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Maureen Smith and Rita Liberti have been named as the joint recipients of the 2006 Ken Doherty Memorial Fellowship, USA Track & Field announced Monday.
Named for former decathlon champion, coach, meet director and writer Ken Doherty, the fellowship is given annually by USA Track & Field to provide researchers with the time and resources to pursue the serious study of track and field, and to honor the man after whom it is named.
Smith, of California State University, Sacramento, and Liberti, of California State University, East Bay, will collaborate on a project titled, "Women's Track and Field at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in American Amateur Track and Field, 1930-1970."
Smith is the author of a recently published biography of Wilma Rudolph. Her previous awards include a 2002 NEH Fellowship and a 2004 research grant from the International Olympic Committee. Liberti has written and lectured extensively on a variety of topics pertaining to race and gender, including the role of women's basketball in historically black colleges.
The Doherty Fellowship will help defray the fellow's travel costs to and from Los Angeles to use the National Track & Field Research Collection at the Amateur Athletic Foundation Sports Library. The fellowship includes workspace at the foundation, reference assistance, access to commercial databases and the Internet, and full use of the National Track & Field Research Collection and related library collections.
For more information on USA Track & Field and the Ken Doherty Fellowship, visit USATF.org.
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