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The AGS Scholarships Program McColl Family Fellowship (14th Annual Competition, 2012-2013) 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 peer-reviewed journal 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 14th McColl Fellowship is to be awarded for the year 2013. Applications for it must be received in the AGS offices by October 17, 2012. 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. Samples of writing similar to the style of FOCUS on Geography may be included. Only submissions by hard copy will be accepted. . Applications should be sent to: McColl Family Fellowship Committee The American Geographical Society 32 Court Street, Suite 201 Brooklyn, New York 11201-4404 Telephone: 718-624-2212 -- Fax: 718-624-2239 For further information contact: Dr. Deborah Popper (718) 624-2212 (voice) (718) 624-2239 (fax) AGS@amergeog.org for information only. McColl Family Fellowship (12th Annual Competition, 2010-2011) 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 peer-reviewed journal 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 12th McColl Fellowship is to be awarded for the year 2011. Applications for it must be received in the AGS offices by October 15, 2010. 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 32 Court Street, Suite 201 Brooklyn, New York 11201-4404 Telephone: 718-624-2212 -- Fax: 718-624-2239 For further information contact: Peter Lewis (718) 624-2212 (voice) (718) 624-2239 (fax) AGS@amergeog.org Winners of 11th Annual McColl Family Fellowship, 2010: This year’s winners of the McColl Family Fellowship are Chie Sakakibara and Kim C. Diver. Dr. Sakakibara, a post-doctoral research fellow at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, will go to Pico Island, a major historical whaling center in the Azores, to explore the ways the people of the Azores have adapted their traditional cultural relationship with the sperm whale in light of climate change, altered whale behaviors, and broader changes in human-sea interactions. Dr. Diver, a visiting scholar at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, intends to use the fellowship to travel to Panama for a project collecting data on insular plants that can be used to test updated models of island biogeography. The selection committee for the McColl Family Fellowship recommends that the tenth annual award, for 2009, go to Dr. Matthew Farish, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto. Farish will use the award for travel to the Canadian Arctic to document the experiences of local people who were affected in various ways by the construction and operation of the DEW (Defense Early Warning) Line. 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, “People and Caves in Madagascar”, appeared in the Summer 2001 issue of FOCUS on Geography. The second McColl Fellowship was awarded in 2001 to Dr. Kendra McSweeney, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Ohio State University, for work on indigenous response to hurricane damage in eastern Honduras. Her article, “Two Years After Hurricane ‘Mix’: Indigenous Response in the Rain Forest”, appeared in the Spring 2002 issue of FOCUS on Geography. The third award in 2002 went to Dr. Roger Balm, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University, for work in Peru. His article, “The Expeditionary Eye: Reconstructing the First Photographs of Machu Picchu, Peru”, appeared in the Spring 2004 Issue. The fourth award, for 2003, was given to Dr. Josh Lepawsky, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland, for research on intelligent technology in Malaysia. His article, “Digital Aspirations: Malaysia and the Multimedia Super Corridor”, appeared in the Fall 2005 issue. The fifth fellowship, in 2004, went to Dr. Susan Mains, Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of the West Indies, for research on the experience of Jamaican migrants living in Toronto. Her article, “Hurricanes in Toronto: Distance, Identity, and the Jamaican Diaspora”, appeared in the Summer 2007 issue.       The sixth McColl Family Fellowship winner, in 2005, was William G. Moseley, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Macalester College. His study's objectives were to explore the subaltern knowledge farm workers have of the agricultural landscapes they have worked and to understand how this knowledge affects land redistribution programs. His article, “Farm Workers, Agricultural Transformation, and Land Reform in Western Cape Province, South Africa”, appeared in the Summer 2006 issue. The seventh award was given in 2006 to Sarah J. Halvorson, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Montana. Her work is assessing response and recovery in Pakistan-administered Kashmir in the aftermath of the cataclysmic South Asian earthquake of October 2005. The eighth Fellowship was awarded in 2007 to Dr. Jennifer Helzer, Associate Professor at California State University, Stanislaus. Helzer used the award for travel to Australia for work on her comparative study of Italian immigrant landscapes. Her article, “Veggie Patches and Piazzas: Italia in the Australian Landscape”, appeared in the Fall 2008 issue. The ninth Fellowship was a double award. Russell Fielding is a doctoral student in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University; Dr. Joel Harter is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of New Hampshire. Mr. Fielding will go to Newfoundland to research the pilot whale drive fisheries in the aftermath of their ban by the Canadian government. Dr. Harter will travel to Uganda and, based at Makerere University, will study the communities that surround Kibale National Park. McColl Research Fellowships and the Helen and John S. Best 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. Eligibility: Candidates for Fellowships should be established scholars, doctoral students who have completed degree requirements and are at the stage of writing their dissertations, individuals with a record of publication in accord with the fellowship program, or those with government or business ties who could use the Library’s resources to further policy studies. To Apply: Application must be made in writing to the AGSL Curator. The application shall include a two-page letter describing the project to be pursued, the proposed end result of the project (including publication venue), and an explanation of how the AGS Library will be utilized in completing the project; a brief curriculum vitae; and a letter of support from a reputable scholar, business leader or public official. Electronic submission is encouraged. Applications may be submitted via email, fax or by post (email: cmb@uwm.edu ; fax: (414) 229-3624; AGS Library, UWM Libraries, 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53211). The awards will be made by the UWM Director of Libraries, based on recommendations from the AGSL Curator and the McColl Research Fellowship Advisory Committee. Timetable: Applications must be received at the AGS Library by October 31, 2009.  Awards will be announced on or before December 1, 2009, for fellowships to be held during 2010. 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 Applications for Fellowships should be sent to: Dr. Christopher Baruth, Curator American Geographical Society Collection The Golda Meir Library University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee P.O. Box 399 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 Past McColl Research Fellows: 2008: Heather Winlow - Bath Spa University (England). The cartographic representation of the American Indian population in the U.S. between 1850 and 1950. Jorge Guzman-Gutierrez - Scott Polar Institute, University of Cambridge (England). The historical geography of the southernmost regions of the Americas. 2007: Ute Schneider - Darmstadt University of Technology (Germany). The International Map of the World Between Science and Politics. Michael Heffernan - University of Nottingham (England). The American Geographical Society and the 1:1 Million Map of Hispanic America. 2006: Alexei V. Postnikov - Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Russian Central Asian Frontier and Boundary with the Chinese Empire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Irakli Iakobashvili – Parliament of Georgia Archives (Georgia).  Photographs and research notes from the William Osgood Field archives relating to the Caucasus in the 1920s and 1930s. 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 31, 2009. All fellowships are tenable in 2010. 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. Competition for the Best Fellowship draws scholars from around the world. 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 Eligibility: Candidates for Fellowships are either established scholars, or doctoral students who have completed their course work and are at the stage of writing their dissertations. To Apply: Application must be made in writing to the AGSL Curator. The application shall include 1) a two page letter describing the project to be pursued, the proposed end result of the project (publication, dissertation, etc), an explanation of how the AGS Library will be utilized in completing the project, and the number of weeks of support requested (up to 4); 2) a brief curriculum vitae; and 3) a letter of support from a reputable scholar in the field. Applications may be submitted via email, fax or by post (email: cmb@uwm.edu; fax: (414) 229-3624; AGS Library, UWM Libraries, 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53211). Selection of Best Fellowship recipients is made by the AGS Collection Advisory Committee. Timetable: Applications must be received at the AGS Library by October 31, 2010.  Awards will be announced on or before December 1, 2010, for fellowships to be held during 2011. 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 Applications for Fellowships should be sent to: Dr. Christopher Baruth, Curator American Geographical Society Collection The Golda Meir Library University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee P.O. Box 399 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201               Past Best Fellows: 2008: Sandra Zito - University of California, Irvine. Mapping Europe: the Normative Discourse of the European Union, or European Borders, Territory and Identity in the Past and Present. Geoffrey Martin - Southern Connecticut State University (Emeritus). History of Geography in Anglo-America. 2007: Karl Offen - University of Oklahoma. Mapping Mosquitia, the Geographical Imagination in Central America. Barney Warf - Florida State University. Folding Time and Space, Historical Geographies of Time-Space Compression. Alastair Pearson - University of Portsmouth (England). The American Geographical Society and the 1:1 Million Map of Hispanic America. 2006: Richard W. Dixon - Texas State University. Content analysis of early climatology textbooks. Innes M. Keighren - University of Edinburgh (Scotland). The work of Ellen Churchill Semple, the author of Influences of Geographic Environment.2005: Stephanie Hom Cary - University of California, Berkeley. Re-Imagining Home: the Mediterranean in the Age of Discovery. John Cloud - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Early evolution of aeronautical charting and their uses in the United States. Christina Dando - University of Nebraska at Omaha. Women as map consumers over the 19th and 20th centuries. Urbano Fra - Universidad de Extramadura (Spain). Volcanic feature representation and location in the cartography of the Hawaiin Islands. Geoffrey Martin - Southern Connecticut State University (retired). History of Geography in Anglo-America. 2004: Sandra Gaskell – American Indian Council of Mariposa County. The cartography and field notes of early explorers of the Sierra Nevada. Paul Longley Arthur – Murdoch University (Australia). Correlations between narrative and mapping in the Americas. M. Sean Chenoweth – University of Louisiana, Monroe. The age, origin and purpose of the trails of the Jamaican Cockpit Country. Viva G. Nordberg – University of Kentucky. The development of metaphors such as life spans and cycles from earlier ideas in natural history. 2003: John Cloud - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The origins and evolution of geographic integration by overlay. Jeremy Crampton - Georgia State University. Early thematic mapping of the American Geographical Society. Nancy Kandoian - Map Division, New York Public Library. An annotated bibliography of sources for locating early ancestral villages of Armenians in eastern Anatolia. 2002: Ian R. Manners - University of Texas-Austin. Mapping the Middle East. Scott R. McEathron - University of Illinois. Descriptive cartobibliography of manuscript maps in the American Geographical Society Library. 2001: Geoffrey J. Martin - Southern Connecticut State University. History of Geography in Anglo-America (Special AGS Commemorative Fellowship). Joel Outtes - Oxford University (England) An Historical Atlas of Brazilian Cities. Alexei V. Postnikov - Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Russian Central Asian Frontier and boundary with the Chinese Empire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. 2000: Mercedes Maroto Camino - University of Auckland (New Zealand). Representing the Pacific, 1519-1606. Philip E. Steinberg - Florida State University. Changing conventions in marine cartography from the late 15th through the late 20th centuries, as part of an ongoing study of changing uses, regulations and representations of ocean space.