April 14, 2016  

2016 Library Scholar Grant recipients named

Purdue University Libraries recently announced the 2016 Library Scholar Grant recipients.

Through the Library Scholars Grant Program, Purdue University Libraries provides grants to untenured and recently tenured Purdue professors to gain access to unique collections needed for their research. Annual awards of up to $5,000 are made possible through an endowment established by the generosity of the 50th anniversary gift of the Class of 1935.

The recipients:

* Brett Crawford, assistant professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation, received $4,000 to travel to Montana State University to conduct archival research using the Trout and Salmonid Special Collection. The research aims to explore how environmental associations have contributed to the shifting identity of anglers, moving away from harvesters of trout and salmon populations and toward stewards of coldwater fisheries.

* Marlo D. David, associate professor in the Department of English and the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, received $4,600 to conduct archival research in Los Angeles and New York City using several special research collections to begin work on a book manuscript, tentatively titled "Experimental Aesthetics: Recovering the Art and Life of Bill Gunn."

* Charlene Elsby, assistant professor of philosophy at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, received $5,000 to travel to Husserl Archives in Leuven, Belgium. She will examine the original manuscripts of Edmund Husserl, and in particular, those that provided the foundation for the text "On the Phenomenology of Internal Time Consciousness."

* Rebekah Klein-Pejšová, associate professor in the Department of History, received $5,000 to conduct archival research in Hungary. The grant will allow her to travel to Budapest for four weeks to research in the Open Society Archives collections on materials concerning contact between Hungarian, Slovak and Czech Jews in postwar displacement and dispersion as individuals (family, friends), institutions, communal bodies and international Jewish organizations across an increasingly fortified border.

Silvia Z. Mitchell, assistant professor of history, received $5,000 to conduct archival research in Spain for an article-length project titled "Anglo-Spanish Relations during the Regency of Queen Mariana of Austria, 1665-1675."

The grant may be used for expenses associated with travel to archives or collections anywhere in the world. Upon completing the research trip, grant recipients present a seminar sponsored by Purdue University Libraries.  For more information, visit https://www.lib.purdue.edu/scholars/guidelines.  

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