The Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship for the Study of Minorities in American Maritime History

The Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship for the Study of Minorities in American Maritime History is being offered by the Munson Institute at Mystic Seaport.  Since 1989, the Cuffe Fellowship has provided funds to researchers from universities, colleges, and museums who were pursuing research considering the participation of minorities in American maritime affairs.  Topics have included seafaring, shore side work and the make up of shore side communities, entrepreneurship, the fisheries, the merchant marine and navy, Native Americans, African Americans, Cape Verdeans, immigration, comparative studies, gender.  Fellowships support research and writing, a portion of which should normally be carried out in the Mystic, CT area. Deadline March 30, 2008

Inquiries may be addressed to:
Glenn S. Gordinier, Ph.D.
Robert G. Albion Historian
Co-Director, Munson Institute

Mystic Seaport
The Museum of America and the Sea
75 Greenmanville Avenue
P.O. Box 6000
Mystic, CT 06355

glenn.gordinier@mysticseaport.org
Phone (860) 572-0711 xt. 5089
Fax (860) 572-5329
http://www.mysticseaport.org/learn/lo-Cuff.htm