2012 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 2012, the SHC awarded five visiting scholar grants to faculty and graduate students at universities across the country.

2012 John Eugene and Barbara Hilton Cay Visiting Scholar Grant

• Paul Stapleton
  Ph.D. candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  "The Walker Percy Papers"

2012 Guion Griffis Johnson Visiting Scholar Grant

• Kyle Goyette
  Ph.D. candidate, University of Houston
  "Southern Discomfort: The Equal Rights Amendment, the New Right, and the Southernization of American Politics"

2012 Parker-Dooley Visiting Scholar Grant

• Robert Shapard
  Ph.D. candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  "A Prospect of Beauty: Decline and Discourse in the Great Southern Longleaf Forests"

2012 J. Carlyle Sitterson Visiting Scholar Grant

• Max Grivno
  Assistant Professor of History, University of Southern Mississippi
  "From Bondage to Freedom: Slavery in Mississippi, 1690-1865"

2012 Joel Williamson Visiting Scholar Grant

• Steffi Julia Cerato
  Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins University
  "The Development of Political and Legal Culture in Savannah, Georgia in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries"