The Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) welcomes applications for three prestigious fellowships for 2025: the Eudora Welty Research Fellowship, the Medgar and Murray Evers Research Fellowship, and the Mississippi Religious History Research Fellowship I am doing it.
Each competitive fellowship provides a $5,000 stipend to be used for a minimum of two weeks of research at MDAH next summer.
Eudora Welty Research Fellowship
In collaboration with the Eudora Welty Foundation, the Eudora Welty Research Fellowship is awarded annually to a graduate or doctoral student at an accredited institution. The fellowship allows the awardee to conduct research using MDAH’s Eudora Welty Collection and associated materials. The Eudora Welty Collection is known as the most diverse literary collection in the United States. It includes more than 45 series of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, drawings, essays, family documents, and audiovisual materials spanning Welty’s life.
Medgar and Marley Evers Research Fellowship
The Medgar Murray Evers Research Fellowship, offered in partnership with the Medgar Murray Evers Institute, is open to graduate students or junior faculty with less than five years of academic experience. This fellowship provides access to MDAH’s Medgar Wiley and Myrlie Beasley Evers Papers. The Evers Papers contain family documents from the early 1900s, when Marley Evers moved with her children to Claremont, California, to July 1964. This collection includes four major subgroups. Medgar Evers’ papers as Mississippi field secretary of the NAACP, family papers of Medgar and Marley Evers, and records related to the 1964 and 1994 cases of State of Mississippi v. Byron de la Beckwith. is.
Mississippi Religious History Research Fellowship
The Mississippi Religious History Research Fellowship is designed to facilitate exploration of the extensive archival collections related to Mississippi’s religious history at MDAH. This fellowship is part of MDAH’s Religious Initiatives, supported by funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. This fellowship is available to graduate or doctoral students at accredited institutions interested in conducting primary source research on MDAH’s rich archival resources on the religious history of Mississippi.
Each fellowship awardee is required to spend at least two weeks during the summer conducting field research at the archives. The deadline for all 2025 fellowship applications is March 7, 2025. Click here for more information and to access the application portal for each fellowship.
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