The NC State University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) and the Culture & Animals Foundation (CAF) are excited to offer the 2025 Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowship. The proposal deadline is May 30.
Established in 2019 through the generosity of the CAF in memory of co-founder Tom Regan to promote scholarly research in animal rights, the fellowship supports the use of the SCRC’s Animal Rights Archive—the largest scholarly archive of animal rights collections in the country. In addition to the fellowship, CAF offers annual grants to scholars and artists working on these issues, an annual lecture, and the Nancy Regan Arts Prize. Regan Fellows have come from a range of disciplines, including philosophy, history of science, and anthrozoology. Read about several of the previous Fellows (including 2019 Fellow Rachel Robison-Greene, pictured) here.
In 2025, the Libraries and the CAF will award one fellowship providing a $5,000 stipend to a qualified applicant for research completed in residence at the SCRC for a term of no less than four weeks to begin on or after August 25 of this year. Application details may be found below.
“The Culture & Animals Foundation is delighted to partner with the Animal Rights Archive at the NC State University Libraries to offer the Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowships,” says Martin Rowe, CAF’s Executive Director. “The archive offers an unparalleled opportunity for scholars to explore many facets of Tom’s work and the animal advocacy movement through the decades; the Fellowships can help make that happen.”
Fellowship requirements
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Applicants must submit via email to gathayer@ncsu.edu a curriculum vitae; a cover page including name, address, phone, email, institutional affiliation, current position/title, a project outline and rationale for use of the collections; the names of three appropriate references; and a detailed budget. Eligible expenses include lodging, meals, duplication/digitization expenses, travel (air, train, or bus ticket fees; car rental; mileage using a personal vehicle); and parking fees. The fellowship does not provide free housing or free parking, but campus lodging and parking are available (fees apply).
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Graduate and undergraduate students should also submit a letter of recommendation from a faculty advisor or thesis director on the significance of the research topic and the abilities of the candidate. Other applicants (current faculty) are urged to include a letter of recommendation, but it is not required.
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At the end of the research fellowship, awardees are expected to submit a final report on their research and will be asked to discuss their work by the Culture & Animals Foundation online during their stay or in the future. Awardees should also submit copies of publications that result from their research to both the SCRC and CAF.
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Visas cannot be issued for this type of fellowship.
Applications are reviewed and awards made by the Libraries’ Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowship Committee. Applications are due by May 30. Awardees will be notified by July 1 for support to begin on August 25 and to be completed by December 15 of the same year. For more information and to submit applications, please contact:
Gwynn Thayer, Chief Curator and Associate Head, Special Collections, NC State University Libraries, Campus Box 7111, Raleigh, NC 27695-7111, gathayer@ncsu.edu, (919) 513-3315.
