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Oregon Heritage Fellowships
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Application
Previous awardees
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One Heritage Fellowship awardee in 2010 researched and presented about the electrification of rural Oregon.
Rural electrification was the topic of one 2010 student.
Heritage Programs provides 1-3 fellowships to undergraduate students who are seniors and to graduate students for researching, writing and presenting a topic related to history, geography, archaeology, cultural heritage, or historic preservation in Oregon. Fellowship awardees make presentations of their research at the Oregon Heritage Conference.

Application
 
Applications are due Oct. 19, 2011. See the application information.
Previous awardees
Katie Archambault, Linfield College, "Rural Electrification in Oregon: 1930-1955." 
 
Heidi Beierle, University of Oregon, "Pedaling Oregon's Historic Roadways: Bicycle Tourism as a Rural Economic Development Vehicle."
 
Heather Burmeister, Portland State University, "Tuning In, Dropping Out:  Documenting Lesbian Land Communities in the Pacific Northwest."
 
 
 
Eliot Fackler, University of Oregon, "Protesting the Industrial Freeway:
Neighborhood Activisim and Urban Planning in the Interstate 505 Freeway
Revolt."
 
Megan Geigner, Reed College, ""The Oregon Chautauqua Circuit: Building the
Foundation of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival."
 
Melissa Ruhl, University of Oregon, " 'Forward You Must Go': American Indian Youth, Education and Cultural Heritage in the 1960s at Chemawa."
 
Tina Schweikert, Oregon State University, "Oregon's Waldo Hills: The Historic
Transformation of a Sublime Landscape."
 
 
Amanda Strauss, Willamette University, "Seeing Oregon Through Thread and
Beads: A Material Culture Study of the History of Women, 1840-1930"
 
Wendy Ann Wright, Portland State University, "Archaeological Resource
Preservation: Developing a Model for the City of Portland."

Page updated: August 25, 2011