The Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP) is accepting applications for the 2023 Innovation Award. The award will recognize a project that creatively expands the possibilities of humanistic scholarship on the history and culture of the United States or the Atlantic World from the 17th to the late 19th century. Applications are due August 15, 2023. Instructions can be found here.
The Innovation Award carries a prize of $2,500 and recognition at the Library Company’s 292nd Annual Dinner on November 9, 2023.
From the LCP:
In 1731, the Library Company’s founders came together to test an innovative learning model: what might happen if a group of readers formed a collective to acquire new books and share ideas? Almost three hundred years later, our Biennial Innovation Award was established to honor a contemporary scholarly project that bridges conventional disciplines, engages new partners or audiences, makes effective use of technologies, or otherwise extends the reach of humanities scholarship in creative ways.
The award recognizes innovative projects by humanities scholars or cultural professionals working in fields in which the Library Company’s collections are strong, such as African American history, American visual culture, history of popular medicine, early American economy, the history of books and printing, and the history of women and gender.
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