Successful applicants are expected to be based on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus for a minimum of two weeks with additional research and writing completed at the individual's home institution. Visiting scholars are expected to interact with faculty and students in the program and to provide a guest lecture, workshop, seminar and/or a critique approximately once a week during their residency.

The expected outcome of the visiting scholar's research is one or more of the following:

• An essay for a forthcoming exhibition catalogue/brochure
  
• Text for a publication associated with a planned campus exhibition
  
• A manuscript for publication in a scholarly journal
  
• An essay for a planned anthology of essays pertaining to quilt studies to be published by the University of Nebraska Press or the International Quilt Study Center & Museum.
  
• A creative work or works for exhibition that reference a specific quilt or quilts in the Center's collections and whose nature expands on or amplifies the significance carried in the collections.
  

If the visiting scholar's research/creative theme intersects with a planned campus exhibition drawn from the Center's collections, the director and curator will explore the possibility of arranging for the exhibition to travel to the visiting scholar's institution.

The visiting scholar may represent any academic discipline including (but not limited to) art, art history, history, textile history, textile design, or women's studies, as long as his/her research interests intersect with the mission of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum.

Award: $2,500 for four weeks of full-time research and writing with a minimum of two weeks based on the UNL campus. Round-trip airfare and modest stipend for living expenses provided.

Previous recipients of the Visiting Scholar Fellowships include:
Janet Berlo, Ph.D.
Virginia Gunn, Ph.D.
Beverly Gordon, Ph.D.
Laurel Horton, M.A.
Mary Anne Jordan, Ph.D.
Susan Marks, Ph.D.
Linda Welters, Ph.D.