The Richard E. Greenleaf Fellowships at The Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library and Research Center

Every year, the Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library and Research Center at Tulane University announces a call for proposals for the Richard E. Greenleaf Fellowships. The fellowships offer researchers who permanently reside in any country of Latin America or the Caribbean short-term residential fellowships to use the resources of the Doris Stone LAL at Tulane to conduct research in any field of the humanities or social sciences.

One to four fellowships are granted each year. Fellowships cover the full cost of round-trip airfare, housing expenses, and a monthly stipend for living expenses, as well as full library privileges at Tulane University. Fellowships are available to any qualified scholar--including independent researchers--who resides permanently in any country in Latin America or the Caribbean (including Puerto Rico and the Anglophone Caribbean). Citizens of Latin American/Caribbean countries currently living outside the region and Puerto Ricans residing on the United States mainland are not eligible.

Aside from the residential requirement, criteria for selection include:

• The merit of the research project and proposal, which should be in any field of the humanities or social sciences
• The relevance to the project of the resources of the Doris Stone LAL
• The scholarly achievements and merit of the candidate, and the significance of their project

About Richard E. Greenleaf (1930-2011)

Until his retirement in 1998, Richard E. Greenleaf served as the France Vinton Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History, and as the Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. He also served as Chair of the Department of History. Dr. Greenleaf grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and took his Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees at the University of New Mexico, where he studied under the dean of Inquisition scholars, France V. Scholes. Greenleaf's doctoral dissertation, "Zumárraga and the Mexican Inquisition 1536-1543," served as the basis for his many excellent publications on the history of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Latin America.

Greenleaf authored eleven major scholarly books, co-authored or contributed to seventeen others, and published almost four dozen articles in the field of Latin American and New Mexico history. He was the recipient of many distinguished awards, among them the Silver Medal, the Sahagún Prize (Mexican National History Award), and the Serra Award of the Academy of American Franciscan History for Distinguished Scholarship in Colonial Latin American History. In his long and distinguished teaching career in New Mexico, Mexico City and New Orleans, Greenleaf served as mentor to 34 doctoral students at Tulane, and countless masters and undergraduate students. Richard E. Greenleaf died on November 8, 2011. Fellows are expected to reside in New Orleans, to conduct research at the library for the term of the award, and to deliver a public presentation of their work-in-progress during their stay. Fellowships will be awarded on the basis of the applicant's scholarly qualifications, the merits and significance of the project, and the relevance of the Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library & Research Center's collections to the development of the project.

Contact

Hortensia Calvo, Doris Stone Director. All inquiries and documents regarding the Greenleaf Fellowships must be submitted to the following address: GLfellows@tulane.edu

Richard E. Greenleaf Fellowships 2025-2026

Application & FAQs

Application materials for the 2025-2026 Richard E. Greenleaf Fellowships at The Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library & Research Center are now available.  Please click HERE to download the application packet.

Answers to most questions about the application process appear in our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) document.  Please click HERE to download our FAQs.

The deadline to turn in this application is Wednesday, May 28, 2025, at 2:00 pm, US Central Time.

For additional questions, please email us at:  GLfellows@tulane.edu
 
Applicants can follow the status of their application completion in the chart below.

Application Status

Past Fellows

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