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UH Grad Student Earns Mellon Fellowship
Posted: April 2, 2007
Gary Bryant, a doctoral student in history at the University of Houston, recently received a Mellon Research Fellowship to conduct research at the Virginia Historical Society. This fellowship is part of a fund within the large Mellon program to support gender and women’s studies. Bryant is one of only 37 recipients from across the United States and the world. Bryant’s research focuses on an as yet unstudied aspect of the American Civil War: the increase in wage labor among women in the Confederate South. Bryant contends that a significant number of southern women, from all social classes, sought wage labor during the war out of necessity and that their experiences carried over to the post-war period. Upper-class women worked as government clerks, hospital matrons, and teachers. Yeoman and poor women often found employment in arsenals, government clothing depots, and textile mills. The UH Department of History congratulates Bryant on this achievement.
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