Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies


At the end of its partnership with the thirteen Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) universities in June 2008, the Newberry Library inaugurated a new Consortium in American Indian Studies. NCAIS began accepting memebrs in the summer and launched the programs in July 2009. The consortium draws on the Newberry Library's world-renowned collections in American Indian and Indigenous studies and the resources of the McNickle Center to offer a series of annual workshops, institutes, symposiums, conferences and fellowships to graduate students and faculty at member institutions. Membership in the new Newberry Consortium will be limited to 18 institutions and is currently being offered to universities in the United States and Canada.

NCAIS Seminar Members 2009

NCAIS Summer Seminar Participants 2009

Member Institutions

Cornell University
Harvard University
Miami University of Ohio
Princeton University
University of British Columbia
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

NCAIS Graduate Fellows 2009-2010

Boyd Cothran, University of Minnesota
Rivers of Memory: Episodes of Violence and Remembrance form the Klamath Basin

Katy Smith, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Southern Motherhood: Cherokee and Catawba Mothers

Robert Gilmer, University of Minnesota
A Lake of Tears: Place and Identity in the Little Tennessee River Valley


University of Minnesota
University of Montana
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
University of Wyoming
Vanderbilt University

 

 

Virginia Kennedy, Cornell University
The Nature of Nature: The Literary Representation of American Indian and European Land Ethics from the Seventh Century to the Present

Michael Wise, University of Minnesota
Living Like a Wolf: Predation and Conquest in the Montana-Alberta Borderlands

Rosalyn LaPier, University of Montana
Invisible Realities: The Piegan Natural World

NCAIS Faculty Fellow 2009-2010

Prof. Jeffrey Means, Department of History, University of Wyoming
From Buffalo to Beeves: Cattle and the Evolution of Oglala Lake Culture, 1750-1920


NCAIS Summer Seminar 2009

NCAIS Syllabus (PDF document)
Research Abstracts

 

Consortium Resources

The Newberry Library American Indian History Collection
The Huntington Free Library Native American Collection

 

Fellowships

Faculty Fellowship for 2010-2011
Graduate Student Fellowships for 2010-2011
 

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Faculty Fellowship for 2010-2011

The D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History announces the availability of a one-semester residential fellowship for faculty at institutions participating in the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies (NCAIS). 

The fellowship will provide support for one semester in residence at the Newberry Library for a consortium faculty member working on a project in American Indian Studies to conduct research in the Newberry’s collections.  The stipend will be $25,200.  The NCAIS Faculty Fellow will receive a research carrel and be accorded the same privileges as other Newberry Library long-term fellows.  The Faculty Fellow will present research, participate in both the McNickle Center Seminar in American Indian and Indigenous Studies and the Newberry Library Fellows’ Seminar, and be available to NCAIS Graduate Student Fellows for consultation.

The Newberry Library, founded in 1887, features collections on Western Europe and the Americas from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, including two significant collections related to American Indian and Indigenous history.  The Edward E. Ayer Collection includes 130,000 volumes on American Indians, as well as extensive holdings of manuscripts, maps, atlases, photographs, drawings, and paintings.  It also contains an ever-growing collection of the papers of 20th century American Indian activists, anthropologists, and other scholars and journalists, e.g., Carlos Montezuma, D'Arcy McNickle, Solon T. Kimball, Elmo Scott Watson, Murray Wax, and Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin.  The Everett D. Graff Collection focuses on Western Americana and the trans-Mississippi West in the nineteenth century.  Additional information on the Newberry’s manuscript holdings pertaining to North American Indians can be found at http://www.newberry.org/collections/westindianmss.html

The D’Arcy McNickle Center was established in 1972 to promote the use of the Newberry’s collections pertaining to American Indian and Indigenous studies.  Since its inception, it has served as a meeting ground for scholars working in a range of venues, from tribal colleges and research universities to community cultural institutions and pre-collegiate classrooms.  Faculty fellows are encouraged to participate in the life of the Center.    

To be considered please submit the following application materials by January 11, 2010

Send to: 

NCAIS Faculty Fellowship, D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History

The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610


 

Graduate Student Fellowships for 2010-2011

The D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History announces the availability of short-term fellowships for doctoral candidates at institutions participating in the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies (NCAIS). 

These fellowships offer support for between one and two months of dissertation research and carry stipends of $2500 per month.  Graduate Fellows will be offered individual research space at the Newberry and accorded the same privileges as other Newberry Library short-term fellows.  Awards may also be used to fund research in other libraries, archives, or in the field.  Fellowship recipients are expected to present their research at the consortium’s annual graduate student conference or at a Newberry-sponsored seminar in American Indian and Indigenous studies.  

The Newberry Library, founded in 1887, features collections on Western Europe and the Americas from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, including two significant collections related to American Indian and Indigenous history.  The Edward E. Ayer Collection includes 130,000 volumes on American Indian, as well as extensive holdings of manuscripts, maps, atlases, photographs, drawings, and paintings.  It also contains an ever-growing collection of the papers of 20th century American Indian activists, anthropologists, and other scholars and journalists, e.g., Carlos Montezuma, D'Arcy McNickle, Solon T. Kimball, Elmo Scott Watson, Murray Wax, and Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin.  The Everett D. Graff Collection focuses on Western Americana and the trans-Mississippi West in the nineteenth century.  Additional information on the Newberry’s manuscript holdings pertaining to North American Indians can be found at http://www.newberry.org/collections/westindianmss.html

The D’Arcy McNickle Center was established in 1972 to promote the use of the Newberry’s collections pertaining to American Indian and Indigenous studies.  Since its inception, it has served as a meeting ground for scholars working in a range of venues, from tribal colleges and research universities to community cultural institutions and pre-collegiate classrooms.  Graduate student fellows are encouraged to participate in the life of the Center. 

To be considered please submit the following application materials by March 1, 2010

Send to:  NCAIS Graduate Student Fellowships, D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610

For additional information please contact the McNickle Center at mcnickle@newberry.org