Postgraduate Support

2009-10 Postdoctoral Fellowships Awarded

The Center is excited to announce the recipients of its 2009-10 postdoctoral fellowships in southern studies. The one-year awardees are :

Robert Blakeslee Gilpin, Ph.D. in History, Yale University 2009, "Monster and Martyr: John Brown and the Axis of Race in American Memory, 1850-1950."

Zoe Trodd, Ph.D. in American Civilization, Harvard University 2009, "Never the New World: American Protest Literature, the Politics of Form, and the Reusable Past of Abolitionism."

Apply for a Postdoctoral Fellowship

The UNC Center for the Study of the American South invites applications for two (2) one-year postdoctoral fellowships in the history, culture, or society of the American South, to begin July 1, 2010. The awards will support two (2) outstanding junior scholars in the revision of a book-length manuscript for publication in fields related to the South.

Past Recipients

Past recipients of the postdoctoral fellowship include Dr. Ben Wise, who recently accepted a tenure-track faculty appointment with the University of Florida's History Department; and Dr. Melinda Maynor Lowery who will return to UNC as a tenure-track member of its History Department.