Postdoctoral Fellowships Awarded 2007

The Center has awarded two one-year postdoctoral fellowships in southern studies. Recipients of the award are Stephen Inrig, a recent Ph.D. from Duke University, and Danielle L. McGuire, who received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in December 2006. The awards will enable the scholars to revise book-length manuscripts for publication.

Taking its title from a line in Albert Camus's The Plague, Stephen Inrig's manuscript is a historical analysis of the AIDS epidemic in North Carolina. In a Place So Ordinary: North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS explores the ways HIV/AIDS affected people in North Carolina and how people in the state shaped the epidemic in the United States and around the world. Key to Inrig's analysis is the role southern communities played transitioning AIDS policies away from their exceptionalist origins toward more traditional public health strategies.

Set between 1940 and 1975, Danielle McGuire's At the Dark End of the Street: Sexualized Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle examines how sexual violence and the defense of black womanhood served as catalysts for the modern Civil Rights Movement. In viewing civil rights history through the lens of sexual assault, McGuire's work sheds light on issues of sexual violence and power that plague communities throughout the world.

Each year, the Center awards two postdoctoral fellowships to support outstanding junior scholars in the revision of book-length manuscripts for publication in fields related to the American South. Especially welcome are projects that draw on the special collections of the UNC-CH Library or other research collections of the Triangle area, or that explicitly engage issues of southern regional identity or distinctiveness. Click here for information on applying.

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