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Professor Ellen Garvey Appointed Fellow for 2007-08 by National Humanities Center

Dr. Ellen Garvey of Brooklyn, an associate professor of English at New Jersey City University, has been appointed a Fellow for the 2007-08 academic year by the National Humanities Center (NHC).

Dr. Garvey is one of 37 Fellows from 27 colleges and universities in 16 states as well as Canada and Germany. Selected from more than 400 applicants, the 2007-08 Fellows represent such fields as history, literature, philosophy, art history, anthropology, religion, and the classics.

NHC fellowship grants enable scholars to take leave from their academic duties and pursue research at the Center. Each Fellow works individually on a research project and shares ideas at Center seminars, lectures, and conferences.

Dr. Garvey, whose project is her book, Book, Paper, Scissors: Scrapbooks Remake Nineteenth-Century Print Culture, was also recently one of 62 individuals from throughout the United States to receive a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars. Dr. Garvey received a $40,000 award for “Scrapbooks Remake 19th-Century Print Culture.”

A member of the NJCU faculty since 1994, Dr. Garvey is the author of The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, and, with Sharon Harris, helped edit Blue Pencils and Hidden Hands: Women Editing Periodicals.

Located in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina, the NHC is a privately incorporated independent institute for advanced study in the humanities. Since 1978 the Center has awarded fellowships to scholars in the humanities. The Center also sponsors programs to strengthen the teaching of the humanities in secondary and higher education.

News releases by Ellen Wayman-Gordon, and Kelly Resch, Office of Public Information.