Short-Term Fellowships
The Starr Center occasionally invites eminent visitors to Chestertown for
short-
term residential fellowships that have ranged in length between one
and eight
weeks. Short-term fellows work on their writing or other projects,
and often offer workshops, deliver public lectures, visit classes, and meet
informally with students. The annual Frederick Douglass Visiting Fellowship brings to campus an individual engaged in the study or interpretation of
African-American history and related fields. The Chestertown Fellowships provide opportunities for informal project-based residencies, lending support
to worthy projects and providing Washington College students with a firsthand
look at exciting works-in-progress.
Participation in these short-term fellowships is by invitation only; there
is no
formal application process.
The Center also supports an annual fellowship at the Boston
Athenaeum in honor of Washington College’s founding namesake,
whose personal library is archived there. The Washington College Fellowship
in Early American History provides a stipend of $1,500 for twenty days of
on-site research at the Athenaeum by a candidate proposing to conduct research
in the library of George Washington, or working in a germane area.
Applications should be submitted to Mary Warnement, Head of Reference at the Athenaeum, and must include a curriculum vitae and letter of intent
describing the proposed project and the collections to be consulted. Graduate
students should also include a letter of recommendation from their faculty
advisor. Applications for the 2010-2011 academic year are due April
15, 2010. For more information, please contact Mary Warnement 617-720-7658; warnement@bostonathenaeum.org,
or visit
http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/.
Past Fellows:
Frederick Douglass Visiting Fellows
Fraser Smith , Spring 2009
Columnist for the Baltimore Sun and political analyst for Baltimore’s
National Public Radio affiliate, WYPR
Author, Here Lies Jim Crow: Civil Rights in Maryland
Gretchen
Gerzina, Spring 2008
Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of Biography, Dartmouth College
Author, Mr.
and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out
of Slavery and Into Legend
Ralph Eubanks, Spring
2007
Director of Publishing, Library of Congress
Author, Ever is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi’s Dark
Past
Marlon Saunders, Spring
2005
Professor of Voice, Berklee College of Music
Jazz musician/composer, Workin’
on a Building: Compositions of Black Life on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
Chestertown Fellows
Washington College Fellows, Boston Athenaeum
Kevin J. Hayes,
2008-09
Professor of English, University of Central Oklahoma
“The Book of Washington’s Life”
Christine LaHue, 2006-07
Ohio State University
“The Resurrection of John Wise – Mobilization of Ordinary New
Englanders in the Revolutionary Movement, 1772-1775”
John A. Ruddiman, 2005-06
Yale University
“Becoming Men of Some Consequence: Young Men of the Continental Army
in Revolutionary War and Peace”
Senior Fellows
