Such Scholarly Things to Do

A collection of fellowships, publication venues, research sites, and other items of interest relating to my work with southern mills and literacy studies.

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This Incredible Archive Lets You See Depression-Era Photos of Your County

Thanks to a massive project at Yale, our view of the period is much sharper.

An amazing searchable  online photographic resource for researchers, historians, and curious time travelers.

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Mindfulness Training At School Could Help At-Risk Kids

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Opinions on rape culture, “slut-shaming,” and women’s feelings of safety in public have changed drastically (and appropriately!) since the 1950s and 1960s. Jennifer Helgren discusses the challenges oral historians face with disparities between nostalgia, narrative, and historical records.

Image: “Toronto Slutwalk” by Anton Bielousov. CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Yeoman book... Looks great for whiteness in SC Upcountry

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Beautiful example of digitized project by Mary Maillard

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2015 call, but keep an eye out for the 2016 call in January

Opportunity to learn about creating digital documents of archived documents

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Women's Diaries and Letters of the South Series

Page for USC Press’s series of Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South (US); might be a good series to keep in mind for future archival projects and publishing opportunities

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Out Of Our Closets ... Into Our History: Preserving Georgia's LGBTQ Past

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A Tool for Documentary Editions

Program used for Dolly Madison Papers Digital Edition (via Rotunda, UVA Press); really interesting possibilities for creating digital collections

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Are you interested in conducting research in our library? We know extensive research requires a lot of time spent in a library and at times the cost of traveling for research can add up quickly. To help scholars with their research and travel expenses, the Virginia Historical Society offers several fellowships and awards. Learn about the different types of fellowships and awards we offer and who is eligible to apply below.

Virginia Historical Society fellowship

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IATH is a research unit of the University of Virginia. Our goal is to explore and develop information technology as a tool for scholarly humanities research. To that end, we provide our Fellows with consulting, technical support, applications development, and networked publishing facilities. We also cultivate partnerships and participate in humanities computing initiatives with libraries, publishers, information technology companies, scholarly organizations, and other groups residing at the intersection of computers and cultural heritage.

Fellowship for digital projects through UVA; no funding but other resources available

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New Seeds

reading and writing towards a rhet/comp phd.

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Political participation in America—supposedly the world’s strongest democracy—is startlingly low, and many of the civil rights and economic equity initiatives that were instituted in the 1960s and '70s have been...

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Oldest US collection of women's history manuscripts and archives; letters, diaries, organization records, and photographs document women's rights, birth control, social reform, the professions.