Fellowships

Accepting Applications: 2020-2021 Lapidus Center Fellowships

The 2020-2021 Lapidus Center Fellowship Competition Is Open! * Long-Term Fellowships The Lapidus Center offers two six-month fellowships to assist scholars whose research on transatlantic slavery can benefit from…

Fellowships

2019-2020 Lapidus Center Fellows

Lapidus Center Fellows, 2019-2020 We are pleased to announce the 2018-2019 Lapidus Center Fellows.The Lapidus residency program is designed to (1) encourage research and writing on the…

Fellowships

Accepting Applications: 2019-2020 Short and Long-Term Fellowships

The Lapidus Center offers two long-term fellowships to assist scholars whose research on transatlantic slavery can benefit from extended access to the Schomburg Center’s resources; and up to…

2018-2019 Lapidus Center Fellows

We are pleased to announce the 2018-2019 Lapidus Center Fellows.The Lapidus residency program is designed to (1) encourage research and writing on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery…

Fellowships

Lapidus Center Fellows

The Lapidus Center Fellowships are part of the Scholars-in-Residence Program, housed in the Scholars Center. The program encourages research and writing on black history and culture, facilitates interaction among…

The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery—funded by a generous $2.5 million gift from Ruth and Sid Lapidus matched by The New York Public Library—is the only facility of its kind based in a public research library.

The initial gift also included 400 rare items of printed material, making the Schomburg Center home to one of the world’s premier collections of slavery material. Sid Lapidus continues to donate items as he acquires them.

The Center's mission is to generate and disseminate scholarly knowledge on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery pertaining to the Atlantic World. The Center supports the work of researchers with long-term and short-term fellowships. Given the centrality of Atlantic slavery to the making of the modern world, the Lapidus fellowships ensure that slavery studies are a cornerstone of the Schomburg Center’s broader research community.

To raise awareness and historical literacy, the Lapidus Center engages the public with a variety of programs, an annual nonfiction prize, exhibitions, conferences, and partnerships with local, national, and international institutions.

Dr. Michelle Commander
Associate Director and Curator