University of Virginia Library

Childress, Vandersee Win Grants
For Post-Doctoral Research Work

By MARGARET ALFORD

Profs. James F. Childress and Charles
A. Vandersee have been named recipients
of 1972-73 American Council of Learned
Societies (ACLS) post-doctoral
fellowships.

In national competition, the ACLS
awarded 17 fellowships for
cross-disciplinary studies and 65
fellowships for humanities and related
social sciences research. The awards are
for periods of six months to one year.

Messrs. Childress and Vandersee
will take a year's leave of absence for
their post-graduate research.

Mr. Childress, associate religious
studies professor, will spend the 1972-73
year under a cross-disciplinary studies
fellowship as a Law and Religion Fellow
at Harvard Law School. His projects
include an examination of some
relationships between religion, morality,
and law on specific areas such as
conscientious objection.

Yale University Press several weeks
ago published Mr. Childress' book, Civil
Disobedience and Political Obligation.
The Book stimulated his interest in his
field of study for next year, he said.

Mr. Vandersee, associate English
professor and assistant College dean, will
spend - next year at the Massachusetts
Historical Society in Boston under a
humanities fellowship. He will be
associate editor of the letters of American
historian Henry Adams (1838-1918).

The letters will be published by
Harvard University Press, which has
commissioned as the editor-in-chief
Northwestern University Prof. Ernest
Samuels, Pulitzer Prize biographer of Mr.
Adams.

Mr. Vandersee wrote a doctoral
dissertation at UCLA on Mr Adams, and
has also published several articles on him
in various scholarly journals.

The current Henry Adams project will
probably publish 4,000 of Mr. Adams
letters in a total of six or seven volumes,
Mr. Vandersee said.

The ACLS is a private non-profit
federation of thirty-five national
scholarly associations "devoted to the
advancement of humanistic studies in all
fields of learning.

"A few of the original letters are in
the Alderman Library Manuscript Room,
having been purchased by Clifton Waller
A Barrett, but the vast majority are at the
Massachusetts Historical Society," he
added.