The two Bristol IPS recipients are Hannah Clark in the , for her project ‘From Melton Mowbray to Middleburg: trans-Atlantic dialogues in fashionable fox-hunting, 1870-1930’, and Cameron Hunter from the for research into ‘US perceptions of China's space programme: a study of Congressional and declassified documents at the Library of Congress’.
The IPS offers early career researchers, research assistants and AHRC- and ESRC-funded PhD students the chance to undertake a research fellowship at several partner institutions in the USA and Japan, including the Library of Congress in Washington DC. The placements will enable the students to enhance their studies, while at the same time meeting new people, sharing ideas and broadening their academic careers.
The is the USA’s oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.