Gustave Gimon Fellowship

The 2026 application deadline is March 15.

The Gustave Gimon Fellowship is offered by the Stanford Libraries and co-sponsored by the France-Stanford Center.

The Gimon Collection contains approximately 1000 titles that concentrate broadly on the evolution of French economics and politics from the late sixteenth to the mid nineteenth century. The Gimon Collection embodies a broad definition of political economy and its materials span the three centuries from 1550-1850. Scholars working in fields as varied as History, Literature, Art History, Economics, and Philosophy will find rich resources for their research in the collection. The Gimon Collection is particularly strong in material from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Topics of focus include physiocracy, nineteenth century utopian thought (Saint-Simonianism and Fourierism), workers' rights, and how economic, social, and political thought was applied to issues as varied as religious freedom, political sovereignty, taxation and trade policies, colonial issues, agriculture, and transportation. Other materials held in Stanford University Libraries complement the Gimon Collection's strengths, including notable collections on the European Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the Paris Commune, poverty and workers' issues, and women.

Our inaugural Gustave Gimon Fellowship project, which took place in 2022-23, is Not-so-clandestine Conspirators: Jacobin Ideas of Secrecy and Property and their Legacies.

There is no application form. Interested researchers are encouraged to send in a detailed project proposal of no more than 1000 words clearly stating why materials in the Gimon Collection are essential to carrying out the research project, two letters of recommendation from scholars in the field, and a curriculum vitae. For more information on the collection and its particular strengths, please see this overview of the collection, or contact the curator. 

Inquiries may be sent via email to Sarah Sussman, Curator of the French and Italian Collections ssussman [at] stanford.edu (ssussman[at]stanford[dot]edu )