RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Post-doctoral Fellowship
Short-term Visiting Fellowships
Summer Fellowships for Faculty at Southern Liberal Arts Colleges
Sample Publications of ISS Research Fellows

Post-doctoral Fellowship
Through the generosity of the Watson-Brown Foundation, ISS invites applications for a post-doctoral fellowship to be awarded for the 2008-2009 academic year (August 16, 2008 through May 15, 2009). The successful applicant must be prepared to begin residence in Columbia by August 15, 2008. The fellow will teach one course each semester in the interdisciplinary undergraduate program in Southern Studies and organize a scholarly conference in his/her field of interest. The selection process will attach substantial weight to the potential of the candidate to revise for publication a dissertation that promises to make a valuable contribution to understanding of the South in any academic discipline.

Recently acquired Ph.D. in any discipline of Southern Studies, including, but not limited to, anthropology, environmental studies, geography, history, literature, material culture and sociology. Applicants should apply on line at http://hr.sc.edu/employ.html. Candidates should be prepared to submit a letter of interest, a c.v., a writing sample and three letters of recommendation. Letters of recommendation may be sent to Bob Ellis, Business Manager, Institute for Southern Studies, USC-Columbia, Columbia, SC 29208.

Application review will begin on February 15, 2008. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. USC is an AA/EOE.

Short-term Visiting Fellowships
Through the generosity of the Watson-Brown Foundation, ISS offers travel grants for scholars who will visit Columbia for at least one week to conduct research. Selection of applicants will be based on the strength of academic qualifications, the potential of the project to contribute to scholarship on the South, and the specificity of plans to make use of local research resources. Grants of $500 will be awarded to fellows in residence for a minimum of one week; a higher level of funding may be available to promising projects that will involve a longer period of residence. Residents of the Columbia area are not eligible for travel grants. The Institute welcomes applications from Ph.D. candidates.

Applicants should send a letter of interest, c.v., one letter of recommendation, and two-page project description to Bob Ellis, Business Manager, Institute for Southern Studies, Gambrell Hall, USC, Columbia, SC 29208. Applications will be considered through May 1, 2007.

Scholars may apply at any time for appointment as an unfunded research fellow, which offers visiting scholars a convenient base of operations in Columbia (with USC library and parking privileges) and a connection to a stimulating academic community. Doctoral candidates have often found these opportunities especially valuable. Applicants should send a letter of interest and c.v. to Bob Ellis at the address listed above or by email to bobellis@sc.edu.

Summer Fellowships for Faculty at Southern Liberal Arts Colleges
Through the generosity of the Watson-Brown Foundation, ISS offers summer fellowships for teaching faculty at liberal arts colleges in the South. These fellowships provide USC housing for the research fellow for a period of up to two months during the summer.

Applicants should send a letter of interest, c.v., a two-page project description, and a completed USC Academic Application to Bob Ellis, businees Manager, Institute for Southern Studies, Gambrell Hall, USC, Columbia, SC 29208. Applications must be received by April 15, 2007.

Sample Publications of ISS Research Fellows

• Stanonis, Anthony, Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945 (2006)
• Lau, Peter, Democracy Rising: South Carolina and the Fight for Black Equality Since 1865 (2006)
• Lau, Peter, ed., From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy (2004)
• West, Emily, Chains of Love: Slave Couples in Antebellum South Carolina (2004)
• Morgan, Jennifer L.,Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (2004)
• Frederickson, Kari, The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 (2001)
• Lockley, Timothy James, Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750-1860 (2001)
• Glover, Lorri, All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds Among the Early South Carolina Gentry (2000)
• McCandless, Amy, The Past in the Present: Women's Higher Education in the Twentieth-Century American South (1999)
• Drago, Edmund L., Hurrah for Hampton! Black Red Shirts in South Carolina during Reconstruction (1998)
• Gretlund, Jan Nordby, with Westarp, Karl-Heinz, eds., The Late Novels of Eudora Welty (1998)
• Olwell, Robert, Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country (1998)
• Starr, Rebecca, School for Politics: Commercial Lobbying and Political Culture in Early South Carolina (1998)
• Hudson, Larry E., Jr., To Have and to Hold: Slave Work and Family Life in Antebellum South Carolina (1997)
• Smith, Mark M., Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South (1997)
• Williams, Lou Falkner, The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872 (1996)
• McCandless, Peter, Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial to the Progressive Eras (1996)
• McCurry, Stephanie, Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Lowcountry (1995)
• Pease, William H. and Jane H. Pease, James Louis Petigru: Southern Conservative, Southern Dissenter (1995)
• Bellows, Barbara L., Benevolence Among Slaveholders: Assisting the Poor in Charleston, 1670-1860 (1993)
• Chaplin, Joyce E., An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 (1993)
• Simon, Bryant, A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Textile Workers in State and Nation, 1920-1938 (1992)
• Pease, Jane H. and William H. Pease, Ladies, Women & Wenches: Choice & Constraint in Antebellum Charleston & Boston (1990)
• Coclanis, Peter A., The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 (1989)
• Bleser, Carol, ed., Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, a Southern Slaveholder (1988)
• Ford, Lacy K., Jr., The Origins of Southern Radicalism: the South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860 (1988)