James W. Scott Regional Research Fellowships
The James W. Scott Regional Research Fellowships promote awareness and innovative use of archival collections at Western Washington University, and seek to forward scholarly understandings of the Pacific Northwest. Fellowship funds are awarded in honor of the late Dr. James W. Scott, a founder and first Director of the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, and a noted scholar of the Pacific Northwest region. Up to $1000 funding is offered in 2018 to support significant research using archival holdings at WWU’s Center for Pacific Northwest Studies (CPNWS), a unit of Western Libraries Heritage Resources.
Fellowship Requirements
Applications are accepted from individuals in doctoral programs as well as individuals who have finished the PhD. Successful applicants will be expected to spend approximately one week examining CPNWS holdings in support of their research, and to be in residence prior to October 31, 2018. Fellows will be asked to give a presentation about some aspect of their research during the course of their scheduled visit. The audience will vary depending on the time of the year, but may include members of the general public as well as students, faculty and staff from WWU.
Applications for the award will be reviewed after April 1, 2018.
Current and Past Recipients
- 2016-2017 Matthew Carr. A doctoral candidate in the Political Science program at Columbia University, Carr's areas of interest include American political institutions, political parties, and policy development. His research and presentation explored the development of Washington State Democratic and Republican political party platforms from 1960 to the present day, especially the emergence of abortion and gay rights as partisan issues.
- 2015-2016 Dr. Kendra Smith-Howard. An Associate Professor at the State University of New York (Albany), Dr. Smith-Howard's research focuses on 20th century environmental history in the United States. Her first book, "Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History Since 1900," was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. Dr. Smith-Howard's current research project explores the history of cleanliness in 20th century America, including the role and impact of Georgia-Pacific and other Pacific Northwest wood-pulp manufacturers.
- 2014-2015 Jessica Leslie Arnett. A PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota, Arnett's research focused on territorial Alaska as a geopolitical space in which the legal and political frameworks of settler colonialism and imperialism converged, and also looked at how Alaska Natives leveraged the tensions produced by this entanglement in their claims on sovereignty, land, and belonging. Arnett was also a 2015-2016 Andrew Mellon Dissertation Fellow and a short-term Newberry Library Consortium for American Indian Studies Fellow.
- 2014-2015 Ron Judd. A veteran Seattle Times reporter currently working on a Master's in History at the University of Nebraska, Judd's research focused on the 1939 firing of Western Washington College of Education Charles H. Fisher, and examined the story within the context of local and national anti-communist, “super-patriot” political trends.
- 2013-2014 Dr. Helen Morgan Parmett. An Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Western Washington University, Dr. Morgan Parmett's research focused on Bellingham's local media culture, including the role of KVOS radio/television in creating a "local" identity in Bellingham during the 1930s-1960s.
- 2012-2013 Dr. Polly Myers. An Instructor in the History Department at Western Washington University, Dr. Myers' research focused on the employment of women at the Boeing Company in the postwar period, with a secondary project examining women’s roles in anti-nuclear protest in the Pacific Northwest.
- 2012-2013 Dr. Mary Erickson. An Instructor in the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, Dr. Erickson's research focused on the history of audio-visual media production in the Pacific Northwest and, in particular, the history of KVOS-TV and Canawest Film Productions.
- 2002 Lissa K. Wadewitz.
Applications
Applications for the award will be reviewed after April 1, 2018. The number and size of awards granted annually is determined by the application review committee.
Applications may be submitted via mail or electronically and should include:
- Cover letter
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research plan outlining on-site use of CPNWS holdings and proposed presentation topic
- Two letters of recommendation.
Please send applications via email to Ruth.Steele@wwu.edu or by mail to Ruth Steele, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Libraries Heritage Resources, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA 98225-9123.
Please enter “Scott Research Fellowship Application” in the subject line of email applications.
Funds will be awarded after a Fellow(s) has conducted research at CPNWS and delivered their presentation.
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This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:
https://library.wwu.edu/hr/fellowships