Adirondack Experience Research Fellowships
NEW AWARDS FOR 2025-2026
The Adirondack Experience supports three short-term research fellowships annually. 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.
For more information contact Jenny Ambrose, Director of Archives & Special Collections at jambrose@theadkx.org.
Research Fellows 2025-2026
Rachel Ameen, a graduate student in Geography at Syracuse University will be exploring cultural representations of three “animals” – black bears, common loons, and blackflies – within the context of recreation and tourism in the Adirondacks.
Project title: Forever Wild: A Cultural History of Animals and Recreation in the Adirondacks.
Ella McPherson, Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Cambridge, will be conducting research on Adirondack hermits, examining the ways hermits and their publics have jointly shaped the meaning and significance of being a hermit.
Project title: The Adirondack Hermit Imaginary.
Christopher Roy, an Independent scholar with a strong background in the history and culture of the Abenaki community, will compile a catalogue of Abenaki archives and artifacts in public repositories in the North Country.
Project title: An Abenaki Catalogue.
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
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