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The Fellowship

We invite applications from a range of backgrounds: dissertation, post-doctoral, and non-academic. We anticipate that the most competitive applications will involve innovative projects of the many concerns to which Friends have turned their attention, including literature, women's issues, family history, and race relations, as well as religious doctrine and controversies. Applications will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

• demonstrated understanding of the applicability of our particular holdings to the anticipated project.
• probability that the project will result in a product that will advance the worlds' understanding of the multiple dimensions of religion.
• evidence of the applicant's prior familiarity with and effective use of similar collections.

How to Apply

DEADLINE:  Contact Gwen Erickson at address below.

Applicants should send the following materials to Gwen Erickson, Friends Historical Collection, Guilford College, 5800 West Friendly Avenue, Greensboro, NC  27410:

• a three-to-five page statement of research goals, including what progress has been made to date; a statement of how this project will further greater understanding and/or scholarship by placing Southern Quaker history in the context of your subject area, an assessment of how Guilford's materials can further its progress, and an estimate of when the project is expected to be completed.
• a current vita or resume
• if applicant's background does not include published work, include a writing sample
• the names and addresses of three references who are familiar with both the field in which the applicant proposes to work, and with the applicant's work. Please inform your references that they could be contacted.
• permanent and any temporary addresses (e-mail and postal) and phone numbers

Please feel free to contact Gwen Erickson with your questions:

Gwen Gosney Erickson
Librarian and College Archivist
Friends Historical Collection
Guilford College
5800 W. Friendly Avenue
Greensboro, NC  27410
(336) 316-2264
 
gerickson@guilford.edu
www.guilford.edu/library/fhc

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Directors

Terms expiring 12/2011
April Baker
Lynne Gray
Ruth Anne Hood
Anthony Lowe
Allen Trelease

Terms expiring 12/2012
Gertrude Beal
Miranda Lotz
Joan N. Poole
David Stanfield

Terms expiring 12/2013
Martha Dentiste
Elizabeth Lasley
Edward Winslow

Directors Ex Officio

Max Carter, Director of Friends Center and Campus Ministry, Guilford College
Gwendolyn G. Erickson, Librarian of Friends Historical Collection, Guilford College
Directors Emeritus, Florence Allen

Committee Clerks

Special Events Committee: Ruth Anne Hood
Fellowship Awards Committee: Gwen Erickson
Newsletter/Website: Gertrude Beal and Lynne Gray

The Herbert L. Poole Award

The Herbert L. Poole Award is for an outstanding paper on a topic in southern Quaker history.  Herbert Poole was the long-time director of the Guilford College Hege Library and editor of The Southern Friend.  Both amateur and professional historians are invited to apply.  Papers should contribute to the greater understanding of the history of Friends in the southeastern United States with original research and are expected to be well written and properly documented.  The recipient will be granted up to $500 in recognition of their achievement and the paper published as a lead article in a future issue of The Southern Friend: The Journal of the North Carolina Friends Historical Society.  Deadline for submission is June 1, 2006.  Submission to include two paper copies, an electronic version sent as e-mail attachment, and a current vita and/or biographical statement sent to the attention of the Fellowship Committee, Friends Historical Collection, Guilford College, 5800 West Friendly Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27410; hegefhc@guilford.edu.

The Seth and Mary Edith Hinshaw Fellowship

The Seth and Mary Edith Hinshaw Fellowship is for research using the resources of the Friends Historical Collection at Guilford College to study an aspect of southern Quaker history.  The $2,000 fellowship is being established to encourage research on topics relating to southern Quaker history; award winners will be asked to present his or her research and findings at the Society's Annual Meeting.  Lifelong North Carolina Quakers, the Hinshaws nurtured and sustained the efforts of many in recording and publishing Quaker history in the south, as well as writing and producing their own historical work through the North Carolina Friends Historical Society among other organizations.  Click here for application details.

The Southern Friend merged with Quaker History in 2008 but archived issues are available. Click here to learn more.

Society Newsletters are sent to all members four times each year.  The newsletters contain articles on topics of interest to members and provide timely notices of special events.

Carolina Quakers, a brochure highlighting key places of Quaker history in North Carolina, printed and distributed to tourist centers around the state.

Books and Southern Quaker meeting histories are published occasionally.  The Societyâs Publications Advisory Board handles projects from conception to printing, sometimes in conjunction with a meeting and/or a yearly meeting.

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