Directory of Fellows and
Research Associates,
1972-Present
F
FABIAN, ANN V.
Fellowship: Botein 94-95, "Selling
Experience: Amateur
Authors and Pamphlet Publication in the Nineteenth-Century
U.S."
(assoc. prof. of American studies, Yale)
Education: California at Santa Cruz, B.A., 71; Yale,
Ph.D.,
82
Current Position: prof. of American studies and
history, Rutgers
Fellowship Publications: The Unvarnished
Truth: Personal
Narratives in 19th Century America
(Univ. of California Press, 2000)
Other Publications: Card Sharks, Dream Books
& Bucket
Shops: Gambling in 19th-Century America (Cornell
Univ. Press,
1990, Routledge, 1999)
Address: Rutgers University, American Studies, 131 George
Strett, New Brunswick, NJ 08901; afabian[at]rci.rutgers.edu
Web Page:
http://history.rutgers.edu/People/afabian.htm
[Updated 2006]
FABRE, GENEVIEVE EDITH
Fellowship: Peterson 91-92, "Afro-American Feasts and
Celebrations
in the United States" (prof. of American studies,
Univ. of
Paris VII)
Education: Sorbonne, Ph.D., 69, doctorat d'etat,
78
Fellowship Publications: "Election Day
Celebrations," in
Wolfgang Binder ed., Slavery in the Americas,
(Wrzburg:
K.ningshausen & Neumann, 1993): 403-420; (ed. w/ Robert
O'Meally)
History and Memory in African-American Culture (New
York/Oxford:
Oxford Univ. Press, 1994); "Festive Moments in Antebellum
African American
Culture: JonKonnu," in Sollors, Werner, and Maria Diedrich,
eds.
The Black Columbiad: Defining Moments in African-American
Literature
and Culture (Cambridge and London: Harvard Univ. Press,
1995):
52-63
Other Publications: The Restless Journey of James
Agee
(New York: William Morrow, 1977); Drumbeats, Masks and
Metaphors
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1983); ed. and
introduction
Parcours identitaires aux USA (Paris: Publications de la
Sorbonne
Nouvelle, 1994)
[Updated 1997]
FABRE, MICHEL J.
Fellowship: Peterson 91-92, "The Creoles of
Color: Cultural
Production as a Basis of Group Identity" (prof. of
American
studies, Univ. of Paris III)
Education: Sorbonne, Ph.D., 70
Current Position: prof. emeritus of American studies,
Univ.
of Paris III
Fellowship Publications: "Une .mulation sans envie: La
presse
cr.ole de couleur . la Nouvelle Orl.ans aux dix-neuvi.me
si.cle,"
(forthcoming); "Th.ophile Allain", "Caesar
C. Antoine," "Couvent
Institute," "Creole," "Rodolphe Desdunes," "Alice
Dunbar-Nelson,"
"Armand Lanusse," "Les Cenelles," "P.B.S. Pinchback," in
Encyclopedia
of African-American Culture and History, ed. Jack
Salzman, David
Smith and Cornel West, (5 vols.), (New York: Macmillan,
1996)
Other Publications: The World of Richard
Wright (Jackson:
Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1985); From Harlem to
Paris: Black
American Writers in France 1840-1980 (Urbana: Univ. of
Illinois
Press, 1991); (w/ John Williams) Way B(l)ack Then and
Now: A
Street Guide to African Americans in Paris (Universit.
de la
Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1992); (w/ Robert Skinner and Lester
Sullivan)
Chester Himes, An Annotated Primary and Secondary
Bibliography
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992); The Unfinished
Quest
of Richard Wright (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press,
1993); (ed.
w/ Robert Skinner) Conservations with Chester Himes
(Jackson:
Univ. of Mississippi Press, 1995); (w/ R. Bobia, C. Davis,
E. O'Neil
and J. Saltman) The French Critical Reception of African
American
Literature, 1840-1970: An Annotated Bibliography
(Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1995); (w/ Edward Margolies) The
Several
Lives of Chester Himes, A Biography (Jackson: Univ. of
Mississippi
Press, 1997)
[Updated 1997]
FAGAN, BENJAMIN
Fellowship: Tracy 08-09, "'Righteousness Exalteth a
Nation': Practices of Black Nationalism, 1827-1860"
(Ph.D. cand. in English, Virginia)
Education:
[Updated 2008]
FAHS, ALICE E.
Fellowship: Hiatt 91-92, "Publishing the Civil
War: Northern
Publishers and the Literary Marketplace of
War" (Ph.D. cand.
in history, New York Univ.)
Fellowship: Botein 95-96 (asst. prof. of history,
California
at Irvine)
Education: New York Univ., Ph.D., 93
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history,
California at Irvine
Fellowship Publications: The Imagined Civil
War: Popular
Literature of the North and South, 1861-65 (Univ. of
North Carolina
Press, 2000)
[Honorable mention for the Lincoln Prize, 2002]
Web Page:
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/faculty/fahs/
[Updated 2005]
FANNING, CHARLES F.
Fellowship: Daniels 81-82, "The Irish Voice in
America: Nineteenth-Century
Fiction" (assoc. prof. of English, Bridgewater State)
Education: Harvard, B.A., 64, M.A.T.,
66; Pennsylvania, M.A.,
68, Ph.D., 72
Current Position: prof. of English and history and
dir. of
Irish Studies, Southern Illinois at Carbondale
Fellowship Publications: ed., The Exiles of
Erin: Nineteenth-Century
Irish-American Fiction (1987) [American Book Award,
1989]; The
Exiles of Erin, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged,
(Chester,
PA: Dufour Editions, 1997); The Irish Voice in
America: Irish-American
Fiction from the 1760s to the 1980s (1990) [American
Conference
for Irish Studies Book Prize for Literary Criticism,
1991]
Other Publications: Finley Peter Dunne and
Mr. Dooley:
The Chicago Years (1978); Mr. Dooley and the Chicago
Irish:
An Anthology (1976)
Web Page:
http://www.siu.edu/departments/english/gradfaculty/fanning.html
[Updated 2005]
FANNING, SARA
Fellowship: Tracy 04-05, "The Promised Land: African
Americans and Haiti from the Haitian Revolution to 1830" (Ph.D. cand.
in history, Texas at Austin)
Education: Texas at Austin, B.A., 96; Univ. College of Galway,
M.A., 98
[Updated 2005]
FAVRETTI, RUDY J.
Fellowship: Daniels 78-79, "Landscaping Use of Trees in
New
England" (prof. of landscape architecture,
Connecticut)
Education: Connecticut, B.S., 54; Cornell, M.S.,
55; Massachusetts,
B.L.A., 65, M.L.A., 67
Current Position: prof. emeritus, Connecticut, and
landscape
architect
Fellowship Publications: "The Ornamentation of New
England
Towns: 1750-1859," Journal of Garden History 2
(1982): 325-42
Other Publications: Co-author, with Joy Favretti,
Landscapes
and Gardens for Historic Building, 1978
(Nashville: American
Association for State and Local History, 1978)
[Updated 2005]
FIDLER, ANN
Fellowship: Botein 98-99, "A Cultural History of the
American
Law Book, 1700-1900" (asst. prof. of history, Ohio)
Education: Kansas, B.A., 84; California at Berkeley,
J.D.,
90; Ph.D., 96
Web Page:
http://www-as.phy.ohiou.edu/Departments/History/faculty/fidler.html
[Updated 2005]
FIRST, SARA BABCOX
Fellowship: Legacy 05-06, "The Mechanics of Renown:
Culture and Celebrity in Nineteenth-Century America"
(Ph.D. cand. in history, Michigan)
Education: Wellesley, B.A., 00
[Updated 2005]
FISHER, LINFORD D.
Fellowship: Peterson 07-08 "The Politics of Conversion:
Indian Agency, Religious Change, and Race in Southern New England,
1736-1775" (Ph.D. cand. in the study of religion, Harvard)
Education: Lancaster Bible College, B.S., 99; Gordon-Conwell,
M.A., 02
[Updated 2007]
FISHER, LYDIA
Fellowship: NEMLA 05-06, "Domesticating the Nation:
American Literature, Exceptionalism, and the Science of Cultivation" (lecturer of English, Pennsylvania)
Education: Vassar, B.A., 93; Washington, M.A.,
96, Ph.D. 00
Web Page:
http://www.english.upenn.edu/People/Faculty/profile.php?pennkey=lydiaf
[Updated 2005]
FLIEGELMAN, JAY
(Died August 14, 2007)
Fellowship: Mellon Dist. Scholar-in-Residence
98-99, "Storied Associations: Books from Important American Libraries, 1650-1860, and the
Tales they Tell" (prof. of English, Stanford)
Education: Wesleyan, B.A, 71; Stanford, Ph.D., 77
Other Publications: Declaring
Independence: Jefferson,
Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance
(Stanford Univ.
Press, 1993); Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American
Revolution
Against Patriarchical Authority, 1750-1800 (Cambridge
Univ.
Press, 1982)
[Updated 2007]
FONDERSMITH, JOHN
Fellowship: Daniels 78-79, "History of American Travel
Guidebooks"
(Chief, Special Project Section, Municipal Planning Office,
Washington
D.C.)
Education: Maryland, B.A., 61; Illinois, M.S., 63
Current Position: chief, Downtown Section,
Washington, D.C.,
Office of Planning
Other Publications: American Urban Guidenotes: The
Newsletter
of Guidebooks (1979+)
Web Page:
http://planning.dc.gov/planning/cwp/view,a,1278,q,569026.asp
[Updated 1997]
FOOS, PAUL W.
Fellowship: Peterson 96-97, "Mexican Wars,
1835-1853: Manifest
Destiny and American Society" (Ph.D. cand. in history,
Yale)
Education: Massachusetts, B.A., 91; Yale, Ph.D.,
97
Fellowship Publications: A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair:
Soldiers and Social
Conflict during the Mexican-American War (Univ. of North
Carolina
Press, 2002)
[Updated 2005]
FORBES, ERIN
Fellowship: Peterson 08-09, "Popular Crime Writing and
the Publications of David Walker and Edgar Allan Poe"
(Ph.D. cand. in English, Princeton)
Education:
[Updated 2008]
FORD, BRIDGET
Fellowship: Legacy 98-99, "People of Sorrow ,
Childern
of Grace: Race and Religin in the Antebellum
West" (Ph.D. cand.
in history, California at Davis)
Fellowship: Mellon Post-Dissertation 03-04, "American
Heartland:
The Sentimentalization of Religion and Race Relations in
Cincinnati
and Louisville, 1830-1870"
Education: Barnard, B.A., 91; California at Davis,
M.A.,
94, Ph.D., 02
Current Position: faculty of history, California at
Fresno
[Updated 2005]
FORD, MARGARET L.
Fellowship: Haven 84-85, "Ann Franklin, Colonial Newport
Printer"
(dir. of Americana, Argosy Bookstore, New York City)
Education: Smith, B.A., 80; CUNY, Graduate Center,
M.A.,
1989
Current Position: assoc. dir., Book Dept.,
Christie's,
King Street, London
Fellowship Publications: "The Types of the Franklin
Press
of Rhode Island, 1727-1763, with Addenda to Alden's Rhode
Island
Imprints," PBSA 82 (1988): 83-95; "A Widow's
Work: Ann Franklin
of Newport, R.I.," Printing History 24
(1991): 15-26; "Types
and Gender: Ann Franklin, Colonial Printer," in S. Albertina
ed.,
A Living of Words: American Women in Print Culture
(Knoxville,
TN, spring 1995)
Other Publications: "An Unrecorded Small-Format
Incunable,"
The Library (1989); Christ, Plato and Hermes
Trismegistus:
The Dawn of Printing (Amsterdam, 1990); chapters in
The History
of the Book in Britain, Vol. 3; "Importation of Printed
Books
into Britain, 1450-1550" and "Private Ownership of Printed
Books
in Britain, 1450-1550" in The History of the Book in
Britain,
vol. III (Cambridge, England: Fall 1997)
[Updated 1997]
FORMISANO, RONALD P.
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 76-77, "Massachusetts Political
Culture,
1790-1840" (assoc. prof. of history, Clark)
Fellowship: R.A. 91-92, "American
Populisms" (prof.
of history, Florida)
Education: Brown, B.A., 60; Wisconsin, M.A.,
62; Wayne State,
Ph.D., 66
Fellowship Publications: The Transformation of
Political
Culture: Massachusetts Parties, 1790s-1840s (New
York: Oxford
Univ. Press, 1983); co-ed., Boston 1700-1980: The
Evolution of
Urban Politics (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984)
Other Publications: The Birth of Mass Political
Parties:
Michigan, 1827-1861 (Princeton: Princeton
Univ. Press); "Toward
a Reorientation of `Jacksonian Politics': A Review of the
Literature,
1959-1974," Journal of American History 63
(1976): 42-65;
Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the
1960s
and 1970s (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press,
1991);
The Great Lobster War (Amherst: Univ. of
Massachusetts Press, 1997)
[Updated 1997]
FORRANT, ROBERT F.
Fellowship: Peterson 01-02, "Manufacturer to Industrial
America:
Worcester-area Machine Tool Firms and Skill,
1830-1875" (assoc.
prof. of regional economic and social development,
Massachusetts
at Lowell)
Education: Northeastern, M.A., 72; Massachusetts at
Amherst,
Ph.D., 94
Other Publications:
"The International Association of Machinists, Pratt & Whitney, and the
Struggle for a Blue-Collar Future in Connecticut," International Review
of Social History 47 (2002): 113-36
Web Page:
http://www.uml.edu/Dept/RESD/forrant.htm
[Updated 2005]
FOX, RICHARD WIGHTMAN
Fellowship: Mellon Postdoc. 00-01, "American
Jesus"
(prof. of history, Southern California)
Fellowship: Mellon Distinguished Scholar 05-06,
"
Lincoln's Body, Lincoln's Blood: The Death and Life of the Savior
President"
(prof. of history, Southern California)
Education: Stanford, B.A., 66, M.A., Ph.D., 75
Fellowship Publications: Jesus in America:
Personal Savior, Cultural
Hero,
National Obsession (HarperSanFrancisco, 2004)
Other Publications: So Far Disordered in Mind: Insanity in
California (University of California Press, 1978);
Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography (Pantheon Books, 1985);
Trials of
Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal (Univ. of Chicago Press,
1999)
Web Page:
http://www.usc.edu/assets/college/faculty/profiles/202.html
[Updated 2005]
FRANG, JOANNA
Fellowship: Last 07-08 "Becoming American on the Grand
Tour" (Ph.D. cand. in American history, Brandeis)
Education: Haverford, B.A., 01; Delaware/Winterthur,
M.A., 03
[Updated 2007]
FRANKLIN, WAYNE S.
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 94-95, "A Biography of James
Fenimore Cooper"
(Davis distinguished prof. of American literature,
Northeastern)
Education: Union, B.A., 67; Pittsburgh, M.A., 68,
Ph.D., 72
Current Position: prof. of English, Connecticut
at Storrs
Fellowship Publications: "Cooper as a
Passenger," American
Neptune and Proceedings of North American Society for
Oceanic History
(1998)
Other Publications: Discoverers, Explorers,
Settlers
(Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, Press, 1979); The New World
of James
Fenimore Cooper (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press,
1982); A
Rural Carpenter's World (Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press,
1990);
co-ed., Mapping American Culture (Iowa City: Univ. of
Iowa
Press, 1992); American Voices, American Lives: A
Documentary
Reader (New York: WW Norton, 1997)
[Updated 2006]
FREEBERG, ERNEST
Fellowship: AAS-ASECS 95-96, "The Meaning of Blindnessin
Early
America" (asst. prof., Colby-Sawyer)
Education: Middlebury, B.A., 80; Emory, M.A., 91,
Ph.D.,
95
Current Position:
assoc. prof. of history, Tennessee
Fellowship Publications: The Education of Laura
Bridgman,
First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language (Harvard,
2001)
[John H. Dunning Prize, 2002];
"The Meanings of Blindness in 19th Century America," Proceedings of the
American Antiquarian Society (Fall 2002)
Other Publications: "'More Important than a Rabble of
Common
Kings': Dr. Howe's Education of Laura Bridgeman," History
of
Education Quarterly (Fall 1994); "'An Object of Peculiar
Interest':
The Education of Laura Bridgeman," Church History
(June 1992)
Web Page:
http://web.utk.edu/~history/f-freeberg.htm
[Updated 2005]
FREEHLING, WILLIAM W.
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 89-90, "The Road to Disunion,
Vol.
2: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-61" (prof. of
history, Johns
Hopkins)
Education: Harvard, B.A., 58; California at Berkeley,
M.A.,
59, Ph.D., 63
Current Position: Otis A. Singletary chair in the
humanities,
Kentucky
Fellowship Publications: "James Henley Thornwell's
Mysterious
Antislavery Moment," Journal of Southern History
(1991);
The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the
Civil
War (1994)
Other Publications: Prelude to Civil War
(1966) [Nevins
and Bancroft Prizes]; The Road to Disunion, Vol. 1
(1990)
[Library Journal's "Best Books of 1990;" Owsley Prize];
The South Vs. The South: How the Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped
the
Course of the Civil War (Oxford Univ. Press, 2001)
Web Page:
http://www.uky.edu/AS/History/faculty/bios/freehling.html
[Updated 2005]
FRIEDEL, ROBERT D.
Fellowship: Peterson 89-90, "Documenting Changes
in
Household Materials, 1800-87" (
assoc. prof. of history,
Maryland)
Education: Brown, B.A., 71; London, MSC, 72; Johns
Hopkins,
Ph.D., 77
Current Position: prof. of History, University of
Maryland
Fellowship Publications: "Crazy About
Rubber," American Heritage
of Invention and Technology 5, no. 3 (Winter
1990): 44-49
Other Publications: Edison's Electric Light: A
Biography
of an Invention (New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press,
1986);
Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty (New York: WW
Norton &
Co., 1994)
Web Page:
http://www.history.umd.edu/Bio/friedel.html
[Updated 2005]
FRIEDMAN, JEAN E.
Fellowship: Peterson 85-86, "Families at
War: Northern
and Southern Communities in the Civil
War" (assoc. prof. of
history, Georgia)
Education: Moravian, B.A., 63; Lehigh, M.A., 67,
Ph.D., 76
Current Position: retired
Other Publications: The Enclosed Garen: Women and
Community
in the Evangelical South, 1830-1900 (Univ. of North
Carolina
Press, 1985); Ways of Wisdom: Moral Education in the
Early National
Period (Univ. of Georgia Press, 2001)
Address: 1141 Hickory Hill Dr., Watkinsville, GA
30677; JEF2441[at]bellsouth.net
[Updated 2001]
FROST, LINDA ANNE
Fellowship: R.A. 93-94, "The Thrillers of Louisa May
Alcott
and the Popular Press" (asst. prof. of English, Penn
State--Wilkes-Barre)
Education: Bowling Green State, B.A., 85; SUNY at
Stony Brook,
Ph.D., 90
Current Position: assoc. prof of English and assoc.
dir. of the university honors program, Alabama at
Birmingham
Fellowship Publications: Never One Nation: Freaks, Savages and
Whiteness in U. S. Popular Culture, 1850-1877 (Univ. of Minnesota
Press, 2005)
Other Publications: "'The Red Face of Man,' The
Penobscot Indian,
and a Conflict of Interest in Thoreau's Maine
Woods," ESQ,
39 (1993), 21-47
Address:
University of Alabama at Birmingham, HOH, 1530 3rd Avenue South,
Birmingham, AL, 35294-4450; lfrost[at]uab.edu
Web Page:
http://www.uab.edu/english/faculty/vitae/frost.html
[Updated 2006]
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