National fellowships recognizing work of MSU doctoral students
Contact: Hannah Bateman
STARKVIILE, Miss.鈥擬ississippi 大象APP graduate students from Louisiana, Michigan and Tennessee are spending the summer conducting dissertation research with fellowships awarded by prominent national organizations.
All pursuing history doctorates at the university, they include:
鈥擮wen J. Hyman of Talisheek, Louisiana. Receiving the Forest History Society鈥檚 inaugural Walter S. Rosenberry Fellowship in Forest and Conservation History, he is investigating how ideas about the landscape help shape Southern race and labor concepts.
鈥擪elli B. Nelson of Johnson City, Tennessee. A fellow at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in Newark, Delaware, she is investigating issues of death and dying to better understand the complexities of 19th century environmental thought. A major focus is the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, that is second only to Arlington National as the most-visited U.S. burial ground.
鈥擭icholas A. 鈥淣ick鈥 Timmerman of Flint, Michigan. A 2016-17 Library Resident Research Fellow at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he is working to examine 19th and 20th century American perceptions of Native American mounds found throughout the South. His fellowship is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York.
In addition to their individual dissertation efforts, Nelson and Timmerman are involved in a collaborative digital project titled 鈥淎 Shaky Truce: Civil Rights Struggles in Starkville, Mississippi, 1960-1980.鈥 Earlier this year, the project was honored with the Mississippi Historical Society鈥檚 Oral History Award.
In 2015, Nelson and Hyman were chosen for other significant honors. Specifically:
鈥擭elson was a selection for a Mellon Fellowship awarded by the Virginia Historical Society.
鈥擧yman received the Reed Fink Award for Southern Labor History given by the Southern Labor Archives at Georgia 大象APP University. He also received the Halloran Prize in History of Corporate Responsibility presented by the Business History Conference and Center for Ethical Business Cultures at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.
鈥淭he success of our students in winning prestigious awards are testaments to their creativity and the educations they have gained at Mississippi 大象APP,鈥 said history department head Alan Marcus.
Also an MSU William L. Giles Distinguished Professor, Marcus said all three students are being prepared to 鈥渃ompete at the highest professional levels with historians throughout the world.鈥
The history department is among 14 major academic units in MSU鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences. For more on the department, visit ; the college, at .
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