2003 SOUTHERN STUDIES RESEARCH STIPEND RECIPIENTS

The Manuscripts Department of the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2003 Southern Studies Research Stipends. This marks the third year that the Manuscripts Department has offered stipends to individuals who plan to use its collections for a major research project, including dissertations, theses, articles, and monographs.

The 2003 Southern Studies Research Stipend recipients are:

2003 Joel Williamson Research Stipend
Joshua D. Rothman, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama
"The Awful Condition of Our Country: Mississippi in Turmoil, 1835"

2003 Joel Williamson Research Stipend
Arwin D. Smallwood, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
"A History of Three Cultures: Indian Woods, North Carolina"

2003 J. Carlyle Sitterson Research Stipend
Gregory P. Downs, PhD candidate, Northwestern University
"The Life of the Land: Reconstructing the Countryside in Central and Eastern North Carolina"

2003 John Eugene and Barbara Hilton Cay Research Stipend
Ursula Niewiadomska-Flis, PhD candidate, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
"Character Construction in the Light of Walker Percy's Fiction, His Notes and Correspondence"

2003 Guion Griffis Johnson Research Stipend
Alisa Y. Harrison, PhD candidate, Duke University
"History, Home and Nation at Somerset Place from Reconstruction to the Twenty-First Century"

2003 Guion Griffis Johnson Research Stipend
Melissa Walker, Associate Professor, Converse College
"Memory and Meaning: Social and Economic Transformation in the Oral Narrative of Southern Farm People, 1900-1950"