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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)
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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
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