(COLUMBIA, SC) Columbia College junior Joye A. Shields, a history major from Spartanburg, S.C. has won the College's 2004 Savory PURL Scholarship Award, a prestigious endowed research award named for late professor and dean Dr. Jerold J. Savory.
The annual award provides highly selective, competitive funding for collaborative undergraduate research mentored by a Columbia College teacher-scholar. Shields' mentor is Dr. Hyman S. Rubin III, assistant professor of history.
The research Shields will undertake is an examination of the role of women in South Carolina during the women's suffrage movement. It will include a substantive analysis of women leaders such as Susan Frost, Anita Mabel, Carrie Pollitzer, and Ida Salley Reamer, who faced innumerable barriers in a state where race, class, and gender issues posed difficult challenges.
"This type and level of research," says Dr. John Zubizarreta, director of honors and faculty development, "highlights Columbia College's strong focus on academic excellence, collaborative inquiry, and liberal learning."
