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| Posted 04.02.07 |
Post Doc Awarded Gilder Lehrman Fellowship
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Jacob Dorman, the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral
Fellow, has been awarded a research fellowship by the Gilder Lehrman
Institute of American History. Dorman will conduct research at the Columbia
University Rare Book & Manuscript Library. His project title is “Everyday
Life and the Harlem Renaissance.”
Dorman received a bachelor’s of art from Stanford University and a Ph.D.
from the University of California, Los Angeles in African American history.
At Wesleyan, he teaches Black Urban Religious History.
He will use his Gilder Lehrman Fellowship to research the social history of
black life during the Harlem Renaissance.
To support outstanding scholarship, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History awards short-term fellowships in several categories: Research
Fellowships for post-doctoral scholars at every faculty rank, Dissertation
Fellowships for doctoral candidates who have completed exams and begun
dissertation reading and writing, and Research Fellowships for journalists
and independent scholars. The Gilder Lehrman Fellowships support work in one
of five archives in New York City.
Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes
the study and love of American history. Increasingly national and
international in scope, the Institute targets audiences ranging from
students to scholars to the general public. It helps to create
history-centered schools and academic research centers, organizes seminars
and enrichment programs for educators, partners with school districts to
implement Teaching American History grants, produces print and electronic
publications and traveling exhibitions, and sponsors lectures by eminent
historians.
Since 1994, it has funded a total of 415 fellowships.
For more information on the Gilder Lehrman Fellowship go to
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