2011 SOUTHERN STUDIES VISITING SCHOLARS GRANTS

The Visiting Scholars Grant Program supports scholarly research in the Southern Historical Collection and was made possible through the generous endowments of our donors. In 2011, the SHC awarded eight visiting scholar grants to faculty and graduate students at universities across the country.

2011 John Eugene and Barbara Hilton Cay Visiting Scholar Grant

• Scott Stephan, Ph.D.
  Associate professor of history, Ball State University
  "Reshaping the Southern Gospel: The Evangelical Family and the Religious Press in the Civil War Era"
• Lori Leavell, Ph.D.
  "Imagining a Future South: David Walker's Appeal and Antebellum American Literature"

2011 Guion Griffis Johnson Visiting Scholar Grant

• David M. Ferguson
  Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago
  "UNC Sociology and the Production of Race, 1920-1945"
• David Silkenat, Ph.D.
  Assistant professor of history and education, North Dakota State University
  "Civil War Refugees in North Carolina"

2011 J. Carlyle Sitterson Visiting Scholar Grant

• Kelly Houston Jones
  Ph.D. candidate, University of Arkansas
  "Slavery's Frontier: Arkansas and the Peculiar Institution in the Trans-Mississippi South"
• Charles Allen Wallace
  Ph.D. candidate, The College of William & Mary
  "In the Chieftains' Shadows: The Deep South Confronts its Ancient Indian Past, 1730-1865"

2011 Joel Williamson Visiting Scholar Grant

• Deborah Beckel, Ph.D.
  "L. L. Polk's Agrarian Revolt and the Politics of White Supremacy"
  
• Julia Gunn
  Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania
  "'A Good Place to Make Money': Race, Labor, and the Politics of Economic Development in the New South, 1960-1990"