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The Special Collections Department of the Atkins Library at
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte announces the
establishment of the Harry Golden Visiting Scholars Program.
The program was established with a bequest by Mrs. Anita Stewart
Brown to honor the memory of Harry Golden, author of the best
selling book Only in America and publisher of The
Carolina Israelite. Two grants of $500 - $1000 will be awarded
each year to researchers using materials that are held by the
Special Collections Department. Preference will be given to
projects focused on the history and culture of the twentieth
century South.
The deadline for applications is February 15, 2008.
Candidates will be notified by March 15. Doctoral students doing
dissertation research, independent scholars, and journalists
are encouraged to apply.
To apply, researchers should send a letter, including
a vita, a description of the research proposal and the extent
of research already completed, an estimate of the research remaining,
a summary of how the project will benefit by using resources in
the UNC Charlotte Special Collections, and a projected budget
to Mr. Robin Brabham, Rare Books Librarian and Archivists, Atkins
Library, UNC Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte,
NC 28223 or email
him.
Visiting Scholars
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- 2005-2006 (Inaugural Grant)
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- Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, a journalist in Portland,
Oregon, who is writing a full length biography of Harry Golden,
contracted to be published by the University of North Carolina
Press.
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- 2006-2007
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- Dr. Gerard J. Fitzgerald, visiting assistant professor
in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the
University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Fitzgerald's research involves
a book-length project "exploring the sensory history of textile
worker life and labor in the South during the first six decades"
of the twentieth century. He will focus his work in the records
of the Biberstein, Bowles, Mecham and Reed architectural firm,
which designed textile mills throughout the South.
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- Dr. Leonard Rogoff, adjunct assistant professor of
religion at Duke University and research historian for the
Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina. Dr. Rogoff is
working on a multi-media project, "Down Home: Jewish
Life in North Carolina," which will include a book, a
documentary film, a public-school curriculum, and a traveling
museum exhibit. He will examine the papers of Harry Golden,
editor of the Carolina Israelite, best-selling author,
and civil rights activist.
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- 2007-2008
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- Dr. Donald F. Tibbs, Assistant Professor of Law at Southern University Law Center. Dr. Tibbs is completing research for his book Black Power, Prison Power: the Rise and Fall of the Prisoner Union Movement in North Carolina.
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