Swann Foundation Announces Its 2012-2013 Fellowship Winners

The Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon at the Library of Congress has named the five fellowship winners for the forthcoming academic year. The fellowships include access to the foundation's holding for research purposes.

One of the projects seems most directly related to comics and cartooning. Sadam Issa from the University of Wisconsin will use his fellow to support research into political cartoons in three Palestinian newspapers from 1948 to 2009.

Three of the projects being supported seem to have significant tangential comics/cartooning elements. Harvard's Rhae Lynn Barnes will be building a bibliographic database of minstrel show guides, which includes a number of cartoons about black life in America during her chose 1860-1965 timespan. Jill E. Burgajski from Northwestern will be looking at graphic art as a part of her study on the beginnings of the cultural Cold War in the 1940s. Julia Langbein's sudy of Salon culture caricature in the mid-19th century will seek to look at that visual art form's place within the wider contest of French popular art. Langbein is at the University of Chicago.
 
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