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ADAMS, GRETCHEN A.
Fellowship:
Peterson 00-01, "The Specter of Salem in American Culture" (Ph.D. cand. in history, New Hampshire)
Education:
Oregon, B.A., 94, M.A., 96; New Hampshire, Ph.D., 01
Current Position: asst. prof. of history, Texas Tech
Fellowship Publications:
"Mysteries, Memories and Metaphors: The Salem Witchcraft Trials in the American Imagination," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 110 (2000): 269-72; "The Strange Career of the Salem Witches," OAH Magazine of History (2002); assoc. ed., The Records of the Salem Witch Hunt, (forthcoming, Cambridge Univ. Press); The Specter of Salem in American Culture (forthcoming, Univ. of Chicago Press)
Address:
Dept. of History, Texas Tech University, Box 41013, Lubbock, Texas 79409
Web Page: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/historydepartment/People/faculty/members/adams_gretchen.php
[Updated 2005]

ADELMAN, JOSEPH M.
Fellowship:
Botein 07-08, "The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765-1789" (Ph.D. cand. in history, Johns Hopkins)
Education: Harvard, A.B., 02; Johns Hopkins, M.A. 06
[Updated 2007]

ALBANESE, CATHERINE L.
Fellowship:
Daniels 77-78, "Davy Crockett Almanacs" (prof. of religion, Wright State)
Fellowship: Haven, 83-84, "The Divine Harmonia: Transcendentalism, Popular Religion, and Healing Movements in Nineteenth-Century America" (prof. of religion, Wright State)
Education:
Chestnut Hill, B.A., 62; Duquesne, M.A., 68; Chicago, M.A., 70, Ph.D., 72
Current Position: prof. of religious studies, California at Santa Barbara
Fellowship Publications: "King Crockett: Nature and Civility on the American Frontier," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 88 (1979): 225-49; "Savage, Sinner, and Saved: Davy Crockett, Camp Meetings, and the Wild Frontier," American Quarterly 33 (1981): 482-501; "Davy Crockett and the Wild Man," in Michael A. Lofaro, ed., Davy Crockett: The Man, the Legend, the Legacy, 1786-1986 (Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1985): 80-101; "Physic and Metaphysic in Nineteenth-Century America: Medical Sectarians and Religious Healing," Church History 55 (1986): 489+; Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age (1990)
Other Publications:
Sons of the Fathers: The Civil Religion of the American Revolution (1976); Corresponding Motion: Transcendental Religion and the New America (1977); America: Religions and Religion (1981; 2nd ed., 1992; 3rd ed.,1998); The Spirituality of the American Transcendentalists: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amos Bronson Alcott, Theodore Parker, and Henry David Thoreau (1988); A Cobbler's Universe: Religion, Poetry, and Performance in the Life of a South Italian Immigrant (New York: Continuum Books, 1997); American Spiritualities: A Reader (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2001)
Web Page: http://www.religion.ucsb.edu/faculty/albanese.html
[Updated 2005]

ALBAUGH, GAYLORD P.
(Died, Dec. 20, 2002)
Fellowship:
U.S. Steel 72-73, "American Religious Newspapers and Periodicals, 1730-1830" (prof. of Christian history, McMaster)
Fellowship: R.A. 89-90, "American Religious Newspapers and Periodicals, 1730-1830" (prof. of Christian history, McMaster)
Education:
Ohio State, A.B., 32; Colgate/Rochester Divinity School, B.D., 36; Grad. work, Divinity School, Chicago, 36-39, 64-66; McMaster Divinity, D.D., 78
Fellowship Publications:
essays on Anti-Missionary movement, religious tract movement, Sunday School movement, Seamen's movement, in Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. V. Ferm (New York: Philosophical Library, 1945); "Antimissionary Movement," in Lefferts A. Loetscher, ed., Twentieth-Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1955); "American Presbyterian Periodicals and Newspapers, 1752-1830, with Library Locations," Parts 1-4, Journal of Presbyterian History 41-42 (1963-64); History and Bibliography of American Religious Periodicals and Newspapers Established From 1730 Through 1830 (American Antiquarian Society, 1994)
Other Publications:
numerous essays in religious journals, book reviews
[Updated 2003]

ALLGOR, CATHERINE
Fellowship:
Peterson 95-96, "Political Parties: Society and Politics in Washington City, 1800-1832" (Ph.D. cand. in history, Yale)
Education:
Bucks County Comm. College, A.A., 78; Mount Holyoke, B.A., 92; Yale, M.A., 92, M.Phil., 95, Ph.D., 98
Current Position:
prof. of history, California at Riverside
Fellowship Publications: Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (Univ. Press of Virginia, 2000) [James H. Broussard First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 2000]; A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation (Henry Holt, 2006)
Other Publications:
"'A Republican in a Monarchy': Louisa Catherine Adams in Russia," Diplomatic History (Winter 1997)
Address: Department of History, 1212 HMNSS Building, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521
Web Page: http://history.ucr.edu/people/allgor/allgor.html
[Updated 2008]

ALLISTON, APRIL
Fellowship:
Peterson 94-95, "A Cultural Biography of James Fenimore Cooper" (asst. prof. of comparative literature, Princeton)
Education:
Yale, B.A., 80, Ph.D., 88
Current Position: assoc. prof. of comparative literature, Princeton
Fellowship Publications: (w/ Pamela J. Schirmeister) "Taking Precautions: Gender Masquerade and Authorial Persona in James Fenimore Cooper," in Frederick R. Karl, ed., Biography and Source Studies, vol 3 (New York: AMS Press, 1997): 39-54; (w/ Pamela J. Schirmeister) "James Fenimore Cooper: Entrepreneur of the Self," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 107 (1997)
Other Publications:
"The Values of a Literary Legacy: Retracing the Transmission of Value through Female Lines," Yale Journal of Criticism 4 (1990): 109-27; "Female Sexuality and the Referent of Enlightenment Realisms," in Margaret Cohen and Christopher Prendergast, eds., Spectacles of Realism: Body, Gender, Genre (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1995); Virtue's Faults; or, Women's Correspondences in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Palo Alto: Stanford Univ. Press, 1996); "Gender and the Rhetoric of Evidence in Early Modern Historical Narratives," Comparative Literature Studies 33, no. 3 (1996)
Web Page: http://complit.princeton.edu/index.php?app=people&id=1
[Updated 2005]

ALTICE, ERIC
Fellowship:
Reese 00-01, "Taking the Heathen to the Countryside: Missionary Publications and the Representations of the 'Exotic' in Antebellum America" (Ph.D. cand. in history, California at Los Angeles)
Education:
San Francsico State, B.A., 90, M.A., 95; California at Los Angles, Ph.D. 03
Current Position: lecturer, California State University, Long Beach
[Updated 2005]

ANDERSON, JENNIFER L.
Fellowship:
Peterson 04-05, "Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade in the Eighteenth-Century" (Ph.D. cand. in history, New York Univ.)
Fellowship: Mellon Post-diss., 06-07, "Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade, 1725-1825" (Ph.D. cand. in history, New York Univ.)
Education: Barnard, B.A., 88; Delaware, M.A., 91; New York Univ., M.A., 01
Fellowship Publications: "Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade and the Commodification of Nature in the 18th Century," Early American Studies, 2:1 (Spring 2004) [2004 Prize for an Outstanding Journal Article in Early American Economic History]; "Better Judges of the Situation: Environmental Realities and the Problem of Imperial Authority in the Bay of Honduras," (Working Paper, Atlantic History Seminar, Harvard University, 2005); "Bounding Oceans, Encompassing Forests: Mobility & Dislocation in the Atlantic Mahogany Trade," (Working Paper, Atlantic History Seminar, Harvard University, 2004)
Other Publications: "American Horticulture Observed: An Annotated Bibliography of Travel Literature," in Peter Benes, ed., People and Plants (Boston: Boston University Scholarly Publications, 1995)
[Updated 2006]

ANDERSON, JILL E.
Fellowship:
Peterson 03-04, "Nothing Done! The Poet in Early Nineteenth-Century American Culture" (asst. ed., Thomas Jefferson Foundation)
Education: Carleton, B.A., 88; Vanderbilt, M.A., 91; Rutgers, Ph.D., 01
Current Position: M.S. cand., information studies, Texas at Austin
Other Publications: "'Be Up and Doing': Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Poetic Labor," Journal of American Studies 37, no. 1 (April 2003): 1-15
Address: jillian[at]ischool.utexas.edu
[Updated 2008]

ANDERSON, KENNETH M., Jr.
Fellowship:
Mellon 73-74, research on the writings of James Fenimore Cooper (asst. prof. of English, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
[Updated 1997]

ANDREWS, EDWARD E.
Fellowship:
Peterson 07-08, "Saints out of Savages: Native American and African Missionaries, 1750-1755" (Ph.D. cand. in history, New Hampshire)
Education: Providence, B.A., 01; American, M.A., 03
[Updated 2007]

ANTHONY, DAVID J.
Fellowship:
Peterson 96-97, "Scandalous Aesthetics: Masculine Emotion and the Birth of the Public Sphere in Antebellum America" (Ph.D. cand. in English, Michigan at Ann Arbor)
Fellowship: AAS-NEMLA 00-01, "White-Collar Gothic: Debtor Masculinity, Submission, and the U.S. Bank in Antebellum America" (asst. prof. of English, Southern Illinois at Carbondale)
Fellowship: AAS-NEMLA 05-06, "Shylock on Wall Street: Market Passion and the Capitalist Jew in Antebellum Sensationalism" (asst. prof. of English, Southern Illinois at Carbondale)
Education:
California at Santa Barbara, B.A., 86; North Carolina at Chapel Hill, M.A., 90; Michigan, Ph.D., 98
Fellowship Publications:
"Banking on Emotion: Financial Panic and the Logic of Male Submission in the Jacksonian Gothic," American Literature 76 (December 2004): 719-47
Other Publications: "The Helen Jewett Panic: Tabloids, Men, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum New York," American Literature (Sept. 1997)
Web Page: http://www.siu.edu/departments/english/FacultyPage/SIUCDepartmentofEnglishFaculty-index.html#Anthony
[Updated 2006]

APPLEBY, JOYCE O.
Fellowship:
AAS-ASECS 94-95, "The First Generation of Americans" (prof. of history, California at Los Angeles)
Education:
Stanford, B.A., 50; California at Santa Barbara, M.A., 59; Claremont Grad. School, Ph.D., 66
Current Position:
prof. emerita, California at Los Angles
Fellowship Publications: Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans (Harvard Univ. Press, 2000)
Other Publications:
Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1978) [Berkshire Prize]; Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s (New York: New York Univ. Press, 1984); Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992); (with Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob) Telling the Truth about History; Recollections of the Early Republic: Selected Autobiographies (Boston: Univ. of New England Press, 1997); A Restless Past: History and the American Public (Rowman & Littlefield; 2005)
Web Page: http://www.history.ucla.edu/appleby/
[Updated 2008]

ARNER, ROBERT D.
Fellowship:
Daniels 75-76, "Comic Literature in Colonial America"
Fellowship: AAS-NEMLA 91-92, "The Politics of Knowledge in the Early Republic: American Encyclopedias from the Federal Period to the Jacksonian Era" (prof. of English, Cincinnati)
Education:
Kutztown, B.S., 64; Penn State, M.A., 66, Ph.D., 70
Fellowship Publications:
"The Landing of the Fathers: Plymouth Rock Revisited," Journal of American Culture 6 (1983): 25-35; essay in The Lost Colony in American Literature (Raleigh, N.C., 1985): 1-59
Other Publications:
"Historical Essay," The Novels of Charles Brockden Brown: Alcuin and Stephen Calvert (1976); "Wit, Humor, and Satire in Seventeenth-Century American Poetry," in Peter White, ed., Puritan Poets and Poetics, (Univ. Park, PA.: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1985), 274-85; Dobson's "Encyclopedia": The Publisher, Text, and Publication of America's First "Britannica," 1789-1803 (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1991)
Web Page: http://asweb.artsci.uc.edu/CollegeDepts/english/facStaff/facDetails.cfm?username=arnerr
[Updated 2006]

ARSEM, MARILYN
Fellowship:
Wallace Artist 97, "Research 19th century Spritualism, as well as late 19th century daily life in New England, for a performance entitled 'Spirit Messages.'" (Performance artist, Jamaica Plain, MA)
Education:
Boston, B.F.A., 73.
Current Position: on Faculty at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Fellowship Performances:
"Ada Shepard and Eliz. Barret Browning", 4/98, Boston Browning Society; "Through the Ether", 8/01, Stadtische Gallerie Dreieich, Germany
Other Performances:
"Meridian," 6/01; "Darkness, Begone," 10/99; "Hidden Views," 8/99; "recent: remote," 6/99; "Clear Water," 4/99.
Address:
14 Rocky Nook Terrace, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130; marsem[at]world.std.com
Web Page: http://www.smfa.edu/Programs_Faculty/Faculty/A/Arsem_Marilyn.asp
[Updated 2005]

ASTORE, WILLIAM J.
Fellowship:
R.A. 94-95, "Observing God: Thomas Dick (1774-1857), Religion and Popular Astronomy in Great Britain and America, 1823-57" (U.S. Air Force Acadamy and Ph.D. cand. in history, Oxford)
Education: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 85; Johns Hopkins, M.A., 90; Oxford, D. Phil., 95
Current Position:
assoc. prof. of history, Pennsylvania College of Technology
Fellowship Publications:
Observing God: Thomas Dick, Evangelicalism, and Popular Science in Victorian Britain and America (Ashgate Publishing, 2001)
Other Publications:
"Gentle Skeptics? American Catholic Encounters with Polygenism, Geology, and Evolutionary Theories from 1845-1875," Catholic Historical Review 82 (January 1996): 40-76; Hindenburg: Icon of German Militarism (Potomac Books, 2005)
Address: Penn College of Technology, School of Integrated Studies, Williamsport, PA, 17701; wastore@pct.edu
[Updated 2006]

AUGST, THOMAS
Fellowship:
Reese 99-00, "Making Society Out of Books: Character, Composure and the Rhetoric of Market Culture" (asst. prof. of English, Minnesota)
Fellowship: Peterson 04-05, "The Sobriety Test: Temperance and the Melodramas of Modern Citizenship" (asst. prof. of English, Minnesota)
Education: Yale, B.A., 87; Harvard, M.A., 92, Ph.D., 96
Current Position: assoc. prof. of English, Minnesota
Fellowship Publications: "The Business of Reading in Nineteenth-Century America," The New York Mercantile Library, American Quarterly 50 (1998): 267-305
Other Publications: The Clerk's Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003)
Web Page: http://www2.cla.umn.edu/faculty/public_profile.php?UID=augst002
[Updated 2005]

AVERY, GILLIAN
Fellowship:
Peterson 85-86, "The American Pattern of Childhood" (author)
Fellowship Publications:
"The Puritans and Their Heirs," in Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs, eds., Children and Their Books (Oxford, 1989); Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books 1621-1922 (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1994)
Other Publications:
Nineteenth-Century Children (1965); Victorian People (1970); Childhood's Pattern: A Study of the Heroes and Heroines of Children' Fiction, 1170-1950 (1975); The Echoing Green: Memories of Victorian Youth; The Best Type of Girl: A History of Girls' Independent Schools (London: Andre Deutsch, 1991); ed. with Jack Zipes, Lissa Paul, Lynne Vallone, and Peter Hunt The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature (Norton, 2005)
[Updated 2005]

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