Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

9/1/1975 - 8/31/1976

Funding Totals

$32,500.00 (approved)
$32,500.00 (awarded)


Five Graduate Fellowships for Students in Cooperstown Graduate Programs

FAIN: GM-10445-75

New York State Historical Association (Cooperstown, NY 13326)
Bruce Buckley (Project Director: September 1975 to present)

To provide 5 graduate museum fellowships and internships for M.A. candidates in order a) to attract outstanding young humanities students to the field of Humanitic Museums and Historical Societies; b) to compete with fellowship programs of university departments which emphasize formal teaching-research roles in traditional academic programs; c) to provide for participation of the fellows as a group in a pre-intern work project in large urban museums.