Gillespie Curatorial Fellowship in Shakespeare & the Book
The Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies announces the inauguration of the Gillespie Curatorial Fellowship in Shakespeare and the Book. This competitive fellowship offers an opportunity for advanced undergraduate and graduate students to work with one of the most important private Shakespeare collections in America. Fellows will learn all aspects of curatorial practice from developing research questions, to creating exhibition materials, and collaborating with scholars and librarians in order to produce a special exhibit that tells new stories and forges new directions in the study of Shakespeare and the book.
Renaissance of the Earth Fellowships
The Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies announces a call for 2025-2026 Renaissance of the Earth Fellows: a unique opportunity for advanced undergraduate and graduate students to work across disciplines and laboratories. As a Fellow, you will move from a rare book library to an outdoor landscape as you pursue research projects that explore the ways that engaging with our early modern past helps us reshape our environmental future.
Renaissance of the Earth Teaching Fellowship
This fellowship features talented graduate students from across the Humanities and Natural Sciences who design summer workshops and courses that draw from the Kinney Center’s rare book library and outdoor laboratory. Courses engage in creative and public facing explorations that link hands-on practices with literary, historical, and scientific knowledge. All are welcome to apply.
Congratulations to our 2025 Teaching Fellows: Kiran Jandu, and Michael Medeiros
Renaissance Society of America Membership Award
Kinney Center’s RSA Membership Award, designed to support graduate students whose scholarly and creative investments connect with the Renaissance period. Recipients of this award will have their RSA membership dues fully covered for one year. The award is open to graduate students from all disciplines who have completed PhD coursework and whose research explores the period from 1300–1700 around the world.
For more information on the RSA, visit: www.rsa.org
Congratulations to 2025 recipients Fabiola Corte (Spanish & Portugese) and Maria Portilla Moya (History)!
Jane A. Bernstein Prize for Exceptional Musicological Research
The Jane A. Bernstein Prize for Exceptional Musicological Research is jointly awarded by the Department of Music & Dance and the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at UMass Amherst. The Bernstein Prize recognizes the best undergraduate or graduate research project on a musicological topic concerning pre-modern musical traditions (i.e., any music, musician, or musical tradition before about 1800) or their receptions up to the present day.
Congratulations to 2025 recipients Patrick Spoor and Zachary Brennan!