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Butcher Scholar Award
From left to right: Jane Butcher, Jackie Autry, and 2003 Butcher Scholar Award Winner Mary Casey
The Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center seeks applicants for the Butcher Scholar Award. Established in 2001 by the Women of the West Museum, the Butcher Scholar Award honors the vision, leadership, and generosity of Jane and Charlie Butcher. Each year, this award supports the work of a promising scholar whose project demonstrates innovation and creativity and whose product enhances a current museum initiative. The stipend will be up to $5,000, depending on the scope of the project. The results of the Butcher Scholar's work will then be featured at a public program at the Autry National Center and showcased on the Autry National Center website. For 2005-2006, the theme for the Butcher Scholarship is "Frontiers of Women's History." We seek applicants whose work deals with new and emerging questions in the field of women's history in general, and Western U.S. women's history in particular, as well as those who study women's history in places of cultural convergence. Those places may be frontiers, as traditionally understood, as well as transnational borderlands. But we are also interested in a broader notion of convergence that encompasses other historical crossroads: cultural institutions, markets, twentieth-century cities, and sites of transportation and communication, for example. A permanent endowment has been established to fund the Butcher Scholar Award. Individuals wishing to contribute to the endowment should contact Anna Norville, Director of Major Gifts anorville@autrynationalcenter.org, 323.667.2000, ext. 398. About the Butcher Scholar Award WinnersThis year’s Butcher Scholar Award winner is Michelle Nickerson. Nickerson holds a PhD in American Studies from Yale University and is a Visiting Lecturer in the History Department at Southern Methodist University. Her dissertation, Domestic Threats: Women, Gender and Conservatism in Cold War Los Angeles, 1945-1966, examined the role of grassroots women’s activism in the Los Angeles area as a crucial force in the creation of the Cold War conservative movement. The Butcher Scholar Award will enable Nickerson to turn her dissertation into a book, Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right. Nickerson will present her work at the Western History Workshop in May 2005. Los Angeles playwright Mary F. Casey won the 2003 Butcher Scholar Award for her proposal, Wide Open Spaces: Alternate Stories of the American Wests. Utilizing the Autry Library’s research archives and recent Western scholarship, Casey’s final project was a full-length play interweaving history and myth through five generations of three nontraditional Western women and their families. A staged reading of Wide Open Spaces was held in the Autry National Center’s Wells Fargo Theater in May 2004. Application Procedure
Applications for the 2005 Butcher Scholar Award must be received by April 29, 2005.
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