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UD doctoral candidate awarded prestigious fellowship
3:31 p.m., Sept. 19, 2006--Jennifer Moses, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Delaware, has been awarded a research fellowship by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Moses, whose project title is “The Fortune Generation: The Black Press and the Unfolding of Jim Crow America, 1888-1908,” will conduct research at the New York Historical Society. Moses, from Park Forest, Ill., received a bachelor's degree in history with distinction from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the recipient of the Stewart Fellowship and the University Graduate Fellows Award at UD, a Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar Fellowship, the Goodman Award at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Best Debut Paper at the Association for African American Historical Research (AAAHRP) annual conference in February 2005. "I'm very happy, both for the opportunity to do funded research at the Schomburg Library in New York City and to be associated with the Gilder Lehrman Institute, which does so much to support historical study and writing," Moses said. "I've always loved history, and found it highly relevant to understanding the present world. In politics or foreign relations, for instance, you see a lot of the same patterns repeated again and again. It is a great discipline because it combines in-depth research, critical thinking and analysis, as well as the creativity of writing." To support outstanding scholarship, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History awards short-term fellowships for postdoctoral scholars, doctoral candidates and independent scholars. The Gilder Lehrman Fellowships support work in one of five archives in New York City. In 2005, the Gilder Lehrman Institute awarded a total of $143,072 for 69 fellowships. Since 1994, it has funded a total of 416 fellowships. Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study of American history. Increasingly national and international in scope, the institute targets audiences ranging from students and scholars to the general public. It creates history-centered schools and academic research centers, organizes seminars and enrichment programs for educators, partners with school districts to implement Teaching American History grants, produces print and electronic publications and traveling exhibitions, and sponsors lectures by eminent historians. The Institute also funds awards including the Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and George Washington Book Prizes. For more information about the institute, visit [www.gilderlehrman.org]. Article by Martin Mbugua |
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