ASEH Offers First Hal K. Rothman Fellowship

In recognition of Hal K. Rothman’s commitment to the American Society for Environmental History and to graduate education in the field of environmental history, the ASEH will offer a graduate student fellowship for dissertation research in the field of environmental history.

The applicant should be a doctoral candidate who has completed comprehensive examinations for his or her dissertation subject. The student should submit a vita and a 500-word statement summarizing the project and the particular library or collection in which research would be completed.  Additionally, the student’s graduate adviser should send a letter of recommendation.

In this the inaugural year, and while fundraising efforts are ongoing, the fellowship will be for $1,000.  In the future, once contributions sufficiently build the principal, ASEH will give this fellowship annually and in the amount of $1,500.

The application deadline is December 15.

The 2007 Hal K. Rothman Fellowship Committee:

Kathleen A. Brosnan, University of Houston

Mark Cioc, University of California, Santa Cruz

Char Miller, Trinity University

Adam Rome, Pennsylvania State University

The student’s vita and statement and the graduate advisor’s letter should be sent to kbrosnan@uh.edu. 

Anyone interested in donating to the Hal K. Rothman Fellowship Fund should contact Mark_Madison@fws.gov.