Eric Papenfuse

Eric Papenfuse was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 4, 1971. He attended the Boys' Latin School of Maryland, graduating in 1989 as the valedictorian.{{cite web|title=Valedictorian Speeches – The Boys' Latin School of Maryland|url=https://secure.boyslatinmd.com/valedictorian_speeches|access-date=March 10, 2018|archive-date=March 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311140803/https://secure.boyslatinmd.com/valedictorian_speeches|url-status=dead}} His father, Edward C. Papenfuse, is a retired Maryland state archivist.{{cite journal |last1=Papenfuse |first1=Eric Robert |title=The Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery |journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |date=1997 |volume=87 |issue=1 |pages=i–160 |doi=10.2307/1006634 |jstor=1006634}} His mother, Sallie Papenfuse, is a reading teacher at The Boys' Latin School of Maryland.{{Cite web|url=http://msa.maryland.gov/ecp/html/shortvit.html|title=Papenfuse Vita|website=Maryland State Archives|access-date=March 10, 2018}} He spent a decade at Yale pursuing an undergraduate and graduate in history.{{Cite web|url=https://yalealumnimagazine.com/blog_posts/1674|title=Eric Papenfuse '93, '96MPhil: a new chapter for Harrisburg|last=Branch|first=Mark Alden|date=January 10, 2014|website=Yale Alumni Magazine|access-date=March 11, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/97_07/gradschool.html|title=Milestone at a Crossroads|last=Fellman|first=Bruce|date=Summer 1997|website=Yale Alumni Magazine|access-date=March 11, 2018}} At Yale, he wrote the book, The Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery, which was published by the American Philosophical Society in 1997.

File:The Midtown Scholar Bookstore.jpg

Papenfuse started the Midtown Scholar Bookstore in 2000 because he wanted a gathering place in Harrisburg "where people could talk about books, where they could have intellectually engaged ideas about all sorts of issues of the day"{{Cite web|url=http://www.witf.org/arts-culture/2015/10/making-and-re-making-midtown-the-midtown-scholar.php|title=Making and Re-Making Midtown: The Midtown Scholar|last=Burkett|first=Cary|date=October 15, 2015|website=WITF|access-date=March 6, 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321010849/http://www.witf.org/arts-culture/2015/10/making-and-re-making-midtown-the-midtown-scholar.php|archive-date=March 21, 2016}} and "to listen to music, to drink coffee, to congregate." He envisioned his bookstore from the beginning as a Town Hall for the community.

The bookstore houses some 200,000 new, used and rare books as well as a warehouse full of over 2,000,000 books which are sold online. The Midtown Scholar is considered one of America's largest academic used bookstores and it is considered the driving force for the cultural revitalization of Harrisburg's Midtown. The New York Times book critic Dwight Garner described the bookstore as an "essentially religious experience. Vaut le voyage, as the Michelin guides like to say."{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/automobiles/autoreviews/what-i-discovered-on-my-flash-drive.html|title=What I Discovered on My Flash Drive|last=Garner|first=Dwight|date=December 30, 2013|website=The New York Times|access-date=March 5, 2018}} In 2023, the bookstore won Publishers Weekly's Bookstore of the Year Award.{{Cite web |last1=Kirch |first1=Claire |last2=Beeck {{!}} |first2=Nathalie op de |title=U.S. Book Show 2023: Midtown Scholar, Emily Bates Named PW Bookstore, Rep of the Year |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/92371-u-s-book-show-2023-midtown-scholar-emily-bates-named-pw-bookstore-rep-of-the-year.html |access-date=May 25, 2023 |website=PublishersWeekly.com |language=en}}

The Midtown Scholar has a coffee shop and a bakery run by P&R famous for their southern sweet potato pies.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pennlive.com/food/index.ssf/2015/11/sweet_potato_pie_thanksgiving.html|title=Sweet potato pies from P&R Bakery in Harrisburg: 'There's no comparison'|last=Gleiter|first=Sue|date=November 10, 2015|website=PennLive|access-date=March 6, 2018}} They host music concerts, author talks, book clubs and poetry readings. In the last year, the Midtown Scholar hosted the acclaimed author Salman Rushdie who presented his new novel The Golden House;{{Cite web|url=https://www.midtownscholar.com/calendar/salman-rushdie|title=An Evening with Salman Rushdie|date=September 29, 2017|website=Midtown Scholar Bookstore|access-date=March 10, 2018}} Mark Bowden, the author of Hue 1968;{{Cite web|url=https://www.midtownscholar.com/calendar/2017/9/9/mark-bowden-hue-1968-a-turning-point-of-the-american-war-in-vietnam|title=Mark Bowden in Conversation with Michael Neiberg|date=September 9, 2017|website=Midtown Scholar Bookstore|access-date=March 10, 2018}} Masha Gessen, a Russian-American journalist and critic of Putin;{{Cite web|url=https://www.midtownscholar.com/calendar/2017/11/20/an-evening-with-masha-gessen|title=An Evening with Masha Gessen|date=November 20, 2017|website=Midtown Scholar Bookstore|access-date=March 10, 2018}} and Patricia Lockwood, whose poems have appeared in the London Review of Books and The New Yorker.{{Cite web|url=https://www.midtownscholar.com/calendar/2017/6/6/an-evening-with-patricia-lockwood|title=An Evening with Patricia Lockwood|date=June 6, 2017|website=Midtown Scholar Bookstore|access-date=March 10, 2018}}

Papenfuse served briefly starting in January 2007 on Harrisburg's Authority board{{Cite web|url=http://abc27.com/2015/07/22/papenfuse-says-he-was-blacklisted-ostracized-during-8-year-journey-for-justice/|title=Papenfuse says he was 'blacklisted', 'ostracized' during 8-year journey for justice|last=Marcheskie|first=Dave|date=July 22, 2015|website=ABC 27 News|access-date=March 6, 2018|archive-date=March 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307023249/http://abc27.com/2015/07/22/papenfuse-says-he-was-blacklisted-ostracized-during-8-year-journey-for-justice/|url-status=dead}} (now known as Capital Region Water) which had overseen Harrisburg's botched incinerator and had led the city to near bankruptcy with more than $300 million in debt.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/us/21harrisburg.html|title=Harrisburg Finds Itself in Uncharted Financial Waters|last=Tavernise|first=Sabrina|date=July 20, 2011|website=The New York Times|access-date=March 10, 2018}} He resigned in November 2007 after a YouTube video showed him bringing up a mock Christmas gift list of strangely titled books for city officials.{{Cite web|url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com.dcls.idm.oclc.org/resources/doc/nb/news/11D7B0BEEAA93808?p=NewsBank|title=Has city heard the last of Eric? // Activist Papenfuse has kept silent for month.|last=Luciew|first=John|date=December 8, 2007|website=NewsBank|publisher=The Patriot-News|access-date=March 6, 2018}} Beginning in 2007, Papenfuse investigated city financial records to discover a billion dollar "debt bomb" and then-Mayor Stephen R. Reed's use of tens of millions of dollars of public funds to purchase artifacts, some of which became in Reed's private possession; after a public balk, it wasn't until 2013 when state attorney general Kathleen Kane would take his claims seriously, ultimately leading to Reed's indictment.{{Cite journal |last=Gambacorta |first=David |date=2016 |title=Called to Purchase: How mayor Stephen Reed shopped Harrisburg, PA, straight to hell |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44397762 |journal=The Baffler |issue=33 |pages=148–158 |jstor=44397762 |issn=1059-9789}}

After two unsuccessful Democratic primary bids in 2009 for a seat on the Harrisburg City Council and in 2011 for Dauphin County Commissioner,{{Cite web|url=http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2015/05/are_primary_election_results_i.html|title=Are primary election results an indicator of Mayor Papenfuse's growing power? Editorial|last=PennLive Editorial Board|date=May 23, 2015|website=PennLive|access-date=March 6, 2018}} Papenfuse reentered politics in January 2013 with his announcement that he would run for Mayor of Harrisburg. He won the 2013 mayoral election which began his political career and in 2017 won a second term as mayor. Prior to his career as a bookstore owner and a mayor, he was a teacher of Latin for Central Dauphin East High School and Linglestown Junior High School.{{Cite journal|last=Vegoe|first=Stephan|date=Winter 2014|title=Harrisburg's New Mayor|url=https://issuu.com/atlanticcommunicationsgroup/docs/hrn2014winter|journal=Harrisburg Regional News|pages=5|via=Issuu}}

File:Gov. Wolf and Mayor Papenfuse Announcing $3 Million in State Funding for Allison Hill Harrisburg.jpg in 2016 announcing $3 million in state funding toward revitalization project for Allison Hill]]

In the second year of his tenure as Mayor, Papenfuse initiated a Comprehensive Plan for the City of Harrisburg. The Plan was launched in 2015 and sought to encourage preservation of historic buildings, strengthen neighborhoods and the environment by promoting growth through improving the quality of life.{{cite web |url=http://harrisburgpa.gov/2015-comprehensive-plan/ |title=2015 Comprehensive Plan |website=City of Harrisburg |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906085352/http://harrisburgpa.gov/2015-comprehensive-plan/ |archive-date=September 6, 2015 }} The $200,000 Plan was to be completed in the Spring of 2016, but issues with the hired consultant, Bret Peters, of the Office of Planning and Architecture, lead to the City terminating the contract.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/03/harrisburg_comprehensive_plan_1.html|title = What happened to Harrisburg's $200K comprehensive plan?|date = March 3, 2017}} In July 2020, the City of Harrisburg 2020 Comprehensive Plan (HBG 2020) was drafted.{{Cite web|title=Comprehensive Plan|url=https://harrisburgpa.gov/comprehensive-plan/|access-date=September 15, 2021|website=City of Harrisburg|date=February 19, 2021 |language=en-US}} As of June 2021, final community input will be received for the last of the Public Hearings to be scheduled sometime in 2021 before adoption by City Council.{{Cite web|date=June 22, 2021|title=Harrisburg City Council Legislation Session Minutes|url=https://ecode360.com/documents/HA1391/public/612020408.pdf|access-date=September 14, 2021|website=City of Harrisburg}}

In 2016, The Patriot-News reported on two stories that dealt with Mayor Papenfuse. The first concerned that he owned 8 properties near the Third Street Cafe bar in which he had declared a business nuisance{{Cite web|url=http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/05/harrisburg_mayor_owns_8_proper.html|title=Harrisburg mayor owns 8 properties near bar he aims to close|last=Veronikis|first=Eric|date=May 19, 2016|website=PennLive|access-date=March 4, 2018}} and sought its closure and the second is the uncovering of his avoidance of paying overtime for his employees for several years by the Department of Labor.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/06/overtime_violations_at_midtown.html|title=Overtime violations at Midtown Scholar warehouse illustrate national problem|last=Barker|first=Paul|date=June 10, 2016|website=PennLive|access-date=March 4, 2018}} On June 13, 2016, the same day that Donald Trump revoked The Washington Post's press credentials,{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/13/donald-trump-just-banned-the-washington-post-from-covering-him-that-should-bother-everyone/|title=Donald Trump just barred Washington Post reporters from campaign events. That should bother you.|last=Cillizza|first=Chris|date=June 13, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=March 8, 2018}} Papenfuse issued a ban for the Patriot-News and directed his spokeswoman to no longer answer questions from the Patriot-News reporters and claimed that the reason was the Patriot-News being more like "Gawker ... not the equivalent of The Washington Post",{{Cite web|url=http://cumberlink.com/news/local/communities/harrisburg/papenfuse-insists-on-ban-of-pennlive-reporters/article_f2c696b5-811d-5ebc-b263-6be2f52911e1.html|title=Papenfuse insists on ban of PennLive reporters|last=Marcheskie|first=Dave|date=June 16, 2016|website=The Sentinel|access-date=March 4, 2018}} yet journalists responded by saying it was in response to two news stories that delved into his business holdings and practices.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/06/harrisburg_mayor_eric_papenfus.html|title=Harrisburg Mayor Eric Papenfuse refuses to answer PennLive reporter questions at news conference|last=Gleiter|first=Dan|date=June 20, 2016|website=PennLive|access-date=March 4, 2018}} Papenfuse's media censorship was featured by the Committee to Protect Journalists in Attacks on the Press: The New Face of Censorship.{{Cite book|title=Attacks on the Press: The New Face of Censorship|last=Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)|first=John Wiley & Sons|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2017|pages=45}}

TheBurg editor-in-chief Lawrence Binda cited City Finances, City Services, and Infrastructure among Papenfuse's most notable accomplishments during his two-term tenure. The city was able to run successive budget surpluses, obtaining good financial standing, and was able to double city staffing for its core services. Papenfuse made infrastructure a priority, rebuilding much of 3rd Street, beginning the two-way conversion of 2nd Street, implementing the city's first roundabouts, and seeding development in South Allison Hill, as well as most other neighborhoods. Binda asserted that the mayor should have "been more attentive to building and maintaining relationships," citing his feuds with City Council—among others—as his biggest downfall, despite attending council meetings (which both predecessors deemed beneath them). Also, Papenfuse's lack of public engagement was noted as another negative which Binda said "needs to be part of a mayor's routine schedule." Ultimately, Binda wrote that "Harrisburg is better for having had Eric Papenfuse as mayor for the past eight years."{{Cite web|date=November 30, 2021|title=Executive Exit: A reflection on a mayor's tenure|url=https://theburgnews.com/news/executive-exit-a-reflection-on-a-mayors-tenure|access-date=December 29, 2021|website=TheBurg|language=en-US}}

Voters interviewed for a story with Fox 43 felt that a common perception was that Midtown "gets all the attention" from Mayor Papenfuse, with less development elsewhere.{{Cite web|date=May 19, 2021|title=This is why some voters think Mayor Papenfuse lost the democratic nomination in Harrisburg and what they want from the next mayor|url=https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/this-is-what-people-want-out-of-the-next-mayor-of-harrisburg/521-e745d41f-f168-4b12-972e-254427337526|access-date=December 29, 2021|website=fox43.com|language=en-US}}

Papenfuse won a contested Democratic primary election in May 2013 by beating incumbent mayor Linda Thompson as well as Dan Miller and Lewis Butts.Pickel, Janet, May 21, 2013, [http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/05/harrisburg_mayors_race_wins_th.html "Harrisburg Mayor's Race: Eric Pappenfuse Wins the Democratic Primary Election"], PennLive. After losing to him in the primaries, Dan Miller, a Democrat, won the Republican nomination as a write-in and ran against Papenfuse in the general election as the Republican candidate .Foster, Brittany, November 5, 2013, [http://www.politicspa.com/papenfuse-wins-harrisburg-mayoral/52650/ "Papenfuse Wins Harrisburg Mayoral"], PoliticsPa.com. Papenfuse defeated him and several write-in candidates to win the mayor's seat on November 5, 2013. There was an unusual number of write-in votes for mayor, accounting for about 17% of the final vote.Snyder, Myles, November 6, 2013, [http://abc27.com/2013/11/06/papenfuse-wins-race-for-harrisburg-mayor/ "Papenfuse Wins Race for Harrisburg Mayor"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161028220608/http://abc27.com/2013/11/06/papenfuse-wins-race-for-harrisburg-mayor/ |date=October 28, 2016 }}, ABC27.com. Papenfuse assumed office on January 6, 2014.{{Election box begin no change

| title = Harrisburg Mayoral primary results, May 21, 2013{{Cite web|url=http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/05/harrisburg_mayor_primary_2013.html|title=Real-time Harrisburg mayoral primary results|last=Malawskey|first=Nick|date=May 21, 2013|website=PennLive|access-date=March 10, 2018}}

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| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 2,467

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| candidate = Dan Miller

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 2,066

| percentage = 32.2%

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| candidate = Linda Thompson

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 1,810

| percentage = 32.2%

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| votes = 64

| percentage = 0.01%

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| title = Harrisburg Mayoral election results, November 5, 2013{{Cite web|url=http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/11/live_election_results_harrisbu.html|title=Election results: Live coverage on Harrisburg, Carlisle, Susquehanna Township races, more|last=Malawskey|first=Nick|date=November 5, 2013|website=PennLive|access-date=March 10, 2018}}

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| candidate = Eric Papenfuse

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 3,618

| percentage = 49.66%

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| candidate = Dan Miller

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| votes = 2,333

| percentage = 32.02%

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| party = N/A

| votes = 1,334

| percentage = 18.31%

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Papenfuse won a contested Democratic Primary in the run-up to the Mayoral Election on May 17, 2017, with 48.5% of the votes. Gloria Martin-Roberts won 38.2% of the primary vote.{{Cite web|last=Vendel|first=Christine|date=May 17, 2017|title=Harrisburg mayor hangs on to Democratic nomination in hard-fought race|url=http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/05/harrisburg_mayor_race_democrat.html|access-date=March 6, 2018|website=PennLive}} The vote between Papenfuse and Martin-Roberts was split evenly between Harrisburg's West side which favored Papenfuse to Harrisburg's East side which favored Martin-Roberts. On November 7, 2017, Papenfuse won a second, 4-year term as Mayor by a large margin with two of his opponents in the Democratic Primaries, Martin-Roberts and Lewis Butts, running as write-in candidates against him.{{Election box begin no change

| title = Harrisburg Mayoral primary results, May 16, 2017{{Cite web|url=http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/05/results_of_dauphin_county_muni.html|title=Results of Dauphin County municipal and judicial primary election|last=Simmons-Ritchie|first=Daniel|date=May 17, 2017|website=PennLive|access-date=March 10, 2018}}

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| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 2,534

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| candidate = Gloria Martin-Roberts

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 1997

| percentage = 38.23%

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| candidate = Jennie Jenkins

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 490

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| candidate = Lewis L. Butts, Jr.

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 123

| percentage = 2.35%

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| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 70

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| title = Harrisburg Mayoral election uncontested, November 7, 2017{{Cite web|url=http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/11/election_results_for_dauphin_c.html|title=Election results for Dauphin County municipal races: Live updates|last=Malawskey|first=Nick|date=November 8, 2017|website=PennLive|access-date=March 10, 2018}}

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| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 3,786

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Papenfuse lost the May 18, 2021, Democratic Primary election to City Council President Wanda Williams by forty-six votes.{{Cite web|title=Election Results|url=https://www.dauphinc.org/election/?key=29&race=HARRISBURG|access-date=September 15, 2021|website=www.dauphinc.org}} On September 15, 2021, Papenfuse formally announced that he would run a write-in campaign in the November General Election.{{Cite web|title=Papenfuse seeking third term as Harrisburg mayor via write-in campaign|url=https://www.fox43.com/article/news/politics/harrisburg-mayor-eric-papenfuse-write-in-campaign/521-fce6e691-8b1e-41e2-907e-8c08b7c2323b|access-date=September 15, 2021|website=fox43.com|date=September 15, 2021 |language=en-US}} Williams won against Papenfuse in the general election by more than a 2–1 margin.{{cite news|last1=Binda|first1=Lawrance|last2=Conley|first2=Maddie|date=November 2, 2021|title=Wanda Williams elected Harrisburg mayor, beats back write-in challenge|work=The Burg|url=https://theburgnews.com/news/wanda-williams-elected-harrisburg-mayor-beats-back-write-in-challenge|access-date=November 3, 2021}}{{Election box begin no change

|title=2021 Harrisburg mayoral Democratic primary results{{cite web |last1=Feaser, Jr |first1=Gerald |title=Election Results |url=https://www.dauphinc.org/election/?key=29&race=HARRISBURG |website=www.dauphinc.org |publisher=Dauphin County Elections & Voter Registration Department |date=May 18, 2021}}}}

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|candidate=Wanda Williams

|votes=1,791

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|candidate=Eric Papenfuse (incumbent)

|votes=1,745

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|candidate=Dave Schankweiler

|votes=1,339

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|candidate=Otto Banks

|votes=1,243

|percentage=20.1%

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|candidate=Kevyn Knox

|votes=66

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He met his wife, Catherine Lawrence, in a graduate American history class at Yale University.{{Cite journal|last=Vegoe|first=Stephan|date=Winter 2014|title=Harrisburg's New Mayor|url=https://issuu.com/atlanticcommunicationsgroup/docs/hrn2014winter|journal=Harrisburg Regional News|pages=4–6}} After Lawrence and Papenfuse graduated from Yale University, in 1999 Lawrence received a position as an assistant professor of British history at Messiah College and they decided to move to Harrisburg. They found a large Victorian house on Front Street in Harrisburg's Shipoke neighborhood near the site of Harris' Ferry, the "most historic crossing place on the Susquehanna."{{Cite web|url=http://patrailsofhistory.com/historical-markers/harris-ferry|title=Harris' Ferry {{!}} Pennsylvania Trails of History|website=Pennsylvania Trails of History|access-date=March 7, 2018}}

He is the founder with his wife of The Eric Papenfuse and Catherine Lawrence Endowment Fund in Film and Media Studies of the University of California Press Foundation which has supported eight books on film studies. Their Endowment Fund supports "provocative books on the aesthetics, politics, history and sociocultural implications of cinema and other forms of mass media."{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucpress.edu/endowment.php?i=palaw|title=Eric Papenfuse and Catherine Lawrence Endowment Fund in Film and Media Studies|website=University of California Press|access-date=March 9, 2018}}

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