Archive Research & Study Center

Visiting Researcher Stipend (2008) - download the application -

The UCLA Film & Television Archive's Research and Study Center (ARSC) is pleased to announce the ARSC Visiting Researcher Stipend program for 2008. Two stipends in the amount of $2000 each are available this year.

The purpose of the stipend is:

• To support the work of scholars by awarding funding to offset expenses associated with a research visit to the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
• To encourage research access to moving image collections held by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Eligibility

• Scholars from all academic disciplines are eligible to apply.
• Applicants must be current students, faculty, or staff at a college or university.
• Proposed research must be for work intended for publication and/or related to a thesis/dissertation.
• Proposed research methodology requires viewing of films or television programming held by the Archive.

Selection Criteria

An Archive committee will select stipend recipients based upon:

• Breadth and organization of research methodology for proposed project.
• Relevance of Archive holdings to proposed research.
• Applicant's research experience as illustrated in their curriculum vitae.
• Applicant's financial need (i.e. projected expense of proposed research visit).

About the Archive's Collections

The UCLA Film & Television Archive holds over 250,000 films and television programs produced from the 1890s to the present. The collection includes independent and studio-produced shorts and feature films, advertising and industrial films, documentaries, local and network TV programming, commercials, news and public affairs broadcasts, and 27 million feet of newsreels produced between 1919 and 1971.

For more information, please contact Mark Quigley at 310-206-5389 or arsc@ucla.edu.

- Made possible by a grant from the Myra Reinhard Family Foundation -