The awards, in the amount of $500 or more, are available to graduate students
pursuing studies in late fifteenth-century English history and culture. For
the 1994-95 academic year 14 applications were received and four awards
granted for dissertation research on the following topics: the widowhood of
Cecily Neville; Margaret of Anjou and fifteenth-century concepts of
queenship; the relationship between fifteenth-century historiography and
politics; marriage and divorce patterns in fifteenth-century Herefordshire.
Candidates must be U.S. citizens or have made application for first
citizenship papers and be enrolled at a recognized educational institution,
making normal progress toward a graduate degree. Awards are for one year,
although applications for additional years are considered. Judging is by a
panel including Lorraine C. Attreed, Holy Cross; Barbara A. Hanawalt,
University of Minnesota; Morris G. McGee, Montclair State University; Shelley
A. Sinclair, Southern Utah University; and Charles T. Wood, Dartmouth
College.
Deadline for applications: February 28, 1995; winners announced June 1. For
an award application or additional information on the Richard III Society,
send U.S. MAIL ADDRESS (we're not set up to e-mail it yet) or write:
THE RICHARD III SOCIETY
Schallek Awards Office
303 Vine Street
Suite 106
Philadelphia PA 19106-1143
215/574-1570 voice
215/574-1571 fax
lblanchard@aol.com
The Richard III Society seeks to promote interest in Richard III and in late
fifteenth-century English history and culture among the general public, and
to encourage research within the academic community. The Society publishes a
quarterly journal; funds the Schallek Award in the United States and
bursaries at the University of York and London University in Great Britain;
funds the publication of editions of fifteenth-century source documents and
works of current scholarship; and sponsors an annual session on
fifteenth-century England at the International Congress on Medieval Studies
at Kalamazoo. It will also sponsor a conference on fifteenth-century English
histoyr at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in April 1995.
Apologies for the redundancy of the cross-posting to those who receive
multiple copies.
Laura Blanchard
Richard III Society
lblanchard@aol.com