The 2024 deadline for the Peter and Ana Lowens University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections Student Fellowship Program is November 18, 2024! The program, which is open to UVic undergraduate and graduate students of any discipline, encourages students to conduct research using rare and unique materials and/or archival collections from UVic Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives. The four chosen fellows will receive mentoring by library staff and faculty, providing individualized research support. This includes six two-hour workshops in the spring semester, and a $1000 research reward, among other benefits!
For more information on how to apply, visit the Lowens – Libraries Fellowship page on the Library website.
Previous fellows have covered topics such as trans identities, diasporic culture, and even alchemy! In her 2022 application, Amogha Halepuram Sridhar explores the idea of letters as a literary genre and examines the broader addressee in letters between writers. Looking at correspondence between authors such as Allen Ginsberg, Ezra Pound, and Aldous Huxley, Sridhar asks, “when does the locus of addressees or readers expand in the life of a letter to include the archive?”
2024 fellow Tiegan Suddaby wrote her proposal about 20th-century feminist material culture and riot grrrl zines, examining it through the context of avant-garde art, and exploring where zines fall with regards to being artefacts.
To read more of the previous years’ successful proposals, check out our online repository, UVicSpace.
Ana and Peter Lowens are outstanding supporters of up-and-coming UVic scholars. Besides the Libraries Special Collections Student Fellowship Program, they also fund the Ana and Peter Lowens Scholarship in Victorian Literature, a scholarship aimed to reward an “academically outstanding graduate student conducting research in nineteenth-century studies”, with preference given to those studying the Victorian era and “includes use of materials in the University of Victoria Libraries’ Special Collections.”
