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 Renaissance" (visiting asst. prof. of
English, Reed)
Education: New College, B.A., 88; Columbia, M.A.,
90, M.Phil., 93, Ph.D., 98
Current Position: assoc. prof. of English, North
Carolina State
Other Publications: Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture,
and Geography in Antebellum America (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press,
2006)
Address: North Carolina State University, English Dept., Box
8105, Raleigh, NC 27695-8105; anne_baker[at]ncsu.edu
[Updated 2008]
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, Ph.D. 06
Current Position: asst. prof. of history, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Fellowship Publications:
"'Scattered as Christians Are in This Part of Our Country': Layfolk's Reading, Writing, and Religious Community in New England's Northern Frontier, 1780-1830." New England Quarterly 83 (December 2010): 607-40.
Other Publications: "Equal Right and Equal Privilege:
Separating Church and State in Vermont,"
Journal of Church and State 50:1 (Winter 2008): 23-48
Webpage:
http://www.mscd.edu/searchchannel/jsp/directoryprofile/profile.jsp?uName=sbalik
[Updated 2011]
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
Current Position: asst. prof. of women, gender, and sexuality;
and of history and literature, Harvard
Fellowship Publications:
"Dances with Things: Material Culture and the Performance of Race,"
Social Text 101 (Winter 2009);
Racial Innocence: Performing Childhood and Race from Uncle Tom's Cabin to the New Negro Movement
(forthcoming)
Other Publications: ed. Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater
(University of Michigan Press, 2006)
Address: Program of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality,
Harvard University, Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138;
rbernst[at]fas.harvard.edu
Web page:
http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~rbernst/
[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: assoc. prof. of the history of
Christianity,
Univ. of Chicago Divinity School; assoc. member,
dept. of history
Fellowship Publications:
"Restoring the Divine Order to the World: Religion and the Family in the
Antebellum Woman's Rights Movement," in Anne Carr and Mary Stewart Van
Leeuwen, eds., Religion, Feminism, and the Family,
(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);
ed., The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the
Past
(University of North Carolina Press, 2007
Address: The University of Chicago Divinity School, 1025 East
58th St., Chicago, IL 60637; cbrekus@uchicago.edu
Web Page:
http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty/brekus.shtml
[Updated 2008]
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: Humanities Distinguished Professor, Ohio
State
Fellowship Publications: The Heart of the
Commonwealth: Society
and Political Culture in Central Massachusetts,
1713-1861 (New
York, 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, 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;
The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844 (New York, 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 Republic': The Federalist Era (Charlottesville: University of
Virginia Press, 1996), 273-377;
"To Be ‘Read by the Whole People’: Press, Party, and Public Sphere in the United
States, 1790-1840," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 110 (April 2000),
41-118;
"Ecology," in Daniel Vickers, ed., A Companion to Colonial America (Malden, Mass.:
Blackwell, 2003), 44-75;
"Consent, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution and the
Early American Republic," in Jeffery L. Pasley, Andrew W. Robertson, and David
Waldstreicher eds., Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History
of the Early American Republic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2004), 207-250.
Address: Ohio State University, Department of History, 230 W. 17th Ave.,
Columbus, OH 43210; brooke.10[at]osu.edu
Web Page:
http://history.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=668
[Updated 2008]
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 and of folklore and mythology, Harvard
Fellowship Publications:
"The Common Pot:
Indigenous Writing and the Reconstruction of Native Space in the
Northeast" (diss., 2004);
"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);
(diss., 2004);
The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast
(Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2008)
Other Publications:
"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);
co-author, Reasoning Together: the Native Critics Collective
(University of Oklahoma Press, 2008)
Address: Barker 147, 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 2008]
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: Charles Phelps Manship Professor of History,
Louisiana State
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);
Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello (2005);
The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving (2007)
Address: Louisiana State University, 224 Himes Hall, Baton Rouge,
LA 70803; aburstein@lsu.edu
Web Page:
http://www.aburstein.com
[Updated 2008]
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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