Directory of Fellows and
Research Associates,
1972-Present
B
BACKSCHEIDER, PAULA R.
Fellowship: Peterson 87-88, "A Biography of
Daniel
Defoe"
(assoc. prof. of English, Rochester)
Education: Purdue, A.B., 64; So. Connecticut State,
M.S., 67;
Purdue, Ph.D., 72
Current Position: Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar in
English, Auburn
Fellowship Publications: Defoe: His Life
(Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1989) [British Council Prize
1990; selected
by Choice as one of the ten outstanding academic
books of
1990]; Moll Flanders: The Making of a Criminal Mind
(Boston:
Twayne, 1990)
Other Publications: A Being More Intense
(1984); Daniel
Defoe: Ambition and Innovation (1986); "No
Defense: Defoe in
1703," PMLA (1988); "The Verse Essay,
John Locke, and
Defoe's
Jure Divino, English Literary History
(1988); Spectacular
Politics (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press,
1993); (with
Timothy Dykstal) The Intersections of the Public and
Private
Spheres in Early Modern England (London: Frank Cass,
1996);
(with J.J. Richetti) Popular Fiction by Women,
1660-1730
(Oxford: Clarendon, 1996); Reflections on Biography
(Oxford:
Oxford Univ. Press, 1999); Eighteenth-Century Women
Poets
and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre (Baltimore:
Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2005)
Address: Dept. of English,
Auburn University, 9030
Haley
Center, Auburn, AL 36849; 1930 Canary Dr. Auburn, AL
36830
Web Page:
http://www.auburn.edu/~pkrb/
[Updated 2006]
BAKER, ANNE
Fellowship: Botein 99-00, "Geography Schoolbooks
and
Nation
Formation in the Antebellum United States" (visiting
asst. prof.
of English, Reed)
Fellowship: Peterson 01-02, "Geography,
National
Form, and
the American Renniassance" (visiting asst. prof. of
English,
Reed)
Education: New College, B.A., 88; Columbia, M.A.,
90,
M.Phil.,
93, Ph.D., 98
Current Position: asst. prof. of English, North
Carolina State
Other Publications: Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture,
and
Geography in Antebellum America (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press,
2006)
[Updated 2006]
BAKER, JENNIFER JORDAN
Fellowship: Peterson 96-97, "Currency of Words:
Finance
and
Literary Imagination in Early America" (Ph.D. cand.
in
English,
Pennsylvania)
Education: Georgetown, B.A., 90; Stanford, M.A.,
93; Pennsylvania,
Ph.D., 00
Current Position: asst. prof. of English, New
York
Fellowship Publications: "A Speculative
Language: Finance
and Literary Imagination in Early America" (diss.,
2000);
"'It is uncertain where the Fates will carry me':
Cotton
Mather's
Theology of Finance" in Arizona Quarterly 56:4
(Winter 2000);
Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the
Making of Early
America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005),
[winner of Yale University's 2004 Heyman Prize for a first book
by a faculty member in the humanities]
Other Publications:
Benjamin Franklin and the Credibility of Personality." Early
American
Literature 35:3 (Fall 2000);
"Staging Revolution in Melville's Benito
Cereno: Babo, Figaro,
and the 'Play of the Barber'" in Prospects: An
Annual of
American
Cultural Studies 26 (2001);
"Paper Money Gets Personal: Reading Character and Credit in Early
America." Common-place 6:3 (April 2006);
"Judith Sargent Murray's Medium Between Calculation and
Feeling."
Forthcoming in Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies
(Alabama,
2006)
Address: New York University, English Department, 19 University
Place, 5th Floor, New York, NY, 10003; jbaker@nyu.edu
[Updated 2006]
BALDWIN, PETER C.
Fellowship: Peterson 04-05, "American
Night: Transforming the Nocturnal
City, 1800-1930 (asst. prof. of history, Connecticut)
Education: Wesleyan, B.A., 84; Brown, M.A., 92, Ph.D. 97
Web Page:
http://web1.uits.uconn.edu/history/faculty/baldwin.html
[Updated 2005]
BALIK, SHELBY M.
Fellowship: Peterson 03-04, "The Religious
Frontier"
(Ph.D. cand. in history, Wisconsin at Madison)
Education: Brown, A.B., 93; Michigan at Ann Arbor, A.M.,
94; Wisconsin
at
Madison, M.A., 00
[Updated 2005]
BANKS, KENNETH.
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 05-06, "Slow Poison: French
Contraband in the Early Modern Atlantic Economy, 1660-1800
"
(visiting asst. prof. of history, North Carolina,
Asheville)
Education: Concordia, B.A., 83; Queen's University, Canada, M.A.,
90; Ph.D. 96
[Updated 2005]
BARBER, WILLIAM LLOYD
Fellowship: K-12, 95, "The Ethnic 'Other' in
Children's
Literature" (third grade teacher, Kingsley Elementary
School, Evanston, IL)
Education: East Carolina, B.A., 63
[Updated 1999]
BARRETT, FAITH
Fellowship: Botein, 06-07, "'To Fight Aloud is
Very Brave': American Poetry and the Civil War" (asst. prof. of
English,
Lawrence)
Education: Swarthmore, B.A., 87; California at
Berkeley, M.A., 90; Iowa, M.F.A., 93; California at Berkeley, Ph.D., 00
[Updated 2006]
BARRETT, ROSS
Fellowship: Drawn to Art, 05-06, "Rendering
Violence: Riots, Strikes, and Class Conflict in Nineteenth-Century
American Art and Visual Culture" (Ph.D. cand. in art history,
Boston
Univ.)
Education: Notre Dame, B.A., 99; Syracuse, M.A., 02
[Updated 2005]
BASCH, FRANÇOISE Y.
Fellowship: Haven 83-84, "Critics of the Family
in
Mid-19th
Century America" (prof. of Anglo-American studies,
Univ. of
Paris)
Fellowship: R.A., 84-85, "Critics of the
Family in
Mid-19th
Century America" (prof. of Anglo-American studies,
Univ. of
Paris)
Education: Sorbonne, B.A., 50, M.A., 52; Radcliffe,
M.A.,
53; Paris, Agreg., 54; Sorbonne, Ph.D., 70.
Fellowship Publications: "Women's Rights and
Wrongs
of Marriage,"
The History Workshop 22 (Autumn 1986); Rebelles
am.ricaines:
famille, mariage et politique (Paris: M.ridiens
Klincksieck,
1990); "Marginales et minoritaires," Cahiers
Charles
V (1990)
Other Publications: Relative Creatures: Women in
Society
and the Novel, 1837-67 (1974); Les Femmes
Victoriennes
(1979); Theresa Malkiel: Journal d'une Greviste
(1980)
[Updated 1997]
BASCH, NORMA
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 90-91, "Framing American
Divorce: Rules,
Realities, and Mythologies, 1770-1870" (assoc. prof. of
history,
Rutgers)
Education: Barnard, A.B., 56; New York Univ., Ph.D.,
79
Current Position: prof. of history, Rutgers
Fellowship Publications: Framing American Divorce:
From
the
Revolutionary Generationto the Victorians
(Berkeley: Univ. of
California Press, 1999); "From the Bonds of Empire to
the
Bonds
of Matrimony: The Emerging Right of Divorce in the Context
of
Independence,"
in David Konig, ed., Devising Liberty
(Stanford: Stanford Univ.
Press, 1995): 217-42; "Marriage, Morals, and Politicsin
the Election
of 1828," Journal of American History 80
(1993):
890-918 [Berkshire Conference Article Prize]
Other Publications: In the Eyes of the Law: Women,
Marriage,
and Property in Nineteenth-Century New York
(Ithaca: Cornell Univ.
Press, 1982); "Equity vs. Equality: Emerging Concepts
of
Women's
Political Status in the Age of Jackson," Journal of
the Early Republic
3 (1983): 297-318; "Relief in the Premises: Divorce as
a
Woman's
Remedy in New York and Indiana, 1815-1870," Law and
History
Review 8 (1990): 1-24
Address: 184 Evandale Rd., Scarsdale, NY 10583
Web Page:
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~history/index.php?content=deptmem&name=basch
[Updated 2001]
BASELER, MARILYN C.
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 99-00, "'Strangers within our
gates:' America's
Immigrants, 1776-1820" (asst. prof. of history, Texas
at
Austin)
Education: Massachusetts at Boston, B.A.,
77; Harvard, M.A.,
79, Ph.D., 90
Other Publications: "Asylum for Mankind":
America,
1607-1800
(Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1998)
[Updated 1998]
BASKER, JAMES G.
Fellowship: AAS-NEMLA 89-90, "Samuel Johnson and
His American
Readers" (assoc. prof. of English, Barnard)
Education: Harvard, A.B., 74; Cambridge, B.A.,
76; Oxford,
D.Phil., 83
Current Position: prof. of English, Barnard
Fellowship Publications: "Samuel Johnson and
the
American
Common Reader," in Paul J. Korshin, ed., The Age
of
Johnson:
A Scholarly Annual 6 (1993): 3-30
Other Publications: "Resisting Authority: or,
Johnson
and
the Wizard of Oz," in Teaching the Works of Samuel
Johnson
(New York: Modern Language Assoc., 1993); "An
Eighteenth-Century
Critique of Eurocentrism: Samuel Johnson on the Plight of
Native
Americans," in Europe/Europeanism (Paris: The
Sorbonne, 1996);
"Johnson and the African American Reader,"
The New
Rambler
(Oxford: 1996); "Myth Upon Myth: Johnson, Gender, and
the
Misogyny
Question," The Age of Johnson, vol 8
(1997) "Criticism and
the Rise of Periodical Literature," in The
Cambridge
History
of Literary Criticism 4 (Cambridge: Cambridge
Univ. Press, 1998);
(ed. and contrib.) Tradition in Transition: Women
Writers, Marginal
Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon (Oxford:
Oxford
Univ.
Press, 1998); Samuel Johnson in the Mind of Thomas
Jefferson (1999); The Critical Review, or Annals
of Literature 1756-1763 (2002); and Amazing Grace: An Anthology
of
Poems about Slavery 1660-1810 (2002)
Web Page:
http://www.barnard.edu/english/facultybio.html#basker
[Updated 2005]
BASSETT, LYNNE ZACEK
Fellowship: Peterson 04-05, "American Whole-Cloth
Quilts: A Study of Regional Innovation, Refinement, and Domestic
Production" (independent scholar)
Other Publications: Northern Comfort: New
England's
Early Quilts, 1780-1850 (Rutledge Hill Press, 1998)
Education: Mount Holyoke, B.A., 83; Connecticut, M.A., 91
Fellowship Publications: "Inspired Fantasy: Design Sources
for New
England's Whole-Cloth Wool Quilts," The Magazine Antiques,
vol.
168, no. 3, (Sept. 2005): 120-127
Other Publications: Modesty Died When Clothes Were Born:
Costume in the Life and Literature of Mark Twain (Hartford, CT: The
Mark Twain House & Museum, 2004)
[Updated 2006]
BEALES, ROSS W., JR.
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 77-78, "Concepts of Childhood
and Youth
of New England" (asst. prof. of history, Holy
Cross)
Education: Stanford, A.B., 62; California at Davis,
M.A.,
66, Ph.D., 71
Current Position: prof. of history, Holy Cross
Fellowship Publications: "Anne Bradstreet and
Her Children,"
in Barbara Finkelstein, ed., Regulated
Children/Liberated
Children:
Education in Psychohistorical Perspective (New
York: Psychohistory
Press, 1979): 10-23; "The Child in
Seventeenth-Century
America,"
in Joseph M. Hawes and N. Ray Hiner, eds., American
Childhood:
A Research Guide and Historical Handbook, ed.
(Westport,
CT:
Greenwood Press, 1985): 15-56; "Nursing and Weaning
in
an Eighteenth-Century
New England Household," in Peter Benes, ed.,
Families and
Children (Boston: Boston Univ. Scholarly Publications,
1987):
48-63; "Literacy and Reading in Eighteenth-Century
Westborough,
MA," in Peter Benes, ed., Early American Probate
Inventories
(Boston: Boston Univ. Scholarly Publications,
1989): 41-50; "The
Reverend Ebenezer Parkman's Farm Workers,Westborough, MA,
1726-82,"
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 99
(1989):121-49;
"`Slavish' and Other Female Work in the Parkman
Household,"
in Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Annual
Proceedings
1988 (Boston: Boston Univ. Scholarly Publications,
1990): 48-57;
"Boys' Work on an Eighteenth-Century New England
Farm,"
in Jean E. Hunter and Paul T. Mason, eds., The American
Family:
Historical Perspectives (Pittsburgh: Duquesne
Univ. Press, 1991);
"The Preindustrial Family (1600-1815)," in
Joseph
M. Hawes
and Elizabeth I. Nybakken, eds., American Families: A
Research
Guide and Historical Handbook (Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press,
1991): 35-82; "Childhood and Adolescence: The British
Colonies,"
in Jacob E. Cooke et al., eds., Encyclopedia of the
North
American
Colonies (New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons,1993): 739-52
Other Publications: "In Search of the
Historical
Child:
Miniature Adulthood and Youth in Colonial New
England," American
Quarterly 27 (1975): 379-98; "Studying Literacy
at
the
Community Level: A Research Note," Journal of
Interdisciplinary
History 9 (1978): 93-102
Web Page:
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/history/website/facultyandstaff.htm#bea
[Updated 2006]
BEARD, JAMES FRANKLIN
(Died, Dec. 14, 1989)
Fellowship: NEH 78-79, "James Fenimore Cooper: A
Critical Biography"
(prof. of English, Clark)
Fellowship: R.A. 87-88, "James Fenimore
Cooper: A
Critical
Biography" (prof. of English, Clark)
Education: Columbia, B.A., 40. M.A., 41; Princeton,
Ph.D.,
49
Other Publications: The Letters of James
Fenimore
Cooper
(1960-68); The Cooper Edition (1977); The
Writings of
James Fenimore Cooper (in progress)
[Updated 1997]
BEGIEBING, ROBERT J.
Fellowship: Artist, 96, "The Adventures of
Allegra
Fullerton,
Artist: Or, A True Account of Startling and Amusing
Incidents from
Itinerant Life." (prof. of English, Southern New
Hampshire)
Education: Norwich, B.A., 68; Boston College, M.A.,
70; Univ.
of New Hampshire, Ph.D., 97
Fellowship Publications: The Adventures of
Allegra
Fullerton (Univ. Press of New England 1999, 2002)
Other Publications: The Strange Death of
Mistress
Coffin
(Algonquin Books, 1991,1996); New Hampshire Council on the
Arts:
Artist Research Grant, 1993;
Rebecca Wentworth's Distraction (UPNE, 2003)
[Updated 2006]
BELL, RICHARD J.
Fellowship: Botein 03-04, "Newspapers and the
Cultural
Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830" (Ph.D. cand. in
history, Harvard)
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 07-08, "Indian Removal and
Literary Suicide" (asst. prof. of history, Maryland)
Education: Cambridge, B.A., 99; Harvard, M.A., 01, Ph.D. 06
Fellowship Publications:
"Do Not Despair: Suicide in the Archives,"
Common-place
(July 2004).
http://www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-04/tales/
[Updated 2005]
BELLESILES, MICHAEL A.
Fellowship: Haven 84, "Life, Liberty, and
Land: Ethan Allen
and the Frontier Experience in Revolutionary New
England" (Ph.D.
cand. in history, California at Irvine)
Fellowship: Peterson 92-93, "The Origins of
American
Gun Culture, 1760-1840" (asst. prof. of history,
Emory)
Education: California at Santa Cruz,
B.A.,75; California
at Santa Barbara, M.A., 76; California at Irvine, Ph.D.,
86.
Fellowship Publications: "The Establishment of
Legal
Structures on the Frontier: The Case of Revolutionary
Vermont,"
Journal of American History (1987) [Pelzer Award, OAH,
1987];
Revolutionary Outlaws (Univ. of Virginia Press,
1993) [American
Revolution Roundtable Annual Prize, 1994); “The
Origins
of
American Gun Culture,” Journal of American History
(1996)
[Binkley-Stephenson Award,1997]; “Gun Laws in Early
America,”
Law and History Review (1998); Arming America:
The
Origins
of a National Gun Culture (Knopf, 2000)
Other Publications: "Does Evidence
Matter? Puritanism
Revised, Reviled, and Deconstructed," Canadian
Review of
American Studies (1988); "Acts of Historical
Faith: Who
Really Wrote Reason the Only Oracle of
Man?," Vermont History
(forthcoming); ed., Biblio Base (Houghton Mifflin,
1996);
ed., The Allen Family Letters (Northeastern
Univ. Press,
1998); The TA’s Survival Guide (Bedford Books,
1997);
ed., Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in
American History
(New York Univ. Press, 1998)
[Updated 2004]
BENNETT, PAULA
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 96-97, “Dissenting Angels:
The
Emergence
of Modern Subjectivity in American Women’s Poetry,
1850-1900"
(assoc. prof. of English, Southern Illinois at
Carbondale)
Education: Columbia School of General Studies,
B.S.,
60;
Columbia Grad. Fac., Ph.D., 70
Fellowship Publications:
Nineteenth-Century American Women
Poets: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishers, 1997);
“Phillis Wheatley’s Vocation and the
Paradox of the 'Afric
Muse,'”PMLA 113.1 (1998): 64-76;
Palace-Burner: The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt (Univ. of
Illinois Press, 2001);
Poets in the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory
Project of American Women's Poetry, 1800-1900 (Princeton Univ.
Press, 2003)
Other Publications: My Life a Loaded Gun: Female
Creativity
and Feminist Poetics (Beacon, 1986); Emily
Dickinson: Woman
Poet (Iowa, 1990); “Critical Clitoridectomy:
Female
Sexual
Image and Feminist Psychoanalytic Theory,” Signs
(1993);
"'Descent of the Angel’: Interrogating Domestic
Ideology in
American Women’s Poetry, 1858-1890,” ALH
(1995)
[Updated 2006]
BERCOVITCH, SACVAN
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 86-87, "The Literary Market
in
19th-Century
America" (prof. of English, Harvard)
Education: George Williams, B.A., 61; Claremont,
Ph.D., 65
Current Position: Charles H. Carswell prof. of
English, Harvard
Fellowship Publications: The Office of the Scarlet
Letter
(Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1991) [James Russell
Lowell
Prize]
Other Publications: The Puritan Origins of
American Literature
(1975); The American Puritan Jeremiad
(1980); Ideology
and Classic American Literature (1986); The Rites
of
Assent:
Transformations in the Republic Construction of
America
(1993)
[Updated 1997]
BERGAMASCO-LENARDA, LUCIA
Fellowship: Daniels 81-82, "Women and Children in
Colonial New
England" (Ph.D. cand. in American studies, Ecole des
Hautes
Etudes
en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Education: Univ. degli Studi di venezia, laurea,
78; E.H.E.S.S.,
doctorat en histoire, 87
Current Position: ma.tre de conf.rences,
civilisation
am.ricaines,
Universit. de Paris X, Nanterre, dept. d'anglais
Fellowship Publications: "Amiti., amour,
spiritualit. en
nouvelle
angleterre au xviiime si.cle: l'exp.rience d'Ester Burr et
de Sarah
Prince," Annales, E.S.C. 41
(1986): 295-324; Condition
F.minine et Vie Spirituelle en Nouvelle Angleterre au
XVIII
Si.cle
(Grenoble: Editions Jer.me Millon, forthcoming); Amour
Du
Monde,
Amour De Dieu: Le Pi.tisme vang.lique d'Esther Burr
et Sara
Prince
(Grenoble: Editions Jer.me Millon, forthcoming)
Other Publications: "Female Education and
Spiritual
Life:
The Case of Ministers' Daughters," in Arina Angerman
et al,
eds.,
Current Issues in Women's History (London,
1989); "Hagiographie
et Saintet. en Angleterre au XVIme-XVIIeme
Si.cles," Annales
E.S.C. 48 (1993): 1053-87; (w/ Annette Becker)
"Histoire
Religieuse,"
in Chantiers D'Histoire Am.ricaine, J. Heefer and Fran.ois
Weil,
eds. (Paris: Beln, 1994)
[Updated 1997]
BERGER, MOLLY W.
Fellowship: Peterson 93-94, "The Modern Hotel in
America, 1829-1929"
(Ph.D. cand. in history, Case Western Reserve)
Education: Miami, B.S. Ed., 1969, John Carroll,
M.A.,
84,
Case Western Reserve, Ph.D., 1997
Current Position: lecturer and assistant dean,
College of Arts and Sciences, Case Western Reserve
Fellowship Publications: "The Modern Hotel in
America,
1829-1929,"
(Ph.D. diss., Case Western Reserve Univ, 1997) [Ohio
Academy
of
History Prize]; "A House Divided: Technology, Gender,
and
Consumption
in America's Luxury Hotels, 1825-1860," in Roger
Horowitz
and Arwen
Mohun, eds., His and Hers: Gender, Consumption and
Technology
(Univ. Press of Virginia, 1998)
Other Publications: "The Magic of Fine
Dining: Invisible
Technology and the Hotel Kitchen," ICON: Journal
of the
International
Committee for the History of Technology 1: 106-119;
"The
Old
High-Tech Hotel," American Heritage of Invention
and
Technology
11: 46-52; ed.
Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 25. The Amreican Hotel
(June 2005)
[Updated 2005]
BERKIN, CAROL R.
Fellowship: Daniels 76-77, Research on Loyalists in
the
American
Revolution (assoc. prof. of history, Baruch CUNY)
Education: Barnard, B.A., 64; Columbia, M.A., 66,
Ph.D.,
72
Current Position: prof. of history, Baruch and CUNY
Grad.
Center
Other Publications: Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an
American
Loyalist (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1974);
co-ed.,
with Mary Beth Norton, Women of America: A History
(Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1980); co-ed., with Clara Lovett,
Women,
War, and Revolution (1980). "Clio in Search of
Her
Daughters/
Women in Search of Their Past," Liberal
Education
(1985);
First Generations: Women in Colonial America (Hill
&
Wang,
1996); ed. with Leslie Horowitz Women's Voices/Women's
Lives:
Documents in Early American History (Northeastern
Univ. Press,
1998)
Web Page:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/departments/history/faculty/berkin.html
[Updated 2005]
BERNSTEIN, ROBIN
Fellowship: Last 08-09, "Racial Innocence: The Uses of
Childhood in U.S. Racial Formation, 1852-1930" (asst. prof. of
women's studies, Harvard)
Education: Bryn Mawr, B.A., 91; Maryland, M.A., 95; George
Washington, M.A., 99; Yale, Ph.D., 04
[Updated 2008]
BETHEL, ELIZABETH R.
Fellowship: Peterson 85-86, "Afro-American
Responses to
the
First Emancipation" (assoc. prof. of social sciences,
Lander)
Fellowship: R.A., 86-87, "Afro-American
Responses to
the
First Emancipation" (assoc. prof. of social sciences,
Lander)
Education: Oklahoma, Ph.D., 73
Current Position: prof. of sociology,
Lander
Fellowship Publications: "Images of Hayti: The
Construction
of an Afro-American Lieu de M.moire," Callaloo
15,
no. 3
(1992): 827-841; The Roots of African-American
Identity: Memory
and History in Antebellum Free Communities (New
York: St. Martin's
Press, 1997)
[Updated 2005]
BIDWELL, JOHN
Fellowship: Daniels 78-79, "A Biographical
Directory
of American
Papermakers, 1690-1830"
Fellowship: AAS-ASECS 94-95, "Printing
Supplies in
Colonial
America" (Librarian, Rochester Institute of
Technology)
Education: Columbia, B.A., 71, M.L.S., 76; Oxford,
D.Phil,
92
Current Position: Astor Curator of Printed Books
and
Bindings, Pierpont Morgan Library
Fellowship Publications: "The Publication of
Joel
Barlow's
"Columbiad," Proceedings of the American
Antiquarian
Society
93 (1983): 337-80; Introduction to facsimile repr. of
Caleb
Stower,
The Printer's Manual (1981); ed. and introduction,
Early
American Papermaking (New Castle, DE.: Oak Knoll,
1990)
Other Publications: Ed., Nineteenth-Century Book
Arts
and Printing History, 23 vols. (1979-83);
"American
History
in Image and Text," Proceedings of the American
Antiquarian Society
98 (1988): 247-302
[Updated 2005]
BILBY, AMANDA ELISE HERBERT
Fellowship: Peterson 07-08, "Letters, Recipes,
and
Gifts: Exploring Transatlantic Female Alliances Within the Pollard and
Salisbury Families" (Ph.D. cand. in history, Johns Hopkins)
Education: Washington, B.A., 01; Johns Hopkins, M.A., 04
[Updated 2007]
BILLIAS, GEORGE A.
Fellowship: R.A. 84-85, "The Influence of
American
Constitutionalism
Abroad, 1776-1900" (Jacob and Frances Hiatt prof. of
history, Clark)
Education: Bates, A.B., 48; Columbia, M.A., 49,
Ph.D., 58.
Current Position: prof. emeritus, Clark
Fellowship Publications: American Constitutionalism
Abroad
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990)
Other Publications: Massachusetts Land Bankers
of
1740
(Orono: Univ. of Maine Press, 1959); General John
Glover
and
His Marblehead Mariners (New York: Henry Holt,
1960); ed. and
contributor, George Washington's Generals (New
York: William
Morrow, 1964); ed. and contributor, Law and Authority
in
Colonial
America (Barre Publishing Company, 1965); ed., The
American
Revolution: How Revolutionary Was It? (Holt, Rinehart,
and Winston,
1965, 4th ed. 1990) ed. and contributor, George
Washington's
Opponents (New York, William Morrow, 1969); ed. and
contributor,
Interpretations of American History: Patterns and
Perspectives,
2 vols. (New York: Free Press, 1967, 1992); ed.,
The
Federalists:
Realists or Ideologues (Boston: D.C. Heath,
1970); co-ed.,
Elbridge Gerry: Founding Father and Republican
Statesman
(New York: McGraw Hill, 1976); ed., Perspectives on
Early
American
History (New York: Harper and Row, 1973); ed. and
contributor,
American History: Retrospect and Prospect (New
York: Free
Press, 1971); "My Intellectual Odyssey" in
The Republican
Synthesis
Revisted: Essays in Honor of George Athan Billias
(American
Antiquarian Society, 1992); ed. and contributor, George
Washington's
Generals and Opponents (New York: Da Capo Press,
1994)
[Updated 2005]
BISCEGLIA, LOUIS R.
(Died, March 1990)
Fellowship: R.A. 89-90, "The Origins and Pacifism
of Abby
Kelley" (prof. of history, San Jose State)
[Updated 2001]
BLEDSTEIN, BURTON J.
Fellowship: Peterson 88-89, "A Language Event:
The
Middle Classes
in American History, 1828-1919" (assoc. prof. of
history, Illinois
at Chicago)
Fellowship: Botein 97-98, "'By the Book':
Reference
and Information
as Authority in 19th-century America" (assoc. prof.
of
history,
Illinois at Chicago)
Education: California, B.A., 59; Princeton, M.A.,
3,
Ph.D.,
67
Other Publications: The Culture of
Professionalism: The
Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in
America
(New York: Norton, 1976)
Web Page:
http://www.uic.edu/depts/hist/Faculty/bledstein.html
[Updated 2005]
BLIGHT, DAVID W.
Fellowship: Peterson 96-97, "Reunion and Race:
the Civil
War
in American Memory, 1870-1915" (assoc. prof. of
history
and
black studies, Amherst)
Education: Michigan State, B.A., 71, M.A.,
76; Wisconsin
at Madison, Ph.D., 85
Current Position: Class of 1954 Prof. of American
history, Yale
Fellowship Publications: ed., Caleb Bingham, The
Columbian
Orator (New York Univ. Press, 1997); Race and
Reunion: The
Civil War in American Memory (Harvard Univ. Press,
2000)
[Bancroft Prize, 2002; Ellis W. Hawley Prize, 2002; Frederick
Douglass Prize, 2001; James A. Rawley Prize, 2002; Lincoln Prize,
2002; Merle Curti Social History Award, 2002]
Other Publications: Frederick Douglass' Civil
War: Keeping
Faith in Jubilee (Louisiana State Univ. Press,
1989); ed., When
This Cruel War is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles
Harvey
Brewster (Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1992); ed.,
Narrative of
the Life of Frederick Douglass (Bedford Books,
1993); ed., The
Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois (Bedford Books,
1997);
ed., Union and Emancipation: Essays on Race and
Politics
in the
Civil War Era (Kent State Univ. Press, 1997)
Web Page:
http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/blight.html
[Updated 2005]
BLOCK, LAURIE
Fellowship: Artist 95, "Television Documentary on
the U.S.-Mexican
War" (Filmmaker, Conway, Massachusetts)
Fellowship: Hearst 07 "Becoming Helen
Keller"
(Filmmaker, Conway, Massachusetts)
Current Position: executive dir., Straight Ahead Pictures,
Inc. and The Disability History Museum
Fellowship Publications: The Disability History
Museum, a virtual museum
www.disabilitymuseum.org
"Tales from the Vault: Document by Document,"
Common-place (April
2002)
http://www.common-place.org/vol-02/no-03/tales/
Other Publications: Beyond Affliction: The Disability History
Project (Radio); FIT: Episodes in the History of the Body
(Film)
Address: Straight Ahead Pictures, Inc., 51 Baptist Hill Road,
Conway, MA, 01341-0395; lbjc[at]crocker.com
Web Page: straightaheadpictures.org
[Updated 2006]
BLONDHEIM, MENAHEM
Fellowship: Boni 87-88, "The News
Frontier" (Ph.D.
cand. in history, Harvard)
Current Position: assoc. prof., American studies
&
Communications, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem
Fellowship Publications:
News Over the Wires: The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information
in America, 1844-1897
(Harvard Univ. Press, 1994);
“The Click: Telegraph’s Technology,
The Press, and The Transformation of the Associated
Press” American Journalism (Fall 2000): 21-46;
"'Public Sentiment is Everything': The Union's Public Communication
Strategy and the Bogus Proclamation of 1864," Journal of
American
History 89:3 (2002): 869-900 [winner of Covert Award in media
history
(2003)]
Other Publications:
Copperhead Gore: Benjamin Wood's Fort Lafayette and Civil War American
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006); ed. The Toronto School of
Communication Research (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and Magnes
Hebrew University Press, 2006, with Rita Watson)
Address:: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of
Communication, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905, Isreal; mblond@huji.ac.il
[Updated 2006]
BLUM, HESTER
Fellowship: Reese 04-05, "The View from the
Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narrative and the Maritime
Imagination" (asst. prof. of English, Penn State)
Education: Princeton, B.A., 95; Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 02
Current Position: asst. prof. of English, Penn State
Fellowship Publications:
"American
Graves, Pacific Plots," in Martin Brückner and Hsuan L. Hsu, eds.,
American Literary Geographies: Space and
Cultural Production, 1588-1888
(Univ. of Delaware Press, 2007) 149-170;
The View from the Mast-Head:
Antebellum American Sea Narratives and the Maritime Imagination
(Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2008); ed., Horrors of Slavery,
or, The American Tars in Tripoli, by William Ray, Subterranean Lives
Series, (Rutgers Univ. Press,
forthcoming);
"Before and
After the Mast: James Fenimore Cooper and the Production of the Sea
Narrative," in Paul Gilje and William
Pencak, eds., The Elusive Jack Tar,
(Mystic Seaport, forthcoming).
Other Publications: "Pirated Tars, Piratical Texts: Barbary
Capitvity and American Sea Narratives," Early American
Studies 1:2
(Fall 2003);
"Atlantic Trade," Wyn Kelley, ed., A Companion to Herman
Melville
(Oxford:
Blackwell, 2006) 113-128; "Douglass's and Melville's 'Alphabets of
the
Blind,'" in Robert S. Levine and Samuel Otter, eds., Frederick
Douglass
and Herman Melville: Essays in
Relation
(Univ. of North
Carolina Press, 2008)
Address: Penn State University, English Department, 231 Burrowes
Building, University Park, PA 16802; hmb13@psu.edu
[Updated 2007]
BOLLETTINO, MARIA ALESSANDRA
Fellowship: Peterson 05-06, "Slaves and Slavery
in the
Seven Years' War"
(Ph.D. cand. in history, Texas at Austin)
Education: Brown, B.A., 98; Texas at Austin, M.A.,
02
[Updated 2005]
BONNER, ROBERT E.
Fellowship: Tracy 98-99, "Newspapers and the
Confederate
Sphere" (asst. prof. of history, Southern Maine)
Fellowship: AAS-NEH, 06-07, "Crossings to
Freedom:
Fugitive Slaves and the Completion of American Liberty" (visiting
asst.
prof. of history, Dartmouth)
Education: Princeton, B.A., 89; Yale, M.Phil.,
94; Ph.D.,
97
Current Position: visiting asst. prof. of history, Dartmouth
Fellowship Publications: Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of
the
Confederate South (Princeton Univ. Press, 2002)
[Updated 2006]
BORNSTEIN, SANDRA
Fellowship: K-12 96, "The American Reaction to
Darwin's
Theory
of Evolution" (earth science [grade 8], research
[grades
10-12],
Human Evolution [grades 9-12], Columbia Grammar and
Preparatory
School, New York, NY)
Education: Barnard, B.A., 67; McGill, M.Sc.,
69; Hunter,
M.El.Ed., 95
[Updated 1997]
BOTEIN, STEPHEN
(Died June 24, 1986)
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 83-84, "Expertise in
Eighteenth-Century
America" (assoc. prof of history, Michigan State)
Education: Harvard, B.A.,63, M.A., 66, Ph.D.,
71
Fellowship Publications: "Love of Gold and Other
Ruling
Passions,"
Res. Journal 1 (1985)
Other Publications: "The Anglo-American Book
Trade
before
1776: Personnel and Strategies," "Printers and
the American
Revolution,"
in Bernard Bailyn and John Hench, eds., The Press and
the
American
Revolution (Worcester: AAS, 1981); Printing and
Society in
Early America, ed. William L. Joyce et
al. (Worcester: AAS,
1983); Early American Law and Society (1983)
[Updated 2001]
BOWDEN, ANN
(Died May 23, 2001)
Fellowship: Peterson 92-93, "A Descriptive and
Historical
Bibliography of SirWalter Scott, 1792-1836" (Ransom
Scholar,
Humanities Research Center, Texas at Austin)
Education: Radcliffe, B.A., 48; Columbia, M.S.,
51; Texas
at Austin, Ph.D., 75
[Updated 2001]
BRAUDE, ANN D.
Fellowship: Hiatt 85-86, "Women in American
Spiritualism"
(Ph.D. cand. in religious studies, Yale)
Education: Vassar, A.B., 77; Chicago, M.A., 78;
Yale,
M.Phil.,
83, Ph.D., 87.
Current Position: dir., Women’s Studies in
Religion,
Harvard
Fellowship Publications: Radical
Spirits: Spiritualism and
Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
(Boston: Beacon
Press, 1989); "News from the Spirit World: A
Checklist
of American
Spiritualist Periodicals, 1848-1900," Proceedings
of
the
American Antiquarian Society 99 (1989): 339-462
Other Publications: "Spirits Defend the Rights
of Women,"
in Ellison Findly and Yvonne Haddad, eds., Women, and
Social
Change (1985); "The Jewish Women's Encounters
with
American
Cultures," Women and Religion in America, vol.1:
The
Nineteenth
Century, ed.Reuther and Keller (1981); Root of
Bitterness
: Documents of the Social History of American
Women. (Co-edited
with Nancy F. Cott, Lori Ginsberg, Jeanne Boydston, and
Molly Ladd-Taylor;
Northeastern Univ. Press, 1996); Women and Religion in
America.
(Oxford Univ. Press, 1996); “Women’s History is
American
Religious History” (Ed. Thomas Tweed; Univ. of
California Press,
1996)
Web Page:
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/faculty/braude.html
[Updated 2005]
BREKKE-ALOISE, LINZY
Fellowship: AHPCS 03-04, "Fashioning a
Republic: Consumption, Clothing, and American Culture, 1776-1836"
(Ph.D. cand. in
history, Harvard)
Education: Mount Holyoke, B.A., 98; Harvard, M.A., 00, Ph.D., 07
Current Position: asst. prof. of history, Stonehill
Web Page: http://www.stonehill.edu/history/aloise.htm
[Updated 2007]
BREKUS, CATHERINE A.
Fellowship: Hiatt 91-92, "Female Preaching and
Evangelical
Religion in America, 1740-1840" (Ph.D. cand. in
American studies,
Yale)
Education: Harvard., B.A., 85; Yale, Ph.D., 93
Current Position: asst. prof. of the history of
Christianity,
Univ. of Chicago Divinity School
Fellowship Publications: “Restoring Religious
America,"
Church History 65.4 and "Social Experiences in
the Method
the Divine Order to the World: Religion and the Family in
the Antebellum
Woman’s Rights Movement,” in Religion,
Feminism, and
the Family, ed. Anne Carr and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
(Westminster
John Knox Press, 1996): 166-182; “Harriet Livermore,
the Pilgrim
Stranger: Female Preaching and Biblical Feminism in Early
Nineteenth-Century
America,” Church History 65 (September
1996): 389-404
[Jane Dempsey Douglass Prize, American Society of Church
History,
1996]; “Strangers and Pilgrims”: Female
Preaching in
America, 1740-1845 (Univ. of North Carolina Press,
1998) [Frank
and Elizabeth Brewer Prize, American Society of Church
History,
1997]; “Interpreting Nineteenth-Century American
Religion:
From Protestant Unity to Religious Pluralism,”
Blackwell
Companion to Nineteenth-Century American History,
ed. William
Barney.
Other Publications: (with Harry S. Stout),
"Declension,
Gender, and the New Religious History," in Philip
R. VanderMeer
and Robert P. Swierenga, eds., Belief and
Behavior: Essays in
the New Religious History (New Brunswick: Rutgers
Univ. Press,
1991; (with Harry S. Stout), "A New England
Congregation: Center
Church, New Haven, 1639-1989," in James Lewis and
James
Wind,
eds., American Congregations (Chicago: Univ. of
Chicago Press,
1994).
Web Page:
http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty/brekus.shtml
[Updated 2006]
BREWER, PRISCILLA J.
Fellowship: Hiatt 84-85, "Technology and
Domestic Ideology
in the Nineteenth-Century" (Ph.D. cand., American
Civilization,
Brown)
Education: Williams, B.A., 77; Brown, M.A., 81,
Ph.D., 87
Current Position: prof. of American studies,
South
Florida
Fellowship Publications: "'We Have a Very Good
Cooking
Stove': Advertising, Design and Consumer Response to the
Cookstove,
1815-1880," Winterthur Portfolio 25
(1990): 35-54; From
Fireplace to Cookstove: Technology and the Domestic Ideal
in
America
(Syracuse: Syracuse Univ. Press, 2000)
Other Publications: "Emerson, Lane, and the
Shakers,"
New England Quarterly
(1982): 254-75;"Demographic Features
of the Shaker Decline," Journal of
Interdisciplinary
History
(1984): 31-52; Shaker Communities, Shaker Lives
(Hanover:
Univ. Press of New England, 1986)
Web Page:
http://www.cas.usf.edu/humanities/brewer.html
[Updated 2005]
BRILL, AMY
Fellowship: Baron 05, "The Observations, a
fictional account of a female astronomer in the early 1800s
Nantucket,"
(writer, Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Education: SUNY Binghamton, B.A., 92
[Updated 2005]
BROCK, GEOFFREY
Fellowship: Hearst 01-02, "Poems based on
American
Historical
Events" (poet, Tallahassee, Florida)
Education: Florida State, B.A., 86; Florida,
M.F.A.,
98;
Pennsylvania, MA., Ph.D., 96
Other Publications:
translated Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950 by Cesare
Pavese
(2002)l
translated K. by Roberto Calasso (2005); Weighing Light
(Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2005)
Web Page: http://www.geoffbrock.com
[Updated 2006]
BRODIE, JANET FARRELL
Fellowship: Peterson 88-89, "Women and
Freethought in
the U.S.,
1820-60" (lecturer in history, California State
Polytechnic)
Education: California at Berkeley, B.A., 69;
Chicago,
M.A., 71, Ph.D., 82
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history,
Claremont
Other Publications: Communicating the
Semi-Licit: Family
Limitation in Victorian America (Ithaca: Cornell
Univ. Press,
forthcoming)
[Updated 2005]
BROOKE, JOHN L.
Fellowship: Haven 82-83, "Worcester County
Politics,
1789-1840" (visiting asst. prof. of history,
Amherst)
Education: Cornell, B.A., 75; Pennsylvania, M.A.,
77,
Ph.D.,
82
Current Position: prof. of history, Ohio
State
Fellowship Publications: The Heart of the
Commonwealth: Society
and Political Culture in Central Massachusetts,
1713-1861 (New
York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989) [Merle Curti Award for
Intellectual
History; E. Harold Hugo Memorial Book Prize; National
Historical
Society Book Prize for American History]
Other Publications: "Enterrement, Bapteme, et
Communaute
en Nouvelle-Angleterre (1740-90)," Annales 42
(1987):
653-86; English version in Robert B. St. George, ed.,
Material
Life in America, 1600-1860 (Boston: Northeastern
Univ. Press,
1988): 463-85; "'To the Quiet of the
People': Revolutionary
Settlements and Civil Unrest in Western Massachusetts,
1774-89,"
William and Mary Quarterly
46(1989): 425-62; "'Of whole
nations being born in one day': Marriage, Money,and Magic
in
the
Mormon Cosmos, 1830-1846," Social Science
Information 30
(1991): 107-32; "A Deacon's Orthodoxy: Religion,
Class,
and
the Moral Economy of Shays Rebellion," in Robert
A. Gross,
ed., In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian
Rebellion
(Univ. Press of Virginia,1992); The Refiner's
Fire: The Making
of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844 (New York: Cambridge
Univ. Press,
1994); “Ancient Lodges and Self-Created
Societies: Freemasonry
and the Public Sphere in the Early Republic,” in
Ronald
Hoffman
and Peter J. Albert, eds., The Beginnings of the
‘Extended
Religious and Social Experiences in the Spiritual
Pilgrimage
of
Rachel Stearns, Spiritual Pilgrimage of Rachel Stearns,
183
Republic’:
The Dept., Humanities 140, 3800 Lindell Blvd.,
St. Federalist Era
(Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press,
1996): 273-377
Web Page:
http://history.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=668
[Updated 2005]
BROOKS, LISA T.
Fellowship: Peterson 01-02, "Recovering the
Voices of
Our Ancestors"
(Ph.D. cand. in English, Cornell)
Education: Goddard College, B.A., 93; Boston
College,
M.A. 98; Cornell, Ph.D., 04
Current Position: asst. prof. of history and
literature of folklore and mythology, Harvard
Fellowship Publications: "Two Paths to Peace:
Competing Visions of the Common Pot in the Ohio Valley," in The
Boundaries
Between Us: Natives, Newcomers, and the Struggle for the Old Northwest,
1740-1840, ed. Daniel P. Barr, (2005); "The Common Pot:
Indigenous
Writing and the Reconstruction of Native Space in the Northeast"
(diss., 2004)
Current Position: "Afterword: At the Gathering
Place," in American Indian Literary Nationalism, by Robert
Warrior,
Jace
Weaver, and Craig Womack, with a foreword by Simon Ortiz (Univ. of
New Mexico Press, 2006)
Address: Barker 122, 12 Quincy Street, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA 02138; lbrooks[at]fas.harvard.edu
Web Page: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histlit/bio/brooks.htm
[Updated 2007]
BROWN, CANDY GUNTHER
Fellowship: Peterson 98-99, "Salt to the World: A
Cultural History
of Evangelical Reading, Writing, and Publishing Practices
in
Mid-Nineteenth-Century
America" (Ph.D. cand. in history of American
civilization,
Harvard)
Education: Harvard, B.A., 92; M.A.,
95; Ph.D., 00
Current Position: assoc. prof. of Religious
studies,
Indiana
Fellowships Publications: The Word in the World
Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880
(Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2004);
"Domestic Nurture Versus Clerical Crisis: The Gender Dimension in
Horace Bushnell's
and Elizabeth Prentiss's Critiques of Revivalism," in New
Perspectives
on North American Revivalism, ed. Michael McClymond (Baltimore:
Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2004), 67-83;
"Sanctified Singing: The Role of Hymnody in
Shaping Wesleyan Evangelism, 1735-1915," in Considering the
Great
Commission: Evangelism and Mission in the Wesleyan Spirit, ed.
Stephen
Gunter and Elaine Robinson (Nashville: Abingdon, 2005), 211-220;
"Singing Pilgrims: Hymn Narratives of
a Pilgrim Community's Progress from This World to That Which is to Come,
1830-90," in Sing Them Over Again to Me: Hymns and Hymnbooks in
America, ed. Mark A. Noll and Edith L. Blumhofer (Tuscaloosa:
University of Alabama Press, 2006), 194-213;
"Publicizing Domestic Piety: The Cultural Work of
Religious Texts in the Woman's Building Library," Libraries and
Culture 41.1 (Winter 2006): 35-54;
"Religious Reading and Publishing," in A History of the
Book in
America, vol. 3, The Industrial Book, 1840-1880, ed. Scott Casper,
Jeff Groves, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship (Chapel Hill:
University of North
Carolina Press & AAS, forthcoming);
Other Publications:
"The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Rachel Stearns, 1834-1837:
Reinterpreting
Women's Religious and Social Experiences in the Methodist Revivals
of Nineteenth-Century America," Church History 65.4
(December
1996): 577-95;
"'Faith Working through Love': The Wesleyan Revivals and Social
Transformation-Considerations for the Contemporary Filipino
Church," Phronesis-Journal
of the Asian Theological Seminary (January 1997): 5-20;
"Prophetic Daughter: Mrs. Mary Fletcher's Renegotiation of
Religious and
Social Authority," Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in Their
Lives, Work,
and Culture 3 (2003): 77-98;
"Healing Words: Narratives of Spiritual Healing and Kathryn
Kuhlman's Uses
of Print Culture, 1947-1976," in Religion and the Culture of Print,
ed.
James P. Danky (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming);
"From Tent Meetings and Store-front Healing Rooms to Walmarts and
the
Internet: Healing Spaces in the United States, the Americas, and the
World, 1906-2006," Church History (forthcoming September 2006)
Address: Indiana University, Religious Studies,
Sycamore Hall 230, Bloomington, IN, 47405; browncg@indiana.edu
Web Page:
http://www.indiana.edu/~relstud/faculty/GuntherBrown.shtml
[Updated 2006]
BROWN, DONA L.
Fellowship: Hiatt 86-87, "Tourism in New
England"
(visiting instructor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.)
Education: Bryn Mawr, B.A., 78; Massachusetts at
Amherst,
M.A., 83; Ph.D., 89
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history,
Vermont
Fellowship Publications: "Making Something of
Nantucket:
Nostalgia and Tourism in New England,"
Retrospection
11,
no. 2 (1989); Inventing New England: Regional Tourism
in
the
Nineteenth Century (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian
Institution
Press, 1995); A Tourist’s New England –
Travel
Fiction,
1820-1920 (Hanover: Univ. Press of New England,
1999)
Other Publications: "Purchasing the Past:
Summer
Vacationers
and the Colonial Revival in the Piscataqua Region,"
in
A
Noble and 5ignified Stream (Old York Historical
Society,
1992)
Web Page:
http://www.uvm.edu/~history/?Page=brown.html&SM=facsubmenu.html
[Updated 2005]
BROWN, KATHLEEN
Fellowship: Mellon Postdoc. 97-98, "Foul Bodies
and
Infected
Worlds: Cleanliness and Cultural Authority in Ealry Modern
England
and America, 1500-1900" (asst. prof. of history,
Pennsylvania)
Education: Wesleyan, B.A., 81; Wisconsin, M.A., 85,
Ph.D., 90
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history,
Pennsylvania
Fellowship Publications: "Murderous
Uncleanness," in
Janet Moore Lindman
and Michele Lise Tarter, eds., A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early
America (Cornell Univ. Press, 2001)
Other Publications: Good Wives, Nasty Wenches,
and
Anxious
Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Power in Colonial
Virginia
(Univ.
of North Carolina Press, 1996)
Web Page:
http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/brown.htm
[Updated 2005]
BROWN, LOIS
Fellowship: AAS-NEMLA 00-01, "Made to Sell, Made
to
Save’:
The Black Child in American Anti-Slavery
Literature” (Ford
Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Du Bois Institute for
Afro-American
Research, Howard)
Education: Duke, B.A., 87; Boston College, Ph.D.,
93
Other Publications: Memoir of James Jackson, the
Attentive
and Obedient Scholar, Who Died in Boston October 31,
1833. Age 6
Years 11 Months, By His Teacher, Miss Susan
Paul. (1835), (Harvard
Univ. Press, 2000)
Web Page:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/engl/profiles/brown.shtml
[Updated 2005]
BROWN, RICHARD D.
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 77-78, "Communications
Networks
in
Pre-Industrial America" (prof. of history,
Connecticut)
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 92-93, "The Idea of an
Informed
Citizenry in Early America,1650-1865" (prof. of
history, Connecticut)
Education: Oberlin, B.A., 61; Harvard, M.A., 62,
Ph.D., 66
Fellowship Publications: Co-ed., Printing and
Society
in Early America (Worcester: AAS, 1983);
"Spreading
the
Word: Rural Clergymen and the Communication Network of
18th-Century
New England," Massachusetts Historical Society
Proceedings,
94 (1982): 1-14 (Boston, 1983); Knowledge Is Power: The
Diffusion
of Information in Early America, 1700-1865 (New
York: Oxford
Univ. Press, 1989); The Strength of a People: The Idea
of
an
Informed Citizenry in Early America, 1650-1870 (Chapel
Hill:
Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1996); "Bulwark of
Revolutionary
Liberty: Thomas Jefferson's and John Adams's Programs for
an
Informed
Citizenry," in James Gilreath ed., Thomas
Jefferson
and
the Education of Citizens, (Washington, DC: Library of
Congress,
1998)
Other Publications: Revolutionary Politics in
Massachusetts:
The Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Towns,
1772-1774
(1970); Modernization: The Transformation of American
Life, 1600-1865
(1976); Massachusetts: A Bicentennial History
(1978); Major
Problems in the Era of the American Revolution,
1760-1791, second
edition, (Houghton Mifflin, 2000); "Early American
Origins
of the
Information Age," in Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. and
James
W. Cortada,
eds., A Nation Transformed by Information: How
Information Has
Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the
Present
(New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000), 39-53, 302-304;
with Irene Quenzler Brown
The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice
in
Early America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003)
Web Page:
http://web1.uits.uconn.edu/history/faculty/brown.html
[Updated 2005]
BROWN, THOMAS
Fellowship: Peterson 90-91, "The Routinization of
Charisma in
the Early Democratic Part" (asst. prof. of history,
Detroit
Mercy)
Education: Brooklyn, B.A., 75; Columbia, M.A., 76,
M.Phil.,
78, Ph.D., 81
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history, Detroit
Mercy
Fellowship Publications: "From Old Hickory to Sly
Fox: The Routinization
of Charisma in the Early Democratic Party," Journal
of the
Early
Republic, repr. in Ralph D. Gray and Michael A. Morrison,
eds.,
New Perspectives on the Early Republic: Essays from The
Journal
of the Early Republic, 1981-1991 (Urbana: Univ. of
Illinois
Press, 1994),
322-51
Other Publications: Politics and
Statesmanship: Essays on
the American Whig Party (New York: Columbia Univ. Press,
1985)
[Updated 1997]
BROWN, THOMAS J.
Fellowship: Peterson 03-04, "The Reconstruction
of
American
Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil
War" (assoc. prof. of
history and asst. dir. of Institute for Southern Studies,
South Carolina)
Education: Harvard, A.B., 81, A.M., 81, J.D., 84, Ph.D., 95
Fellowship Publications:
ed. The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration: A Brief History
with Documents (Bedford/Saint Martin's, 2004)
Other Publications:
Dorothea Dix, New England Reformer (Cambridge, Mass., 1998);
co-ed. Hope and Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the 54th
Massachusetts Regiment (University of Massachusetts Press, 2001);
Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States
(Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2006)
Web Page:
http://www.cas.sc.edu/hist/faculty/brown.html
[Updated 2006]
BROWNE, KATRINA
Fellowship: Hearst Artist 00, "Traces of the
Trade"
research the history and legacy of the slave trade in New
England
(documentary filmmaker, Berkeley, CA)
Education: Princeton, B.A. 90, Pacific School of
Religion,
M.A. 97
Current Position: documentary filmmaker, Ebb Pod
Productions
Web Page:
http://www.tracesofthetrade.org
[Updated 2005]
BROYLES, MICHAEL
Fellowship: R.A. 89-90, "From Psalmody to
Symphony: How
American
Musical Attitudes Developed in Antebellum Boston"
(prof. of
music,
Maryland at Baltimore)
Education: Austin College, B.A., 61; Texas at
Austin,
M.A.,
64, Ph.D., 67
Current Position: prof. of music and American
history, Penn
State
Fellowship Publications: Music of the Highest
Class: Elitism
and Populism in Antebellum Boston (New Haven: Yale
Univ. Press,
1992); "Music and Class Structure in Antebellum
Boston," Journal
of the American Musicological Society (Fall 1991)
Other Publications: The Emergence and Evolution
of
Beethoven's
Heroic Style (New York: Excelsior Press, 1987); A
Yankee
Musician in Europe: The European Journals of Lowell
Mason (Univ.
of Michigan Research Press, 1990)
Web Page:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/meb11/
[Updated 2005]
BRUECKNER, MARTIN
Fellowship: AAS-ASECS 98-99, “The Culture of
Geographic
Letters in Early America” (asst. prof. of English,
Delaware)
Education: Mainz, B.A., 89; 92; Brandeis, Ph.D.,
97
Current Position: assoc. prof., English and material culture
studies, Delaware
Fellowship Publications:
“Lessons in Geography: Maps, Spellers, and Other Grammers of
Nationalism in the Early
Republic,”
American Quarterly 51, 2 (1999): 311-43;
“Literacy
for Empire: The ABCs of Geography and the Rule of
Territoriality in Early Nineteenth-Century America,” in Helena
Michie
and Ronald R. Thomas, eds.,
Nineteenth-Century Geographies: Anglo-American Tactics of Space
(New Brunswick: Rutgers
Univ. Press, 2003), 172-190; “Mapping the South: Image, Archive,
and the Construction of Regional
Identity
in the Age of Washington” in Greg O’Brien and
Tamara Harvey, eds., George Washington & Conceptions
of the Late Eighteenth-Century South (Tallahassee:
Univ.
Press of Florida);
The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and
National Identity (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2006)
Other Publications: "Contested Sources of the Self: The
Geographies of Lewis, Clark, and Native Americans," in Udo Hebel,
ed., The Construction
and Contestation of American Cultures and Identities in the Early
National
Period (Heidelberg: Winter, 1999), 25-46;
"The Plot Thickens: Surveying Manuals, Drama, and the Materiality
of
Narrative Form in Early Modern England," co-authored with Kristen
Poole,
English Literary History 69, 3 (2002): 617-648;
"Sense, Census, and the 'Statistical View' of the Modern Subject in
The
Literary Magazine and Jane Talbot," in Philip Barnard, Mark
Kamrath,
Stephen Shapiro, eds.,
Revising Charles Brockden Brown:
Culture, Politics, and Sexuality in the Early Republic
(Knoxville: Tennessee University
Press, 2004), 281-309
Address: Univ. of Delaware,
English Dept., 212 Memorial Hall, Newark, DE, 19716; mcb@udel.edu
Web Page:
http://www.english.udel.edu/Profiles/brueckner.htm
[Updated 2006]
BULLOCK, STEVEN C.
Fellowship: R.A. 92-93, "American
Freemasonry" (assoc.
prof. of history, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Education: Houghton, B.A., 78; SUNY at Binghamton,
M.A.,
80; Brown, A.M., 82, Ph.D., 86
Fellowship Publications: "According to Their
Rank: Masonry
and the Revolution, 1775-1792," Heredom: The
Transactions
of
the Scottish Rite Society, IV (1995),
73-105; Revolutionary
Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the
American
Social Order, 1730-1840 (Chapel Hill: IEAHC and Univ.
of
North
Carolina Press, 1996); "Review Essay--Initiating the
Enlightenment?:
Recent Works on European Freemasonry,"
Eighteenth-Century
Life,
20 (February 1996): 80-92;
"A Mumper among the Gentle: Tom Bell, Colonial Confidence
Man," William
& Mary Quarterly, 55 (1998), 231-258 [Percy Adams Prize,
SEASESC,
1999]
Other Publications: The American Revolution: A History in
Documents (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Web Page:
http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/HUA/People/bullock.html
[Updated 2006]
BURKE, MARTIN J.
Fellowship: Peterson 94-95, "Signs of the
Cross: Protestants,
Catholics, and the Construction of Religious Identities in
America,
1700-1900" (lecturer in history, Univ. College,
Galway,
Ireland)
Education: City College of New York, A.B.,
73; Michigan,
A.M., 77, Ph.D., 87
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history, Lehman
College, CUNY
Other Publications: "Mathew Carey and the
Vindicia
Hibernicae,"
in J. Leersseor, ed., The Literature of Politics and
the
Politics
of Literature (Amsterdam: RoDoPi, 1994); "A
German
Academic
in the Wilderness: Francis Lieber and the Higher Learning
in
America,"
in M. Burke and J. Boyer, eds., The Fate of Liberal
Education
(LaSalle: Open Court, 1995); The Conundrum of
Class: Public Discourse
on the Social Order in America (Chicago: Univ. of
Chicago Press,
1995)
Web Page:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/History/pages/profs/burke.html
[Updated 2005]
BURNS, MARTHA DENNIS
Fellowship: Peterson 93-94, "A Piano in the
Parlor: Music and
Gentility in America 1790-1860" (Ph.D. cand. in
history,
Brown)
Education: Michigan, 86; Brown, M.A., 89
Fellowship Publications: "The Power of Music
Enhanced
By
the Word: Lowell Mason and the Transformation of Sacred
Music in
Lyman Beecher's New England," Dublin Seminar for
New
England
Folklife: Annual Proceedings (1996)
[Updated 1997]
BURSTEIN, ANDREW
Fellowship: Peterson 97-98, “Sentimental
Democracy: The
Evolution of America’s Romantic
Self-Image” (asst. prof.
of history, Northern Iowa)
Education: Columbia, B.A., 74; Michigan,
M.A.,75; Virginia,
Ph.D., 94
Current Position: prof. of history, Tulsa
Fellowship Publications: Sentimental
Democracy: The Evolution of
America’s Romantic Self-Image (Hill & Wang,
1999);
America's Jubilee: How in 1826 a Generation
Remembered Fifty Years of Independence (Alfred A. Knopf,
2001); The Passions of Andrew Jackson (Alfred A.
Knopf,
2004)
Other Publications: The Inner Jefferson: Portrait
of
a Grieving
Optimist (Univ. Press of Virginia, 1995)
Web Page:
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~andrew-burstein/
[Updated 2005]
BUSH, SARGENT
(Died October 8, 2003)
Fellowship: Peterson 02-03, "The Type of the
Good
Hearer
in
Puritan Theory and Practice" (prof. of English,
Wisconsin at
Madison)
Education: Princeton., A.B., 59; Iowa, M.A.,
64; Ph.D., 67
[Updated 2003]
BUSHMAN, CLAUDIA
Fellowship: Peterson 91-92, "America Discovers
Columbus"
(independent scholar)
Education: Wellesley, A.B., 56; Brigham Young,
M.A.,
63;
Boston Univ., Ph.D., 78
Current Position: adj. prof. of history,
Columbia
Fellowship Publications: America Discovers
Columbus: How
an Italian Explorer Became an American Hero (Hanover,
NH: Univ.
Press of New England, 1992)
Other Publications: Mormon Sisters: Women in
Early
Utah
(Emmeline Press, 1976; Republic Salt Lake City:
Olympus
Publications
Co., 1980, 1984); 'A Good Poor Man's Wife': Being the
Chronicle
of Harriet Hanson Robinson and Her Family in
Nineteenth-Century
New England (Hanover, NH: The Univ. Press of New
England, 1981);
ed., with Harold B. Hancock, and Elizabeth Moyne Homsey,
Proceedings
of the Assembly of the Lower Counties on Delaware,
1770-1776, of
the Constitutional Convention of 1776, and of the House of
Assembly
of the Delaware State, 1776-1781 (Newark: Univ. of
Delaware
Press, 1986); ed., with Harold B. Hancock, and Elizabeth
Moyne Homsey,
Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Delaware
State 1781-1792
and the Constitutional Convention of 1792
(Newark: Univ. of
Delaware Press, 1988); So Laudable an Undertaking: The
Wilmington
Library, 1788 to 1798 (Wilmington: Delaware Heritage
Press,
1989)
[Updated 2005]
BUTLER, LESLIE
Fellowship: Peterson 98-99, "James Russell Lowell
and
the Cultural
Politics of Antebellum American Nationalism"
(visiting
asst. prof.
of history, Reed)
Education: Rochester, B.A., 91; Yale, M.Phil.,
94; Ph.D.,
97
Current Position: asst. prof. of history, Dartmouth
Web Page:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~history/faculty/butler.html
[Updated 2005]
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