The A. Verville Fellowship is an American senior scholarship established in the name of aviation pioneer Alfred V. Verville at the Smithsonian Institution 's National Air and Space Museum . The Verville Fellowship is a competitive nine- to twelve-month in-residence fellowship for researching the history of aviation. The fellowship includes a $50,000 stipend with limited additional funds for travel and miscellaneous expenses.[ 1]
The program guidelines encourage candidates to pursue research and writing programs that appeal to an audience with broad interests while maintaining a professional tone.[ 2] Outstanding manuscripts resulting from this program may be offered to the Smithsonian Institution Press for publication.
Fellowship selections [ edit ]
2023-2024 - Sean Seyer[ 3] - The Specter of Monopoly: The Conspiracy Theory that Shaped American Aviation, 1917-1949
2021-2022 - Alan Meyer - researching the lack of African American pilots in the industry [ 4] [ 5]
2016-2017 - Takashi Nishiyama[ 6]
2015-2016 - Steven E. Harris - Wings of the Motherland: Soviet and Russian Cultures of Aviation from Khrushchev to Putin[ 7]
2014-2015 - Alexander C.T. Geppert[ 8]
2012-2013 - Richard Paul[ 9] - NASA's role in the civil rights movement[ 10]
2011-2012 - Anke Ortlepp[ 11] - Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of Airports in the American South[ 12]
2010-2011 - Monique Laney[ 13] [ 14] - Transnational Migration and National Memory: How German Rocket Engineers Became Americans in Huntsville, Alabama[ 15] [ 16]
2009-2010 - Debbora Battaglia[ 17]
2008-2009 - Evelyn Crellin[ 18]
2007-2008 - Richard Hallion ,[ 19] Topic: Role of NACA Technical Representative John Jay Ide in air intelligence and the transfer of technical information between Europe and America
2006-2007 - Christine Yano,[ 20] Topic: Airborne Dreams: Japanese American Stewardesses with Pan American World Airways, 1955-1972 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011).
2005-2006 - Dennis R. Jenkins,[ 21] Topic: Escaping the Gravity Well: A Policy History of Space Access
2004-2005 - Neil M. Maher[ 22] Topic: Ground Control: How the Space Race Scrubbed the 1960s Revolution
2003-2004 - Adnan Morshed[ 23]
2002-2003 - Asif Azam Siddiqi [ 24] - The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination (New York: Cambridge UP, 2010)
2001-2002 - Dwayne A. Day [ 25] [ 26] [ 27]
2000-2001 - Alan R. Bender[ 28] [ 29]
1999-2000 - Carl Bobrow[ 30] [ 31]
1997-1998 - Dik A. Daso, retired curator of military aircraft at the Museum, wrote Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Air Power (Washington, D.C.: SI Press, 2000)[ 32]
1996-1997 - John R. Breihan[ 33] [ 34]
1991-1992 - Harold Andrews[ 35]
1989-1990 - Daniel Ford [ 36]
1988-1989 - Michael J. Neufeld[ 37] - Von Braun, Collier's and Disney: Selling Space in the 1950s[ 38]
1987-1988 - William Chana[ 39] [ 40] [ 41]
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^ "Race and the Space Race" . airandspace.si.edu . February 27, 2013.
^ "FB05 Gesellschaftswissenschaften: Zur Person" . Uni-kassel.de. Retrieved 2014-05-09 .
^ National, The (2012-05-24). "The Desegregation of Airports in the American South | AirSpace" . Blog.nasm.si.edu. Retrieved 2014-06-01 .
^ Julia Brookins (2011-09-26). "NASA and Jameson Fellowships Awarded" . Historians.org. Retrieved 2013-03-04 .
^ "Awards" . July 12, 2014.
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^ "Public History | Monique Laney, PhD" . Moniquelaney.wordpress.com. 21 May 2013. Retrieved 2014-05-09 .
^ "Battaglia Looks at the Inner Effect of Outer Space :: News & Events :: Mount Holyoke College" . Mtholyoke.edu. 2010-12-09. Retrieved 2013-03-04 .
^ "Curriculum Dr. Evelyn Crellin" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-06-01.
^ "24th Annual Air & Space Conference and Technology Exposition, Confirmed Speakers" . Air & Space Conference and Technology Exposition. 2008-09-15. Archived from the original on 2009-06-09. Retrieved 2009-08-29 .
^ Christine Yano (2009-04-24). "Christine Yano - UH Anthropology" . UH Anthropology. Archived from the original on 18 September 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-29 .
^ "News and Notes" (PDF) (PDF). NASA History Division, Office of External Relations. November 2005. p. 20. Retrieved 2009-08-29 .
^ Neil M. Maher (2007-01-26). "Neil M. Maher Personal Resume" (PDF) . Rutgers American Studies Department. Retrieved 2009-08-29 .
^ Adnan Morshed (2009-05-01). "Adnan Morshed's Curriculum Vitae" (PDF) . The Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning. Retrieved 2009-08-29 . [dead link ]
^ Asif Siddiqi. "History Department" (PDF) . Retrieved 2009-08-29 . [permanent dead link ] . Fordham.edu (2003-10-28). Retrieved on 2009-08-29. Sidiqqi webpage
^ Day, Dwayne A (2001). "Trust but Verify: Imagery Analysis in the Cold War (review)". Technology and Culture . 42 (4): 822– 823. doi :10.1353/tech.2001.0156 . S2CID 108591052 . Project MUSE 33809 .
^ Building a Better NASA Workforce: Meeting the Workforce Needs for the ... - Committee on Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration, National Research Council - Google Books . National Academies Press. 2007-06-22. ISBN 9780309179744 . Retrieved 2013-03-04 .
^ Building a Better NASA Workforce: Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration . Nap.edu. 2003-06-01. doi :10.17226/11916 . ISBN 978-0-309-10764-8 . Retrieved 2013-03-04 .
^ "Letter from Dr. Alan R. Bender" (PDF) . 2005-06-25. Retrieved 2024-01-03 .
^ "Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport Is Going Green" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on June 6, 2014. Retrieved June 6, 2014 .
^ "1999 Mail List Archive" . The World War I Modeling Mailing List. 1999.
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^ "October | 2012 | AirSpace" . Blog.nasm.si.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-04-22. Retrieved 2013-04-03 .
^ "JOHN R. BREIHAN" (PDF) . www.loyola.edu . Archived from the original (PDF) on April 2, 2012.
^ "Curriculum of JOHN R. BREIHAN" . Archived from the original on 2016-04-01. Retrieved 2024-01-03 .
^ DCIA. "Hal Andrews Societies" . Halandrews.net. Archived from the original on 2013-10-07. Retrieved 2013-03-04 .
^ "Daniel Ford" . Vietnamwar.net. Retrieved 2013-03-04 .
^ Michael Neufeld. " "Von Braun, Collier's and Disney: Selling Space in the 1950s", Goddard Engineering Colloquium Announcement" . Archived from the original on 12 August 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-29 . . Ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov (2004-11-08). Retrieved on 2009-08-29.
^ This research led to this book: Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War
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