Deadline for the 2025 Berea College Media Archives Fellowship has been pushed back to July 15.
🎉 Exciting Opportunity Alert! 📣
Hear ye, hear ye! Scholarly mavericks, educators, and creators of knowledge, here's your call to arms! Gather 'round for the 2025 Berea College Media Archives Fellowship.
This badass collaboration between the Special Collections and Archives (SCA) department at Berea College's Hutchins Library is a foot-stomping, game-changing outreach program! The main objective? Infiltrating those non-commercial audio and video collections stored in the SCA's vault, uncovering the hidden histories, stories, and culture that lie within.
Broken down for you:
- 🎶Oral histories
- 🗣️Public addresses
- 🎼Music performances
- 📻Radio broadcasts
- 🗣️Spoken word recordings
With a vast selection of media assets, Berea's archives are a treasure trove for those delving deep into Appalachian religion, linguistics, folkways, modern environmentalism, and social justice issues, among other topics.
So what's the skinny on the fellowship funding?
- 💸One fellowship of $1,400 (for a one week commitment) will be dished out in 2025.
- 🛌🏼🛏️🚌 This stipend is meant to partially cover travel and lodging expenses, leaving you to hustle for the rest of your research finances.
So, ready to kickstart your research journey? Head over to the links provided and seize this opportunity! Remember, if you come across any errors, don't be shy and let us know. We're all ears! 👂🗣️
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Psst! Though we don't have specific data on past projects funded by the 2025 fellowship, we've dug up some juicy info from the college's history of supported research. In the past, scholars have focused on preserving Appalachian voices, developing research guides, and supporting digital projects like online exhibits and digitized periodicals. Check it!
🗞️Preserving Appalachian Voices: Încorporating over 700 audio and video recordings created by folklorists Michael and Carrie Nobel Kline, this initiative brings us field recordings from West Virginia to Northeastern Pennsylvania.
📚Sound Archives Research Guides: Resulting from Archives staff and Sound Archives Fellows' work, these guides delve into wide-ranging topics related to Appalachian history and culture, using audio and video illustrations.
💻Digital Projects and Online Exhibits: Berea College has a history of supporting digital projects, such as the digitization of periodicals and the creation of illustrated essays and online exhibits drawing on archival content.
