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Alicia Adams.

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A Boylston Family Mystery

By Elaine Grublin & Kate Veins

Each year the MHS grants a number of research fellowships to scholars from around the country. For more information about the different fellowship types, click the headings below.

Our fellowship programs bring a wide variety of researchers working on a full range of topics into the MHS. If any of the research topics are particularly interesting to you, keep an eye on our events calendar. All research fellows present at brown-bag lunch programs as part of their commitment to the MHS.

MHS Short-term Fellowships
African-American Studies Fellowship
Heather Cooper, University of Iowa
“Representing the Race: African American Performances of Slavery and Freedom in the Nineteenth Century”

Alumni Fellowship
Lauri Coleman, William and Mary
“Interpretations of New England Weather in the Revolutionary Era”

Andrew Oliver Fellowship
Katelyn Crawford, University of Virginia
“Mobility and Portrait Painting in the Late Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World”

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship
Frances Clarke, U

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Assemblywoman Alicia L. Hyndman was elected to the New York State Assembly on November 3^rd, 2015, in the 29^th AD, encompassing the neighborhoods of Laurelton, Rosedale, St. Albans, Addisleigh Park, Hollis, Springfield Gardens, and Jamaica. The daughter of Caribbean immigrants, Assemblywoman Hyndman emigrated to the U.S. from London, England, as a young child. She spent her formative years growing up in Hollis & South Ozone Park attending public schools P.S. 34, I.S. 109, J.H.S. 226 & John Adams High School.

Assemblywoman Hyndman serves as the Chair of the Standing Committee on Higher Education. Prior to being elected to the State Assembly, Ms. Hyndman served on the NYC Department of Education’s Community District Education Council 29 (CEC29) for ten years, the last four years as President. Leading advocacy for the 36 elementary and middle schools in the district, through collaborative leadership, she was able to bring in $30 million in capital funding for technology upgrades, facilities improvements, playground rehabilitation and other amenities to enhance the quality

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Alicia Melamed-Adams b. 1927

Painter Alicia Melamed Adams (née Goldschlag) was born into a Jewish family in Boryslav, in eastern Poland (now Ukraine) in 1927. As a teenager she studied drawing with the Polish-Jewish writer, artist and art teacher Bruno Schulz (later shot by a Nazi officer in 1942). After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, she was the only member of her family to survive after the Jewish population of Drohobycz was forced into a ghetto. In 1946 she met and married fellow survivor Adam Melamed in Warsaw. After two years in Paris, the couple moved to Britain, where she trained at St Martin’s School of Art, and in 1963 painted a series of works recalling her earlier life and the loss of family and childhood friends. These remained hidden in her studio for 20 years before she felt able to exhibit them. She also studied at Sir John Cass School of Art, London, and produced pottery and etchings. In 1965 Melamed Adams became a member of the United Society of Artists with whom she regularly exhibited. She showed in group exhibitions in Londo