THE MUDGE TEACHER FELLOWSHIPS

2008-2009 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
2007-2008 Fellowship Recipients
Accommodation Information      

 

2008-2009 Research Fellowships

The Library of the Boston Athenæum is pleased to offer up to seven short-term fellowships for 2008-2009. Three of these are made possible through the generosity of the late Mary Catherine Mooney, a teacher in the Boston Public School system.

One Caleb Loring, Jr., Fellowship is available for research on topics concerning the Confederate States and the Civil War.

One fellowship is offered in conjunction with the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

The Washington College Fellowship in Early American History will be awarded to a candidate proposing to conduct research in the library of George Washington, or working in a germane area.

The American Congregational Association-Boston Athenæum Fellowship is for research in American religious history involving the collections of the Boston Athenæum and the Congregational Library.

Grants will support the use of Athenæum collections for research, publication, curriculum and program development, or other creative projects.

Each grant provides a stipend of $1,500 for a residency of twenty days. Fellowships are open to advanced scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, teaching faculty, and professionals in the humanities, with applications encouraged from teachers and librarians in secondary public, private, and parochial schools.

Applications are due by April 30, 2008. Candidates will be notified by May 15. A curriculum vitae and letter of intent describing the proposed project and citing collections to be consulted are required. Graduate students, one letter of recomendation from their faculty advisor. Write to: Research Fellowships, Boston Athenæum, 10 ½ Beacon Street, Boston MA 02108. Or, please send your information electronically to nonack@bostonathenaeum.org For more information, please contact Stephen Nonack at 617 720-7644, or nonack@bostonathenaeum.org

 

The Suzanne and Caleb Loring Research Fellowship

The Boston Athenæum and the Massachusetts Historical Society will award one Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship on the Civil War, its Origins and Consequences, this year. The recipient will conduct research for at least four weeks at each institution.

The Athenæum’s Civil War collections are anchored by its holdings of Confederate states imprints, the largest in the nation, consisting of books, maps, broadsides, sheet music, newspapers, governmental publications, and other materials organized according to the Parrish & Willingham bibliography.

The Society’s manuscript holdings on the Civil War are particularly strong. They include, for instance, diaries, photographs, correspondence from the battlefield and the home front, papers of political leaders, material on black regiments raised in Massachusetts, and extensive holdings on the U.S. Sanitary Commission.

The Athenæum and the Society are particularly interested in projects for which both repositories’ resources are vital. Apply on the Society’s website, www.masshist.org/fapps, or send applications to the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215. The fellowship carries a stipend of $4,000. Each institution will automatically refer unsuccessful proposals to its short-term fellowship competition.

 

The Mudge Teacher Fellowships

The Boston Athenæum is offering two fellowships, open by application to Boston-area public, parochial, or independent school teachers and librarians, for the summer of 2008. Grants will support the use of Athenæum collections for research, publication, curriculum and program development, or other creative projects.

The fellowships each carry a stipend of $1,500 for twenty days of on-site research at theAthenæum, plus membership good for a full year. Awards will be based on project design, proposed use of Athenaeum collections, and recommendations (two are required).

Applications are due by May 1, 2008. Candidates will be notified by June 1. A résumé and letter of intent describing the proposed project and citing collections to be consulted are required, along with two letters of recommendation. Write to: Research Fellowships, Boston Athenæum, 10 ½ Beacon Street, Boston MA 02108. Or, please send your information electronically to nonack@bostonathenaeum.org For more information, please contact Stephen Nonack at 617 720-7644, or nonack@bostonathenaeum.org

 

2008-2009 The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium

The Boston Athenæum participates in The New England Rgional Fellowship Consortium, a collaboration of 17 major cultural agencies. This fellowship will offer at least 11 awards in 2008-2009. Please see the Massachusetts Historical Society website for more information and for the application process at: http://www.masshist.org/fellowships/nerfc.cfm

2008-2009 Boston Athenaeum Research Fellowship Recipients

Mary Catherine Mooney fellowships were awarded to Damien Boutillon, Ph.D. candidate at Durham University (U.K.), who will be conducting research in the library of Gypsy (Roma) scholar Francis Hindes Groome, Philip Edward Phillips (Associate Professor, Middle Tennessee State University), for a book project, Poe and Boston, and Tom F. Wright, Ph.D. candidate at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (dissertation, “The Travel Lecture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century United States”). The Caleb Loring, Jr., award went to Crystal Feimster, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (research project: “Sexual Warfare: Rape during the American Civil War”). Andrew M. Wehrman, Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University, received the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Boston Athenaeum joint fellowship, for his dissertation research “Sore Spots: Disease, Empire and Revolution in Salem and Marblehead, Massachusetts.” The American Congregational Association/Boston Athenaeum joint fellowship was awarded to H. Paul Thompson, Jr., (Assistant Professor, North Greenville University) for a book project, The Swan Song of Antebellum Reform: Temperance Reform in Post-Emancipation Atlanta, 1865-1887. Professor Kevin J. Hayes (University of Central Oklahoma) received the Washington College Fellowship in Early American History to pursue research for “The Book in Washington’s Life.” A Mudge Teacher Fellowship was given to Steven Berbeco, a teacher at Charlestown High School, who plans to develop and publish a social studies curriculum unit on Gypsy (Roma) language and culture.

Earlier in the year, the 2008-2009 Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship on the Civil War, its Origins and Consequences, offered jointly by the Boston Athenaeum and the Massachusetts Historical Society, was awarded to Megan Nelson, Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton, for her project Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War.

The Athenaeum will also be hosting three New England Regional Fellowship Consortium fellows in 2008-2009, James Revell Carr (Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) who is continuing his research for a book titled Hawaiian Music and Dance in New England, 1802-1862, Daniel W. Hamilton, Assistant Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, for his project “Emancipation and the Law: Litigating Human Property in the Civil War and Reconstruction,” and Christine N. Reiser, Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Brown University (dissertation: “Rooted in Movement: Community Keeping in 18 th and 19 th Century Native Southern New England”).

The Boston Athenæum, one of the oldest and most distinguished independent libraries in the United States, was founded in 1807. The library contains over 600,000 volumes with important holdings in the fields of Boston history, New England state and local history, biography, English and American literature, and the fine and decorative arts. Special collections include one of the largest concentrations of Confederate States imprints in the United States, eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British and American tracts and pamphlets, broadsides, early Boston newspapers, archives and manuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to the nineteenth-century Boston stage. The Charles E. Mason, Jr. Print Room houses an outstanding collection of nineteenth-century New England topographical and commercial advertising prints, architectural drawings and photographs, and examples of the work of early Boston studio photographers.

 

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GUIDE TO ACCOMMODATIONS FOR VISITING RESEARCHERS

Anthony's Town House
1085 Beacon Street
Brookline, MA 02446
(617) 566-3972
http://www.anthonystownhouse.com/
contact: Barbara or Richard

Turn-of-the-century brownstone (on the National Register) operated by the same family for over half a century. All rooms with television, semi-private bath and air conditioning. No charge for parking. Ten minutes from Park Street via the Green © Line.
Single and double rooms: $68. - $126. Weekly rates available. Reservations recommended. Deposit requested. No credit cards.

Episcopal Divinity School Dormitory
99 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
contact: David Ramanik (617) 682-1593
contact: Bianca Carrasquillo (617) 682-1542

Located in a leafy, historic neighborhood. Five double (two room) guest rooms available. Two have shared baths; three have private baths. No parking, but garages nearby. Red Line (to Park St.) station in Harvard Square, a few blocks away.
Single occupancy, per night: $70.; double occupancy: $85. After 21 days: single occupnacy $45.; double occupancy $55.

Friends House
6 Chestnut Street
Boston, MA 02108
(617) 227-9118
www.bhfh.org

Set in the middle of Beacon Hill, the Friends House (operated by the Society of Friends [Quakers]) has two rooms available to visitors. Breakfast included in room rate; supper available. Access to parlor (with piano), kitchen, dining room, library. No smoking.
Single room, shared bath: $75 & $90. ($10 extra for double occupancy); 20% off for 7 days or more. Deposit (refundable) requested.

YWCA Berkeley Residence
40 Berkeley Street
Boston, MA 02116
(617) 375-2524
http://www.ywcaboston.org/berkley.html

Accommodations located near Copley Square in the South End. Single and double occupancy rooms; public phones on each floor, message service, linen service, laundry facilities, television room, sun deck. No private baths or air conditioning.
Single $60. a night, $300. a week. Double $90. a night, $470. a week.