Adirondack Experience Research Fellowships

Accepting Applications for 2025-2026

The Adirondack Experience will support three short-term research fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year. The museum invites applications from researchers at all levels including graduate degree candidates as well as post-doctoral and independent scholars. Cadbury fellowships are open to scholars from any discipline who are researching projects in any area of study supported by the Adirondack Experience’s collections. The Welsh fellowship is awarded to projects focused on environmental history interpreted broadly.

Stipend: $5,000.

Term: One-month (four weeks), flexible scheduling starting July 1^st 2025 through May 1^st 2026. Fellows are required to conduct a minimum of 3 weeks of the fellowship onsite using materials in the museum’s holdings, but may visit other regional repositories.

Application deadline: February 1, 2025.

APPLICATIONS:

Prepare a single PDF file containing the elements listed below.

Name the file using this convention: Lastname_Firstname_application.

• Project abstract (150-300 words)
• Narrative proposal (single-spaced, maximum 1,500 words), including an overview of your research and description of how the Adirondack Experience collections will support your research.
• Brief CV (maximum four pages or 2,000 words)
• One letter of recommendation (submitted directly to ADKX by the referee)

Please send applications to Jenny Ambrose, Director of Archives & Special Collections at jambrose@theadkx.org.

Research Fellows 2024-2025

Madeline DeDe-Panken, a graduate student from the City University of New York, will delve into the fascinating world of mushroom gathering in the Adirondacks during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Project Title: Gathering Knowledge, Sustaining Science: The Female Forager and American Mushroom Culture, 1880-1930

John Kuhn, Assistant Professor at Binghamton University, will explore the rich history of indigenous birchbark canoes, utilizing ADKX’s extensive boat collection.
Project Title: The Birchbark Canoe in Indigenous and Settler North America, 1600-1900 

Jason Newton, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will examine the evolution of professional forestry in the region, shedding light on the intersection of masculinity and trade secrets.
Project Title: Lumberjack or Technocrat?: Masculinity as Trade Secret and the Genesis of Professional Forestry

Click here to learn about Julia and Warder Cadbury

Click here to learn about Peter C. Welsh