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The Archives of the History of American Psychology is pleased to announce the availability of a new travel grant program. The Paul T. Mountjoy Graduate Research Grant provides up to $1,000.00 in travel assistance for graduate student research at the Archives of the History of American Psychology at The University of Akron. The grant is offered in honor of Paul T. Mountjoy, Ph.D. (1924-2001) and made possible by the generous support of the Foundation for Behavioral Resources.
Graduate students in any discipline are welcome to apply as long as they are enrolled in a doctoral program of study. Applicants are expected to utilize the resources of the Archives of the History of American Psychology in support of a program of research and scholarship in the history of psychology. Founded in 1965, the Archives of the History of American Psychology promotes research in the history of psychology by collecting, cataloguing, and preserving original source material. Holdings include records of organizations, papers of individual psychologists, psychological instruments and apparatus, films, photographs, and books. Applications and information are available online at: www.uakron.edu/ahap or by contacting the Archives (see below). The deadline for receipt of proposals is April 1, 2003. Selection of the recipient will be announced by June 1, 2003. Funds must be used within 12 months of receiving the grant.
The University of Akron Polsky Building LL-10A Akron, OH 44325-4302 (330) 972-7285 2003 Committee Members: The first recipient of the Mountjoy Research Grant was Marga Vicedo-Castello, a graduate student at Harvard University. The title of her proposal was "A History of the Maternal Instinct: The Scientific Construction of Motherhood in American Society, 1890-1990." |