Announcing Our 2024-2025 Research Travel Grant Recipients
Bingham Center staff administer three research travel grant programs: the Mary Lily Research Travel Grants, named in honor of Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham, for projects which use materials from the Bingham Center's women's history collections and focus on women or gender; the Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Research Travel Grants, supported by the Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Foundation, for projects using the Sedgwick Papers; and the Harry H. Harkins, Jr. T'73 Travel Grant for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) history research, named in honor of Harry H. Harkins, Jr. T'73 for his generous support of this program and in recognition of his ongoing support for LGBTQ history and sexuality studies collections for Duke University Libraries.
Mary Lily Research Travel Grants
Taylor Doherty, Ph.D. candidate, University of Arizona, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, “Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Anti-Imperialist Lesbian Feminist ‘Longed-for but Unrealized World.’”
Thalia Ertman, Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Los Angeles Department of History, “U.S. Feminist Anti-Nuclear Activism and Women’s Bodies, 1970s-1990s.”
Samuel Huber, Faculty, Yale University, Department of English. “A World We Can Bear: Kate Millett’s Life in Feminism.”
Alan Mitchell, Ph.D. candidate, Cambridge University, Faculty of Art History and Architecture, “Redefining Phoebe Anna Traquair through the lenses of historicism and intersectionality.”
Emily Nelms Chastain, Ph.D. candidate, Boston University, School of Theology, “The Clergywoman Question: The International Association of Women Preachers and Ecclesial Suffrage in American Methodism.”
Ana Parejo Vadillo, Faculty, School of Creative Arts, Cultures and Communications, Birkbeck, University of London, “Bound: The Queer Poetry of Michael Field.”
Carol Quirke, Faculty, American Studies, SUNY Old Westbury, “Feminism’s ‘Official Photographer:’ Bettye Lane, News Photography and Contemporary Feminism, 1969-2000.”
Paula Ramos, Independent Researcher, “Spatiality and gender: spatial circumstances of the creative process of feminist artists in the 1970s and 1980s.”
Dartricia Rollins, Graduate Student, University of Alabama, School of Library and Information Studies, “‘You Had to Be There:’ Charis’ 50-Year History as the South’s Oldest Independent Feminist Bookstore.”
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Research Travel Grants
Ipek Sahinler, Ph.D. candidate, University of Texas Austin, “A Portrait of Young Women as Proto-Queer Thinkers: Eve Sedgwick vis-à-vis Gloria Anzaldúa.”
David Seitz, Faculty, Harvey Mudd College, “‘No Less Realistic’ but with ‘Different Ambitions’: Reparative Reading, Human Geography, and a Return to Sedgwick."
Harry H. Harkins T’73 Travel Grants for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
Kadin Henningsen, Ph.D. candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Walt’s Companions.”
Julie Kliegman, Author, book-length exploration of transgender pioneers.
Image: Photograph from Charis Bookstore's 10th anniversary in 1984. From the Charis Books and More Records. Dartricia Rollins will be exploring the history of Charis Books in her research.
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Sweet Petunias: Independent Women's Blues, Rosetta Records, 1986.
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Rosetta Reitz's Musical Archive of Care
The “Rosetta Reitz’s Musical Archive of Care” Bass Connections project has been renewed for the 2024-2025 academic year. The project began with a focus on Rosetta Reitz, whose papers are held by the Bingham Center, and has evolved into a survey of the lives and musical contributions of 96 artists featured on Rosetta Records, examining how societal, technological, and cultural factors shaped their artistic agency. The project's interdisciplinary structure—including members who specialize in music creation, historical musicology, cultural anthropology, archival and library practices, digital humanities, and art history— has been key to navigating the complexities of this investigation. Bingham Center director Laura Micham co-convenes this project, along with Lou Brown, Franklin Humanities Institute, and musician Tift Merritt.
"Their male counterparts have been documented in the literature while most of these women have been suffocated with silence. With this gesture of retrieval, hopefully, they will not be forgotten.” --Rosetta Reitz, liner notes of Sweet Petunias
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Dorothy Allison, recipient of the Publishing Triangle Whitehead Award
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Dorothy Allison Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Dorothy Allison, whose papers are held at the Bingham Center, was honored with Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. Her acceptance speech for this award is posted on the Literary Hub website. In it she writes, "In story—the ones we share and those we have not yet crafted—we live forever."
International Association for Feminist Economists Conference
We have been invited to participate in two sessions at the 2024 annual conference of the International Association for Feminist Economists (IAFFE) in Rome, Italy this summer. The theme of the conference is “Feminist Economics Responses and Imaginations for the Future.” Our sessions will focus on the process of archiving organizational records, prompted by IAFFE’s decision to place their records at Duke, and building international feminist archives. The latter session will include staff from women’s history archives in South America, the Netherlands, Italy and other parts of the world. It will be wonderful for the Bingham Center to be in this group!
Recent Blog Posts by Travel Grant Recipients
Note to Researchers: Summer Closure June 28-July 10
The Rubenstein Library Reading Room will be closed from June 29 to July 10. Materials will be unavailable to request during this time for onsite use or digitization requests. This closure is due to a transition in the Duke Libraries catalog software behind the scenes.
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Spring 2024 Instruction
- Archival Appraisal (UNC)
- Book Publishing & Marketing: A Case Study of the Romance Fiction Industry
- Comics and Zines
- Culture Wars (NCSU)
- Duke to Berlin Workshop in Queer, Trans, and Sexuality Studies
- Feminism in the 1970s
- Gender and Everyday Life
- Gender and Popular Culture
- Gender in the Economy
- Girl Scouts Book Arts Badge
- History of the Book
- Introduction to Trans Studies
- Queer and Feminist Methods in Asia
- Queer Theories of Experience and Art
- Project Vox: Early Modern Women Intellectuals
- Writing 101: Dolly Parton for President
- Writing 101: Radical Magic: Feminism and the Occult
- Writing 101: Reproductive Justice
- Women in Visual Arts, 1400–1800: Theory and History
Image: "Don't Dis Dolly, a fanzine honoring Dolly Parton and exploring Southern queer identities, from our class session with Writing 101: Dolly Parton for President. Sarah Wood Zine Collection.
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Two of our 2024-2025 Travel Grant recipients will examine book bindings by the Irish / Scottish artist Phoebe Anna Traquair (1852-1936). Her stunningly illustrated edition of Tennyson's In memoriam A.H.H., pictured here, is part of the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection.
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