Newberry Library Fellowship Recipients

2003: Dr. Deborah Skok (Department of History, Hendrix College). The CGLC/Newberry Library Fellowship will support research on a book project entitled, Catholic Ladies Bountiful: Chicago's Catholic Settlement Houses and Day Nurseries, 1893-1930. The book will explore the network of settlement houses and day care centers across Chicago that offered clubs, classes, day care, medical services, libraries, exercise, and summer outings. The book will add to the understanding of the role of women in social mobility, both in acquiring white-collar jobs, and in taking on middle class habits.

2003: Dr. Joseph A. Dimuro (Department of English, UCLA). The CGLC/Newberry Library Fellowship will support research in preparation for the reissue of Henry Blake Fuller's first Chicago novel, The Cliff Dwellers (1893), that Dr. Dimuro is editing for Broadview Press. The new edition will be the first to include a varied selection of pertinent documents intended to help readers place the achievement of The Cliff Dwellers, as well as the significance of Fuller's literary career, into their relevant historical, social, and aesthetic contexts.

2002: Brian K. Page, associate professor of Geography, University of Colorado, Denver. Title of project: "Fashioning Region, Re-fashioning Nature: Cities, Hinderlands, and Environmental Change in the Historical Midwest."

2002: Silvana R. Siddali, assistsant professor of History, Illinois State University. Title of project: " 'Land Too Dear for Purchase': Geography, Statehood, and Politics in the Old Northwest."