The Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship was established in 1979 to honour the work and memory of Veronika Gervers, a pioneering textiles and dress scholar. While a curator at ROM – from 1968 until her untimely death in 1979 – Veronika carried out groundbreaking research in Eastern European dress history and built worldclass collections. Her skills as an embroiderer and draughtsperson brought deep insights to her studies, which include The Hungarian Szür: An Archaic Mantle of Eurasian Origin (1973) and The Influence of Ottoman Turkish Textiles and Costume in Eastern Europe (1982). Gervers’ legacy lives on in her influential work exploring Hungary’s material past and in the Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship in Textiles and Fashion History.
The fellowship established in her honour exists to promote innovative research on ROM’s exceptional collection of Global Fashion & Textiles with over 40,000 textiles and fashions from around the world and across time. The Fund supports an annual Fellow to be in residence at ROM, to study a selection of works and develop a public presentation.
Applicants can include scholars, curators, educators, conservators, community members, artists, and makers. Projects must contribute new knowledge on some aspect of textiles, dress or fashion—their past, present or future. Through the support of these activities, the grant is meant to enhance access to, and stewardship of, ROM’s Global Fashion & Textile collections, and advance studies on the importance of cloth and dress in the human experience.
To learn more and apply, follow this link: https://www.rom.on.ca/collections-researches/rom-research/veronika-gervers-research-fellowship-textiles-fashion-history
