Fellowship Guide

Planning your visit
■ Start a J-1 visa or CPT (F-1 visa) process -please note that The Brown University Office of International Student and Scholar Services (OISSS) requires documents for J-1 visa requests be submitted 3 months in advance of the requested start date.  Please start this process as soon as possible.
■ The Fiering House information

Reading Room Policies

The John Carter Brown Library welcomes all researchers to consult our collections in the W. Duncan MacMillan Reading Room. Research shifts in the reading room are 10am-12:45pm and 2pm-4:45pm, every working day, by reservation only. JCB Fellows may reserve up to 6 research shifts per week. JCB Fellows may reserve an AM shift and a PM shift on the same day. All research appointments will be managed by JCB staff.

■ How to request materials in the Reading Room
(Materials must be requested two full business days in advance)
■ Reserve a research shift in the Reading Room
 

Brown ID

Before your fellowship starts, a Brown ID will be created for you. Remote fellows will receive a Brown ID Number; Residential fellows will receive a physical Brown ID Card.
Once you receive your Brown ID, please activate your ID here: https://myaccount.brown.edu/activate.
Activating your card will let you access e-resources at Brown, and as a courtesy from the Brown Library system, Residential fellows will also have limited access and borrowing privledges at the Brown University libraries. 

After the ID is activated, you will be able to set up a Brown email account. Please keep that Brown email and password. You will need this email and password during the course of your fellowship.  It is recommended that you forward your Brwon emails to another account that you check regularly.

Stipends

You will receive your stipend in one (if two months) or more payments. Fellows must be aware that they may have to wait up to 4-6 weeks after arriving in Providence for stipend payments and plan their travel accordingly. In order to receive the fellowship stipend, all fellows must complete a supplier registration form, which you will receive via email just prior to the start of your fellowship, and international fellows must also complete a SPRINTAX Registration once they are in the US. Please do so and notify Alyson Conroy (alyson_conroy@brown.edu) once completed.   

Payment Schedule Targets

Short term

2 month fellow- one payment- paid at the end of first month

3 month fellow- two payments -50% paid at the end of the first month; 50% paid at the end of third month

4 month fellow- two payments- 50% paid at the end of the first month; 50% paid at the end of fourth month

Long Term

Stipend paid monthly at the end of the month