Huzzah, historians! We’re thrilled to announce the recipients of our Henry F. May Fund Research Fellowships, who will each receive $500 to support their scholarship this summer. Read on to learn about their works in progress.
Maggie L. McNulty is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Colorado Boulder with a focus on environmental and urban history, currently researching the history of race, spatial geography, and environmental activism in Denver and Pueblo, Colorado. McNulty’s dissertation, tentatively titled Legacy of Pollution: A History of Environmental Injustice in Denver’s Most Polluted Zip Code, explores the long history of industrialization, urbanization, and activism in a working-class Latinx neighborhood in Denver. Her research examines how the popular perception of Colorado as a place with a pristine environment collides with its legacy of pollution. A Philadelphia native, McNulty holds a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and bachelor’s degree from Drexel University.
Harry DeVoe is a PhD student in History at the University of Montana. He holds an MA in History from the State University of New York at Brockport. His research interests include American rural politics throughout the long nineteenth century, the history of capitalism, the state, and democracy. His dissertation research examines the post-Civil War rural press to understand its role in shaping rural Americans’ debates about democracy, political economy, state development, and higher education in the late nineteenth century.
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