Newsnotes
Fall
2004 Issue
Fall
2005 Issue
Fall 2006 Issue
Fall 2007
No. 16
Congratulations to Rick Woten for two fellowships - a Gilder Lehrman Fellowship with the New York Historical Society and a Filson Society Research Fellowship.
A Note from the Director
What a year it has been! A year ago, we welcomed five new students into the program, and this year we have welcomed another three. Sara Egge (North Dakota State University), Peter Noll (Eastern Illinois University) and Craig Hastings (University of Minnesota and University of Michigan) are all beginning their studies in the AHRS program. Additionally, Adam Ebert and Rick Woten passed preliminary exams in 2007, and Kevin Howe defended his master’s thesis, titled “The right to obtain patent protection on living material: The causes and consequences of the United States Supreme Court decision in the case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty.” We also saw four graduations in 2006-2007 and fall 2007. Alexandra Kindell, Derek Oden, Knut Oyangen and Cameron Saffell all finished their dissertations, and have either begun or continued employment in Corpus Christi, Texas, Gary, Indiana, Oslo, Norway, and Las Cruces, New Mexico, respectively.
Perhaps our biggest news is the successful second annual meeting of the Agricultural History Society, held right here on the Iowa State University campus. Nearly 170 scholars from around the country and around the world joined us for three days of paper presentations, exchanges of ideas and tornado warnings! We were proud to be able to give our guests a truly Iowa experience. Six current Iowa State students, as well as a number of alumni and faculty, participated in the meeting. We also earned over $1,000 with a silent auction, the proceeds of which the Society used to bring graduate students to the Ames meeting. The Society will use the remaining funds to bring graduate students to Reno in June.
The AHRS program extends its warmest congratulations to Anne Effland, elected by the Agricultural History Society to the office of Vice President/President Elect.
On another note, the program is doing its best to update its records and to find past graduates who seem to have slipped through the cracks. At the end of the newsletter, you will find a list of AHRS graduates, and their last known places of employment. If you are in contact with any of those whose current employment is unknown, or if you know of a graduate with whom we have lost contact, please let me know. And thank you ahead of time.
See you in Reno!
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg,
Professor and Director
News from our Current Students
Sandy Andrews
Sandy is in her second year of graduate study, and plans to take her preliminary examinations under the spring. She is focusing her plans for dissertation research on the ancient world.
Jenny Barker-Devine
Jenny Barker-Devine is currently hard at work finishing the final chapters of her dissertation entitled "'Our Cherished Ideals': Rural Women's Activism in the Midwest, 1950-1990." This past winter she saw the publication of a chapter on student life in the book, Traditions and Transformations: A History of Iowa
State University. In April 2007, she was awarded the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, as well as the Zaffarano Prize, awarded by the Graduate College to graduate students exhibiting superior performance in publishable research. She was the first student in the humanities to win the award since it began in 1988. This past summer, she traveled throughout the Midwest and to Washington D.C. putting to use research grants from the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the State Historical Society of Missouri, Phi Alpha Theta, and State Historical Society of Iowa. At this time, Jenny has an article forthcoming in the Annals of Iowa entitled: “The Farmer and the Atom: The Iowa State Cooperative Extension Service and Rural Civil Defense, 1955-1970.” Jenny expects to graduate in May and is looking forward to her final semester at Iowa State.
Adam Ebert
Adam Ebert passed his preliminary examinations in the spring of 2007. In June 2007, he presented a paper at the Agricultural History Society meeting in Ames. After a busy summer and fall with his bees, he is currently using his Roswell Garst Dissertation Fellowship to travel throughout the United Kingdom for research.
Sara Egge
Sara Egge is a first-year graduate student in the Agricultural History and Rural Studies program. She received her bachelor's degrees in History, Spanish, and History Education from North Dakota State University in December 2006. While an undergraduate student, she worked as an editorial assistant for the journal Agricultural History. She also presented a paper about farm laborers and the Civil War at the 2006 Agricultural History Society Conference. At Iowa State University, Sara has started her graduate work in
rural women's history, with a specific interest in the women's suffrage movement in the Midwest and Great Plains.
Angie Gumm
Angie writes, “A friendship with a cranky, though semi-loveable, 80-year-old in the small Kansas town where I used to work got me turned on to garbage a few years ago. As a Master Composter, I was already interested in the value that could be obtained from materials that many deemed worthless, and Bill Compton had spent nearly 35 years of his life trying to keep those materials out of landfills. What started out as a local history paper about Bill for my Historical Methods class at Wichita State University, turned into a thesis on the history on the resource recovery of garbage. I originally came to Iowa State because I had enjoyed writing another paper for a favorite class about agricultural history but have since learned that there is a place in the rural field for the history of garbage as well! If fortune smiles on me while I take my field exams in the spring, I will start my dissertation work after that and plan to focus on rural and urban trash relations and the effects (good, bad and neutral) that the exporting of trash has on rural communities.”
Joseph Isenberg
Joseph Isenberg writes, “The proceedings of the 2006 Military History Conference of the U.S. Army Combat Studies Institute, held at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on August 8-10, have now been published. My contribution appears as "A Historical Overview of Romanian Diplomacy and Great Power Security." In Spring, 2006, I taught second half American History survey and Iowa History at Southwestern Community College's Osceola Center. This term, I am teaching first half American History survey at both DMACC West and at Ellsworth Community College, and an internet American Government course for Ellsworth.”
Kristy Medanic
Kristy provides this updated c.v. for your perusal. She plans to take her preliminary exams in the spring of 2008.
Kristy J. Medanic
612 Ross Hall
Ames, Iowa 50011
(515) 294-7761
kstall@iastate.edu
Education:
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Doctor of Philosophy, Student, August 2006- Present
Agricultural History and Rural Studies
Master of Arts, History, August 2006
Thesis: “Patriotic Homemaking: World War II and the Homemaker’s Half-hour”
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and Secondary Education, 2003
Publications:
“Warren G. Garst” and “Jesse P. Farley.” State of Iowa Biographical Dictionary, (Iowa City, IA: State Historical Society of Iowa.) (forthcoming)
“Is this All?” A Study of the Sexualization of Advertising 1960-1973 (in preparation)
“Patriots at Home: Farm Men and Women in the Post-War World” (in preparation)
Honors and Awards:
Phi Alpha Theta Travel Grant, Summer 2006
Conference Papers and Panels:
Agricultural History Society, Ames, IA, June 2007
Paper: “Patriots at Home: Farm Men and Women in the Post-War World”
Agricultural History Society, National Conference, Boston, MA, 2006
Organization of American Historians, Lincoln, NE 2006
Paper: “Helping the Women at Home: Wartime Concessions on the Homefront,”
Panel: “The Government in Your Home: Extension Programs for Farm Families”
Professional Memberships:
Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society,
Kappa Iota Chapter, 2005-Present
(Vice-President 2006-2007)
Agricultural History Society, 2006-Present
Organization of American Historians, 2005-Present
Teaching Experience:
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Teaching Assistant, “United States Society and Culture in the 1800s” Fall 2005
Guest Lectures: “The New Woman: 1880-1900,” “The New Woman II: 1900-1917”
Teaching Assistant, “United States Society and Culture in the 1900s” Spring 2006
Guest Lecture: “Work and Society: 1880-1920”
Teaching Assistant, “History of Western Civilization I” Fall 2006
Teaching Assistant, “Women in American History” Spring 2006
Teaching Assistant, “Survey of United States History I” Fall 2007
Research Experience:
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Research Assistant, Dr. Dorothy Schwieder, 2006-Present
Student Archivist, Iowa State University Library: Special Collections and University Archives, 2005-Present
Research Interests:
19th Century Reform Movements
Religion and Politics in the 19th Century
Voting Trends and Political Involvement
Radio and Iowa Farm Women
Robert Welch
Robert Welch provides his c.v. He is taking his preliminary exams during the fall of 2007.
ROBERT C. WELCH
Graduate Student
Department of History
Iowa State University (
603 Ross Hall
Ames, IA 50011
(515) 294-7761
rwelch@iastate.edu
Education
Iowa State University, PhD Student, Agricultural History and Rural Studies,
Expected Graduation date May, 2010
Iowa State University, Master of Arts, History May, 2006
University of Northern Iowa, B.A., History, 2003
Current Research Interests
Nineteenth Century American History
Nineteenth Century American Agricultural History
American Civil War Era
Teaching Experience at Iowa State University
Teaching Assistant, History 221 (Survey of United States History I), 2004
Teaching Assistant, History 202 (Introduction to Western Civilization II), 2005
Teaching Assistant, History 221 (Survey of United States History I), 2005
Teaching Assistant, History 222 (Survey of United States History II), 2006
Researcher, Center for Agricultural History. Summer, 2006
Teaching Assistant, History 221 (Survey of United States History I), 2006
Teaching Assistant, History 352 (Social and Cultural History of 20th Century US), 2007
Teaching Assistant, History 201 (Introduction to Western Civilization I), 2007
Publications and Conference Presentations
Presentation, “Reconsidering the Ladder of Tenure: A Case Study in Midwestern Agricultural Tenancy” Agricultural History Society Annual Conference, June 23, 2007.
Presentation, “Recruiting Citizens: The Iowa Board of Immigration in 1870.”
Second Annual James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in the Humanities, April 7, 2007.
Review of R. Thomas Campbell’s Confederate Naval Forces on Western Waters: the Defense of the Mississippi River and its Tributaries for H-Civil War, April, 2007.
Various Articles Published through Center for Agricultural History website, August, 2006.
Presentation, “’I Am Just A Farmer Here, Standing for My Rights’: The Cedar County Cow War of 1931”, Agricultural History Society Annual Conference, June, 2006
Professional Activities
History Department Representative, Graduate and Professional Student Senate, Iowa State University, 2005-2006.
Student Employee, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library, Summer, 2006
President, Kappa Iota Chapter, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, Iowa State University, 2006-2007
Assistant Webmaster, Center for Agricultural History, 2007-Present
Professional Memberships
Agricultural History Society
Organization of American Historians
Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, Kappa Iota Chapter, Iowa State University
Awards
2005 Iowa State University Department of History Matterson Award
Internships
Living History Farms Historical Interpreter Intern, 2005
Rick Woten
Rick’s past year has been filled with great experiences. Foremost, he successfully completed his preliminary exams this past spring and is currently undertaking dissertation work! The focus of the dissertation is the examination of the role of four river and canal improvements in the Midwest in the process of state formation. He served as a lead researcher and advisory board member for a forthcoming NEH project with Silos and Smokestacks Natural Heritage Area. The project explored the lives of the five Iowans that have risen to the level of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. Tentative plans for the project include an online interactive site as well as interpretive displays to be utilized throughout the Heritage Area. Conferences, conferences, conferences!!! Rick has been accepted to three conferences for since the last update. In April, he presented a paper on regionalism at the James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska. In June, he participated on a panel focusing on technological methodologies by presenting his ongoing work with the Agricultural History Primer. Additional growth of the Agricultural History Primer for the year culminated in the expansion of the site to include a European Agricultural component. Future expansion for the site has also been outlined and should be very exciting. This fall he is scheduled to present a paper discussing the role of the legal system in shaping 19th century internal improvements in settler societies. He has also been given the opportunity by the department to teach History 365: The History of American Agriculture.
News from our Graduates
Ginette Aley, PhD 05
Ginette Aley is in her third year as an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana.
Joe Anderson, PhD 05
Joe Anderson completed his first year as assistant professor and assistant director of the Center for Public History at the University of West Georgia where he teaches classes in US history and public history. He contributed an essay to Tradition and Transformation: A Sesquicentennial History of Iowa State University, edited by Dorothy Schwieder and Gretchen Van Houten as well as entries in Women in the American Civil War: An Encyclopedia and The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, all published in 2007.
Joe presented a paper at the Hagley Museum and Library’s Center for the History of Business, Technology and Science conference titled “Food Chains: Provisioning, Technology, and Science,” presented a paper and chaired a session at the Agricultural History Society Conference, and commented on a session at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting. He was absolutely essential in the planning and execution of the field trips for the Agricultural History Society meeting in Ames.
Joe’s article “War on Weeds: Iowa Farmers and Growth Regulator Herbicides” Technology and Culture (October 2005) won the 2007 Envirotech prize for the best article on the intersection of technology and the environment published between 2005-2007, awarded by Envirotech, an interest group of the Society for the History of Technology. He was also awarded a University of West Georgia faculty research grant for the 2007-2008 academic year and continues to take on consulting projects.
Randal Beeman, PhD 95
Randal Beeman continues as a professor of history and archives director at Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, California. He writes, “I have contributed reviews to the American Historical Review, the Journal of the West, and other scholarly publications in the last year. I have also written several encyclopedia articles, and am continuing to work on my current book, tentative entitled "California War: Agribusiness v. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, 1965-1995." I also am frequently asked to write op-ed pieces for the Bakersfield Californian, and have served as a consultant for local agribusiness concerns. In addition to these presentations I was recently awarded the Shirley Trembley Distinguished Teaching Award, given to one or two faculty members each year who have served at Bakersfield College for at least ten years and are selected by a committee of previous winners. I was also selected as one of the two professors each year here at BC to present a Norm Levan Faculty Seminar on my past research. I was also was appointed by the Kern County Board of Supervisors to serve on a commission that renamed a major boulevard after local son Merle Haggard.”
Recent Presentations
"The Emotional and Intellectual Antecedents of Sustainable Agriculture." California State University, Chico. Sustainability II Conference, November, 2006.
"Understanding California Agriculture: A Historians Challenge." Butte College, October 2006.
"Establishing Sustainable Ethics in Kern County Education," Sierra Club Buena Vista Chapter, Bakersfield, October 2007.
"The Sustainable Path to Peace and Prosperity." Norman Levan Faculty Seminar, Bakersfield College, April 2007.
"All the King's Men: Context and Contingency." One Book, One Bakersfield, Kern County Museum, April 2007.
"Merle Haggard and the Meaning of Local Memory." Downtown Bakersfield Rotary Club, November 2006.
Upcoming (March 2008 SF American Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting)"Midwesterners in California: Usurpers, Empire Builders, and the "Dude Aesthetic."
Stephanie Carpenter, PhD 97
Stephanie Carpenter is associate professor of history at Murray State University, in Murray, Kentucky.
Francis Danquah, PhD, 1991
Francis Danquah continues as Professor of History at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His accomplishments for the year include:
1. Conference Participation: Served as a commentator on “Breaking Down Racial Barriers in Higher Education at Tennessee Technical University, 1966-1985.” By Wali R. Kharif, Tennessee Technical University, Southern Conference on African American Society Incorporated, (26th Convention) Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in February 2007.
2. Served as Reader of Advanced Placement Examinations in World History for the Princeton based College Board at the Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado from June1 to June 9, 2007.
3. Participated with Dr. Joseph Meyinsse, Department of Mathematics in delivering, “Glimpses of Africa, ” a filmography on selected African countries during Black History Month, to the Black History Society at Amite, Louisiana, in February 2007.
4. Published with Dr. Stephen K. Miller of University of Louisville an article on “Cocoa Farming in Ghana: Emic Experience, Etic Interpretation,” in Southern Rural Sociology, Vol 22, No. 1 2007, pp. 65-79. Available online : www.ag.auburn.edu/auxiliary/srsa/pages/SRS.html.
5. Reviewed Roger Gocking's A History of Ghana (Greenwood Press, 2005) for the Journal of Asian and African Studies Vol 42 No.1, 117-119 (2007).
Anne Effland, PhD 91
Anne Effland continues to work in the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. She organized several sessions for last June’s Agricultural History Society meeting in Ames. We are particularly excited to announce her election as Vice President/President Elect of the Agricultural History Society.
Valerie Grim, PhD 90
Professor Valerie Grim is Chair of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department at Indiana University. She participated in the June Agricultural History Society meeting in Ames.
Kevin Hill, PhD 02
Kevin Hill continues as academic advisor for the ISU Department of History. He is currently working on an invited project to write a history of the Iowa State University Library for the University’s 150th Anniversary celebrations.
Peter Hoehnle, PhD 03
Peter Hoehnle has taken a new position. He is currently a grants administrator for Iowa Valley Resource and Conservation Development (RC&D), Williamsburg, Iowa. This is the USDA’s outpost in eastern Iowa.
Bruce Homan, PhD 02
Bruce Homann continues to teach history at the Coon Rapids campus of the Anoka Ramsey Community College in Minnesota.
Alexandra Kindell, PhD 06:
Alex completed her Ph.D in December and finished out the year teaching Social and Cultural History of American People II for the department at Iowa State and tutoring in Athletic Academic Services. Over the summer, she made her way to Princeton University to join the faculty of the Junior Statesmen Summer School. Alex is now a visiting assistant professor at Indiana University Northwest and is looking forward to teaching there during the 2007-2008 year. She will be participating in a panel on California foodways at the next Western History Association meeting.
Joel Orth, PhD 04:
Joel Orth continues as a full-time lecturer and social sciences credential advisor for Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He published an article, "The Shelterbelt Project: Cooperative Conservation in 1930s America" in Agricultural History and continues research on this topic. He teaches courses on Freedom and Equality in America, Modern America, Environmental History, and Teaching Methods for Cal Poly. This year he will have doubled the size of the social science teaching credential program and assisted the College of Education in meeting the new California (SB 2042) teaching credential requirements. He's also learned to water-ski and builds furniture out of California-grown eucalyptus.
Lisa Ossian, PhD 98:
Lisa Ossian teaches at Des Moines Area Community College, Ankeny Campus. She presented research at last fall’s Rural Women’s Studies Association conference in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Knut Oyangen, PhD 07
In June, Knut defended his dissertation, “Immigrant Identities in the Rural Midwest, 1830-1925.” He is now in Oslo, Norway, in a research position in the Department of Innovation and Economic Organization of the BI Norwegian School of Management.
He writes, “I have been at the school for a few weeks already and I like it so far. It is a very different environment from what I expected. Our department (Innovation and Economic Organization) is not really what I thought a business school was like at all, people are intensely interested in theoretical issues, the dress code is quite lax, and the people who work here seem to have much the same opinions about politics and economic issues as other academics. No one teaches very much, and many, like me, do not teach at all. I went to hear the president speak and he said that business schools that are known internationally are known for their research, not their teaching. In other words, research is huge here. I might do some teaching in the graduate program eventually.”
Cameron Saffell, PhD 07
Cameron Saffell is Curator of History and director of the Oral History Program at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. He also serves as an adjunct professor of history at New Mexico State University. He is completing his dissertation, a history of cotton farming in the American West, this year. He published two book reviews, four articles for the forthcoming World Encyclopedia of History, and three popular articles for Chronicles of the Trail and New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage News. He continues to review manuscripts for Agricultural History and the Southern New Mexico Historical Review, makes several public presentations annually for the Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, and continues to serve on the board of directors for the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro Trail Association.
Claire Strom, PhD 98
Claire Strom writes, “I am now an associate professor at NDSU. I host regular agricultural history events at major conferences--the Western, Southern, OAH, to which all are invited. We are also soliciting manuscripts and dissertations for the Edwards and Fite Awards for 2007. They should be sent to my attention by December 31.” (See details in the awards section below.)
AHRS Graduates and Current Employment
The AHRS program is doing its best to update its records and to find past graduates who seem to have slipped through the cracks. Here is a list of AHRS graduates, and their last known places of employment. If you are in contact with any of those whose current employment is unknown, or if you know of a graduate with whom we have lost contact, please let me know. And thank you ahead of time.
Ginette Aley, 2005, Southern Indiana University, Evansville, Indiana
Joe Anderson, 2005, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia
Randall Beeman, 1995, Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, California
Stephanie Carpenter, 1997, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky
Jean Choate, 1992, Coastal Georgia Community College
Francis Danquah, 1991, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
John Davis, 2002, retired
Denise Dial, 1998, Army National Guard
Anne Effland, 1991, Economic Research Service, USDA, Washington, D.C.
Karla Ekquist, 1999, Naugatuck Valley Community College, Waterbury, Connecticut
Judith Fabry, 1993, National Park Service
Katherine Fromm, 2000
Valerie Grim, 1990, African American and African Diaspora Studies Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Kevin Hill, 2002, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Peter Hoehnle, 2003, Iowa Valley Resource and Conservation Development (RC&D), Williamsburg, Iowa
Bruce Homan, 2002, Coon Rapids Campus, Anoka Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, Minnesota
Cecil Kirk Hutson, 1995, Chief of Staff for California Senator Tom McClintock, California State Senate
Alexandra Kindell, 2007, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, Indiana
Philip J. Nelson, 1996
Derek Oden, 2006, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas
Joel Orth, 2004, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California
Lisa Ossian, 1998, Des Moines Area Community College, Ankeny, Iowa
Knut Oyangen, 2007, Department of Innovation and Economic Organization of the BI
Norwegian School of Management
Cameron Saffell, 2007, New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Suzanne Schenken, 1992, Independent Scholar
Bert Schnieders, 1997
Claire Strom, 1998, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota
Louis Tremante, 2000, last known, advising, the College of the University of Chicago.
Cherilyn Walley, 2003, Technical Publications Manager, Dynamic Educational Systems, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona
Fuming Wang, 1998, People’s Republic of China
Douglas Wertsch, 1992, last known, Athens State University, Athens, Alabama
Research and Travel Support
Iowa State University graduate students may apply to the Graduate College for one travel and one research grant each fiscal year. The applications require a brief budget. The forms are available on the Graduate College web site.
Iowa State University’s Department of History offers the prestigious Garst Dissertation Fellowship each year to a graduate student or students in the advanced stages of dissertation research and writing. Students intending to apply must submit a formal letter of application and a current vita to the program director by 1 March 2007.
Each semester, Phi Alpha Theta, Kappa Iota Chapter, sponsors a travel grant for active members in good standing who present their work at academic conferences. Students can receive up to $200 for travel expenses or conference registration fees. For more information on membership, as well as application forms, please visit the PAT website, www.stuorg.iastate.edu/pat. Further questions may be addressed to the Chapter Advisor, Dr. David Hollander, at dbh8@iastate.edu.
State Historical Society of Iowa
The State Historical Society of Iowa has, for several years, funded eight or more $1,000 research grants for individuals pursuing research publishable in Annals of Iowa. The good news is that this year, they will be able to fund ten grants. Grants are normally advertised in January, and due in April. In the last five years, AHRS students have had very good luck with these awards.
STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF IOWA
The State Historical Society of Iowa has, for several years,
funded eight $1,000 research grants for individuals pursuing research
publishable in Annals of Iowa. The good news is that this year, they
will be able to fund ten grants. Grants are normally advertised in January,
and due in April. In the last five years, AHRS students have had very
good luck with these awards.
CENTER FOR RURAL AND REGIONAL STUDIES
SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
The Center for Rural and Regional Studies at Southwestern Minnesota
State University has hosted two AHRS students in the last two years.
John Davis was at the Center in 2003, and Knut Oyangen in 2004. The
Center chooses new fellows biannually. The Center's web site is: www.southwestmsu.edu/regional/fellows/Fellows.html.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Graduate students and graduates of the AHRS program may find opportunities
to pursue their interests through the Smithsonian Institution's fellowship
program.
Graduate Student Fellowships - These fellowships allow students to conduct
research for ten-week periods in association with Smithsonian research
staff members. Applicants must be formally enrolled in a graduate program
of study, must have completed at least one semester, and must not yet
have been advanced to candidacy in a doctoral program.
Predoctoral Fellowships - These fellowships allow students to conduct
research for periods of three to twelve months. Applicants must have
completed coursework and preliminary examinations for the doctoral degree,
and must be engaged in dissertation research. In addition, candidates
must have the approval of their universities to conduct their doctoral
research at the Smithsonian.
Postdoctoral and Senior Fellowships - Postdoctoral Fellowships of three
to twelve months are available for scholars who have held the doctoral
degree or equivalent for fewer than seven years as of the application
deadline. Senior Fellowships of three to twelve months are available
for scholars who have held the doctoral degree or equivalent for more
than seven years as of the application deadline.
Deadline: January 15th (postmark) for awards to begin on or after June
1st
For further information, go to /www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm
Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program
Graduate students and graduates of the AHRS program may find opportunities to pursue their interests through the Smithsonian Institution’s fellowship program.
Graduate Student Fellowships - These fellowships allow students to conduct research for ten-week periods in association with Smithsonian research staff members. Applicants must be formally enrolled in a graduate program of study, must have completed at least one semester, and must not yet have been advanced to candidacy in a doctoral program.
Predoctoral Fellowships - These fellowships allow students to conduct research for periods of three to twelve months. Applicants must have completed coursework and preliminary examinations for the doctoral degree, and must be engaged in dissertation research. In addition, candidates must have the approval of their universities to conduct their doctoral research at the Smithsonian.
Postdoctoral and Senior Fellowships - Postdoctoral Fellowships of three to twelve months are available for scholars who have held the doctoral degree or equivalent for fewer than seven years as of the application deadline. Senior Fellowships of three to twelve months are available for scholars who have held the doctoral degree or equivalent for more than seven years as of the application deadline.
Deadline: January 15th (postmark) for awards to begin on or after June 1st
Awards
The Agricultural History Society is now accepting submissions for its 2007 awards. All submissions should be made by December 31, 2007.
Claire Strom, editor
Agricultural History
Minard Hall
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND 58105-5075
Any questions about the awards can be directed to the editorial office at (701) 231-5831 or ndsu.agricultural.history@ndsu.nodak.edu. The winners of the awards will be announced at the Society banquet at the annual meeting, Reno, Nevada, June 2008.
The Everett E. Edwards Award
Deadline: December 31, 2007
Amount: $200 to graduate student author and publication of article
The Everett E. Edwards Award is presented to the graduate student who submits the best manuscript on any aspect of agricultural history and rural studies during the calendar year 2006. The award includes an honorarium and publication in the fall issue 2007 of Agricultural History.
Gilbert C. Fite Dissertation Award
Deadline: December 31, 2007
Amount: $300 honorarium
The Gilbert C. Fite Dissertation Award will be presented to the author of the best dissertation on any aspect of agricultural history completed during the calendar year 2007. Please submit three (3) copies of the dissertation. The award includes an honorarium of $300 and a certificate.
Wayne D. Rasmussen Award
Deadline: December 31, 2007
Amount $200 honorarium
The Agricultural History Society offers the Wayne D. Rasmussen Award to the author of the best article on agricultural history, broadly conceived, published by a journal other than Agricultural History during the calendar year 2007. The award includes a $200 honorarium for the author and certificates for the author and publisher.
Theodore Saloutos Book Award
Deadline: December 31, 2007
Amount: $500 honorarium
The Theodore Saloutos Book Award was established in 1982 in memory of the distinguished historian and past president of the Agricultural History Society. An annual award of $500 is presented to the author of a book on any aspect of agricultural history in the United States, broadly interpreted. Publishers should send four copies of the book for consideration.
Web
Sites of Interest
For more information about agricultural history and rural studies, as
well as funding opportunities, search the following websites.
Agricultural History and Rural Studies
http://www.history.iastate.edu/aghistory.shtml
Agricultural History Primer
http://www.history.iastate.edu/index.htm
Agricultural History Society
http://www.aghistorysociety.org/
H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~rural/
Phi Alpha Theta
http://www.phialphatheta.org/2004winners.htm
Rural Women’s Studies Association
http://www.uncp.edu/rwsa/
State Historical Society of Iowa
http://www.iowahistory.org/
