Special Collections Announces Research and Travel Fellowship Recipients 2023-2024

Smith College Special Collections is pleased to announce the Travel Fellows for the 2023-2024 cycle. These fellowships are intended to help offset the travel expenses of researchers engaged in studies that will benefit from access to, including initial survey and exploration of, the holdings of Smith College Special Collections.

Travel Fellows for 2023-2024

Caroline D. Bain Fellowship

Andrea Rebecca Marrocchi Savoi, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Research on Ur III materials in the Smith College collection of cuneiform tablets

Friends of the Smith College Libraries Fellowship

Crystal Mun-hye Baik, Carnegie Mellon University
“Unsanctioned Knowledge: The Lives and Labor of Korean American Feminist Activists”

Anthea Taylor, University of Sydney, Australia
“Making a Feminist Icon: Gloria Steinem, Celebrity, and the Public Identity of American Feminism”

Carel B. Germain Fellowship

Kit Ginzky, University of Chicago
Research on “an intellectual and social history of the origins of the American social work profession from the turn of the century through the New Deal”

Margaret Storrs Grierson Fellowship

Priya Dixit, Virginia Tech
“International Imaginings of ‘Radical’ Women in Early 20th Century New York City”

Madeleine L’Engle Travel Research Fellowship

Luisa Banki, University of Wuppertal, Germany
“Holocaust Memory, Gender, and the Family Novel”

Crystal Brandenburgh, University of California, Riverside
“Planning for Peace: Carrie Chapman Catt, the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, and Women’s Organizing after Suffrage”

Sophie Corser, University College Cork, Ireland
“‘I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity’: Creative Criticism, Reading, and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”

Taylor Hare, Pennsylvania State University
“N. B. Kneass Jr.’s Manual on the Notation of Music and the History of Nineteenth-Century Tactile Music Books”

Adam Kocurek, City University of New York Graduate Center
Research on “the history of LGBT+ faculty in higher education”

Daniel Laqua, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
“Forging Female Leadership?: Student Mobility and International Student Organisations, 1919–1960”

Justina Licata, Indiana University East
“The Politics of Norplant: Feminism, Civil Rights, and Social Policies in the 1990s” and “‘We need people to join this movement, not reinvent it’: How Abortion Funds Have Been Preparing for a Post-Roe America”

Holly Ranger, University of Westminster
Research on “Sylvia Plath’s poetic engagement with Greco-Roman literature”

Jordan Villegas-Verrone, Columbia University
“The Letter from Chapultepec: Texas-Mexican Girlhood and the Political Culture of Critique, 1928-1941”

Haleigh Yaspan, University of Rochester
Research on the “evolving conceptualization of birth as a medical event in the early- to mid-twentieth century”

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For more information about grants for visiting researchers, please visit our Research Fellowships page.