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Presbyterian Historical Society Announces the 2005 Research Fellowship Recipients The Presbyterian Historical Society is pleased to announce the following research fellowship recipients for 2005: Ellen J. Fleischmann, University of Dayton, Ohio “Under an American Roof: The Encounter among Women of Greater Syria and American Protestant Women, 1830-1950” Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi, California State University, San Marcos, “Gender, Class, and Nation: The Women's Press and Education Reform in Iran, 1890s-1950s” Gardiner Humphrey Shattuck, Jr., “American Protestant Responses to Genocide, 1915-1950” Andrew Witmer, University of Virginia, “The Color of Faith: Protestant Foreign Missions to Africa and American Approaches to Race” The Research Fellowship Program at the Presbyterian Historical Society is designed to encourage faculty, independent researchers, and students to use and publish from the society's holdings. This year the program awarded four $3000 grants for travel, lodging expenses, photocopying, and other research expenses. Applicants must demonstrate a need to work in the society's collections for a minimum of one week and a maximum of one month. Applications are accepted from persons whose normal place of residence is farther away than a seventy-five mile radius of Philadelphia. The grants are open to researchers in all fields of study, including history, American studies, women's studies, mission history, architecture, and ecumenism. Fellows are encouraged to adapt their research for publication in the Journal of Presbyterian History. The Presbyterian Historical Society is the national archives and research center of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Its mission is to collect, preserve, and share the history of the American Presbyterian and Reformed tradition. It maintains its headquarters in Philadelphia, PA, a regional office in Montreat, NC, and a records management program in Louisville, KY. The Society serves all levels of the denomination, congregations across the nation, scholars, genealogists, and the general public. The collection demonstrates how the story of American Presbyterianism is woven into the life, culture, politics, and history of our nation. For more information about the Presbyterian Historical Society, visit www.history.pcusa.org or call 215-627-1852.

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