With the generous support of the Doris Quinn Foundation, the New Netherland
Institute <http://www.nnp.org/ >at the New York State Library and the
McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
have joined forces to offer a new nine-month dissertation fellowship to
facilitate  research on New Netherland and on the Dutch Colonial Atlantic
World. Holders of this fellowship will spend one semester in Albany, New
York, working in the rich collections of the New Netherland Institute, the
New York State Library, and the New York State Archives and one semester in
residence at the Center in Philadelphia.  Doctoral candidates in any
discipline who are in the research or writing stage of the dissertation are
eligible, and any project dealing with the Dutch experience in North
America in the Atlantic world before 1850 will be considered. The stipend
for a nine-month term beginning 1 September is $18,000.


The first Quinn Dissertation Fellow may be appointed as early as the
2005-2006 academic year. The application process and general selection
criteria for this fellowship are the same as for all McNeil Center
dissertation fellowships. For application instructions and further details,
please visit
http://www.mceas.org/dissertationfellowships.htm
or phone 215-898-9251.To accommodate applicants for this new fellowship,
the postmark deadline for all McNeil Center dissertation fellowship
applications has been extended to 15 March 2005.