Tag: Fellowship

Summersell Center Accepting Applications for Short-Term Research Fellowships

January 31, 2020

To support the study of southern history and promote the use of the manuscript collections housed at The University of Alabama, the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South and The University of Alabama Libraries will offer a total of eight research fellowships in the amount of $500 each for the 2020-2021 academic year. Eligible researchers will have projects that entail work to be conducted in southern history or southern studies at the W.S. Hoole Special Collections […]

Summersell Center Offers Short-Term Research Fellowships

February 10, 2019

The Summersell Center offers short-term research fellowships intended to assist scholars from outside the Tuscaloosa area with their use of the archival collections and resources held on The University of Alabama campus. Endowment of these fellowships allows us to continue them indefinitely and possibly to expand the number of them we can offer, while freeing up resources for other projects. To support the study of southern history and promote the use of the collections housed at The University of Alabama, […]

Peacock Appointed to the College of Arts & Sciences Leadership Board

November 11, 2015

Dr. Margaret Peacock, Associate Professor of Soviet History, was recently awarded a three year fellowship from the College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Board. Each year, the Leadership Board chooses three members of faculty who have demonstrated excellence as scholars and teachers to become fellows for a three-year term. During her fellowship, Dr. Peacock will conduct research on her second book, tentatively titled The Faults of Power: Cairo, Moscow, London, Washington, and the Struggle for the Modern Middle East, in […]

Associate Professor Margaret Abruzzo Awarded NEH Fellowship.

December 17, 2013

Associate Professor Margaret Abruzzo received a year-long fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project entitled Good People and Bad Behavior: Changing Views of Sin, Evil, and Moral Responsibility in the 18th and 19th Centuries. This fellowship will support twelve months of full-time writing on a book that will trace changes in how both Catholic and Protestant Americans thought about sin and sinners. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many traditional frameworks for explaining sin — such […]