Short-Term Research Fellowships

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, 2013 and June 30, 2014:

• Aaron Bryant, "A Different Lens: Alternative Views of the Civil Rights Movement and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign"

• Marvin Chochotte, “Behind the Dark Shades of State Terror": Tonton Makouts, Peasants, Labor, Development Agencies, and the Longevity of the Duvalier Dictatorship, 1957-1986

• Jesse Noah Feiman, "Adam von Bartsch (1757-1821): Genius, History, and Nation in the Scholarship of Prints"

• Stephanie Frakes, "Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s Autobiography Notes of a Pianist (1881): New Notes, New Interpretations" 

• Susan Greenberg, "Macmillan: The New York Story" 

• Noam Maggor, "Brahmin Capitalism: Gentlemanly Bankers, Urban Populists, and the Making of the Modern American Economy"

• Joellen A. Meglin, "Ruth Page and The Merry Widow: A Woman’s Wit and Will"

• Yael Merkin, "We Were Much Afraid of Our Voices for a Long Time": Women and Power in Gilded Age New York

• Jennifer-Scott Mobley, "Enter Fat Actress: Female Bodies on the American Stage"

• Amy Noel, “To Bring Liberty to the North”: The Invasion of Canada and the Coming of American Independence, 1774-1776

• Ellen M. Peck, "Rida Johnson Young: First Lady of Broadway"

• Christopher Phelps, "The Strike: A History of Ideas"

• Roy Scranton, "Making War in the American Century: World War II and American Literature" 

• Peter Simons, "Global Heartland: Shaping the Postwar World on the North American Prairie"

• Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff, "Sophie Tucker and the Art of Invention"

• Andrew M. Stauffer, "The Making of Lord Byron’s Hours of Idleness"

• Carrie A. Streeter, "Movement Cures: Therapeutic Movement in American Pursuits of Health, 1840-1940"

• Nicholas Underwood, "Staging a New Community: Jewish Immigrant Culture and the Fight Against Fascism in Interwar France, 1922-1939