Samuel Victor Constant Research Fellowship Program Partners with Columbia; Erin Null Chosen as Inaugural Awardee
Pursuant to our core mission of perpetuating the memory of the brave and hardy men who assisted in establishing the colonies of America, the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New York is pleased to have entered into an agreement with Columbia University that will restart our Samuel Victor Constant Fellowship Program. The program will fund graduate-level research into colonial-era American History.
We selected Columbia as our partner institution for this program after discussions with many institutions of higher learning in our state with the capacity to accommodate our program. Columbia stood out for the strength of its colonial American history faculty, the quantity and quality of its published scholarship, and the presence of administrative structures suHicient to ensure an appropriate selection process for our award. We note in this context that the winner of the Society’s Book Award for published work in the field went to a Columbia professor this year; the winner selected to receive the prize next year is also a Columbia professor. As an added bonus, our Society’s founder and the namesake of this program, Samuel Victor Constant, was himself a graduate of both Columbia College and Columbia Law School.
We are further pleased to announce that Columbia has chosen the inaugural recipient of our award: Erin Null, who is working towards a dissertation on late Dutch and early English New York, with a particular interest in its religious and transatlantic aspects.