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The AGS Scholarships Program
McColl Family Fellowship (Ninth Annual Competition, 2007)
The McColl Family Fellowship, given by Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. McColl, consists of round-trip airfare to any place in the world of the candidate’s choosing. The candidate must secure funding for other expenses from other sources.
The only obligation of the Fellow is to write an article based on the visit abroad that is suitable for publication in FOCUS on Geography magazine and that is submitted to the editor within six months of returning from the trip.
As is true of all FOCUS on Geography authors, candidates must be geographers or others "who think like geographers and write like journalists." Currently, one fellowship is being offered for each year. Selection is by a committee chosen by the AGS Council.
The selection committee for the McColl Family Fellowship recommends that the eighth annual award
go to Dr. Jennifer Helzer, Associate Professor at California State University, Stanislaus. Helzer will use the award for travel to Australia for
work on her comparative study of Italian immigrant landscapes. Her project, Il Posto al Sole (A Place in the Sun): Immigrant Origins and Pacific
Rim Settlement Societies, examines Italian heritage landscapes in California and Australia.
The winner of the first McColl Fellowship was Dr. Joseph Hobbs of the Department of Geography,
University of Missouri-Columbia. The award provided $2,000 toward the cost of Professor Hobbs' travel to Madagascar
in 2000 for first-hand study of the human use of caves there. His article appeared in the summer 2001 issue of FOCUS on Geography.
The second McColl Fellowship was awarded to Dr. Kendra McSweeney for work on indigenous reponse
to hurricane damage in the rain forest of eastern Honduras; her article appeared in the Spring 2002 issue of
FOCUS on Geography magazine. The third award went to Dr. Roger Balm for work in Peru in 2002; his article appeared in the Spring 2004 Issue. The fourth award, for 2003, was awarded to Josh Lepawsky for research on intelligent technology in Malaysia during that year. The fifth fellowship went to Dr. Susan Mains for research in 2004 on the experience of Jamaican migrants living in Toronto.
The Sixth McColl Family Fellowship winner is William G. Moseley, Assistant Professor of Geography and coordinator of the African Studies Program at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. His study is entitled Subaltern Agroecological Knowledge and Environmental Justice in the New South Africa: Farm Worker Insights and Land Reform in the Western Cape Province. The study's objectives are to explore the subaltern knowledge farm workers have of the agricultural landscapes they have worked in the Western Cape and to understand how this knowledge affects land redistribution programs.
The ninth McColl Fellowship is to be awarded for the year 2008. Applications for it must be received in the AGS offices by October 15, 2007. They are to consist of the candidate's curriculum vitae; a covering letter of no more than three pages that describes (a) the proposed trip, (b) the reasons for selecting that itinerary, and (c) the candidate's particular competence for doing fieldwork there; and a statement of the sum requested..
Applications should be sent to:
McColl
Family Fellowship Committee
The American Geographical Society
120 Wall Street, Suite 100
New York, New York 10005-3904
For further
information contact:
Mary Lynne Bird
(212) 422-5456 (voice)
(212) 422-5480 (fax)
AGS@amergeog.org
Helen and John S. Best Research Fellowships, and the McColl Research Fellowships, AGS Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, welcomes applications for two short-term fellowship programs:
McColl Research Program fellowships:
This is a short-term fellowship program available to individuals who wish to communicate their geographical research results to a broad, educated general audience.
Awards of $3000 for four-week fellowships will be provided to support residencies for the purpose of conducting research that makes direct use of the Library, and
results in publication in a mutually agreed outlet.
Helen and John S. Best Research Fellowships:
Stipends of $375 per week, for periods up to 4 weeks, will be awarded to support residencies for the purpose of conducting research that makes direct use of the Library.
The AGS Library, the former research library and map collection of the American Geographical Society of New York, has strengths in geography, cartography and related historical
topics. Applications must be received by October 20, 2006. All fellowships are tenable in 2007.
For further information, write, call or e-mail:
The AGS Library
P.O. Box 399
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0399
Tel. (414) 229-6282, E-mail: agsl@uwm.edu.
Web site: www.uwm.edu/Libraries/AGSL/fellowships.html.
Helen and John S. Best Research Fellowships, AGS Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Thanks to an NRC grant to UWM's Center for International Education, the
American Geographical Society Library is able to offer three additional
research fellowships each year over the next three years. This is great
news for us as we have been extremely pleased by the level of research
undertaken by our fellows over the past few years. As a result of this
additional funding, we are extending the application deadline to
October 15, 2004. The AGS Collection at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, is a world-class
collection of maps, atlases, photographs, globes, and satellite images. Thanks to
a generous gift from Mrs. Helen Best in memory of her late husband, the John S.
Best Fellowship is awarded each year so that scholars can receive a stipend to
defray the cost of travel and work in the collection for up to four weeks. This
year (2002), two Best Fellowships were granted, one to Scott R. McEathron, Assistant Map
and Geography Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the
other to Dr. Ian R. Manners, Professor of Geography and Middle Eastern Studies at
the University of Texas at Austin. Fellowships for the year
2000 were given to: Dr. Philip Steinberg
of Florida State University to enable him to consult the AGS Collection
for material on marine boundaries to be incorporated into his book, The
Social Construction of the Ocean (to be published by Cambridge University
Press late in 2001) and a paper he will give in November at the annual
meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers,
“Sixteenth Century European Cartography and the Establishment of State
Territoriality;” Dr. Mercedes Camino from
the University of Auckland (NZ) for research in the AGS Collection on
her project “Representing the Pacific 1519-1606;” and to Dr. Geoffrey
Martin of Southern Connecticut State University to consult documents in
the AGS Collection pertaining to the history of American geography up to
World War II. Selection of Best Fellowship
recipients are made by the AGS Collection Advisory Committee.
Applications for Fellowships
should be sent to: Dr. Christopher
Baruth, Curator
The Best Research Fellowships offer stipends of $375 per week for
periods up to 4 weeks, and will be awarded to support residencies for
the purpose of conducting research which makes direct use of the
Library. The Fellowships will be tenable between January 5, 2004 and
December 31, 2004.
The AGS Library, the former research library and map collection of the
American Geographical Society of New York, has strengths in geography,
cartography and related historical topics. For the 2005 award, applications must be postmarked by October 15, 2004. For further information, write, call, or e-mail to:
The AGS Library
P.O. Box 399
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0399
Tel. (414) 229-6282
E-mail: agsl@uwm.edu.
Web site: AGSL - Best Fellowships.
Competition for the Best Fellowship draws scholars from around the world. Last
year’s fellows came from Russia and the United Kingdom. A total of six people
applied for the 2002 award, up from last year. As in years past, half of the
applicants were from outside the United States. The Best Fellowship continues to
be a wonderful means to grow the community of scholars that use the AGS Collection
in their research.
Mr. McEathron plans to publish a descriptive cartobibliography on the manuscript
maps in the AGS Collection, a project he became interested in when he worked as a
cataloguer for the collection four years ago. He notes that the AGS Collection
contains roughly 100 manuscript maps, from Leardo’s Mappamundi of 1452 to charts
used by Captain James Cook during his voyages. Yet there are also published maps
with important manuscript annotations that should be added to the
cartobibliography, such as the navigational charts used by Charles A. Lindbergh
when planning his Trans-Atlantic flight and U.S. Civil War maps used by General
Silas Casey. When published, McEathron’s work will be a welcomed reference tool
for the AGS Collection staff and future researchers.
Nineteenth-century maps and atlases of the Middle East are what Dr. Ian Manners
plans to examine when he comes to Milwaukee. As part of his long-term project
called Mapping the Middle East, he is exploring the relationship between
geographical knowledge and boundary making in this region. Dr. Manners is
especially interested in comparing Ottoman and Western representations of the
Eastern Mediterranean. Materials from the collection will be used as part of his
book-length manuscript comparing geographical representations constructed by
Ottoman and Western mapmakers from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.
The topic seems especially fitting given that the AGS Collection is housed in the
Golda Meir Library at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
The American Geographical Society encourages its members to consult the staff at
the AGS Collection with their research questions. The toll free number is 900-
558-8993. The application deadline for next year’s (2005) Best Fellowship is
October 15, 2004.
The Best Fellowship for 2001 was awarded to Dr. Alexey Vladimirovich Postnikov, Deputy Director
of the Russian Academy of Sciences, for work in the AGS Collection on
the Russian Central Asian Frontier and Boundaries with the Chinese Empire
(18th and 19th centuries) titled "Russian boundaries and the Great
Game."
American Geographical Society Collection
The Golda Meir Library
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 399
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201