Awards of $1,500 to be used for travel to the Eberly Family Special Collections Library at Penn State’s University Park campus, to utilize the Library’s collections for academic research, have been awarded as follows:
Dorothy Foehr Huck Research Travel Award
This award supports researchers using any of the Eberly Family Special Collection Library’s collections.
- Trish Kahle, University of Chicago
- Dissertation: a novel interpretation of miners’ rebellion across the Appalachian coalfields in the long 1970s by recasting a seemingly well-known story of labor unrest and union democratization as a struggle not only over collective bargaining agreements, but over workers’ place in an uncertain energy future. By examining this key period in the history of American work and capitalism through the lens of energy, this dissertation will show how struggles over democratization, mine safety, and environmental politics helped transform coal miners into energy workers, and it will point to the ways in which energy industry restructuring reshaped coalfield labor relations.
- Ryan Charlton, University of Mississippi
- Dissertation: Alaska and the Arctic in the U.S. Imaginary, 1867-1905 examines how the Alaska purchase and Arctic expeditions shaped American literature and culture.
Helen F. Faust Women Writers Research Travel Award
This award supports researchers whose work focuses on women writers, and who would benefit from the use of the Eberly Family Special Collections Library’s collections.
- Jillmarie Murphy, Union College
- Book: Waves of Futurity, Monstrous Attachments: American Literary Representations of Affect, Place and Otherness, 1797-1901 argues that in the literature under consideration the characters’ attachment needs illustrate the important role human-to-human and human-to-place bonding occupies in crafting a national identity. American conceptions of security and freedom underpin my discussion as I investigate how writers in the early American republic constructed modernity by restructuring representations of interpersonal and place attachments, which are subsequently re-imagined, reconfigured, and sometimes even rejected by writers in the long nineteenth century.
- Emrah Atasoy, Visiting Scholar
- Dissertation: Draws on the significant critical sources in Special Collections in relation to Utopianism, dystopian narratives, feminist Utopianism, women writers of the twentieth century, Utopian narrative, and women’s studies to incorporate the relevant data to my dissertation, which deals with three exemplary speculative novels of 20th-century literature, namely Katharine Burdekin’s Swastika Night (1937), Anthony Burgess’s The Wanting Seed (1962), and P. D. James’s The Children of Men (1992), with a specific emphasis on the transition from innocence / ignorance to experience / knowledge.
Through the Flower Research Travel Award
This award supports researchers utilizing the Judy Chicago art education collection, 1970-2011 at the Eberly Family Special Collections Library.
- Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt, Independent Scholar
- Curriculum & Program Development Project: Incorporating feminist art pedagogy into participatory photography program curriculum with marginalized youth populations on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin Research Travel Award
This award supports researchers whose work focuses on the history of dance and dance notation, and who would benefit from using the Malkin collection of early dance, 1531-1804.
- Cory Holding, The University of Pittsburgh
- Book: Rhetorical Gestures (1644-1806) offers an account of gesture (e.g. hand, arm, and other movements that may or may not accompany speech) as central to the process of rhetorical invention. It does so through an historiographic account of the “elocutionists,” a group of European 18th-century dramatists, physicians and natural philosophers who developed and cataloged techniques for the effective control of communicating bodies.
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