The National Sporting Library has selected seven recipients for its John H. Daniels Fellowship program for 2009-2010.  The selected fellows will visit the Library in the coming year to research a diverse variety of topics on horse and field sports, including the steeplechase champion, Battleship; a 17^th-century horsemanship manuscript; and conservation in American fly fishing.

 

A complete list of fellows and their projects may be found at http://www.nsl.org/2009fellows.html.

 

The next deadline for applications is February 1, 2010. For more information, contact Elizabeth Tobey, Director of Communications and Research, at 540-687-6542 x 11 or [log in to unmask]

 

2009-2010 John H. Daniels Fellows

 

Charles Calhoun, Independent Scholar (Maine Humanities Council), “Going British: The Anglicizing of American Hunting with Hounds, 1865-1930.”

 

Pia Cuneo, Ph.D., Professor of Art History, University of Arizona, “Early Modern Horsemanship Manuals: A Comparative Study.”

 

Elisabetta Deriu, Ph.D., Doctoral Graduate in History (University of Paris), “The International Fortune of an Early 17th c. Handwritten Horsemanship Treatise: Valerio Piccardini's ‘Scritti di Cavaleria.’”

 

Horace Laffaye, M.D., Independent Writer, “The Evolution of Polo in the United States.”

 

Glenye Cain Oakford, Journalist/Writer (Daily Racing Form), “The Golden Thread.”

 

Dorothy Ours, Journalist/Writer, “The American Pony: Battleship and the Grand National Press.”

 

Samuel Snyder, Ph.D., Visiting Lecturer in Religion, Kalamazoo College, “Motivating the Flows of Angling Environmentalisms: from Utilitarian Conservation to Ecological Restoration.”

 

 

Elizabeth Tobey, Director of Communications & Research

National Sporting Library

P.O. Box 1335 (102 The Plains Rd.)

Middleburg, VA 20118-1335

540-687-6542 x 11

[log in to unmask]

http://www.nsl.org/