2018-2019 New England
Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) fellow Gwenn Miller, associate
professor of history at the College of the Holy Cross, visited the Boston Athenæum’s Vershbow
Special Collections Reading Room in October and December 2018. She returned to
speak at the proprietors summer symposium, June 25, 2019, about her work on
"John Perkins Cushing and Boston's Early Opium Trade."
Another 2018-2019 NERFC
fellow, Charles Ian Stevenson, Ph.D. candidate at Boston University, spent
January 2019 studying materials in support of his dissertation “’The
Summer-Home of the Survivors’: The Civil War Vacation in Architecture and
Landscape, 1878-1918,” and he
delivered his Fellow Field
Report to the Athenaeum community in March 2019.
None of 2019-2020 have
visited yet, but we expect three of four to come in the autumn and winter.
