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Previous article FreeSociety InformationNews, Events, Publications, and AwardsFull TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreNewsSearch for a New Editor of the PapersOn 2 March 2021 the BSA opened the search for a new Editor of the PBSA to succeed David L. Gants. The Editor is responsible for the editorial direction of the journal, which serves to fulfill the mission of the BSA to foster the study of the material text. The full call with application instructions and a job description can be found at https://bibsocamer.org/news/bsa-seeks-editor/.The Editor is appointed for an expected three-year term, with the option to renew. The expectation is that this position is part time, about ten hours weekly. Terms and conditions are to be negotiated, as is the physical location of the Editor or team.The Editor oversees publication of four issues of the PBSA each year and attends the annual BSA meetings in New York during Bibliography Week. The Editor of the PBSA works closely with the Managing/Reviews Editor and the production team at the University of Chicago Press, supervising the Managing/Reviews Editor.The next Editor of PBSA will also work with the Council and Publications Committee toward reaching the goals outlined for the journal in the Society’s Equity Action Plan (EAP). As outlined in the EAP, the BSA seeks to broaden PBSA’s coverage to include works that represent a wider array of textual artifacts from diverse authors in English and in other languages and to address issues of equity related to the composition and role of the Editorial Board. The Society welcomed applications from members of underrepresented groups who felt that their background and experience uniquely qualified them for this work in collaboration with the Council and Publications Committee. Applications were due on May 1, 2021.The BSA Events Committee Calls for ProposalsIn accordance with our identity as an international, interdisciplinary scholarly organization that fosters the study of books and other textual artifacts in traditional and emerging formats, the Bibliographical Society of America pursues its mission by hosting public programs and collaborating with related organizations to do so. The Events Committee calls for proposals to invite collaborations between the Events Committee, BSA members, and a broader bibliographical public. The BSA aims to sponsor a calendar of varied programs each year, which can include but are not limited to lectures, workshops, conference sessions, and receptions following events that are bibliographical in nature.In all BSA events, the material text—that is, the handwritten, printed, or other textual artifact, broadly conceived—as historical evidence, and/or the theory and practice of descriptive, historical, textual, and/or critical bibliography, should be a central concern to participants and organizers.Proposals for events taking place between January and April of 2022 are due 18 October 2021. Please visit the Events Committee page on the BSA website to review application guidelines and the application form (https://bibsocamer.org/programs/propose-an-event/).❧EventsSociety EventsIn light of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the Events Committee has continued to coordinate virtual sessions offered to members and the general public. Most events are recorded and posted to the Society’s YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/c/TheBibliographicalSocietyofAmerica.The following events were held in the spring of 2021:¶ “Kashruth, Community, and Control: Shehitah Manuals and their Afterlives in Early Modern Europe,” a lecture by Joshua Teplitsky (SUNY Stonybrook) was held on 1 March 2020, co-sponsored by the Hebrew Union College Library, proposed by AJ Berkovitz and Jeanne-Marie Musto.¶ “Ferdinand Columbus’s Library Catalogues,” a lecture by Seth Kimmel (Columbia University) was held on 9 April 2021. The event was co-sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America and the CUNY Graduate Early Modern Studies program.¶ Panels scheduled for the Renaissance Society of America’s 2020 Conference were resecheduled for their virtual conference in April 2021. Panels were:– Panel 1: Editing Early Modern Texts And/As Pedagogy I, put together by Claire Bourne and Heather Froehlich at Penn State. Chaired by Aaron Pratt.– Panel 2: Editing Early Modern Texts And/As Pedagogy II, put together by Claire Bourne and Heather Froehlich at Penn State. Chaired by Aaron Pratt.– Panel 3: Picturing the News, put together by Cristelle Baskins and co-sponsored by the BSA and the Italian Art Society (IAS). Chaired by John Gagné, University of Sydney.– Panel 4: Incunabula Online: Researching Early Books Through International Collaboration. This one was initiated by John McQuillen.¶ “Thunderbird Press: Indigenous Printing and Publishing in Québec, Canada (1974–1976),” a panel discussion featuring Emanuelle Dufour and Christine Sioui-Wawanoloath, and moderated by Marie-Hélène Jeannotte, was held on 14 May 2021. Proposed by Marie-Hélène Jeannotte.¶ “Early Modern Race/Typography/Gender,” a panel discussion featuring Brandi K. Adams, Erika Boeckeler, Jill Gage, and Miles P. Grier, and moderated by Claire M. L. Bourne, was held on 19 May 2021.¶ “James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy: A Bicentennial Conference,” was co-sponsored by the BSA and American Antiquarian Society. The conference was held 24–25 May 2021. Details available at https://www.americanantiquarian.org/cooper-bicentennial-conference.Virtual sessions will be scheduled through Fall 2021. Registration is required. A full schedule of upcoming events is available on the BSA website (https://bibsocamer.org/programs/upcoming-events/).❧ProgramsNew Scholars ProgramThe Bibliographical Society of America each year invites three scholars in the early stages of their careers to present twenty-minute papers on their current, unpublished research in the field of bibliography as members of a panel at the annual meeting of the Society, which normally takes place in New York City in late January. Per the announcement above, the 2021 meeting was held virtually, and this includes New Scholars’ presentations. The New Scholars Program seeks to promote the work of scholars who are new to the field of bibliography, broadly defined to include any research that deals with the creation, production, publication, distribution, reception, transmission, and subsequent history of textual artifacts (manuscript, print, or digital). Papers presented by the BSA New Scholars are submitted to the editor of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA) for publication, subject to peer review, and are published in the December issue as part of the proceedings of the annual meeting. The 2021 BSA New Scholars are Mathieu D. S. Bouchard (Pantzer New Scholar), Dr. Sophia Brown (Malkin New Scholar), and Ryan Low (BSA New Scholar). Applications to the 2022 New Scholars Program will open in late summer of 2021. Please visit the New Scholars page on the BSA website for further information (https://bibsocamer.org/awards/new-scholars-program/).❧FellowshipsAnnual FellowshipsEvery year the Society offers a variety of fellowship in support of bibliographical inquiry and research in the history of the book trades and in publishing history: The Katharine Pantzer Senior Fellowship in Bibliography and the British Book Trades ($6,000) supports research in topics relating to book production and distribution in Britain during the hand-press period as well as studies of authorship, reading, and collecting based on the examination of British books published in that period, with a special emphasis on descriptive bibliography. 2021 Winner: Sandro Jung, “Eighteenth-Century British Regional Book Illustrations of Literature: Models, Production, and Commercial Use in the North of England.” The BSA-ASECS Fellowship for Bibliographical Studies in the Eighteenth Century ($3,000). Recipients must be a member of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the time of the award. 2021 Winner: Julie Park, “Writing’s Maker: Inscribing the Self in the Eighteenth Century.” The BSA-Harry Ransom Center Pforzheimer Fellowship in Bibliography (two awards at $3,000 each) supports the bibliographical study of early modern books and manuscripts, 1455–1700, held in the Ransom Center’s Pforzheimer Library and in related collections of early printed books and manuscripts, including the Pforzheimer Gutenberg Bible. 2021: No winners. The BSA-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography ($3,000) supports scholarship in North American bibliography, including studies in the North American book trade, production and distribution of North American books, North American book illustration and design, North American collecting and connoisseurship, and North American bibliographical history in general. 2021 Winner: Mark Mattes, “Archival Apocrypha: Indigenous Writing and the Figure of Logan in Colonial and Native American History.” The BSA Peck-Stacpoole Fellowship for Early Career Collections Professionals ($3,000) supports bibliographical research by conservators, curators, librarians, and others who are responsible for institutional collections of textual artifacts, at early stages of their careers. 2021 Winners: Ostap Kin, “Poet’s Choice: Bohdan Boychuk’s Lost Anthology of Ukrainian Modernist Poetry”; and Lucy Mookerjee, “The Itinerary of a Cookbook: Mapping the Cultural Routes of Morgan MS B.36 (An edition and analysis).” The BSA-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Culinary Bibliography ($3,000) supports the bibliographical study of printed and manuscript cookbooks (once commonly known as receipt books), medical recipe books that also contain culinary recipes, other types of books, manuscript, and printed material that include a substantial body of culinary recipes, treatises on and studies of gastronomy, or memoirs, diary accounts, or descriptions of food and cooking. Projects may cover any period or country. 2010 Winner: Ellen Barth, “Women as Producers of American Community Cookbooks, 1950s to 1990s: Motivations and Materials.” The BSA-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Hispanic Bibliography ($3,000) supports the bibliographical study of printed and manuscript items: 1) in the Spanish language produced during any period and in any country; 2) in any language provided they were produced in Spain or in its overseas dominions during the time of Spanish sovereignty; 3) the bibliographical study of book and manuscript collections in Spain or in its overseas dominions during the time of Spanish sovereignty; 4) the bibliographical study of Spanish-language book and manuscript collections during any period and in any country. 2021 Winner: Carlos Diego Arenas Pacheco, “Indigenous Latinists: 16th-century Books from Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco at the Sutro Library, San Francisco.” The Caxton Club Fellowship for Midwestern Bibliographers ($2,500 and one-year memberships in both the Caxton Club and the BSA) supports bibliographical research that focuses on the physical aspects of books or manuscripts as historical evidence. Books and manuscripts in any field and of any period are eligible for consideration. Projects may include studying the history of book or manuscript production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Projects to establish a text are also eligible. Studies of enumerative bibliographies and enumerative bibliographies are also eligible as long as they meet the requirements described above. Applicants must live in one of the following states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, or Wisconsin. 2021 Winner: William Little, “The Latin Poetry of Nallio Rainaldi of Tagliacozzo.” The Charles J. Tanenbaum Fellowship in Cartographical Bibliography ($3000) supports projects dealing with all aspects of the history, presentation, printing, design, distribution, and reception of cartographical documents from Renaissance times to the present, with a special emphasis on eighteenth-century cartography. Funded by the Pine Tree Foundation of New York. 2021 Winner: Anne Garner, “Recovering Feminine Cartographies: Women Wayfinders and ‘Vanishing Monuments’ in the Canadian Territories, 1795–1990.” The Dorothy Porter Wesley Fellowship ($3,000) supports bibliographical study conducted by an individual who identifies as Black. Building on the Society’s commitment to expanding representation of scholars of all backgrounds and identities, this short-term fellowship may be used to pursue bibliographical research in any field and of any period. Projects may include studying the history of book or manuscript production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Projects to establish a text are also eligible. The fellowship honors the life and work of Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905–1995), an accomplished Black bibliographer and librarian, an active member of the Society, and author of the influential 1945 PBSA article “Early American Negro Writings.” Funded by Bruce and Mary Crawford and Barbara A. Shailor in memory of Dorothy Porter Wesley. 2021 Winner: Jacinta Saffold, “Independent Hip Hop Production as Freedom Dreaming.” The Katharine Pantzer Junior Fellowship in the British Book Trades ($3,000) supports bibliographical inquiry as well as research in the history of the book trades and publishing history in Britain. 2021 Winner: Yelda Nasifoglu, “Mathematics in Circulation in Late Seventeenth-Century London: Evidence from Hammer Copies of Auction Catalogues.” The Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas ($3,000). The fellowship may be awarded to any scholar, whether academic or independent, whose project explores the history of print culture in the Western Hemisphere. 2021 Winner: Fabián Vega, “Books from the Guaraní Missions. Jesuit Libraries and Circulation of Knowledge in the South American Borderlands (18th Century).” The BSA-Rare Book School Fellowship. 2020 Winner: Tielke Uvin (Ghent University) BSA Short-term Fellowships ($3,000). The Society also offers a number of unnamed, short-term fellowships supporting bibliographical research as described above. 2021 Winners: James P. Ascher, “Seventeenth-Century Printer’s Copy and Records at the Royal Society”; Amanda Arceneaux, “To Know an Herbe: Vernacular Herbal Manuscripts, 1570–1750”; Paulina Banas, “Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Illustration, and the Marketing of the East in the 19th Century”; Patricia Andrea Dosio, “Sketching Connections: Reconstruction of the Rioplatense Cultural Scene through the Editions of Aquilino Fernández (1880–1930)”; Cecilia Sideri, “Reconstructing the Library and Reading Habits of the Renaissance Manuscript Collector and Calligraphist Marco Antonio Altieri (1450–1532)”; Jessica Terekhov, “The Life Cycle of the Part-Issued Victorian Novel”; and Laura Viaut, “Production and Circulation of Educational Manuscripts of Roman-Barbarian Law in the Early Middle Ages.”Details of the program are located at http://bibsocamer.org/awards/fellowships/, or can be had by contacting Hope Mayo, Chair of the Fellowship Committee, [email protected]. The application for the 2022 cycle of Fellowships will open in summer 2021.❧The Margaret B. Stillwell Legacy SocietyOrganized in 1904 and incorporated in 1927, the Bibliographical Society of America is the oldest scholarly society in North America dedicated to the study of books and manuscripts as physical objects. Member gifts have played an important role in advancing BSA’s scholarly mission over the past century. Contributions and legacy gifts from BSA members have provided hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote the study of books and manuscripts as textual artifacts and have furnished important financial support to early-career bibliographers and scholars.The Bibliographical Society of America has established a Legacy Society named after distinguished bibliographer Margaret Bingham Stillwell (1887–1984). BSA’s intent in founding the Margaret B. Stillwell Legacy Society was to recognize the long tradition of giving at BSA and to ensure a vibrant future for tomorrow’s bibliographical scholars.The Society welcomes new members to the Stillwell Legacy Society, and invites you to join this growing cohort of bibliophiles. Please let us know by letter or email that you have remembered the Bibliographical Society of America in your estate plan, and we will be honored to recognize you as a member of the Margaret B. Stillwell Legacy Society. Your membership can be acknowledged in your name. You can also join the Stillwell Legacy Society in honor of—or in memory of—someone close to you. Should you wish, you may choose that your membership remain anonymous. There are no minimum financial requirements for joining—you may pledge any amount that inspires your philanthropy and brings you personal reward. All gifts help to further our mission.Members of the Margaret B. Stillwell Legacy Society will be acknowledged in this journal and on the BSA website, with their permission. Legacy Society members will also be invited to our annual donor recognition event, held each year during Bibliography Week.For more information about the Stillwell Legacy Society and remembering BSA in your estate plan, please contact President Barbara A. Shailor ([email protected]) or Executive Director Erin McGuirl ([email protected]; 212-452-2710). Information is also available on the Support BSA page on the Society’s website (https://bibsocamer.org/support-bsa/). You may also write to the BSA at 67 West Street, Suite 401, Unit C17, Brooklyn, NY 11222.Members of the Margaret B. Stillwell Society are: Anonymous (1) Martin Antonetti R. Dyke Benjamin in honor of Dr. Barbara A. Shailor John Bidwell G. Scott Clemons Bruce & Mary Crawford Elizabeth Denlinger in honor of Erin McGuirl Joan M. Friedman Thomas A. 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