Grants for jazz researchers

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Dan Morgenstern, director emeritus, in the stacks at the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers (Newark)

The Institute of Jazz Studies, situated in the Newark campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is once again offering research grants supported by the Morroe Berger – Benny Carter Jazz Research Fund, an endowment established by Benny Carter in 1987.

ISJ offers up to ten grants of $1,000 each to assist jazz researchers wishing to access its research facilities. Half the grants to for students in the Rutgers-Newark Master’s Program in Jazz History and Research, and half are awarded to scholars from other institutions or unaffiliated researchers with specific projects.

Applications can be found here. Complete applications are due Sept. 15, 2015.

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