The Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship, a joint program of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) and the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), permits an architectural historian to work on a 12-week HABS project during the summer. The Fellow will either conduct research on a nationally significant building or site and prepare a written history to become part of the permanent HABS collection, or conduct research on a particular topic relating to architectural history in support of future HABS projects. The Fellow will be stationed in the field working in conjunction with a HABS measured drawings team, or in the HABS Washington, D.C. office.

AWARD STIPEND

The award consists of a $10,000 stipend. The 2009 Tompkins award will be announced during the Society's 62nd Annual Meeting held in April in Pasadena, California. The award also will be announced in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Newsletter of the Society after the presentation.

ELIGIBILITY

Applicants should be pursuing graduate studies in architectural history or other related fields.

METHOD OF APPLICATION

Applicants adhere to the same application requirements as new applicants for historian to the HABS/HAER/HALS Summer Program. Applications for Summer 2009 can be submitted from November 1, 2008 through February 1, 2009 (postmark date).

Application should be submitted to:

Lisa Davidson, Coordinator
Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship
Heritage Documentation Programs Division
National Park Service (2270)
1201 Eye Street, NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
TEL: (202) 354-2180
FAX: (202) 371-6473
email: NPS_HABS@nps.gov

NOTE: Applicants not selected as the Tompkins Fellow will automatically be considered for the HABS/HAER/HALS Summer Program.

PAST FELLOWS

Past fellows have worked with measured drawings teams in the field as part of what has become the traditional summer documentation format for HABS and HAER. Fellows participating in summer projects have produced historical reports on varied sites for HABS, such as Rancho Santa Fe in California (1991), Lowell Observatory in Arizona (1994), Graeme Park in Pennsylvania (2000), and the William Allen White House in Kansas (2002), as well as contributed descriptive information to HAER for its look into Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Carriage Roads (2001). Fellows based in the Washington, D.C., office have provided research and text to supplement concurrent documentation efforts such as the southern textile mill housing study (1997) and the analysis of the rowhouse building type (1998). The fellows also have conducted independent research, studying the U.S. Naval Asylum in Philadelphia (2003), the urban renewal area in Southwest Washington, D.C., (2004) and Springhill Lake and Old Greenbelt both in Greenbelt, Maryland, (2005).

A list of past winners of the fellowship is as follows: