Announcements and activities. (Historical News and Notices).

The Manuscripts Department in the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is please to offer six Southern Studies Research Stipends for use in the summer of 2003. The awards are $500 each and require on-site research in the Manuscripts Department between June and October 2003.

   Joel Williamson Research Stipends: The Manuscripts Department will award
      two stipends with a preference for research projects in African
      Americana or race relations.

   Guion Griffis Johnson Research Stipends: The Manuscripts Department will
      award two stipends with a preference for research projects in women's
      history.

   John Eugene and Barbara Hilton Cay Research Stipend: The Manuscripts
      Department will award one stipend with a preference for research in
      literary studies.

   J. Carlyle Sitterson Research Stipend: The Manuscripts Department will
      award one stipend for a research project in southern studies.

The Manuscripts Department administers virtually all archival and manuscript materials held by the Academic Affairs Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The department holds over 20 million items, including manuscript materials, photographs, and audio and visual recordings. The Southern Historical Collection (SHC), regarded as the premier center for research in the American South's history and culture, is the largest and oldest component of the Manuscripts Department. Its diverse resources offer strong research opportunities in African Americana, antebellum plantations, the American Civil War, the Reconstruction South, southern politicians and politics, and southern writers. The Southern Folklife Collection (SFC) is one of the largest archives of southern traditions (folk customs, traditional medicine, arts and crafts), and its holdings are especially strong in the many varieties of southern music. The University Archives holds the historically valuable, official, unpublished records of both the University of Noah Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Noah Carolina System. Finding aids for most holdings are available on our website at: www.lib.unc/edu/mss.

Graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars who are considering or currently conducting a Southern Studies research project that would benefit from use of the resources described above are eligible. You do not have to be an enrolled student or be presently affiliated with an academic institution. Former Southern Studies Research Stipend recipients are ineligible for the award.

Please complete and submit an application form with a one-page prospectus of your research project. You may include a letter of recommendation from an advisor or colleague, but it is not required. On your application form, please identify at least one collection in the Manuscripts Department that you intend to use for your project. Application forms can be accessed online at www.lib.unc.edu/mss/travel.html or are available by contacting the Head of Public Services of the Manuscripts Department at [phone]; e-mail: [e-mail]. All application materials should be mailed to: Southern Studies Research Stipend, Manuscripts Department, Wilson Library, CB#3926, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, Noah Carolina 27514-8890. All applications must be postmarked no later than February 1, 2003. Stipend applicants will be notified in May, and awards will be made in June 2003.

The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies in the Department of History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas welcomes applications for three research fellowships, known as the Bill and Rita Clements Research Fellowships for the Study of Southwestern America, for 2003-2004. Individuals in any field in the humanities or social sciences doing research on Southwestern America are invited to apply. The fellowships are designed to provide time for senior or junior scholars to bring book-length manuscripts to completion. Fellows will be expected to spend the 2003-2004 academic year at SMU and to participate in Clements Center activities. Each fellow will receive the support of the Center and access to the extraordinary holdings of the DeGolyer Library. Fellowships carry a stipend of $37,000, health benefits, a $2,000 allowance for research and travel expenses, and a publication subvention. Fellows have the option to teach one course during the two-semester duration of the fellowship for an additional stipend.

Applicants should send a copy of their vita, a description of their research project, and a sample chapter or extract (if the sample is from a dissertation, please include the introduction), and arrange to have letters of reference sent from three persons who can assess the significance of the work and the ability of the scholar to carry it out. Send application to David Weber, Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Dallas Hall, Room 356, 3225 University Ave., P.O. Box 750176, Dallas, Texas 75275-0176. Applications must be received by January 13, 2003. The award will be announced on March 3, 2003. This announcement contains all the information necessary to complete the application process. If you have questions, please call (214) 7681233 or e-mail [e-mail]. The Center's web address is www.smu.edu/swcenter.

The Clements Center for Southwest Studies also offers research grants to applicants who live outside the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area to encourage a broader and more intensive use of the special collections at DeGolyer Library. The library consists of almost 90,000 volumes of rare and scholarly works, 350,000 photographs, and approximately 4,000 linear feet of archival materials pertaining to the trans-Mississippi West, the Spanish Borderlands, and the history of transportation, especially railroads, worldwide. The library's website is www.smu.edu/cul/degolyer. The Clements-DeGolyer Library Grant provides an opportunity to conduct scholarly research in the DeGolyer Library on any aspect of the southwestern experience. The $500a-week grant is awarded for periods of one to four weeks to help defray the coats of travel, lodging, and research materials. In exchange, grant recipients are expected to consult with DeGolyer Library staff about available resources in their specialty area and to recommend the acquisition of additional research materials that will deepen the library's collection. Recipients might also be asked to deliver an informal lecture or seminar talk on their research topic.

Applicants should provide a project outline, correlating its pertinence to the DeGolyer Library collection and the requested length of research time; a curriculum vitae; and two letters of reference from persons who can assess the significance of the project and the scholarship record of the applicant. Deadlines for applications are September 16, 2002, and March 17, 2003. Awards will be announced on October 7, 2002, and April 7, 2003. Send applications to David Weber, Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Dallas Hall, Room 356, 3225 University Ave., P.O. Box 750176, Dallas, Texas 75275-0176. For more information please call [phone] or e-mail [e-mail].

The Clements Center also offers the William P. Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America, to promote and recognize fine writing and original research on the American Southwest. The competition is open to any non-fiction book, including biography, on any aspect of southwestern life, past or present, with a 2002 copyright. The author need not be a resident of the United States; the book need not be published in the United States. The author and publisher will each receive a certificate; in addition, the author will receive $2,500 and an invitation to give the annual Clements Prize Lecture at SMU, expenses paid by the Clements Center. There is no fee for participation. Publishers may submit as many titles as they wish, but they must send copies of each submission to each of the judges: David Farmer, Committee Chair, P.O. Box 1106, E1 Prado, New Mexico 87529; Elliott West, Department of History, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701; Maria Montoya, Department of History, University of Michigan, 1014 Tisch Hall, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1003; and Virginia Scharff, Department of History, University of New Mexico, 2059 Mesa Vista Hall, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-1181. Submissions for next year's prize must be postmarked by January 20, 2003, although earlier submission is preferable. Judges will announce the winner for 2002 on July 8, 2003. Please direct any questions to David Weber, Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275-0176, phone: [phone], or e-mail: [e-mail].

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 2003: 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 Scholarin-Residence program. Applications are due by November 30, 2002, and recipients will be announced in March 2003. See the Center's website for detailed information on the collections and grant programs: www.rockefeller. edu/archive.ctr. For further information please contact Darwin H. Stapleton, Executive Director, Rockefeller Archive Center, 15 Dayton Ave., Sleepy Hollow, New York 10591; phone: [phone]; e-mail: [e-mail].

The Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, operated by the Council of Seminary Presidents, Southern Baptist Convention, is a research center located in Nashville, Tennessee, for the study of Baptist life and history. Grants are available through the Lynn E. May Jr. Study Grant Endowment Fund for partial support of research in the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives. The May Study Grants provide a maximum of $500 and are used to cover expenses related to research in the library and archives. The annual application deadline is April 1, and grants are awarded by May 1. Applications and guidelines are available on the library's website: www.sbhla.org. For more information contact Bill Sumners, Director, Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, 901 Commerce Street, Suite 400, Nashville, Tennessee 37203-3630.

Wake Forest University's History Department announces a symposium on "Thomas W. Dixon Jr. and the Making of modern America," to be held April 10-12, 2003. This interdisciplinary symposium will analyze the life, importance, and vitriolic cultural leadership of Thomas Dixon Jr. and his world at the turn of the twentieth century through the lenses of literature, religion, film studies, and history. Keynote speakers will include W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Louis Menand, Graduate School-City

University of New York. For further information contact Michele Gillespie or Randal Hall, Department of History, Wake Forest University, P.O. Box 7806, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101.