PROVIDENCE – Providence College history professor Sharon Ann Murphy has received multiple awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, including its fellowship, the school announced April 23.
With a $50,000 prize, the fellowship will allow Murphy to take a yearlong sabbatical while pursuing research to complete her book, “Banking on Slavery in the Antebellum South.”
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Her research focuses on the fact that in the Antebellum era, southern commercial banks were willing to accept slaves as collateral for loans and included them as part of loans as a third party.
Murphy was one of close to 1,200 applicants for 78 available fellowships. In addition, she also received a $3,000 American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant, which provides travel support and photo reproduction services of collections at the American Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia, Pa. There she will examine the records of the First Bank of the United States to understand the era’s relationship between banking and slavery.
Lastly, Murphy is a recipient of a 2018 Hugh L. McColl Library Fund research fellowship, which will grant her a 10-day research visit to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Wilson Library special collections between May and September.
Emily Gowdey-Backus is a staff writer for PBN. You can follow her on Twitter @FlashGowdey or contact her via email, gowdey-backus@pbn.com.
