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Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 18:42:10 +0100
From: "Barber, Peter" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FW: New Helen Wallis Fellow Appointed
Sender: "Barber, Peter" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: New Helen Wallis Fellow Appointed
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> Helen Wallis Fellowship at the British Library awarded for 2001-2002
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>
> The fourth Helen Wallis Fellow, Jon Carlson, a doctoral candidate in the
> Department of Political Science, Arizona State University, took up
> residence
> in the Map Library on 22 May 2002 for three months.
>
> The fellowship, named after the former Map Librarian, the late Dr Helen
> Wallis, 'confers recognition by the Library on a scholar whose work will
> help promote the extended and complementary use of the British Library's
> book and cartographic collections in historical investigation'. The Wallis
> Fellow has similar privileges to those accorded the Centre for the Book
> Fellows (with an additional £300 to spend on BL services).
>
> Jon Carlson will be researching the process by which the the modern
> European global system expanded to include new regions, and the
> underlying economic, political and cultural processes that accompanied
> this expansion with particular reference to the Native Americans of the
> Vancouver Island region, the Asanti of West Africa, the kingdom of
> Abyssinia and Japan.
>
>
> For the full terms of reference please contact [log in to unmask]
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>
> The closing date for each annual award will be 1 May
>
>
>
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> Peter Barber MA, FSA, FRHistS
> Head of Map Collections
> Map Library
> The British Library
> 96 Euston Road
> London NW1 2DB
>
> tel.: [44] 020 7412 7701
> fax: [44] 020 7412 7780
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