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In Memoriam: Donna Cardamone Jackson

It is with sadness that CEMH announces the passing on October 17, 2009, of Donna Cardamone Jackson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Music. A memorial service will be held at noon on Saturday, November 21st at The Church of St. William, 6120 Fifth Street NE, Fridley. She is survived by husband David and daughter Anna Lee (of Chicago, IL), as well as siblings and extended kin.

Jackson received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1972 and taught for 38 years here at the University of Minnesota, where she was honored as a Scholar of the College of Liberal Arts in 1994. In a distinguished career she garnered numerous grants and awards; published on popular and unwritten Neapolitan musical traditions, women in courtly cultures, and gender, sexuality, and eroticism in early modern Italy; made little known repertories available to scholars and performers alike; collaborated as musicological consultant on numerous CD recordings; and promoted the performance of early music.

On the website of the American Musicology Society, fellow Cinquecento scholar Anthony Cummings describes Jackson’s scholarship as “a musicological equivalent of the history practiced by Natalie Zemon Davis, David Herlihy, and other esteemed students of early-modern Europe embracing the study of reflections in music of the more elusive expressions of human sensibility: sexuality, sentiment, private experience. Her incisive and sensitive approaches have yielded extraordinarily rich and evocative results, in my experience, rare in the musicological literature.”

Students, colleagues, friends and neighbors remember Donna fondly and will miss her presence.

 

Fellowship Opportunities at UCLA:

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th-& 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

The Ahmanson-Getty Fellowship Program for 2010–2011

Cultures of Aestheticism—before and after Oscar Wilde, directed by Clark Professor Joseph Bristow

The program, which is based at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, invites applications from humanities scholars whose research interests relate to the ways in which post-Kantian traditions develop theories and practices that address beliefs in l’art pour l’art. The fellowships will be of interest to scholars who wish to make use of the resources of the Clark Library’s extensive archive of materials relating to Oscar Wilde and his circle. If prospective applicants have any questions about the fellowship, they are welcome to send them to Professor Bristow.

Eligible: Scholars will need to have received their doctorates in the last six years, (no earlier than July 1, 2004 and no later than September 30, 2010). Scholars’ research must pertain to the announced theme.

Awards: Three consecutive quarters in residence at the Clark Library

Stipend: $37,500 for the three-quarter period together with paid medical benefits for scholar

Application deadline: 1 February 2010

Clark Short-Term Fellowships

Fellowship support is available to scholars with research projects that require work in any area of the Clark's collections. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. degree or have equivalent academic experience. Awards are for periods of one to three months in residence.

Stipend: $2,500 per month.

Application deadline: 1 February 2010

ASECS / Clark Fellowships

Fellowships jointly sponsored by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Clark Library are available to postdoctoral scholars and to ABD graduate students with projects in the Restoration or the eighteenth century. Fellowship holders must be members in good standing of ASECS. Awards are for one month of residency.

Stipend: $2,500 for the month of residency.

Application deadline: 1 February 2010

Kanner Fellowship in British Studies

This three-month fellowship, established through the generosity of Penny Kanner, supports research at the Clark Library in any area pertaining to British history and culture. The fellowship is open to both postdoctoral and pre-doctoral scholars.

Stipend: $7,500 for the three-month tenure.

Application deadline: 1 February 2010

Clark-Huntington Joint Bibliographical Fellowship

Sponsored jointly by the Clark and the Huntington Libraries, this two-month fellowship provides support for bibliographical research in early modern British literature and history as well as other areas where the two libraries have common strengths. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. degree or have appropriate research experience.

Stipend: $5,000 for two months in residence.

Application deadline: 1 February 2010

 

Mellon Dissertation Seminar in the Humanities:
"The Comparative History of the Early Modern World."

Director:

Carla Rahn Phillips, Union Pacific Professor in Comparative Early Modern History, Department of History, University of Minnesota

Dates:

The seminar will meet three times a week for six weeks (July 7 - August 11, 2010). It will be held in Heller Hall, under the auspices of the Center for Early Modern History.

Description:

The seminar will focus on the diverse areas of the world in the early modern period, defined from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, viewed from the perspective of Europe. Elsewhere in the world the temporal boundaries differ somewhat. Nonetheless, wherever we look, those five centuries encompass historical developments of importance.

Student participants will identify readings in their subfields to provide background information for the other participants in the seminar. The majority of the seminar’s contact hours will be devoted to the presentation and critique of the students’ individual research projects, either in progress (in the case of students actively researching or writing dissertation chapters), or in the planning stages.

Paticipants:

Fifteen students will be chosen to participate in the seminar with stipend. The pool of applicants will include graduate students from the various departments associated with the Center for Early Modern History. Students who are already engaged in research and writing of their dissertations will receive preference. However, Ph.D. students who are in the process of formulating dissertation proposals are welcome to apply, especially if they have declared a minor in the new program in Early Modern Studies.

Application Date:

Spring 2010