Clinton Jackson and Evelyn Coley Research Grant Fund

To honor the memory of Clinton Jackson and Evelyn Coley, the Alabama Historical Association offers every other year a graduate student grant. The $400 grant is open to any graduate student conducting research on an Alabama-related topic.

The next grant will be awarded in April 2009 at the annual meeting of the Alabama Historical Association in Tuscaloosa.

Applications should include a statement of the student's intended plan of work, a letter of reference from the chairman of the department in which the student is enrolled, and/or a letter of reference from the student's major professor.

Deadline for applications is February 27, 2009.

Please submit nominations to:

Mark Palmer
Alabama Department of Archives and History
P.O. Box 300100
Montgomery AL 36130-0100
or email:
mark.palmer@archives.alabama.gov

Previous winners of Coley Research Grant:

2007		Jennifer Newman, Auburn University		Topic: Religious beliefs and identity of Alabama and Georgia women during the Civil War
2005		Anthony Donaldson, Auburn University		Topic: "Goal Posts and Ivory Towers: The University of Alabama and Auburn University, 1871-1941: A Study of the Relationship Between Traditional Universities and Land-Grant Colleges"