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Jamestown Community College history teacher receives fellowship

JAMESTOWN — Dennis Collins, adjunct professor of history at Jamestown Community College, has received a First Union Fellowship from the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jeffersonian Studies. The Robert H. Smith ICJS is a multidisciplinary research center that oversees the work of several departments at Monticello and supports the ongoing international study of Thomas Jefferson and his world.

The fellowship includes a summer residency at the Center. The ICJS fellowship program for domestic and international scholars promotes research of Jefferson’s life and times and the community at Monticello. Since its founding, the ICJS has hosted nearly 300 domestic and international scholars from the U.S. and 25 countries around the world, including Pulitzer-Prize winning historians Alan Taylor and Jack Rakove. The Center offers short-term fellowships that allow researchers and teachers to consult with Monticello scholars and librarians and to utilize the resources of the Jefferson Library and the University of Virginia libraries.

Founded in 1994 by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., the private, nonprofit organization that has owned and operated Monticello since 1923, the ICJS has created a network of scholars, teachers, and students who engage a global audience in a dialogue with Jefferson’s ideas. Through a fellowship program, international scholarly conferences, panel discussions, teacher workshops, lectures, and curriculum-based tours, the ICJS establishes relationships with people from around the world.

The ICJS encompasses the departments of archaeology, research, publications, adult enrichment, the 15,500-square foot Jefferson Library, and the editorial operations of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series. An Advisory Board of acclaimed scholars and statesmen helps guide the Center’s activities.

While in residence at the Center, Collins will research child labor at Monticello. He will be utilizing the Center’s Digital Archeological Archive of Comparative Slavery, a unique technological tool available through the Center.

Through his association with the Community College Humanities Association, Collins has attended numerous workshops and conferences in the Charlottesville area over the years, including studying at the University of Virginia. In the past, he has been fortunate enough to receive a Fulbright Memorial Fellowship to study in Japan and a teaching fellowship through the Kosciuszko Foundation to teach in Gdansk, Poland.

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