History PhD student Caroline Radesky wins CLIR Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

University of Iowa PhD candidate Caroline Radesky has received the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources for the 2016-17 academic year.

Radesky was one of only 14 fellows selected from 420 applicants. The fellowship, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will support her doctoral dissertation, “Feeling Historical: Same-sex Desire and the Politics of History, 1880-1920.” Radesky’s dissertation concerns same-sex desiring individuals' uses of history to construct transnational and transhistorical sexual subjectivities in late 19th and early 20th century U.S., England, and Germany. This research is supported by the Cornell University's Phil Zwickler Charitable and Memorial Foundation, The Kinsey Institute, Smith College's Sophia Smith Collection, and the University of Iowa.

Radesky is a doctoral student in the Department of History, part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.