FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Historic Santa Fe Foundation (HSFF) announces the availability of a fellowship established in 2023 for the purpose of encouraging regional high school upperclassmen to engage with Santa Fe’s history and present-day preservation efforts. The Fellowship will be awarded to high school juniors and seniors enrolled in Santa Fe, Los Alamos, San Miguel, and potentially Mora and Taos counties who are interested in exploring career fields including museum studies, historic preservation, architecture, and allied disciplines. Fellows will work with HSFF staff, committee members, and guest speakers to complete a research project on New Mexico’s history and present it at a reception in April of 2025. Upon successful completion of their responsibilities Fellows will be awarded a sum of $500 for college tuition.

Applications for the 2024-2025 fellowship are now open through September 22, 2024.

Learn more and apply at www.historicsantafe.org/hs-fellowship
RESEARCH PROJECTS
The HSFF research project is one of the three key elements of the fellowship program and affords students the opportunity to explore an aspect of historic or heritage preservation in New Mexico. These projects should contextualize a historical event, cultural facet, or community ceremony. For example, research projects could survey the impacts of the Old Santa Fe Trail in the nineteenth century, examine Sunmount Sanitorium’s multifaceted legacies, or discuss competing perspective and controversies surrounding the Carson Obelisk. These projects should consider how the built environment, or a cultural ritual, impacted Santa Fe’s historical landscape.

HSFF staff members will help students generate topic proposals and focus research trajectories. Students are required to turn in a topic proposal, first and final drafts. Projects should be driven by an analytical thesis statement and supported by substantial primary sources and secondary scholarship. Ten referenced sources will anchor the research.

RESEARCH PAPERS
Papers should be between 2000-2500 words. All references must be put in Chicago Manual Style and included in a bibliography. Research projects will culminate in a final presentation at San Miguel Chapel on Wednesday, April 23, 2025.

COMMUNITY SERVICE & ART PROJECTS
Community service and art projects may substitute research papers. Fellows proceeding with this path will undertake interdisciplinary, project-based studies and are encouraged to integrate history, art, design, politics, community organization, economic development, urban planning, or tourism into their projects. This option has been designed with a strong focus on preparing fellows for the working world.

Some degree of writing is still required for community service and art projects, fellows on this path must conduct research and submit an explanation of their thesis, research process, project development, and an evaluation of the success of their project. Fellows interested in pursuing this track of the fellowship, must receive approval from High School Fellowship leads Hanna Churchwell, HSFF Education Programs and Publications Manager, and Nicholas Wirth, HSFF Board Member, before proceeding with a project.

SESSION SCHEDULE
A hybrid meeting option is available for students who reside outside of Santa Fe County.

• Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | 5:30-7:30 pm
• Wednesday, November 13, 2024 | 5:30-7:30 pm
• Wednesday, December 11, 2024 | 5:30-7:30 pm
• Wednesday, February 12, 2025 | 5:30-7:30 pm
• Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | 5:30-7:30 pm
• Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | 5-7 pm | Final Presentations at San Miguel Chapel