The IAAS is delighted to announce the winner of the 2016 Dartmouth Summer Institute Scholarship

The Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin established a scholarship this year to send one postgraduate student from the island of Ireland to the Futures of American Studies Summer Institute at Dartmouth College this June. Applicants had to be registered members of the IAAS in order to apply for the scholarship which covers return flights to Boston, transfers to Dartmouth, and the full registration fee for the week.

After deliberating on a remarkably strong field of applicants, it was eventually decided to award the scholarship to Katrina Kelly of Queen’s University Belfast. Katrina is a PhD student in the School of English and her project explores how post-9/11 fiction narrates and interrogates the exercise of US power within and outside its borders, in response to threats and crises which compromise national security. The IAAS and the Clinton Institute congratulates Katrina on this award and wishes her every success in Dartmouth this summer.

The IAAS is delighted to announce the winner of the first Adam Matthew Digital Essay Prize

This essay competition was established in 2015 for late-stage PhD candidates, early career researchers, and independent scholars in the field of North American studies. Entries had to be related to an area covered by Adam Matthew’s North American Collections. The winning essay is awarded £500 and a year’s free access to the Adam Matthew collection of their choice.

The Prizes Sub-Committee of the IAAS deliberated on a strong field of entrants, with Carmel Lambert of NUI Galway eventually deemed to be the winner. Her essay, ”The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here’: Writing American Identity in Liberia, 1830-1850′, was judged to be fluidly written and strongly argued. The essay was well researched, and delivered a nuanced analysis of the colonising process.

The IAAS congratulates Carmel on her achievement, and also extends its thanks to Adam Matthew for their very generous sponsorship of this prize.