{"id":13432,"date":"2015-09-30T14:21:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T19:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=13432"},"modified":"2015-09-30T14:21:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T19:21:51","slug":"2016-2017-postgraduate-fellowships-in-conservation-of-museum-collections-smithsonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/09\/30\/2016-2017-postgraduate-fellowships-in-conservation-of-museum-collections-smithsonian\/","title":{"rendered":"2016-2017 Postgraduate Fellowships in Conservation of Museum Collections &#8211; Smithsonian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;color: #333333\">The Smithsonian\u2019s Office of Fellowships and Internships has announced one-year fellowships for recent graduates of masters programs in art and archaeological conservation (or the equivalent) to conduct research and gain further training in Smithsonian conservation laboratories for conservation of museum collections.\u00a0 Researchers in conservation science topics, including those at the postdoctoral level, are also encouraged to apply. \u00a0The fellowship begins in the fall of 2016. A stipend of $37,700 is being offered at the postgraduate level and $48,000 at the postdoctoral level, plus a research allowance up to $4,000. \u00a0While 12-month fellowship proposals are preferred, applications for projects of shorter duration (between 3-12 months) are acceptable, with a commensurate reduction to the stipend amounts.\u00a0 The prospective fellow must first contact the conservator or scientist with whom he or she would like to work. If the potential supervisor confirms that candidacy is suitable, application must be made through the Office of Fellowships and Internships by\u00a0<\/span><b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;color: #528adf\">December 1, 2016<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;color: #333333\">. \u00a0Program guidelines and instructions for application are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianofi.com\/fellowship-opportunities\/smithsonian-postgraduate-fellowships-in-conservation-of-museum-collections-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #528adf\">http:\/\/www.smithsonianofi.com\/fellowship-opportunities\/smithsonian-postgraduate-fellowships-in-conservation-of-museum-collections-program\/<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 As one of the conservation laboratories in which a fellowship is offered, the Smithsonian\u2019s Museum Conservation Institute (MCI) offers postings for treatment and research projects benefiting Smithsonian collections that make use of MCI\u2019s excellent analytical capabilities (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.edu\/mci\/\"><span style=\"color: #528adf\">http:\/\/www.si.edu\/mci\/<\/span><\/a>). <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;color: #333333\">For more information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.edu\/mci\/english\/professional_development\/2016-2017PostgraduateFellowships.html\">http:\/\/www.si.edu\/mci\/english\/professional_development\/2016-2017PostgraduateFellowships.html<\/a> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smithsonian\u2019s Office of Fellowships and Internships has announced one-year fellowships for recent graduates of masters programs in art and archaeological conservation (or the equivalent) to conduct research and gain further training in Smithsonian conservation laboratories for conservation of museum collections.\u00a0 Researchers in conservation science topics, including those at the postdoctoral level, are also encouraged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/09\/30\/2016-2017-postgraduate-fellowships-in-conservation-of-museum-collections-smithsonian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2016-2017 Postgraduate Fellowships in Conservation of Museum Collections &#8211; Smithsonian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":13433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}