Millard Meiss Publication Fund
Application Process, Schedule, and Checklist
Process
Applications must be submitted by the publisher; applications submitted by authors will not be accepted. The publisher gathers all materials listed in the Grant Application Checklist, below, and sends each item as a separate email attachment to Alex Gershuny (receipt provided). Publishers may instead choose to mail the complete application to: Millard Meiss Publication Fund, College Art Association, 50 Broadway, 21st Floor, New York, NY 10004. Email applications are preferred.
Schedule
Deadlines for grant applications to be received at the CAA office: March 15 and October 1. Awards are made in May and November, and publishers receive notification of awards within four to six weeks.
Checklist
The publisher submits all components as follows on 8½ x 11-inch paper (printed on one side only without staples or sent as email attachments):
- Part A, completed by publisher
- A detailed budget (requested in Part A) may be submitted in addition to Part A. The jury carefully considers financial information when making an award
- Publisher’s cover letter
The publisher or editor’s cover letter should describe the importance of the work, detail for what purpose(s) the grant is needed, and articulate how this project meets the criteria of the grant. It is also helpful for the letter to place the book in the context of the publisher’s program or plans, since the award supports the press, not the author - Partial manuscript, including:
- Table of contents
- Introduction and one or two sample chapters
- Picture list or illustration program
- Sample photocopies of images and a description of the illustration program (if any)
- Sample bibliography (five pages minimum; a full bibliography is preferred)
- Manuscript reviews: Two or more detailed peer reviews or readers’ reports of the manuscript that have been submitted to the publisher. The reports must be substantive, analytical evaluations of the manuscript, addressing originality, significance of the scholarly contribution, and quality of the research and prose, and written by reviewers who are authorities on the material of the book. The jury does not admit reports written by the author’s dissertation adviser or other interested parties, such as a series editor. Note that readers’ reports are a significant and influential element of the grant application. Reviews are anonymous to the author but should be signed and dated for the benefit of the jury (to be kept confidential) and should not be more than three years old. The author’s response to the reports should be signed and included with the application, so that the current state of the manuscript is made clear. If the author’s response is older than one year, a state-of-progress report should be included
- All materials prepared by author, as listed below
Prepared by the author and forwarded to the publisher:
- Part B, completed by author
- Author’s curriculum vitae
- Narrative description or abstract of the manuscript (two pages maximum)
- Author's response to the (anonymous) readers’ reports (dated, with state-of-progress report if older than one year)
Contact
Questions? Please contact Alex Gershuny, CAA editorial associate, at 212-392-4424.
