Sallie Bingham Center Travel Grants

Travel Grant Information 

The Sallie Bingham Center provides Mary Lily Research Grants and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Grants for researchers whose work would benefit from access to the women's history collections held at Duke University's Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.  For more details about the application process and timeline, please see the Rubenstein Library's main travel grant page.

Available Grants

Mary Lily Research Grants

The Bingham Center's Mary Lily Research Travel Grants support projects that present creative approaches, including  historical research and documentation projects resulting in dissertations, publications, exhibitions, educational initiatives, documentary films, or other multimedia products and artistic works. The grants are named in honor of Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham.

Research projects must use materials from the Bingham Center's women's history collections and include a focus on women or gender. Anyone who wishes to use materials from the Bingham Center's collections for historical research related to the history of women, gender, and sexuality may apply, regardless of academic status. Not all women's history collections at the Rubenstein Library are eligible under the terms of the grant, so please inquire to Kelly Wooten if the collection area is not clear. For example, women's history collections that are part of Duke University Archives or American Dance Festival archives are not eligible.  There is a separate Doris Duke Foundation Travel Grant for collections related to Doris Duke.

Projects exploring Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender history topics that focus primarily on women's experiences are eligible for a Mary Lily Grant; all others may apply for a Harry H. Harkins, Jr. T'73 Travel Grant.

Find more detailed information about our collections in our Research Guides. Inclusion of a collection on one of our research guides does not guarantee eligibility. Please consult with a reference archivist for clarification.  All of our materials are included in the Duke University Libraries online catalog.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Travel Grants

These grants are named in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and are intended to support research using the Sallie Bingham Center's collection of the Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Papers. For more information about these grants please see the Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Travel Grants page.