Short-Term Research Fellowship recipients 2012-2013

The New York Public Library is pleased to announce the awarding of Short-Term Fellowships to support the following scholars from outside New York who will research the Library’s archival and special collections between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013:

• David Brenner, “The Film Schindler’s List vis-a-vis the Earliest Significant Collection of Holocaust Survivor Testimonies”

• Joshua Britton, “Building Brooklyn: Elites, Space and City-Building in the Nineteenth Century.”

• Gary Dyer, “Lord Byron on Trial.”

• Andrew Falk, “Shadow Diplomats: Constructing a Humanitarian Network during the Refugee Crisis of the 1930s and 1940s.”

• Chris Goertzen, George P. Knauff’s “Virginia Reels” and the History of American Fiddle Repertoires and Styles.

• Gary Guadagnolo, “Creating a Tatar Capital: National, Cultural, and Linguistic Space in Kazan, 1920-1940.”

• Susan Harlan, “Objects of War: Militarism, Memory, and the Making of the Early Modern English Subject.”

• Holger Hoock, “Scars of Independence: Practices and Representations of Violence in the American Revolutionary War.”

• Monica Huerta, “The Evidence of Things Unseen: Law, Photography, and Subjectivity in Nineteenth Century America.”

• Tanya Camela Logan, “Sartorial Second Skins: Black Men, Masculinity, and Agency in Dress.”

• Jessica Linker, “It is my wish to behold Ladies among my hearers”: Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720-1860.

• Hassan Melehy, “Jack Kerouac, Quebec in New England, and the Poetics of Exile.”

• Nicholas Mitchell, “Disciplinary Matters: Black Studies, Women’s Studies and the Neoliberal University.”

• William Piper, “Pictures at Work: African American Studio Photographers and the Business of Everyday Life, 1900-1968.”

• Adam Roberts, “Keeping Score: A Handbook of Musical Insights for Musical Theatre Artists.”

• William Slauter, “Who Owns the News? Journalism and Intellectual Property in Historical Perspective. “

• Erin Zavitz, “Revolutionary Memories: Commemorating and Celebrating the Haitian Revolution, 1804 -2004.”

Short-Term Research Fellowship recipients 2011-2012.

• Luther Adams, "Black and Blue: Toward a History of Police Brutality"

• Yelena Biberman, "Understanding Pakistan's Foreign Policy, 1947-2001"

• Andy Boyle, "Samuel Daniel’s Collection of the History of England"

• Michael Brown, "Experts, Eggheads, and Elites: Debating the Role of Intellectuals in American Political Culture, 1952-2008"

• Eric Bulson, "Little Magazine, World Form"

• Marco Carynnyk, "Ukrainians, Jews, and Poles, 1939–1941"

• Armando Chavez-Rivera, "The Formation of the Cuban Nation in the Nineteenth Century: a View from New York"

• Carol Lea Clark, "The Palestine Expedition: America’s Forgotten Mission to Ottoman Palestine"

• Ari Cushner, "Holding the Center: Cold War Liberalism and the Development of the American Century, 1945-1968"

• Diana Dinerman, "Pluralism in Motion: American Nationalism and the Lester Horton Dance Theater, 1930-1960"

• Michael Gutierrez, "Two Thieves Escaping through the Bowery (a novel)"

• Anne Hammond, "Genevieve Taggard: A Study of Her New England Poems,1935-1948"

• Carol Hess, "Historiographer of the Airwaves: Gilbert Chase and Latin American Music at the Height of the Good Neighbor Period"

• Amanda Higgins, "Instruments of Righteousness: The Intersections of Black Power, Anti-Vietnam War, and Welfare Rights Activism"

• David Levitus, "Metropolitan Progressives: Building a Social Democratic Base Across Greater Los Angeles and New York, 1930-1960"

• Paula Maggio, "Bloomsbury at War: Pacifism and the Bloomsbury Group 1914-1945"

• Julia Mansfield, "Yellow Fever’s Paradox in the Age of Reason: American Studies on Epidemic Disease in the Early Republic"

• Thomas McLean, "Citizens of the World: A Critical Biography of the Porter Family"

• Rachel Parikh, "The Development of Illustrated Books of Divination in Persia"

• Anne-Marie Reynolds, "The Life and Work of Cy Coleman"

• Raymond Parrott, "Resisting the Wind of Change:The International Politics of Portuguese Decolonization, 1961-1974"

• Jack Selzer, "Kenneth Burke in the University: Dramatism and Logology after 1940"

• Tanya Sheehan, "Blacks and Whites: Race and Photographic Humor"

• Mihoko Suzuki, "Antigone’s Example: Gender and the Politics of Civil War in Early Modern England and France"

• Wayne Wiegand, "This Hallowed Place:’ A People’s History of the American Public Library"

Short-Term Research Fellowship recipients 2010-2011.

Dorot Division

• Tamaar Ehs, Rachel Gordon, Caroline Luce, John Sewell, Asaf Yedidya

Manuscripts and Archives Division

• Thomas Campanella, Ivan Gonzalez, Rachel Hermann, Marc-William Palen, Steven Carl Smith

Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle

• Caroline Franklin, Devoney Looser, Dr. M.O. Grenby, Timothy Webb

Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs

• Elisabeth Fraser, Carl Fuldner, Mazie Harris, Elizabeth McGoey, Weston Naef, Lisa Pon, Allison Stagg