August 11, 2005
Clark University Student from Juneau Receives Anton Fellowship for Photo Project
WORCESTER, Mass. - Christopher S. Miller of Juneau, AK, is one of ten Clark University undergraduates who will pursue independent scholarly and creative activities this summer and during the upcoming academic year with support from the Anton Fellowship Program.
Miller is creating a photo exhibit and hand-made book on the history of the Standard Foundry in Worcester - an abandoned, vacant, dilapidated building built during the 19th century Industrial Revolution that employed thousands of immigrants to Worcester. He is taking photographs and working on oral histories with former employees of the foundry. Read more about Miller’s project online at www.clarku.edu/research/access/anton/2005/millerdiary.shtml
“Where some may look at the ruins of the industrial section of Main South and see an ugly dilapidated building, I see a unique beauty,” said Miller.
“This project is a perfect and complimentary attribute to Chris’s skills as a documentary photographer added with his fascination and interest in Worcester's history,” said Stephen DiRado, instructor of photography at Clark University.
An international relations and studio art major, Miller is a member of Clark's Class of 2006. He is the son of Michael and Judith Miller of Portland, Oregon, and is a 1998 graduate of Juneau Douglas High School.
This is the fifth year of the Anton Fellowship Program, which was created by a gift from Barbara ’56 and Thomas ’56 Anton to give undergraduates more opportunities to explore their intellectual interests. The fellowships range from $500 to $2,500. Recipients also become members of the Society of Anton Fellows, which meets with faculty mentors at special gatherings throughout the year to share their research experiences. The Anton Fellowship Program is directed by Professor Sharon Krefetz.
Krefetz said this year's fellows were “a terrific group of students.”
“They’re pursuing a wide range of topics for their projects and are traveling all over the world--from Africa to South America and Worcester to San Francisco--to do them,” she said. Krefetz said all of the students “have a genuine passion for their projects and a keen desire to share what they learn with each other and with the Clark community.”
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the United States, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the accelerated BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition-free for eligible students.
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