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Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Award Recipients

2024 Award Recipients

John Austin, independent researcher
“The Jefferson Farm School, 1898-1954” (The school, located in Watertown, offered agriculture courses to rural students.)
 
Collin Bonnell, Ph.D. Candidate, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
“Joining the Ascendancy: Six Old English Families' Evolutions from Irish to British Elites” (study of 18th century immigrants to New York)
 
Aidan Collins, Lecturer; Associate Lecturer, University of London

Hackman Research Residency Forms

Applications must be postmarked or emailed by midnight (ET) January 15, 2024. Proposals will be reviewed by a panel of scholars and archivists familiar with the New York State Archives and its holdings. Decisions will be made by April 15, 2024.

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Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program

Applicant/Project Eligibility

Residents conduct research at the New York State Archives' research facility in downtown Albany. Previous Residents have included academic and public historians, graduate students, independent researchers and writers, and primary and secondary school teachers. Projects involving innovative uses of the Archives, such as research for multimedia projects, exhibits, and websites, are welcomed. The topic or area of research must be supported by government records in the State Archives. Preference will be given to projects that:

Constitutions and Constitutional Conventions

The holdings of the New York State Archives documenting the development of the state constitution prior to 1900 are generally limited to engrossed copies of proposed or adopted versions.  However, post-1900 holdings include administrative and financial records of conventions, published reports, transcripts of proceedings, and records of individual convention committees.

New York State Constitutions and Constitutional Conventions from 1777 to 1965

Land Records

The New York State Archives holds numerous records documenting title to real property in New York. The records range in date from the Dutch colonial period to the near present. Practically all of the records dating after the early nineteenth century concern real property acquired or disposed by the State of New York. However, many of the earlier records document conveyances of real property from colonial authorities to private individuals and between private persons.
 

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