Announcements and activities.

The John Carter Brown Library will award approximately twenty-five short- and long-term Research Fellowships for the year June 1, 2004-July 31, 2005. Short-term fellowships are available for periods of two to four months and carry a stipend of $1,400 per month. These fellowships are open to foreign nationals as well as to U.S. citizens who are engaged in pre- and post-doctoral, or independent, research. Graduate students must have passed their preliminary or general examinations at the time of application and be at the dissertation-writing stage. Long-term fellowships, primarily funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are typically for five to nine months and carry a stipend of $3,500 per month. Recipients of long-term fellowships may not be engaged in graduate work and ordinarily must be U.S. citizens or have resided in the U.S. for the three years immediately preceding the application deadline.

The Library's holdings are concentrated on the history of the Western Hemisphere during the colonial period (ca. 1492 to ca. 1825), emphasizing the European discovery, exploration, settlement, and development of the Americas, the indigenous response to the European conquest, the African contribution to the development of the hemisphere, and all aspects of European relations with the New World, including the impact of the New World on the Old. Research proposed by fellowship applicants must be suited to the holdings of the Library. All fellows are expected to relocate to Providence and to be in continuous residence at the Library for the entire term of the fellowship.

Several short-term fellowships have thematic restrictions: the Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellowship in the history of cartography; Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowships for research in the comparative history of the colonial Americas; the Alexander O. Vietor Memorial Fellowship in early maritime history; the Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellowship in the history of women and the family in the Americas; the William Reese Company Fellowship in bibliography and the history of printing; and the Touro National Heritage Trust Fellowship for research on some aspect of the Jewish experience in the New World before 1825. Maria Elena Cassiet Fellowships are restricted to scholars who are permanent residents of countries in Spanish America.

The application deadline for 2004-2005 fellowships is January 15, 2004. For application forms or more information, please contact Director, John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Providence, Rhode Island 02912; telephone: [phone]; fax: [phone]; e-mail: JCBL_Fellowships@brown. edu; website: www.JCBL.org.

The Rockefeller Archive Center, a division of Rockefeller University, preserves and makes available for scholarly research the archives of members of the Rockefeller family, Rockefeller University, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The Center also holds the records of non-Rockefeller philanthropies. The collections provide unique insights into worldwide developments and important issues from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Particular strengths include agriculture, the arts, African American history, education, international relations and economic development, labor, medicine, philanthropy, politics, population, religion, science, the social sciences, social welfare, and women's history. The Center operates five programs to promote and support research in its collections: Grants-in-Aid; Targeted Grants--Topic for 2004: Research on New States after Colonialism; Grants to Support Research in the Paul Ehrlich Collection; Rockefeller Archive Center Residencies in the History of Basic Medical Research; and the Rockefeller Archive Center Scholar-in-Residence program. Applications are due by November 30, 2003, and recipients will be announced at the end of March 2004. See the Center's website: www.rockefeller.edu/archive.ctr for detailed information on its collections and information on and applications pertaining to its grant programs. For further information please contact Darwin H. Stapleton, Executive Director, Rockefeller Archive Center, 15 Dayton Avenue, Sleepy Hollow, New York 10591; e-mail: [e-mail].

The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association announce the winners of the 2001 and 2002 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, given annually for the best book-length work published in the field of Louisiana history. Winner of the 2001 award is Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862-1880 (Louisiana State University Press, 2001), by John C. Rodrigue, associate professor of history at Louisiana State University. Winner of the 2002 award is Francois Valle and His World: Upper Louisiana before Lewis and Clark (University of Missouri Press, 2002), by Carl J. Ekberg, professor emeritus of history at Illinois State University.

Entries for the Williams Prize are accepted through January 15 of the year following their publication. For details or to submit entries, please contact Williams Prize Chair, The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70139; or visit www.hnoc.org.

The Georgia Historical Society announces the winners of its 2003 publication awards. The recipient of the Malcolm Bell Jr. and Muriel Barrow Bell Award, for the best book in Georgia history published in 2002, is Steve Goodson of State University of West Georgia for his book, Highbrows, Hillbillies, and Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880-1930, published by University of Georgia Press. The winner of the Lilla Hawes Award, for the best book in Georgia county or local history published in 2002, is Edward J. Cashin of Augusta State University for his book, The Brightest Arm of Savannah: The Augusta Canal 1845-2000, published by the Augusta Canal Authority. The recipient of the E. Merton Coulter Award, for the best article printed in the Georgia Historical Quarterly in 2002, is Andrew K. Frank of Florida Atlantic University for his article, "The Rise and Fall of William McIntosh: Authority and Identity on the Early American Frontier," which appeared in the Spring 2002 issue. The recipient of the William Bacon Stevens Award, for the best article published in the Georgia Historical Quarterly by a full-time student (at the time of submission) is Chad Morgan of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for his article, "Progressive Slaveholders: Planters, Intellectuals, and Georgia's Antebellum Economic Development," which appeared in the Fall 2002 issue.

Dr. H. G. Jones, Thomas Whitmell Davis Research Historian at Wilson Library, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received the 2002 North Carolina Award for Public Service. The award, established by the General Assembly in 1961, annually recognizes "notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership. It is the highest honor the state can bestow."

The Filson Historical Society announces that the Filson History Quarterly will cease publication with the Fall 2002 issue, which is expected to appear soon. In the future, members of the society will receive Ohio Valley History, a history journal published by the Cincinnati Museum Center.