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Fellowships
Zuni stone ram fetish with inlaid turquoise eyes, carved by Jeff Davis for tourist trade, 1988. Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Autry National Center 2004.29.77
The Autry National Center’s Institute for the Study of the American West is pleased to award the newly added Westerners Fellowship to PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars focusing on the history of the American West.Visiting Scholar Fellowships to individuals who wish to pursue research in the field of Western history. The Institute also confers the Butcher Scholar Award and the Autry Summer Fellowship, which is given to graduate students at UCLA who wish to pursue research in Western history. Professor Thomas G. Andrews, Assistant Professor of History, California State University, Northridge is the recipient of the inaugural Los Angeles Westerners Fellowship. Professor Andrews will use the extensive Colorado resources in both the Autry and Braun libraries to further his research on the Ludlow Massacre.
Previous Visiting Scholars include Elizabeth Kalbfleisch, doctoral candidate in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester, New York, and Stacey Lynn Camp, Cultural and Social Anthropology doctoral candidate at Stanford University. Kalbfleisch's Fellowship project, Gladys Knight Harris: Home Economics, Ethnography and the Politics of Sentiment in Women's Friendship, involved working with the Braun Research Library's Gladys Knight Harris Collection of photographs, notebooks, ephemera and other documents. Harris, a California teacher of Home Economics, photographed life - with particular attention to the activities of women - in the Inupiat community of Kotzebue, Alaska in the late 1940s and early 1950. Camp's project was related to her dissertation Consuming Citizenship: Early 20th Century Anglo American Consumer Reform Movements in Mexican American Los Angeles. In particular, Camp's reading of dime novels helped her better understand the complex dynamics involved in creating racialized images of Mexican-American and Mexican immigrants in early 20th century California.
Past Autry Summer Fellows include Karen Wilson, a doctoral candidate in the History Department, who studied a previously unexamined travel diary in the Braun Research Library kept by Sarah Newmark, a member of a leading pioneer Jewish family of nineteenth-century Los Angeles. The 1887-1888 record of Newmark's family journey across the US and grand tour of Europe provided insight into the contours of Jewish life in the American West and how Jewish Angelenos negotiated class, ethnic, and national identities across geographies and within borderlands.
Joshua Paddison, also in the History Department, used both the primary and secondary resources in the Braun and Autry libraries to research conflicts over the Christianization of Native Americans and Chinese immigrants during the two decades following the Civil War.
Interested in applying for the Westerners Fellowship, the Visiting Scholar Fellowship, the Butcher Scholar Award, or the Autry Summer Fellowship? Use the links for additional details and application procedures.
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