Greetings and Salutations!

Welcome to the TPCfellowshipsblogspot. We’re pleased to welcome and introduce the 2010-2011 fellowship winners Terrence Mooney, Ann McShane, and Natasha Sharma.

We hope this blog will provide an opportunity for the fellows to share information, observations, research, and photographs and to reflect upon their work in their organizations, their classroom experiences, and their lives in Philadelphia.

On-campus faculty advisors, placement supervisors, and TPC faculty members are encouraged to comment and join this ongoing dialogue with the three fellows.

For more information on the 2011-2012 TPC Research Fellowships in the Liberal Arts, please visit our website.

And the winners are:
Ann McShane, a senior history major at Earlham College, is working with Independence National Historical Park. Her specialty is American history and colonialism and she is working closely with the Park’s curators, architects, archaeologists, and historians to study historical topics related to the Park’s mission of interpreting the founding of the American republic.

Kenyon College junior, Terence Mooney, is interning with the Rosenbach Museum and Library and he is excited to immerse himself in the many opportunities for continued literary research and analysis that the Museum offers. Mooney is enjoying this rare opportunity to work with original manuscripts and letters, write research bibliographies, and collaborate with scholars. He’s particularly excited to explore the Library’s impressive collection of poet Marianne Moore’s work. Mooney’s majors are English and American Studies.

A senior at Kalamazoo College, English major Natasha Sharma is enjoying her semester in Philadelphia and her work at the American Philosophical Society and Museum. In 2009 Sharma was a research fellow at Chicago’s Newberry Library. Sharma is meeting leading scientists and humanists, performing curatorial research, acting as a museum docent, developing public programming, and is busy learning about all APS Museum exhibits.