2009 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 2009 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 2009 Southern Studies Visiting Scholars Grant recipients are:

2009 Joel Williamson Visiting Scholar Grants

• Drew Addison Swanson, PhD candidate at the University of Georgia
  "Land of the Bright Leaf: Yellow Tobacco, Environment, and Culture along the Border of Virginia and North Carolina"
  

2009 Guion Griffis Johnson Visiting Scholar Grant

• Katherine Armstrong, PhD candidate at Emory University
  "Children of Sorrow: Mothers, Child Mortality, and Grief in the Antebellum South"
  
• Aaron Carico, PhD candidate at Yale University
  "Plantation State: Finance, Aesthetics, and the Political Reconstruction of America"
  

2009 J. Carlyle Sitterson Visiting Scholar Grant

• Jennifer E. Tomas, PhD candidate at SUNY Binghamton
  "The Women's History Movement in the United States: Building U.S. Women's History, 1945-1995"
  

2009 John Eugene and Barbara Hilton Cay Visiting Scholar Grant

• Christopher R. Lawton, PhD candidate at the University of Georgia
  "Re-Envisioning the South: William and T. Addison Richards, Georgia Illustrated, and the Cultural Politics of Antebellum Sectionalism"