Hi all, for those of you who are academics/independent in other countries and are looking for a way to get PAID access to U.S. archives, I highly recommend this fellowship. Providence has a thriving Jewish community and is a very short drive from Newport which has the historic Touro Synagogue. Those who are living in the U.S. would also be eligible for the long-term JCB Fellowship. The John Carter Brown has an excellent early Americas collection including many rare early Sephardic texts from the colonies. Also in Providence and in easy walking distance is the Rhode Island Historical Society and in Newport there is the Newport Historical Society, each of which also has rare early documents related to Sephardim in early America. I am not affiliated with the fellowship or Brown U., but I have done research at the libraries in the area and would be happy to answer questions for anyone thinking of applying. (For those who have read Arbell's Jewish Nation of the Caribbean, I believe he held this fellowship while writing/researching it.)The John Carter Brown Library (JCB), an independently funded institution for advanced research on the campus of Brown University, will award approximately forty residential fellowships for the year July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017. The Library contains one of the world’s premier collections of primary materials related to the discovery, exploration, and settlement of the New World to 1825, including books, maps, newspapers, and other printed objects. JCB Fellowships are open to scholars and writers working on all aspects of the Americas in the early modern period.Short-term Fellowships are for two to four months with a monthly stipend of $2,100. Open to US and foreign citizens who are engaged in pre- or post-doctoral or independent research. Graduate students must have passed their preliminary or general examinations at the time of application.Long-Term Fellowships are for five to ten months with a monthly stipend of $4,200. These include two to four NEH Fellowships, for which an applicant must be a US citizen or have lived in the US for the three years preceding the application deadline, and other long-term JCB awards for which all nationalities are eligible. Graduate students are not eligible for long-term JCB Fellowships.Recipients of all fellowships must relocate to Providence and be in continuous residence at the JCB for the full term of the award. Rooms are available for rent at Fiering House, the JCB’s Fellows’ residence, a beautifully restored 1869 house just four blocks from the Library.The deadline for short- and long-term fellowships is December 1, 2015.For more information - including information about Thematic and Cluster Fellowships - and application instructions, visit www.jcbl.org or e-mail jcb-fellowships@brown.edu.