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History Professor Earns $1,000 Fellowship

By Summer A. Evans - June 28, 2005 - 8:03 am
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Tim Westcott

Assistant Professor of History Tim Westcott recently received a $1,000 Gilder Lehrman fellowship at The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City, N.Y.

Westcott will spend one week at the institute where he will continue his research on "Territorial Holy War: The Moneka Women's Rights Movement of the Mid-Nineteenth Century."

He states in his application that history has failed to document the contributions and leadership to the crusades of abolitionism, territorial suffrage and racial free-statism in the Kansas Territory. "The current historiography of antebellum gender contributions focuses primarily on eastern participants, with rare mention of western advocates," said Westcott.

Westcott hopes that his research will further fashion an appreciation and understanding that the antebellum movement of suffrage and abolitionism were national in origin and sustainable on the frontiers of America.