I’d like to emphasize just how crucial this fellowship was to my book-in-progress. Research budgets ... are sharply shrinking, and I returned home with the archival bedrock of what I hope will be an important study of a remarkable woman. I’m hugely grateful to the George L. Mosse Program in History and the Friends of the University of Wisconsin Library.
Professor David Milne, 2019 Mosse-Friends Fellow
The George L. Mosse Program partners with the Friends of University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries to offer a fellowship for scholars whose research requires access to campus resources. The application is available here and requires:
- Our online application
- A Curriculum Vitae
- An Abstract or Summary (not to exceed one page) of your proposed research project. Include the libraries and collections you plan to use and why it is important for you to do your research at UW-Madison.
- The two references (listed on the application) must send their letters of support directly to the Friends office.
All supporting documents must be received by December 31 in order for the application to be considered.
Documents may be emailed to the friends@library.wisc.edu; faxed to 608-265-2754 or sent via US mail to Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries, 330H Memorial Library, 728 State Street, Madison, WI, 53706.
Additional Information
The US Visa Waiver program will be used for researchers coming from Visa Waiver eligible countries. For a list of eligible countries and information on the program, go here.
All other researchers will come in under a J-1 Visa. For more information on this program, go here.
My stay in Madison has indeed been extraordinary and rewarding for more than one reason, both from a scholarly perspective and from a personal point of view. Apart from the excellent facilities and collections which, as mentioned above, I was able to peruse, I cannot describe how warm and generous was the welcoming of all the Friends of the UW-Madison Library.
Moreover, the community of scholars of Madison has been incredibly generous with me, both with their time and advice, especially John Tortorice and Stanley Payne. The privilege I had of talking with them, the suggestions they were able to share with me about the collections and about my researches more in general, and their great kindness in sharing with me also their knowledge of Wisconsin and of the UW itself have been invaluable. For all these reasons, I firmly believe my stay in Madison has been crucial for my research.
– Donatello Aramini, 2011

Former Fellowship Recipients:
2020 Donatello Aramini
2020 Stefania Ragaù
2019 David Milne
2014 Laura Ciglioni
2014 Lucia Pozzi
2014 Giovanni Ceci
2012 Paolo Acanfora
2011 Donatello Aramini
2010 Erica Moretti
2010 Sabine Pavone
2010 Ermanno Taviani
2009 Michela Catto
2008 Alessandra Tarquini
2007 Lorenzo Benadusi
2007 Ilaria Pavan
2006 Antonella Barzazi
2006 Elena Brambilla
2005 Elena Bonora
2005 Giorgio Caravale
2005 Luca La Rovere
2005 Silvia Maria Mantini
2005 Karel Plessini
2002 Tamar Herzig
2002 Stefania Pastore