at the University of Virginia PO Box 400103 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4103 Main office (434) 924-8851 Direct line (434) 243-3086 Fax (434) 924-8824 SANDRA M. PHOENIX HBCU Library Alliance Executive Director Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library 111 James P. Brawley Drive SW Atlanta GA 30314 404-978-2118 (office) 404-702-5854 (cell) http://www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> Honor the ancestors, honor the children and those yet to come. Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ and Twitter at https://twitter.com/HBCULibAlliance Check out "PULSE!" The HBCU Library Alliance's News Source! - https://hbculibraryalliance.wordpress.com/