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From: Sylvestre, Jay <j.sylvestre(a)miami.edu>
Date: Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 3:01 PM
The University of Miami Special Collections and The Pan Am Historical
Foundation announce the twelfth annual Dave Abrams and Gene Banning Pan Am
Research Grant
<https://www.library.miami.edu/specialcollections/abrams-banning-grant.html>
competition. Up to $1,500 will be awarded to support scholarly research
using the Pan American World Airways, Inc. Records
<https://atom.library.miami.edu/asm0341> held by the University of Miami
Libraries’ Special Collections. The grant honors two of Pan Am’s most avid
historians, Dave Abrams and Gene Banning. Since its first international
flight in 1927, Pan Am positioned itself as a world leader in American
commercial aviation. The Pan Am records date from 1927 to the 1990s and
include administrative and financial files; technical and research reports;
public relations and promotional materials; internal publications including
newsletters, journals and press releases; and thousands of photographs.
The grant is open to advanced graduate students, independent scholars, and
faculty. Priority will be given to research proposals that will result in
publication in any media.
*Application Procedures*
Applicants must submit a proposal of no more than two pages describing
their research project and include a curriculum vitae or résumé.
*Application deadline is January 3, 2020.*
Please send inquiries and applications to:
The Dave Abrams & Gene Banning Pan Am Research Grant
c/o Jay Sylvestre
University of Miami Libraries
1300 Memorial Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146-0320
j.sylvestre(a)miami.edu
*About Dave Abrams and Gene Banning*
After graduating from the University of Miami, Dave Abrams (1919-2005)
joined Pan American Airways and worked for 42 years as a meteorologist,
navigator and Director of Flight Operations for Latin America. Abrams was
instrumental in the formation of The Pan Am Historical Foundation after the
company shut its doors in 1991, and in finding a home for the Pan Am’s
archives and memorabilia.
Gene Banning (1918-2006) was one of the longest serving pilots for Pan Am.
His aviation days started with the infamous flying boats in 1941 and ended
with Boeing 747s in 1978. An avid researcher, Banning was a guiding member
of The Pan Am Historical Foundation from its inception and the author of
Airlines of Pan American since 1927 (McLean, Va.: Paladwr, 2001).
*About the Pan Am Historical Foundation and the University of Miami
Libraries*
The Pan Am Historical Foundation is a group dedicated to preserving the
heritage of Pan American World Airways. For more information about the
Foundation, visit
http://www.panam.org/. The Special Collections of the
University of Miami Libraries preserves and provides access to research
materials focusing on the history and culture of Florida, the Caribbean and
Latin America. The Pan American World Airways, Inc. Records consists of
hundreds of boxes of materials and reigns as the most avidly consulted
single resource in Special Collections. For more information about the
Special Collections of the University of Miami Libraries, visit
https://www.library.miami.edu/specialcollections/index.html.
*Past Winners*
2018: Henry Knight Lozano, “The Flights That Bind: Pan Am’s
California-to-Hawai’i Route & Hawaiian Promotion and Statehood, 1936-1966”
2017: Bryce Evans, “Pan Am: A Gastronomic History”
2016: Sean Seyer, “Independent Internationalism in the Air: Pan American
Airlines, the Pan American Union, and the 1928 Havana Convention”
2015: Josue Sakata, Boston Public School Primary Source Sets
2014: Hadassah St. Hubert, “Visions of a Modern Nation: Haiti at the
World’s Fairs”
2013: Ken Fortenberry & Gregg Herken, “Point of No Return: Solving the
Mystery of the Lost Clipper”
2012: Felipe F. Cruz, “Flight of the Toucans: Technology and Culture in the
Brazilian Airspace”
2012: Gordon H Pirie examined Pan Am’s role in civil aviation to, and from,
in post-colonial Africa
2011: Jonathan Ruano, “Pan American Airways, the South Atlantic Route and
Rise of the American Empire”
2010: Houston Johnson, “Taking Off: The Politics and Culture of American
Aviation, 1927-1929”
2009: Augustine Meaher “Pan Am Arrives Down Under: A Diplomatic and
Aeronautical Accomplishment”
2009: Roger Turner, “Pan-Am’s Contribution to the Development of
Aeronautical Meteorology”
2007: Jennifer Van Vleck “No Distant Places: Aviation and American
Globalism, 1924-1968”
Thank you!
Jay Sylvestre
Special Collections Librarian
Public Services Coordinator, Kislak Center
Otto G. Richter Library
University of Miami
1300 Memorial Drive
Coral Gables, Florida 33146
(305) 284-3580
j.sylvestre(a)miami.edu
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