[Sighfis-l] Fwd: FW: Pam Laird Research Grant - 2015

[Kathryn La Barre]

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*Subject:* [SIGCIS-Members] Fwd: Pam Laird Research Grant - 2015

 See below - perhaps it will be of interest to those of you working on the
history of communication technologies, broadly defined.

 Andy



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 *From: *Andrew Butrica <abutrica at earthlink.net>
 *Subject: **Pam Laird Research Grant - 2015*
 *Date: *April 27, 2015 at 1:16:02 PM EDT
 *To: *Mercurians at googlegroups.com
 *Reply-To: *mercurians at googlegroups.com

The Mercurians once again is offering the Pam Laird Research Grant
(US$1,000) to defray the cost of travel and housing to use a research
collection to pursue research in the history of communication technologies.

We have added this new initiative to encourage and reward high-caliber
research in the history of communication technologies, broadly defined. One
of the Mercurians' missions is to encourage scholarship in the history of
communication technologies. There is no research grant program (either
within or outside SHOT) that we are aware of dedicated to supporting
scholarship on the history of communication technologies. While the history
of communication technology literature is vast and always growing, the
quality of the research effort or resulting publication too often falls
short of scholarly expectations.

In general, the research grant is awarded in alternating years. We awarded
two such grants during the 2011 SHOT annual meeting in Cleveland. The
winners were Carmen Krol, a PhD candidate in the Department of Science &
Technology Studies at Cornell University, and Michael Lemon, a PhD student
in Latin American History at Indiana University (Bloomington).
Subsequently, The Mercurians announced during the 2013 SHOT meeting in
Portland, Maine, that Ian Johnson, a PhD student in the History Department
at Ohio State University, had won. This year's winner will be made known
during the 2015 SHOT meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this October.

Eligibility.

The grant is intended for and limited to junior scholars-meaning either
current graduate students or recent postgraduates (no more than three years
beyond the terminal degree in their field).

Requirements and Application.

Only travel to an appropriate archival collection to carry out research on
an aspect of the history of communication technology, broadly defined, will
be supported. The archive can be open to the public, private, or even
closed, provided that necessary permissions have been obtained from the
archive.

Complete the application form (available at:
http://www.mercurians.org/grant-form.doc) and e-mail it and a
curriculum vitae (no longer than 3 pages) as attachments to the Mercurians
c/o abutrica at earthlink.net
Your curriculum vitae should include pertinent publications, fellowships,
or accomplishments relevant to your proposed research, and professional
societies and affiliations.

The deadline for submitting an application for the grant is June 1, 2015.


For further information or questions, please contact Andrew Butrica
at abutrica at earthlink.net or visit our website:
http://www.mercurians.org/Prize-Grant.htm

Good luck!


Andrew J. Butrica
MERCURIANS
ANTENNA Newsletter
mercurians at earthlink.net
www.mercurians.org
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