RMMLA-Huntington Award

RMMLA-Huntington Award Kathleen L. Barrage, Washington State University, has been chosen to receive the 1991 RMMLA-Huntington Award. An RMMLA-Huntington committee chaired by Sherry Burgus Little, President of RMMLA, and including Dorothea Kehler, San Diego State University, and Martin Ridge ofthe Huntington Library in Pasadena, CA, made the selection. Burrage will study the correspondence and materials from the personal library of Francis Lieber. Lieber, once a prisoner of war, developed a code for the humane treatment ofwar prisoners and was a key figure in the postbellum organization of American prisons. Burrage will combine research into the Lieber materials with other discourses of imprisonment in America from 1820 to 1880 to analyze their effect on mainstream writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Eliza Farnham, Caroline Kirkland, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson. The RMMLA-Huntington Award offers a stipend of $1500 for research during a period of at least one month at the Huntington. Proposals for 1992 are due in the office ofthe Executive Director ofRMMLA (5 copies) by January 1, 1992. All members of RMMLA are eligible to apply. Criteria for selection include the value ofthe project, the availability ofmaterial at the Huntington, the experience and promise of the proposer, and the anticipated distribution of the results. Applicants should also indicate that the funds will be used to support research and that should they be unable to use the funds, RMMLA would be notified immediately. Charles G. Davis ...