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| Stephanie Lampkin, right, and her advisor, history professor Catherine Stewart |
Lampkin earns research fellowship
Stephanie Lampkin, a junior ethnic studies and history major, has been selected to participate in the SHEAR/Mellon Undergraduate Fellowship Program in June. She is one of 10 students nationwide who will spend three weeks in Philadelphia pursuing research in some of the finest archival collections relevant to early American history.
The program will allow her to begin research for an independent project to be completed during her senior year. The project will examine the social relationship between Seminole Indians and slave escapees in the early to mid-1800s, their definition of slavery and role as slaveholders, and how, through cultural syncretism, that relationship evolved into an exchange of cultural values, ultimately leading to the formation of an advantageous alliance during the three Florida Seminole Indian Wars (1816-1842).
As Lampkin's project advisor, history Professor Catherine Stewart will join Stephanie for the last week of the program and to pursue her own research in the study of folklorists from the twenties and thirties.
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