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.