he D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History was founded in 1972. Its goals are to encourage the use of the Newberry collections on American Indian history (see the American Indian History Collection); improve the quality of what is written about American Indians; educate teachers about American Indian culture, history, and literature; assist American Indian tribal historians in their research; and provide a meeting ground where scholars, teachers, tribal historians, and others interested in American Indian studies can discuss their work with each other.
The McNickle Center's staff, affiliated research projects, and fellows have played a major role in shaping modern scholarship on American Indian history. In its first two decades the Center hosted nearly one hundred pre- and post-doctoral scholars on long-term fellowships, generally of six to eleven months duration. During the same period nearly two hundred short-term fellows spent between two weeks and two months conducting research at the Newberry. These long and short-term fellows have produced nearly forty books and dozens of scholarly articles.
These initiatives broaden the McNickle Center's mission and compliment our other activities. At present, the Center offers a bi-monthy noon speaker series; sponsors conferences, seminars, and workshops for scholars and teachers; administers several fellowship programs; and publishes Meeting Ground, a national newsletter.
Meeting Ground Newsletter
Find here our latest edition of our Meeting Ground Newsletter.
Ninth Annual CIC AISC Graduate Student Conference and Paper Competition: The three winners of this year's competition are:
- Kathleen Ratteree, University of Wisconsin -Madison, FIRST PLACE, for Wahupta Ska Pejuta: Hemp and Treaty Abrogation
- Kathryn Magee, Ohio State University, SECOND PLACE, for ‘They are the Life of the Nation”: Women and War in Traditional Nadouek Society
- Chelsea Chapman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, THIRD PLACE, For: Just do It? Multiculturalism, Citizenship and Nike’s Air Native
CIC AISC Student Fellowships 2008-2009
- Erik Redix, University of Minnesota
- Anne Peterson, University of Iowa
2009 Fellowships opportunities : Frances C Allen Fellowship for Women of American Indian Heritage
: Susan Kelly Power and Helen Hornbeck Fellowship
Native American Resources on the Web
From 2002 to 2007, the McNickle Center entered into a partnership with the thirteen Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) universities, dedicated toward constructing a nationally-recognized, innovative, graduate program in American Indian Studies. Each year, the CIC and McNickle Center collaborated on graduate student programming (conferences, seminars, and workshops), a national conference, and offer graduate student fellowships as well as a CIC faculty fellowship.
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Staff
Gail S. Terry, Interim Director, Phone: (312) 255 3575, Email: terryg@newberry.org
Céline E. Swicegood, Program Assistant, Phone: (312) 255 3564, Email: swicegoodc@newberry.org (Available Monday, Wednesday, Thursday)