The ninth annual J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History has been awarded to Lori D. Ginzberg. The selection was made by the AHA Committee on the Jameson Fellowship composed of John M. Cooper, Jr., University of Wisconsin-Madison (chair); Ronald Bayor, Georgia Institute of Technology; and Jane H. Pease, University of Maine, Orono, with the assistance of the Library of Congress, which funds the fellowship jointly with AHA. Dr. Ginsberg received her PhD from Yale University in 1985 and is currently teaching at the University of Rhode Island. She plans to spend the spring semester in residence at the Library of Congress for the purpose of revising and expanding her dissertation “Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality and Politics in the Northeastern United States, 1820–1885” into a book-length work.
The Jameson Fellowship is awarded for one semester or as much of an academic year as the Fellow desires to spend in residence at the Library. The deadline for the 1987–88 competition is March 15, 1987. Further particulars may be obtained from the office of the Executive Director at AHA Headquarters, 400 A St., SE, Washington, D.C. 20003.
Norriss S. Hetherington of Berkeley, California, will be the inaugural recipient of the 1986–87 AHA Postdoctoral Fellow in Aerospace History, a new grant sup ported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
In 1963 Norriss Hetherington received a BA in physical sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. He has a master’s degree in astronomy and one in history (1965 and 1967), both from Berkeley. And his PhD, in history and philosophy of science, was awarded from Indiana University in 1970.
Among his vast accomplishments, he has taught at the University of Kansas, Razi University in Iran, and the University of Oklahoma. Hetherington has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and NEH. His publication of articles and reviews is extensive and varied, having had work appear in science journals, history journals, popular magazines, and newspapers. .
The topic of Hetherington’s research is the Ames Research Center in Sunnyvale, California, and tracing its intellectual, political, and military origins. Deadline for the 1987–88 fellowship 1s February 1. For information write the office of the Executive Director, AHA, 400 A St., SE, Washington DC 20003.
