Kate Gregory, Director, Mississippi Political Collections, Dr. David Kieran, 2024 Montgomery Fellow, and David Nolen, Associate Dean of Archives & Special Collections
The University Libraries and Mississippi Political Collections were honored to host Dr. David Kieran as the 2024 Montgomery Fellow. Dr. Kieran, a historian specializing in war and society in contemporary U.S. culture, is the author, editor, or co-editor of five books, including his latest, Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military’s Mental Health Crisis (NYU, 2019).
During the recent 2024 G.V. “Sonny” Montgomery Lecture Series, he delivered an engaging presentation titled, “A Very Fragile Business: The Army, the GI Bill, and the Fate of the All-Volunteer Force in the 1980s.”
This lecture, along with the accompanying research fellowship, is funded by the G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery Foundation, which supports research utilizing the late congressman’s extensive collection of papers. Organized and led by Kate Gregory, Director of the Mississippi Political Collections, the annual research fellowship and lecture series aim to promote high-quality academic and professional studies. The fellowship offers an award of up to $5,000 to support travel expenses for scholars and other interested researchers conducting work within any of the MPC's extensive archival collections.
“We are thankful to the Montgomery Foundation for their generous support of this program. The Montgomery Fellowship and Lecture Series is a great opportunity to showcase exciting, impactful research that utilizes our unique collections” Gregory said.
Applications for the 2025 Fellowship will be accepted beginning December 1, 2024. For more information, please email Kate Gregory at kgregory@library.msstate.edu.
