by Rebecca Sneed
Hannibal-LaGrange University’s Dr. Mark Quintanilla, professor of history and a 2012-13 Fulbright Fellow, has been awarded the Howard H. Peckham Fellowship on Revolutionary America which affords him with a stipend and the opportunity to do research at the Clements Library at the University of Michigan.
The William L. Clements Library houses original resources for the study of American history and culture from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. The holdings at the library are among the best in the world. Established in honor of the Clements Library’s second director, the Peckham Fellowship is a highly-competitive post-doctoral fellowship that supports research on American history between 1764 and 1783.
“I indeed feel both very humbled by my inclusion to the program and very blessed for God’s provision and encouragement,” said Dr. Quintanilla.
“It is a great privilege to have Dr. Quintanilla here at HLGU,” said Dr. Miles Mullin, vice president for academic administration. “A scholar’s scholar, he loves to dig around in old documents, weaving them together in a comprehensible final product that enhances our knowledge about the past, and, to be sure, human nature.”