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HRA New Professional Award Winner, Peter Friesen with NCPH past president Bill Bryans

The National Council on Public History offers two $500 travel grants to encourage new professionals to attend the NCPH annual meeting in Providence, RI, April 2-5, 2009. (New professionals are individuals, such as recent graduates of public history programs, who have been working within the public history profession for less than three years.) Each award recipient will attend the meeting and be presented with a framed certificate and a cash award; winners will be asked to write a short article for the NCPH newsletter, Public History News, describing his/her public history work and conference experience. One of the New Professional Awards is underwritten each year by Historical Research Associates, Inc. Recipients of either award receive $500 and a certificate during the awards luncheon at the annual meeting. Award winners also receive complimentary registration for the annual meeting and for the awards luncheon.

Eligibility. Applicants must be members of NCPH, must have been practicing public historians for no more than three (3) years, and must have no institutional travel support to attend the annual meeting.

Submission Process. Applicants should submit a cover sheet, four (4) copies each of a current c.v. and a letter explaining how attendance at the annual meeting would be professionally beneficial. Applications will be judged on the strength of the c.v. and the persuasiveness of the letter.

Submit application materials to: NCPH New Professional Award Winner, John Dickinson with NCPH past president Bill Bryans

NCPH New Professional Award Winner, John Dickinson with NCPH past president Bill Bryans

NCPH, New Professional Travel Award
327 Cavanaugh Hall - IUPUI
425 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5148

Or, the nomination may be emailed to ncph@iupui.edu. State “New Professional Award” clearly in the subject line. Nominations must be sent in one complete document (MS Word or PDF).

Submissions must be postmarked by 8 January 2009.

Past Award Winners

Since 2004, two awards are given, one of which is underwritten by Historical Research Associates, Inc.

2008-Peter Friesen, Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation at Historic St. Mary's City and John Dickinson, Georgia Historical Society and Costal Oral History Project

2007-Leigh Cutler, Historical Research Associates, Inc. and Lee Wittmann, Independent Historian

2006-Stephen Light, Columbia County Historical Society and Kate Navarra Thibodeau, Wistariahurst Museum

2005-Kris Woll, Gotham Center for New York City History and Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, NASA Johnson Space Center

2004-David Cline, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Allison Marsh, National Museum of American History

2003-Brian Buff, Albany County Historical Association

2002-Edward Salo, Geo-Marine, Inc.

2001-James Holton, Polk County Historical Museum

2000-Michael Kelleher, Building Conservation Associates

First time presented in 1999 to Douglas Dodd, California Department of Transportation