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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 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 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 For further
information contact: Mary Lynne Bird 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: 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 |