OSGF Announces 2020 Researchers in Residence
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The Oak Spring Garden Foundation is thrilled to announce our 2020 Researchers in Residence. The five awardees, who come from universities, libraries, and research centers around the U.S. and abroad, will spend one to two weeks at the foundation this year, using the resources available in the Oak Spring Garden Library to work on a range of unique projects related to natural and botanical history.
In addition to receiving a $750 grant, the awardees will be provided with housing accommodation during their residencies at OSGF. We will announce a call for 2021 applicants in March, so keep an eye on our website and social media channels.
Ann Garascia
Ann is a lecturer in English Literature at California State University San Bernardino. She plans to spend her time at OSGF working on a book project titled Strange Flora: Victorian Botanical Archiving for the Anthropocene, which will explore how 19th century women documented and archived plants.
Jason W. Dean
Jason is the Vice President for Special Collections at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Missouri. While at OSGF, Jason and Sarah Burke Cahalan will plan an exhibit and book project focused on the work of S. Fred Prince, Jr. (1857-1949), a self-taught naturalist and scientific illustrator who has several works in the OSGF library.
Sarah Burke Cahalan
Sarah is the director of the Marian Library at the University of Dayton in Dayton, OH, where she is also an associate professor. Along with Jason W. Dean, she will use her time at OSGF to work on an exhibit and book project focused on the life and work of illustrator and naturalist S. Fred Prince, Jr. (1857-1949), whom they both have been researching for several years.
Gabriela Lamy
Gabriela is a researcher at the Palace of Versailles Research Center in Versailles, France. She will spend her time at OSGF viewing library materials related to the plant exchange at Versaille in the late 1700s, in order to support her research tracing the palace’s plant records and the plant exchange in the Atlantic Empire.
Janet Stiles Tyson
Janet is a PhD candidate in history at Birkbeck, University of London. She plans to use her time at OSGF to support work on her doctoral thesis, which analyzes Elizabeth Blackwell’s “A Curious Herbal” (1737-1739), recognized as the first guide to medicinal herbs produced by a woman, within the social context of Georgian London.
To learn more about our opportunities for researchers, please visit https://www.osgf.org/researchers.