April 17, 2018
Coveted fellowship awarded for book project
An award of more than $50,000 from the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship will support a project by Dr. Sharon Ann Murphy, professor of history. The prestigious ACLS fellowship — the funding rate for the most recent cycle was just 6.5% of submissions — will allow Murphy to take a sabbatical beginning this fall to work on her book, Banking on Slavery in the Antebellum South. Murphy received additional support for her project from two other funding sources. She was given an American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant of $3,000 to aid travel and photo reproduction services of key collections at the APS Library in Philadelphia. She also was named a recipient of a 2018 Hugh L. McColl Library Fund Research Fellowship in order to conduct a 10-day visit to the Wilson Library’s Special Collections at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
