Qualifications: 

Selection is based on the quality of the proposed research and its relationship to the Center’s collections. Decisions will be announced by email on or before March 1, 2020. Residencies must be scheduled with the Volkerding Study Center staff. Fellowship recipients and their research projects will be announced in the Center’s publicity.

Application process: 

1.      Complete an application online

2.      Curriculum vitae of no more than four pages

3.      500-1,000 word statement detailing your research interests and project and how they will be advanced by study of the Center’s archives and print collection

Please email Alexis Peregoy, Associate Archivist, at peregoya@ccp.arizona.edu with any questions.

Selection process: 

Selection is based on the quality of the proposed research and its relationship to the Center’s collections. Decisions will be announced by email on or before March 1, 2020. Residencies must be scheduled with the Volkerding Study Center staff. Fellowship recipients and their research projects will be announced in the Center’s publicity.

2020 Fellowships:

Ansel Adams Research Fellowship

Awards up to $2,500 to promote new knowledge about photography and the history of photography.

Josef Breitenbach Research Fellowship

Awards up to $5,000 to support research into the art and career of Josef Breitenbach (1896-1984) and as his work and archive relates to other works and archives in the Center’s collections.

Harold Jones and Frances Murray Research Fellowship

Awards up to $2,500 to encourage research by curators, historians, social scientists, writers, arts, and critics, on photographers whose archives are at the Center.

Photographic Arts Council-Los Angeles (PAC-LA) Research Fellowship

Awards up to $2,500 to support research at the Center for Creative Photography in the history of photography.

Todd Walker Research Fellowship

Awards up to $3,500 to support research into the art and career of Todd Walker.