On Friday February 19, from 12-1pm EST (9-10am PST; 5-6pm GMT), the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (SSEMWG) is hosting a 1-hour workshop on applying for research fellowships. The event is designed for graduate students, independent scholars, and scholars in contingent positions, but all are welcome. Register at: https://forms.gle/LW2QW2QP1j3MijxH9.
Here are the bios of our speakers:
Allison Bigelow is the Tom Scully Discovery Chair Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia, where she co-directs the Multepal Project in digital Mesoamerican studies. She is the author of Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture for UNC Press, 2020). Her research on race, science, and gender in the early Americas has been published in journals including Anuario de estudios bolivianos, Early American Studies, Early American Literature, Ethnohistory, Journal of Extractive Industries and PMLA. She has held long-term fellowships from the NEH (2012-2014), ACLS (2017-2018), and Huntington Library (2017-2018) and short-term fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library (2020), Huntington Library (2012, 2016), Latin American and Iberian Institute (2013), and John Carter Brown Library (2010, 2018).
Jamie Gianoutsos is Associate Professor of History at Mount Saint Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where she also directs the Office of Competitive Fellowships for undergraduate students. She earned a Ph.D. in History from the Johns Hopkins University in 2014. Prior education included an undergraduate degree in Political Science and Great Texts at Baylor University, and in 2006, she was awarded a Marshall Scholarship, which funded two graduate degrees in the United Kingdom: an MA in English Renaissance Literature at the Queen's University in Belfast and an MPhil in Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, England. Gianoutsos is author of The Rule of Manhood: Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603-1660 (Cambridge UP, 2020), with research being funded by an IHR Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Short-Term Huntington Library Fellowship, and Charles Singleton Center Graduate Research Fellowship in Europe. For her second book project, entitled The “Propagation of Liberty”: Marchamont Nedham and the Classical Republican Tradition, she recently won a Renaissance Society of America Short-Term Research Fellowship.
Mary Learner is a PhD Candidate in English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, completing a dissertation entitled “Material Sampling and Patterns of Thought in Early Modern England” on methods of “sampling” in women’s writing and seventeenth-century scientific print. Her work appears in Nuncius and is forthcoming in two essay collections, Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities and Politics and Early Modern Criticism. Her scholarship has been supported by short-term fellowships at the Huntington Library and the Harry Ransom Center and she will be a scholar-in-residence at the Getty Research Institute next academic year.
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