Professor Alex Borucki receives two fellowships
Department: History
Post Date: May 12, 2016News Details
Professor Alex Borucki has received the NEH John Carter Brown Fellowship to conduct research in the John Carter Brown Library (Brown University) for his second English-language book project: "Slaves, Silver, and Atlantic Empires:
The Slave Trade to Spanish South America, 1660-1810." Professor Borucki will be in residence in Providence, Rhode Island, for 8 months in 2016-17.
He has also received a fellowship where he will serve as the co-PI for the ""Final Passages: the Intra-American Slave Trade Database," project, which just received a major grant from the NEH Preservation and Access Division. He will be working on the project beginning in summer of 2017.
For more information about the NEH fellwoship click here:
https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/fellowships/description-fellowship-program