Yale Indian Papers Project and Executive Editor Paul Grant-Costa join the Lewis Walpole Library. Paul Grant-Costa has joined the staff of the Lewis Walpole Library as Executive Editor of the Yale Indian Papers Project. While this represents a new and exciting focus for the LWL, the addition of the project (and its editor) to the Library may also be seen as a fitting continuation of founder W.S. Lewis’s interest in the region’s Native American history. The Yale Indian Papers Project (YIPP) is a documentary editing initiative whose mission is to collect, transcribe, annotate, and electronically publish primary source materials on New England Native Americans.  For more information, click here or contact Paul Grant-Costa by email at paul.grant-costa@yale.edu or by phone at 860-677-2140.

Awards announced for Summer Fellowships in British 18th-Century Studies for Yale Graduate Students. Two Yale Graduate Students were awarded Summer Fellowships for 2008. Nicole Wright, a graduate student in English Language and Literature, will pursue research on topics that include the eighteenth-century novel, the Anglo-Irish novel, adjuticational courtroom/trials as depicted in literature of the period, and character studies. Justin du Rivage, a graduate student in History, will conduct research on the foreign and imperial policies of Great Britain and France in the eighteenth century. For more details click here.