The application deadline has passed. We plan to offer another fellowship next year.
In honor of the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the League of Women Voters of Connecticut, the LWVCT Education Fund has created the Connecticut Women's Suffrage Research Project. The purpose of this project is to expand on current historical information to gain a fuller understanding of all the women who fought for the right to vote in Connecticut. The fellowship will support research on women of color in the Connecticut women’s suffrage movement around the passage of the 19th amendment - the pivotal period between the 1890s and the early 1920s.
Application Period:
March 1 - May 21, 2021
Who should apply?
Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs such as the completion of a project or discrete segment thereof.
Fellowship Requirements:
The fellow will be expected to write a report and present a lecture for the membership of the League of Women Voters of Connecticut on the fellowship experience and the findings of their research. Fellows will be featured on the LWVCT website, with links to their work as applicable, and may be invited to give additional presentations on their research.
Stipend:
- Stipends of up to $10,000 will be awarded
- Stipends may be awarded only to US citizens or permanent residents
- Half of the money will be paid upon approval of the proposal, while the rest will be provided upon completion of the report and public lecture. The funds are intended to be used to support research carried out after the grant is approved.
Application requirements include:
- Two- to three-page proposal describing the theme of the research project
- The proposal should include:
- a description of the project;
- a statement explaining the historiographical significance of the project;
- a description of the methods or resources you plan to use
- Bibliography (1 page) of the most relevant secondary works on the topic
- A curriculum vitae
- A writing sample of no more than ten pages
- A letter of recommendation: Applicants who have not completed their professional training, ordinarily including an earned doctorate, must provide one letter of recommendation from a faculty member familiar with the proposed project or with the applicant’s research and writing ability.
Submission process:
LWVCT Connecticut Women's Suffrage Research Fellowship Selection Committee:
Nana Amos
Program Manager, Dodd Research Center, UConn
Nana Amos has over two decades of experience in human rights programming
and higher education. She began her career as a program assistant with University
Events, later serving as a Program Coordinator. She was then promoted to manage the
UNESCO Chair & Institute of Comparative Human Rights based at the University of
Connecticut. Here, Ms. Amos served as the primary administrator of the UConn ANC
Partnership, managing programs in Oral History, Archives, and Comparative Human
Rights, and also the UNESCO Chair and Institute of Comparative Human Rights
Program. In this capacity she helped to establish the first Student Ambassadors
program in human rights, was one of the original founders of CHRONE (the Coalition of
Human Rights Organization in New England, later the Connecticut Human Rights
Partnership). For the past 5 years, she has worked as the human rights program
manager at the University’s Dodd Impact. Ms. Amos also serves as one of two University
representatives to the American Association of University Women (AAUW). She
currently serves as President of AAUW Connecticut.
Ramin Ganeshram
Executive Director, Westport Museum of History & Culture
Ramin Ganeshram, is both an award-winning journalist and historian who is
currently the Executive Director of the Westport Museum for History & Culture
(formerly Westport Historical Society) in Westport, Connecticut. Ganeshram’s area of
study is colonial-era African American history, particularly focused on enslaved African-
Americans and mixed-race people. She spent ten years researching and writing The
General’s Cook, a process that even continued after the novel was published, leading to
Ganeshram to discover the fate of her hero, Hercules, the enslaved cook of George
Washington, and solving a 218 year old mystery.
Leslie Lindenauer
Professor in the Department of History and Non-Western Cultures at Western Connecticut State University
Dr. Lindenauer teaches courses in early American history, gender studies, local history, and public history. Her research interests include gender and the construction of motherhood in popular culture, and the role of collective identity and memory in early American history and local public history. In addition, she is working on project examining the impact of open pedagogy on student engagement. Her book I Could Not Call Her Mother: The Stepmother in American Popular Culture, 1750-1960 was published by Lexington Books in 2014. Before her career in academe, Leslie worked as an educator and administrator at number of history museums in the Northeast.
Kelly Marino
Assistant Lecture of History & Coordinator of Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies, Sacred Heart University
Dr. Kelly Marino is an Assistant Lecturer of History and the Coordinator of
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. She
has a PhD in history from Binghamton University, an MA in history from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a BSED in history from Central Connecticut State University. Her research focuses on US women's and gender history, the history of sexuality, and social and political movements in modern America. She is particularly interested in exploring the role of young people in activism.
