The fellowship program at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies promotes research of Jefferson’s life and times and the community at Monticello. The Center offers short-term fellowships for domestic and international scholars to consult with Monticello scholars and librarians and to utilize the resources of the Jefferson Library, the University of Virginia libraries, the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS), and Getting Word African American Oral History Project.
- Sheila Arnold, Storyteller and Independent Scholar, “Ursula Granger: An American Founding Storyteller and her Stories”
- Pierangelo Castagneto, Adjunct Professor, Social History, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, “The Tuscan connection: The agronomic education of Thomas Jefferson”
- Lou Hatch, Thomas Jefferson Foundation, “A Map of Jefferson’s Virginia”
- Charlene Boyer Lewis, Professor of History and Director of American Studies, Kalamazoo College, "Traitor, Wife: Peggy Shippen Arnold and Revolutionary America”
- James Lewis, Professor of History, Kalamazoo College, “American Prime: Why Americans Desired, Adopted, and Abandoned Their Own Prime Meridian”
- Chadré Reid, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, College of William and Mary, ICJS-DAACS Fellow, “Beyond the Shores: An Archaeological Exploration of Racial
- Bartholomew Sparrow, Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas – Austin, “The Unknown Founding: Indentured Servants, Malefactors, the White Poor, and Race in America"
A list of recent ICJS and Barringer Fellows is available.
Short-term fellowships are underwritten by endowments established for this purpose by the Batten Foundation and Wachovia Corporation (formerly First Union National Bank of Virginia).