The A. Verville Fellowship is an American senior scholarship established in the name of aviation pioneer

Alfred V. Verville Alfred Victor Verville (November 16, 1890 – March 10, 1970) was an American aviation pioneer and aircraft designer who contributed to civilian and military aviation. During his forty-seven years in the aviation industry, he was responsibl ...

at the

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's National Air and Space Museum. The Verville Fellowship is a competitive nine- to twelve-month in-residence fellowship for researching the history of aviation. The fellowship includes a $50,000 stipend with limited additional funds for travel and miscellaneous expenses. The program guidelines encourage candidates to pursue research and writing programs that appeal to an audience with broad interests while maintaining a professional tone. Outstanding manuscripts resulting from this program may be offered to the Smithsonian Institution Press for publication.

Fellowship selections

*2021-2022 - Alan Meyer - researching the lack of African American pilots in the industry *2016-2017 - Takashi Nishiyama *2015-2016 - Steven E. Harris - Wings of the Motherland: Soviet and Russian Cultures of Aviation from Khrushchev to Putin *2014-2015 - Alexander C.T. Geppert *2012-2013 - Richard Paul - NASA's role in the civil rights movement *2011-2012 - Anke Ortlepp - Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of Airports in the American South *2010-2011 - Monique Laney - Transnational Migration and National Memory: How German Rocket Engineers Became Americans in Huntsville, Alabama *2009-2010 - Debbora Battaglia *2008-2009 - Evelyn Crellin *2007-2008 - Richard Hallion, Topic: Role of NACA Technical Representative

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in air intelligence and the transfer of technical information between Europe and America *2006-2007 - Christine Yano, Topic: Airborne Dreams: Japanese American Stewardesses with Pan American World Airways, 1955-1972 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011). *2005-2006 - Dennis R. Jenkins, Topic: Escaping the Gravity Well: A Policy History of Space Access *2004-2005 - Neil M. Maher Topic: Ground Control: How the Space Race Scrubbed the 1960s Revolution *2003-2004 - Adnan Morshed *2002-2003 -

Asif Azam Siddiqi Asif Azam Siddiqi is a Bangladeshi American space historian and a Guggenheim Fellowship winner. He is a professor of history at Fordham University. He specializes in the history of science and technology and modern Russian history. He has writ ...

- The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination (New York: Cambridge UP, 2010) *2001-2002 -

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*2000-2001 - Alan R. Bender *1999-2000 - Carl Bobrow *1997-1998 - Dik A. Daso, retired curator of military aircraft at the Museum, wrote Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Air Power (Washington, D.C.: SI Press, 2000) *1996-1997 - John R. Breihan *1991-1992 - Harold Andrews *1989-1990 - Daniel Ford *1988-1989 - Michael J. Neufeld - Von Braun, Collier's and Disney: Selling Space in the 1950s *1987-1988 - William Chana

External links

National Air and Space Museum Research Fellowships - A. Verville Fellowship
Main Smithsonian page for fellowship

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Verville Fellowship Awards established in 1987 Fellowships Smithsonian Institution research programs Scholarships in the United States History of science awards

Fellowship selections

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