Partnerships
CLAW-Rothermere Visiting Fellowship Program
Partnering with the Rothermere American Institute (RAI) at Oxford University, the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program (CLAW) established the CLAW-Rothermere Visiting Fellowship Program to draw attention to the wealth of archival, architectural, and archaeological material in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and its environs.
The breadth and depth of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø resources affirm the city’s historic connections with the United Kingdom. The program reinforces ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø as a key node in the wider Atlantic World, not least in relation to the history of the transatlantic slave trade and the legacy thereof.
The establishment of this annual Fellowship attests to the close connections between ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and the United Kingdom, and the recognition among Atlantic Studies scholars worldwide of the crucial importance of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in the Atlantic World. That the inaugural 2020 Fellowship was taken up in the same year as the city of the 350th anniversary of the first permanent British settlement in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in 1670 makes the establishment of this scholarly connection between the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and Oxford University especially significant.
2020
Stephen Tuck
Professor of History at Oxford University and
Tutorial Fellow of Pembroke College
For his fellowship in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, Tuck was scheduled to continue his research on the South Carolina childhood of Francis Grimke (1850-1937), one of the most renowned pastors and civil rights activists of his era.