Mudge Teacher Fellowship

Tails of books with marbled paper   The Boston Athenæum also offers the Mudge Teacher Fellowship which is open to Boston-area public, parochial, and independent school teachers and librarians. This fellowship supports the use of Athenæum collections for research, publication, curriculum and program development, or other creative projects.

The fellowship carries a stipend of $1,500 for a residency of twenty days (four weeks) and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenæum. Applications are due by April 15. Please send a resume along with a letter of intent describing the proposed project, a list of Athenæum materials to be consulted, and two letters of recommendation. Candidates will be notified by June 15.

Mail applications to: Boston Athenæum, 10 ½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108 or email applications to: warnement@bostonathenaeum.org

 Past Recipients of the Mudge Teacher Fellowship

2013-2014

  • Paula Elliott, Ed.D., independent scholar, "The historic sociopolitical, culture contexts surrounding, influencing the experiences of African American teachers and students"
  • Benadette Manning, M.Ed., Fenway High School, "Understanding MCAS and SAT"

2012-2013

  • Crystal Haynes, new teacher developer, Boston Public Schools, “Study the history of Boston Public Schools”
  • Kim Parker, teacher, Newton North High School, “Create and publish a handbook for teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms”

2011-2012

  • Karen Crounse, teacher, Codman Academy Charter School, “Using Astronomy for Expeditionary Learning in High School Math”
  • Deanna Gallagher, teacher, Newman School of Boston, “Using Historic New England Maps to Teach Argumentative Writing”

2010-2011 Jan Voogd, librarian, Provincetown Public Library, “Provincetown Abolition         Society, the Abolitionist Movement, and the Methodist Episcopal Church”

2009-2010 Tia Esposito, Director of Library, Boston College High School, “Nativism in Boston;"

2009-2010 Craig J. Perrier, history teacher, Billerica Memorial High School, “American Paradox: War, Dissent and Nationalism at the Hartford Convention.”

2008-2009 Steven Berbeco, a teacher at Charlestown High School, who plans to develop and publish a social studies curriculum unit on Gypsy (Roma) language and culture.

2007-2008  Barbara E. Ryan, English teacher at Fontbonne Academy in Milton, MA, for developing a curriculum around Lord Byron and British Romantic Literature.

2006-2007 Tammarrah A. Lee (Trotter Elementary School), to study the history of Boston's African American community in the nineteenth century and its quest for justice and equality.