The recipient of the eleventh annual J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History is Dr. Sybil Lipschultz of the University of Miami. The fellowship is offered annually by the Library of Congress and the AHA to support significant scholarly research in the collections of the Library by young historians. The selection was made by the AHA Commit tee on the Jameson Fellowship composed of Jane H, Pease, University of Maine, Orono (chair); John Bodnar, Indiana University; and Michael H. Ebner, Lake Forest College.
Dr. Lipschultz received her PhD in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania m 1986 and 1s currently an assistant professor of history and women’s studies at the University of Miami. She will spend a year in residence at the Library researching “Politics of Equality: Women’s Labor Laws Feminism and the Supreme Court in the 1920s.” She focus on the wage issue of early twentieth-century “protective” labor legislation, examining the Supreme Court’s 1923 decision in Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, a minimum wage test case.
The Jameson Fellowship is awarded for one semester or as much of an academic year that the fellow desires to spend in residence at the Library. The project in American history must be one for which the general and special collections of the Library offer unique research sup port. The application deadline for the 1989–90 competition is March 16, 1989. Further information may be obtained from the office of the Executive Director at AHA headquarters 400 A St. SE, Washington, DC 20003.
