The Archives Research Award was established in 2022 and will be awarded annually. It is available to graduate students, faculty and independent scholars who demonstrate a need to utilize the Archives' collections onsite.
2024-2025 Recipient: Dr. Emily Murphy
The Archives at The Ohio State University has announced the 2024-2025 recipient of the $6,000 Archives Research Award. Emily Murphy, Senior Lecturer in Children’s Literature at Newcastle University (UK) is the winner of the award. Dr. Murphy was selected from a pool of five applicants.
Dr. Murphy will visit the Archives to conduct her research in the spring of 2025. As she stated in her application, Dr. Murphy will use the Admiral Richard E. Byrd collection to advance her research for her second monograph, The Anarchy of Children’s Archives: Global Citizenship and Empire in the American Century. Dr. Murphy writes in her application, “The fact that the Polar Archives hold a voluminous amount of children’s letters makes it an ideal place to carry out this work.”
"One of the reasons we chose Dr. Murphy is because her research is unique, yet it builds off the work of a previous award winner,” said University Archivist Tamar Chute. “We are excited to have her use the Byrd collection to further her research goals."
2023-2024 Recipient: Dr. Edward Armston-Sheret
The Archives at The Ohio State University has announced the 2023-2024 recipient of the $5,000 Archives Research Award. Dr. Edward Armston-Sheret, the Alan Pearsall Fellow in Naval and Maritime History at the University of London, is the inaugural winner of the award. Dr. Armston-Sheret was selected from a pool of eight applicants.
Armston-Sheret will visit the Archives to conduct his research in the summer of 2023. As he states in his application, Armston-Sheret will use the Sir Hubert Wilkins and Admiral Richard E. Byrd collections to research how American and British explorers shared knowledge about ways to care for the body in the polar environments. Armston-Sheret said, “I will bring … three bodies of literature together to examine the importance of international networks in twentieth century exploration. In doing so, I will develop my previous scholarship on questions of health and hygiene on polar expeditions.”