A participant in the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC)

The Connecticut Museum of Culture and History is a participant in the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC), a collaboration of 30 major cultural agencies. Each of the research fellowships will provide a stipend  for a minimum of eight weeks of research at participating institutions. Additional information and the online application are available at nerfc.org.

Recent Fellows include:

• Gloria Whiting, Harvard University: “Endearing Ties: Black Family Life in Early New England”
• Kelly Arehart, College of William and Mary: “Give Up Your Dead: How Business, Technology, and Culture Separated Americans from their Dearly Departed, 1780-1930”
• Katherine Stebbins-McCaffrey, Boston University: “Reading Glasses: American Spectacles in the Age of Franklin”
• Eric C. Stoykovich, University of Virginia: “Livestock Nation: How Farm Animals Domesticated the North United States During the Early Republic, 1794-1896”
• John Henris, University of Akron: “Apples Abound: Farmers, Orchards, and the Cultural Landscapes of Agricultural Reform, 1832-1856”
• Lynda Domino, Iowa State University: “Medical and Tactical Implications of Advances in Civil War Weaponry, 1861-1865”
• Christopher Augerson, Coach Museum, Palace of Versailles, France: “Carriage Painting in New England, Materials and Techniques, 1800-1915”
• Ruth Wallis Herndon, University of Toledo: “Orphan Apprenticeship in Early New England”
• Strother Roberts, Northwestern University: “Valley of Contention: An Environmental History of the Connecticut River Valley, 1614-1788”
• Alea Henle, University of Connecticut: “Preserving the Past, Making History: Historical Societies, Editors and Collectors in the Early Republic”