University of Central Arkansas alumnus Calvin White (?97, ?00) was recently awarded a research fellowship by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. A doctoral candidate at the University of Mississippi, White will conduct research at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. His project title is “They Danced and Shouted in Obscurity: A History of the Church of God in Christ and its International Impact Upon People of African Descent.”
To support outstanding scholarship, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History awards short-term fellowships in several categories: Research Fellowships for post-doctoral scholars at every faculty rank, Dissertation Fellowships for doctoral candidates who have completed exams and begun dissertation reading and writing, and Research Fellowships for journalists and independent scholars. The Gilder Lehrman Fellowships support work in one of five archives in New York City. In 2005, the Gilder Lehrman Institute awarded a total of $143,072 for 69 fellowships. Since 1994, it has funded a total of 390 fellowships.
White received a bachelor?s degree in history and political science and a master?s degree in history from the UCA. He received the J.L. Holloway Dissertation Writers Fellowship and the Graduate Teaching Assistantship Stipend at the University of Mississippi, the Susan K. Reid Award for Teaching Excellence at Pulaski Technical College, and an Outstanding Faculty award from the Arkansas Association of Two Year Colleges.
Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and love of American history. Increasingly national and international in scope, the Institute targets audiences ranging from students to scholars to the general public. It creates history-centered schools and academic research centers, organizes seminars and enrichment programs for educators, partners with school districts to implement Teaching American History grants, produces print and electronic publications and traveling exhibitions, and sponsors lectures by eminent historians. The Institute also funds awards including the Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and George Washington Book Prizes.
