2005 SOUTHERN STUDIES VISITING SCHOLARS GRANT RECIPIENTS

The Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2005 Southern Studies Visiting Scholars Grants. The Southern Historical Collection offers these awards to individuals who plan to use the collections for a major research project, including dissertations, theses, articles, and monographs.

The 2005 Southern Studies Visiting Scholars Grant recipients are:

2005 Joel Williamson Visiting Scholar Grant
Giselle L. White-Perry, Faculty, Department of Human Services, South Carolina State University
"Telling the Ultimate Survivor Challenge Story: The Gullah/Geechee Family History and Genealogy Project"

2005 Guion Griffis Johnson Visiting Scholar Grant
LeeAnn Whites, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Missouri-Columbia
"Civil War Women"

2005 J. Carlyle Sitterson Visiting Scholar Grant
Sarah E. Cornell, PhD Candidate, New York University
"Americans of Two Souths: A Social and Cultural History of African, African-American, White, and Indigenous US Southerners and Mexico, 1810-1910"

2005 John Eugene and Barbara Hilton Cay Visiting Scholar Grant
Rebecca L. Harrison, PhD candidate, Georgia State University
"Beatrice Witte Ravenel and the 'Trick Tongue' of Captivity"