Princeton Weekly Bulletin October 26, 1998

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Library Friends fund Rare Books researchers

Among the hundreds of researchers who will visit the library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections this year are 15 who were awarded Short-Term Visiting Fellowships, funded by the Friends of the Library.

Each fellow is given a stipend to support travel, living and research expenses while working in Princeton. Recipients include "graduate students and independent scholars, as well as junior and senior faculty members," notes John Delaney of Rare Books.

Among the 1998-99 scholars are Jonathan Earle, assistant professor at the University of Kansas, who consulted the Blair-Lee Family Papers and the Western Americana Collection for a study of "Jacksonian Antislavery and Free Soil, 1828-1854"; Eva Kushner, professor emeritus of the University of Toronto and former president of Victoria University, who used various Rare Books Renaissance holdings for "Pontus de Tyard: Poet, Philosopher, Theologian: Revisions and Ficino and Comenius"; and graduate students Eduardo Perez Ibaceta of the University of Santiago de Chile, who worked with materials in the Chilean Ephemera Collection for a study of "Utopia Armed: Guerrilla Movements in the Latin American Southern Cone," and Paul Rosier of the University of Rochester, who examined the archives of the Association of American Indian Affairs for a project on the defense of Blackfeet Nation sovereignty.

The fellowship program, which was proposed to the Friends' Council in 1993 by Scheide Librarian William Stoneman, began in 1994-95. The selection committee includes members of the faculty, Rare Books Department and Council of the Friends.

Applications for 1999-2000 fellowships are due by January 15. For information, contact John Delaney at 258-3166 or http://www.princeton.edu/~rbsc/fellows.html.

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