ALBANY - The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) has selected the Archives Partnership Trust to receive the Award of Merit for New York Archives magazine. The AASLH awards program is considered the nation's most prestigious competition for recognition of achievement in state, local, and regional history.
The nationally recognized Hackman grant program provides awards to individuals
who use New York State archival holdings for research in such areas as history,
law, public policy, geography, and culture. Sponsored by the Archives Partnership
Trust, the Residency Program honors former New York State Archivist Larry Hackman,
who oversaw the dramatic development of the State Archives from 1981 - 1995.
Hackman Research Residency grants for 2003 averaged $1,135 and ranged from a
$450 award to Peter Siskind of Temple University to a $2,150 grant to Simon
Middleton of the University of East Anglia. Dr. Siskind will use the grant to
further his research on the evolution of black and environmental politics in
New York State during the 1960s. Dr. Middleton's grant will be used for research
relating to tradesmen in colonial New York from 1620-1750.
"The records and documents held by the Archives help us trace the development of New York and demonstrate the impact the State has had on the nation in education, social welfare, commerce, government, and culture. Through the Research Residency Program, we want to encourage and enable scholars to utilize the Archives, as well as archival collections throughout the State," said Christine W. Ward, Acting State Archivist and Acting Executive Officer of the Archives Partnership Trust.
The Archives Partnership Trust, a not-for-profit organization, was established by the State Legislature in 1992 to support the programs of the State Archives. Those programs extend to every local government and historical organization in the state. The goals of the Archives Partnership Trust are to increase citizen awareness of New York State's archival heritage, and raise private funds to preserve these unique collections and make them accessible to the public.
Information on the 2004 Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program will be available on-line at www.nysarchives.org or by contacting the Archives Partnership Trust, Cultural Education Center, Room 9C49, Albany, New York 12230; (518) 473-7091; aptrust@mail.nysed.gov.
A complete list of the 2003-2004 Larry J. Hackman Research Residency award recipients appears below:
Hilary Botein, doctoral student in urban planning, Columbia University
Solid Testimony of Labor's Present Status: Unions and Housing in Postwar New
York City
Marlene Doxtator, Coordinator of New York Land Rights, Oneida Nation
Oneida Nation Archival Project Proposal: To collect information on history relating
to Six Nations and Oneida
Michael E. Easterly, doctoral student in history, University of California,
Los Angeles
Mortgaging the Future: The Establishment of Claims to Salaried Employees' Future
Earnings in New York City, 1890-1920
Peter B. Fleischer, doctoral student in earth and environmental science, City
University of New York
City of Stone: How a Suite of Rocks of Diverse Provenance Were Quarried, Carved,
Transported and Assembled to Create the Great Cities of the East, and How the
Towns and People that Yielded that Stone Fared in the Aftermath
David A. Fyfe, graduate student in geography and research assistant, The Pennsylvania
State University
From Roundhouse to Cloverleaf: How modern transportation networks have influenced
land-use change in the Albany/Binghamton corridor of New York State
Miriam Greenberg, Assistant Professor of Media and Urban Studies, Pratt Institute,
and doctoral student in sociology, City University of New York
Branding New York: The Rise of a New Strategy of Economic Development, 1968-2002
Kimberley S. Johnson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science and Urban
Studies, Barnard College
Community Development Corporations in New York, 1968-2002: A Historical Comparative
Perspective
Simon Middleton, Ph.D., Lecturer in American History, University of East Anglia,
United Kingdom
Privileges and Profits: Tradesmen In Colonial New York, 1621-1750
Edythe Ann Quinn, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Hartwick College
Records on "The Hills," A Rural African American Community in Westchester
County, 1780s - 1920s, in the New York State Archives
Peter Siskind, Ph.D., Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, and Adjunct Lecturer,
Temple University
Black and Environmental Politics' Parallel Paths: Nelson Rockefeller and the
Evolution of Metropolitan Liberalism in 1960s New York and Growth and Its Discontents:
Localism, Protest and the Politics of Development on the Postwar Northeast Corridor