The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium consists of 30 major cultural agencies. Annually, NERFC offers about two dozen $5,000 grants so researchers in a broad array of fields can conduct a minimum of eight weeks of research at several participating institutions, which include Houghton Library, Baker Library, the Harvard Law School Library, and the Harvard University Archives.
We are pleased to announce that ten researchers will visit Houghton as NERFC award recipients during the 2020-2021 academic year:
Stephen Berry, Chair, History Department, Simmons University
“Caught Between Sailors and Saints: Pacific Peoples in the Age of American Maritime Expansion”
Mark Bland, Independent Scholar, Emeritus Fellow Leverhulme Trust
“The World of Simon Waterson, Stationer: Family, Finance and the Control of the Book-Trade in Early Modern England”
Nym Cooke, Independent Scholar
“Inventory of American Sacred Music Imprints and Manuscripts through 1820”
Jackson Davidow, Independent Scholar
“Gay Art and Politics in 1970s Boston”
Hongdeng Gao, PhD. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
“Migration, Medicine and Power: How Chinese New Yorkers Gained Better Access to Health Care, 1949-1999”
Carla Kaplan, Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature, Northeastern University
“‘Queen of the Muckrakers:’ The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford”
Don James McLaughlin, Assistant Professor of English, University of Tulsa
“New Edition of Sarah Orne Jewett’s 1885 Novel A Marsh Island”
Alison Pappas, PhD. Candidate, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University
“‘Light as a Recording Agent of the Past’: The Temporal Register in Astronomical Photography at the Harvard College Observatory”
Patrick Parr, Independent Scholar, Lakeland University of Japan
“Malcolm Before X”
Alyssa Peterson, Graduate Student, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
“‘And the Vapours at that time belcht forth from the Earth into the Air’: How Earthquakes Caused Disease in the Long Eighteenth Century”