Summer application deadline: June 12, 2015
Fall application deadline: September 15, 2015
The College Art Association (CAA) invites emerging scholars to apply for the Meiss/Mellon Author’s Book Award. The award—funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—provides financial relief directly to emerging scholars in art history and visual studies who are responsible for paying for rights and permissions for images in their publications. Awards will be made twice this year (in the summer and fall) in conjunction with CAA’s Millard Meiss Publication Fund awards to publishers. CAA anticipates awarding between eight and ten Meiss/Mellon Author’s Book Awards in 2015.
Successful applicants are emerging scholars who (1) are publishing their first monograph, and (2) are under contract with a publisher for a manuscript on art history or visual studies. Recipients will be selected on the basis of the quality and financial need of their project. Applications must be made jointly by author and publisher.
The deadline for summer submissions is June 12, 2015. Fall applications are due September 15, 2015. For more details, visit the CAA website.If you have questions about applying to the Meiss/Mellon Author’s Book Award, please contact Sarah Zabrodski, CAA editorial manager, at [email protected] or T +1 212 392 4424.
A similar award (SAH Mellon/Author Award) for emerging scholars publishing monographs on architectural history and the built environment is being administered by the Society for Architectural Historians. For more information please contact Beth Eifrig, SAH assistant director of programs, at [email protected] or T +1 312 573 1365. Both the CAA and SAH awards will provide leading authors in the early stages of their careers with the financial resources to acquire images for scholarly publications.
About CAA
The College Art Association is the world’s largest professional association for artists, art historians, arts professionals, and arts organizations. CAA serves as an advocate and a resource for individuals and institutions nationally and internationally by offering forums to discuss the latest developments in the visual arts and art history through its Annual Conference, publications, exhibitions, website, and other programs, services, and events. CAA focuses on a wide range of advocacy issues, including education in the arts, freedom of expression, intellectual-property rights, cultural heritage and preservation, workforce topics in universities and museums, and access to networked information technologies. Representing its members’ professional needs since 1911, CAA is committed to the highest professional and ethical standards of scholarship, creativity, criticism, and teaching.
