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Newberry Center for Renaissance
Studies Consortium

The Department of Art History is pleased to serve as the FSU representative for the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium (CRS). This consortium of institutions promotes the use of the Newberry and Folger Library collections in the field of late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern studies.

The Center sponsors programs throughout the year in which FSU faculty and students are able to participate. These programs are posted on the CRS website and announced by the FSU campus committee. Most programs of the Consortium are run out of the Newberry Library in Chicago; however, the Center for Renaissance Studies is also linked with the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. As members of the CRS Consortium, FSU students and faculty may apply for travel grants and fee waivers to support travel to the libraries for research and programs.

For routine travel to attend Newberry workshops and conferences or to conduct research, Newberry Consortium Travel Grants are available for $500 (graduate students)/ $600 (faculty) to pay for travel and lodging. (Meals and other incidental costs are not reimbursed.) All travel must be completed by June 30 of any calendar year.

Application Process for Travel Grants

Faculty or graduate students interested in obtaining a travel grant should contact the FSU campus committee via sleitch@fsu.edu and provide the following information:

  • Name
  • Department affiliation
  • Your status (PhD, PhD candidate, faculty)
  • Reasons for your proposed visit to the Newberry or Folger Library. Please specify the stage of your research.

If funded, recipients will give a brief informal presentation on research at the Newberry collections in the context of an early modern workshop.

The committee will let you know within two weeks whether your grant has been approved. When funded, please follow instructions for reimbursement below.

Reading Room, Newberry Library
Application for Programs & Fellowships

Programs and fellowships are posted on the CRS website. Send completed submission at least three weeks before the application deadline to the FSU campus committee (via sleitch@fsu.edu). Important deadlines below.

Grad Conference CFP deadline (posted early Sept) October 15
Deadline for faculty applications to teach workshops/ seminars November 1
Deadline for applications to spring workshops November 1
Long-term Newberry fellowships deadline November 15
Short-term Newberry fellowships deadline December 15
Paleograpahy Institutes deadline March 1
Deadline for applications for all workshops March 1
Newberry Stories in Art History News
In the spring of 2022, doctoral candidate Sheila Scoville traveled to Chicago to attend a research methods workshop, “New Spain at the Newberry Library: Demystifying Colonial Documents from the Ayer Collection,” at the Newberry Library. Participants received an introduction to the Edward E. Ayer Collection, which includes 4,000 rare colonial documents from New Spain. The workshop used the Ayer Collection and its history to discuss the historical migration of books in the global market and the various categories of materials produced by the Indigenous and Europeans during the colonial period, including sermons and dictionaries in Mesoamerican languages and pictorial court documents. The workshop also allowed the graduate students to consult rare documents in the collection including the Popol Vuh, a creation account of the Quiché Maya, and the 1524 Cortés map of Tenochtitlan.
Sheila Scoville
2022
On February 11, 2022, PhD candidate Lacy Gillette and doctoral student Emily White traveled to Chicago to participate in “Teaching the Early Modern Book: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Thinking” at the Newberry Library. Led by Michael F. Suarez, Director of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, the workshop provided hands on training and exercises in examining printed books and their constituent elements from the Newberry’s collection. Lacy and Emily were among 15 advanced graduate students and early career researchers who participated in the full-day workshop that provided collaborative approaches for understanding the history of the book and the ways books function as historical objects.
Lacy Gilletee & Emily White
2022
PhD candidates Britt Hunter and Rachel Carlisle and MA student Emily White presented research at the CRS 2020 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, hosted at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Hunter presented “Printed Precedents in the Late Fifteenth-Century Wellcome Apocalypse Manuscript.” Carlisle presented “Picturing Antiquity in the Early Modern Special CollectionsPrint: Erhard Ratdolt, Konrad Peutinger, and the Romanae vetustatis fragmenta,” a paper resulting from research previously conducted at the Newberry Library. And White presented “Hans van Gersdorff’s Feldbuch der Wundarzney: The Dissemination of Vernacular Knowledge.” Travel to Chicago also provided Britt, Rachel, and Emily the opportunity to examine medieval and early modern books from the library’s special collections and to network with fellow graduate students and scholars from the Newberry Library.
Britt Hunter, Rachel Carlisle, Emily White
2020
In 2019 doctoral student Caitlin Mims presented “Through the ‘Eyes’ of Holbein: The Shaping of Holbein’s Erasmus Portraits by Patron and Artist” at the CRS Graduate Student Conference at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Also participating in the conference was MA student Caroline Nooney, who presented “Rethinking the ‘Christian’ Iconographic Motifs in the Copenhagen Maimonides.”
Caitlin MIms & Caroline Nonney
2019

Questions

If you have any further questions about the grants or the Center for Renaissance Studies, please send an email to renaissance@newberry.org or call 312-255-3514.

Anyone who is interested in being included on the listserv, please contact Emily White ew18e@fsu.edu.

Aerial view of the Newberry and Washington Square Park
Aerial view of the Newberry and Washington Square Park