Recent Mini-Grant Recipients and Their Projects
2025
Tammy Farmer, for expenses related to her project gathering oral histories of seniors in Humboldt County, California.
Marilyn Geary, for continuing her work on her memoir and travelogue about her journeys to Tuscany’s hot springs.
Maria Sakovich, for continuing the translation of materials relevant to the history of Russian refugee-emigrants, who came to California after the Revolution.
Liz Schott, for funding for research on her biography of textile designer and weaver Dorothy Wright Liebes.
2024
Marilyn Geary, for editing a projected book entitled Taking the Tuscan Waters: A Search for Healing in Tuscany’s Historic Hot Springs.
Steve Levi, for expenses related to the publication of the book Taken by Force about native and white cultures in 1885 Alaska.
Peter Meyerhof, for funding a project commemorating the life of Vicente Carrillo, a Native American tribal leader who served at the Sonoma Mission.
Maria Sakovich, for translating documents for a book about her grandfather, Archpriest Vladimir Sakovich, and his work on behalf of emigre Russians in California.
Elizabeth Thacker-Estrada, for expenses related to illustrating and printing a family memoir, From La Plata to Santa Ana: The Careers of Joseph and Ernestine Thacker, to be deposited in libraries and archives.
2023
No awards.
2021
Dot Brovarney, for a book entitled Mendocino Refuge: Lake Leonard and Reeves Canyon.
Patricia Cullinan, for expenses relating to collection of oral histories of Sonoma Valley residents.
Taryn Edwards, supporting her web production of a biography of Andrew Hallidie, a history of the Mechanics’ Institute, and a guide for local historians.
Joe Miller, for continued research and writing of a work on “Wild Women Suffragists.”
2020
Steven Levi, for expenses of a visual presentation of his poem, “The Contract,” about women’s suffrage.
Pam Peirce, for editing of her biography of Katherine Gibson Wicks.
2019
Joe Miller, for his article on “Wild Women Suffragists.”
Anne Evers Hitz, for her book, Lost Department Stores of San Francisco.
2018
Jim Gasperini, for editing and other expenses in preparation of a book manuscript with the working title Fire in the Mind: How We Imagined the Non-Living Relative that Gave Us Control of the World.
Richard Hurley, to revise and reprint panels of a traveling exhibit, California in the Civil War.
Joe Miller, for research, editing and illustrations for an article, “Wild Women Suffragists and the Sex Scandals that Almost Sank the Movement.”
2017
Marilyn Geary, for translations and copying of materials relating to her work on Swiss-Italian immigrants to California and Australia
Joanne Lafler, toward publication of her biography of Harry Lafler
Peter Meyerhof, in support of trying to determine location of the Great Adobe Church of the Sonoma Mission
Margaretta Mitchell, to help fund an exhibition of photographs for a symposium on Isadora Duncan
Cathy Robbins, for travel in Calabria to do research for her book on this province of southern Italy
Monika Trobits, for photo rights and reproductions for her book on the history of coffee in the San Francisco Bay Area