Lord Baltimore Research Fellowships

Applications for 2012-2013

Deadline: May 15, 2012

The Maryland Historical Society invites applications for its Research Fellowship program. The society offers fellowships each year designed to promote scholarship in Maryland history and culture through research in its library and museum collections. Applications will be welcomed from independent scholars, graduate students, or university faculty in any discipline appropriate to its collections.

Between six and twelve Lord Baltimore Fellowships will be awarded.  These fellowships are non-stipendiary.  Fellows will be provided with office space, access to computers with Internet connections, office supplies, expanded access to the library and museum, and a free parking permit. 

The terms of a fellowship may be from one week to one year during the period from June 1, 2012, to May 31, 2013. Fellows are expected to be in residence at the society during their fellowship term, make use of the society’s collections in their research, and participate in the intellectual life of the society. Fellows are encouraged to present their research-in-progress in informal presentations at the society and to submit their work for possible publication in the Maryland Historical Magazine.

Applications must be postmarked by May 15, 2012. To apply, send a cover letter, a c.v. or resume, a two-four page summary of the planned research, how it fits into an overall research project, and the names and complete addresses of two references to:

Fellowships

Patricia Dockman Anderson, Ph.D.
Maryland Historical Society
201 West Monument Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

Notification of awards will be made by the end of May. For inquiries about library collections please contact library_dept@mdhs.org.  

Congratulations to the ten Lord Baltimore Fellows accepted for 2011-2012! Read about the Lord Baltimore Fellows and their projects: 

Bouton, Cynthia A., Professor of History, Texas A&M University
"Subsistence, Society, and Culture in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century and Age of Revolution"

Brock, Terry, Doctoral candidate, Anthropology, Michigan State University
Archeological research on the Brome plantation, nineteenth-century Historic St. Mary's City

Burch, Abby, Doctoral student, Ohio State University
Pre-dissertation research on Baltimore merchants in the Early Republic

Costain, Anne N., Professor of Political Science and Director of the Women's Study and Gender Program, University of Colorado
"Recurring Social Movements: Why Race and Gender Inspire Political Movements in the United States"

Gamble, Robert J., Doctoral candidate, Johns Hopkins University, Fourth Year
"Civic Economics: The Marketplace, Law, and Urban Space in the Antebellum Mid-Atlantic"

MacKay, Stuart, Masters thesis, Carleton University, Canada
"Formation of the Republican Party in Maryland"

Mohlmann, Nicholas, Doctoral candidate (literature), Purdue University
"The Occasion of America: Placing Poetry in the Seventeenth-Century American South"

Petlack, Karin Luci, Doctoral candidate, University of California Davis
"A Dilemma of Civil Liberties: The Black Community and Martial Law, 1861-1866"

Wade, Darren, Doctoral candidate, Howard University
"From Free Blacks to Freed People: The African American Community in Southern Maryland, 1850-1900"

Whitehead, Kay, Assistant Professor, Loyola University
"Notes from a Slave Ship Doctor: Interpreting the 1749-1751 Diary of William Chancellor"