Directory of Fellows and
Research Associates,
1972-Present
N
NAEHER, ROBERT
Fellowship: Peterson 06-07, "Puritan Prayer,
Expressive Voice, and the Shaping of Identity" (chair, history and
social sciences, Emma Willard School)
Education: King's College, B.A., 78; Trinity,
M.A., 83; Connecticut, Ph.D., 99
[Updated 2006]
NARRETT, DAVID E.
Fellowship: ASECS 01-02, "Borderland Republics: Vermont,
West
Florida, Texas, and the Politics of Union,
1760-1846" (assoc.
prof. of history, Texas at Arlington)
Education: Columbia, B.A., 73; Cornell, M.A., 76,
Ph.D.,
81
[Updated 2001]
NASH, MARGARET A.
Fellowship: Peterson 06-07, "Higher Education for
Women and the Formation of Gender, Class, and Race Identity in the
United States, 1840-1875" (asst. prof. of education, California
at Riverside)
Education: Miami, B.Ph., 82; Wisconsin, M.A., 94,
Ph.D., 00
[Updated 2006]
NATHANS, HEATHER SHAWN
Fellowship: Peterson 98-99, "'Avoiding Party Matters': The
Boston
Theatre Rivalries of the 1790s" (Ph.D. cand. in theater
history,
Tufts)
Education: Dartmouth, B.A., 90; Tufts, Ph.D. 99
Current Position: assoc. prof. of theatre,
Maryland
Fellowship Publications:
Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson: Into
the
Hands of the People (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003);
"All of the Federalist
School? Choosing
Sides and Creating Identities in the Boston Theatre
Wars," New
England Theatre Journal, 2000
Other Publications:
"The Diasporic Imagination," New England Theatre Journal, 2005; "A
Much
Maligned People: Jews on the Early American Stage," Journal of Early
American Studies, 2004;
"Trampling Native Genius: John
Murdock
versus the Chestnut Street Theatre," Journal of American
Drama
and Theatre; "Forging a Powerful Engine: Building Theaters
and
Elites in Post-Revolutionary Boston and
Philadelphia," Pennsylvania
History Journal (Supplement)
Address: University of Maryland, 2809 Clarice Smith
Performing
Arts Center, Dept. of Theatre, College Park, MD
20742; hn29@umail.umd.edu
[Updated 2005]
NELSON, ADAM R.
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 08-09 "Nationalism,
Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University" (assoc.
prof. of education policy studies and history, Wisconsin-Madison)
Fellowship: Peterson 07-08 "Nationalism,
Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University" (assoc.
prof. of education policy studies and history, Wisconsin-Madison)
Education: St. Olaf, B.A., 93; Brown, M.A., 94, Ph.D., 98
[Updated 2008]
NELSON, MEGAN KATE
Fellowship: Last 07-08, "Flesh and Stone: Ruins and
the Civil War" (asst. prof. of history, California State, Fullerton)
Education: Harvard, A.B., 94; Iowa, Ph.D., 02
Other Publications: Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp (University of Georgia Press, 2005)
[Updated 2009]
NERONE, JOHN
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 96-97, "U.S. Newspapers from the
Revolution
to the Industrial Revolution" (assoc. prof., Institute of
Communications
Research, IL)
Education: Xavier, H.A.B., 78, Notre Dame, B.A.,
80; Ph.D.,
82
Current Position: prof., Institute of Communications
Research,
IL
Education: Xavier, H.A.B., 78, Notre Dame, B.A.,
80
Fellowship Publications: "Lessons from American
History,"
Journalists in Peril (Media Studies Review, Fall
1996): 149-158;
(with Kevin G. Barnhurst) "The President is Dead: American
News Photography and the New Long Journalism," in Pictures in the
Public Sphere (Univ. Illinois Press, 1999);
(with Kevin G. Barnhurst) The Form of News: A
History (Guilford Publications, 2001)
Other Publications: The Culture of the Press in
the Early Republic: Cincinnati, 1793-1848; Violence Against the
Press: Policing the Public Sphere in
U.S. History; (ed.) Last Rights: Revisiting Four Theories of the
Press
[Updated 2005]
NEUBURG, VICTOR E.
(Deceased)
Fellowship: Haven 84-85, "Ballads and Chapbooks in
Early
America" (senior lecturer, School of Librarianship,
Polytechnic
of North London)
Education: Leicester, M.Ed., 67
Fellowship Publications: "Chapbooks in
America,"
in Cathy N. Davidson, ed., Reading in America
(Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1989)
Other Publications: The Penny Histories
(1970); Popular
Education in Eighteenth-Century England (1971);
Popular Literature
(1977); Guide to the Western Front (Penguin Books,
1988);
Gone for a Soldier (Cassell, 1989); ed., J. Buchan,
History
of the Great War 1914-18 (1991)
[Updated 1997]
NEUMAN, MEREDITH
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 08-09, "Letter and Spirit:
Theories of Sermon Literature in Puritan New England"
(asst. prof. of English, Clark)
Education: Chicago, B.A., 89; California at Los Angles, Ph.D., 04
Web page:
http://www.clarku.edu/academicCatalog/facultybio.cfm?id=609
[Updated 2008]
NEUSSENDORFER, MARGARET R.
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 82-83, "Bibliography of the
Works of
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody" (assoc. prof. of literature
and American
studies, Texas of Permian Basin)
Education: College of St. Scholastica, B.A.,
55; St. Louis,
M.A., 63; Yale, M.Phil, 71; Ph.D., 75
Current Position: independent scholar
Fellowship Publications: "Elizabeth Peabody
Writes to
Wordsworth," Studies in the American Renaissance
(1984)
[Updated 1997]
NEWELL, MARGARET E.
Fellowship: Hiatt 88-89, "Economic Ideology and
Development
in New England, 1629-1820." (Ph.D. cand. in history,
Virginia)
Education: Brown, A.B., 84; Virginia, M.A., 86,
Ph.D., 91
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history, Ohio
State
Fellowship Publications:
"Merchants and
Miners: Economic
Culture in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts and
Peru"
Revista de Indias, no. 201
(May-Sept. 1994);
"Robert Child
and the Entrepreneurial Vision: Economy and Ideology in
Early New
England," NEQ 58 (1995);
"A Revolution in
Economic
Thought: From the Currency Act to the Imperial Crisis in
Massachusetts,"
in Conrad Wright, ed., Entrepreneurs: The Boston Business
Community,
1750-1850, (Boston, 1997);
"Massachusetts Body of
Liberties,"
and "John Leland," in Paul Finkelman, ed.,
Encyclopedia
of Religion and the Law, (2000); From
Dependency to
Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New
England (1998)
Other Publications: "Robert Child and the
Entrepreneurial
Vision: Economic Ideology and Development in New England,
1629-1654"
(master's thesis)
[Updated 2005]
NEWMAN, NANCY
Fellowship: Peterson 97-98, "Good Music for a Free
People:
The Germania Musical Society in the United States,
1848-1854"
(Ph.D. cand. in music, Brown)
Education: Roosevelt, B.A., 80; Chicago, M.A.,
87; Brown,
Ph.D., 02
Current Position: asst. prof. of music, SUNY at Albany
Fellowship Publications: "Good Music for a Free
People: The
Germania Musical Society and Transatlantic Musical Culture
of the
Mid Nineteenth Century," (Ph. D. diss., Brown,
2002); "Gleiche Rechte,
gleiche Pflichter, und gleiche Gen .sse: Henry Albrecht's
Utopian
Vision of the Germania Musical Society," Yearbook of
German -
American Studies 34 (1999), 83-111
[Updated 2005]
NEWTON, JAMES ARMSTRONG
Fellowship: K-12 94, "Political Cartoons in the Age
of
Andrew Jackson" (dept. chair and teacher, dept. of
History
and Social Sciences, Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School,
Sudbury,
MA)
Education: Harvard, A.B., 64, M.A.T., 67
Other Publications: "Crows' Nests or Eagles'
Aeries?
The Octagon Houses of E.A. Brackett and
H.P. Wakefield," Old
Time New England 67, nos. 3-4 (1977)
Address: Lincoln-Sudbury R.H.S., 390 Lincoln Rd.,
Sudbury,
MA 01776; 45 Cider Mill Rd., Sudbury, MA
01776; jim_newton[at]lsrhs.net
[Updated 2001]
NICHOLS, ELISABETH
Fellowship: Peterson 97-98, "'Pray Don't Tell Any Body
That
I Write Politics': Private Reflections and Public
Admonitions in
the Early Republic" (Ph.D. cand. in history, New
Hampshire)
Education: Smith, B.A., 81; New Hampshire, M.A., 90,
Ph.D.,
97
Current Position: lecturer, history, and history
& literature
concentration, Harvard
Other Publications: "'Blunted Hearts': Female Readers
and Printed
Authority in the Early Republic," in Reading
Acts: Amerian Readers'
Interactions with Literature, 1800-1850, ed. Barbara
Ryan and
Amy Thomas (Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press,
forthcoming)
Address: 27 Sawtell Dr., Groton, MA 01450
[Updated 2001]
NISSENBAUM, STEPHEN W.
Fellowship: Daniels 78-79, "Literature and Society
in Jacksonian
America: Writers Confront the Marketplace" (prof. of
history,
Massachusetts at Amherst)
Fellowship: R.A. 84-85, "Nathaniel Hawthorne's
Scarlet
Letter" (prof. of history, Massachusetts at
Amherst)
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 91-92, "The Battle for
Christmas in
America, 1800-1870" (prof. of history, Massachusetts at
Amherst)
Education: Harvard, B.A., 61; Columbia, M.A.,
63; Wisconsin,
Ph.D., 68
Current Position: prof. emeritus of history,
Massachusetts at
Amherst
Fellowship Publications: Introduction to Nathaniel
Hawthorne,
The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings (New York: Modern
Library
Collection Editions, 1984); "Christmas in Early New England,
1620-1820:
Puritanism, Popular Culture, and the Printed
Word," Proceedings
of the American Antiquarian Society 106 (1996); The
Battle
for Christmas (New York: Knopf, 1996) [finalist,
Pulitzer Prize
in History, 1997]; "Christmas Religious Music in Eighteenth
Century
New England," (New England Music: The Public Sphere,
1600-1900,
Dublin Seminar for NE Folklife, Annual Proceedings
1996). Pp. 103-116
"There Arose Such a Clatter Who Really Wrote "The Night
Before Christmas"?
(And Why Does It Matter) (Common Place, vol. 1, No.2)
Other Publications: (with Paul Boyer) Salem
Possessed:
The Social Origins of Witchcraft (Harvard Univ. Press,
1974);
Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America: Sylvester
Graham
and Health Reform (1980); The Pursuit of Liberty
(1984);
"Sexual Radicalism and the Contested Norm," in
Loretta
Valtz Manucci et al, eds., Making, Unmaking, and Remaking
America:
Popular Ideology before the Civil War, (Milan: Quaderno
I, 1987),
pp. 63-75
Address:
snissenbaum@history.umass.edu
[Updated 2004]
NIXON, CORNELIA
Fellowship: Artist 98, "Research for a novel, "Martha's
Version",
set in Maryland in 1869" (novelist, Bloomington,
IN)
Education: California at Irvine, B.A., 69; San
Francisco
State, M.A., 73; California at Berkeley, Ph.D., 81
Current Position: prof. of English, Mills
Web Page:
http://www.mills.edu/academics/faculty/eng/cnixon/cnixon.php#
[Updated 2005]
NOBLES, GREGORY H.
Fellowship: Boni 91-92, "Straight Lines and
Stability:
The Imposition of Order on the Early American
Frontier" (assoc.
prof. of history, technology, and society, Georgia Tech)
Education: Princeton, B.A., 70; Michigan, M.A., 74,
Ph.D., 79
Current Position: prof. of history and dir., Georgia
Tech Honors Program
Fellowship Publications: "Straight Lines and
Stability: Mapping thePolitical Order of the Anglo-American
Frontier," Journal of American History 80 (1993); American
Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest (New
York: Hill & Wang, 1997)
Other Publications: Divisions Throughout the
Whole: Politics and Society in Hampshire County, Massachusetts,
1740-1775 (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983); "Breaking into the
Backcountry: New Approaches to the Early American
Frontier," William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., 46 (1989);
"Ornithology and Enterprise: Making and Marketing John James Audubon's The
Birds of America," The 2003 James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History
of the Book in American Culture, Proceedings of the American
Antiquarian Society, 113:2
Address: Georgia Institute of Technology, Honors Program, 105 A.
French Building, Atlanta, GA 30332-0740;
gregory.nobles[at]carnegie.gatech.edu
Web Page: http://www.hts.gatech.edu/peoFacPopUp.html#nobles
[Updated 2006]
NORD, DAVID P.
Fellowship: Peterson 86-87, "Journalism and
Cities in
American History" (assoc. prof. of journalism, Indiana at
Bloomington)
Fellowship: Botein 96-97, "The Religious Roots of
Mass Media
in America,1800-1860" (prof. of journalism and American
studies,
Indiana)
Fellowship: Mellon Distinguished Scholar 08-09, "Newspapers and
Cities in Early America" (professor of journalism and adjunct professor
of history, Indiana)
Education: Valparaiso, B.A., 69; Minnesota, M.A.,
72; Wisconsin, Ph.D., 79
Current Position: prof. of journalism and
adjunct prof. of history, Indiana
Fellowship Publications: "Teleology and
News: The Religious
Roots of American Journalism, 1630-1730," Journal of
American
History 77 (1990) [Catherine Covert Award for best
art. in mass
communications history, 1990]; "Readership as
Citizenship in
Late 18th-Century Philadelphia," in Billy G. Smith and
J. Worth
Estes, eds., A Melancholy Scene of Devastation: The
Public Response
to the1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic, (Philadelphia: College
of
Physicians of Philadelphia, 1997); "Free Books, Free Grace,
Free
Riders: The Economics of Religious Publishing in
Early-Nineteenth-Century
America," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian
Society,
106:2; Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the
Birth of Mass Media in America (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2004)
Other Publications: "The Evangelical Origins
ofMass
Media in America, 1815-1835," Journalism
Monographs
88 (1984);"A Republican Literature: A Study of Magazine
Reading
and Readers in LateEighteenth-Century New
York," American
Wisconsin 40 (1988): 42-64; "Systematic
Benevolence: Religious
Publishing and the Marketplace in Early
Nineteenth-CenturyAmerica,"
in Leonard Sweet, ed., Communications and Change in
American
Religious History (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,
1993);
"Religious
Reading
and Readers in Antebellum America," Journal of the Early
Republic
15 (Summer, 1995);
Communities
of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their
Readers
(Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2001)
Address: School of Journalism, 940 E. Seventh St.,
Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN 47405; 2220 Fairmount Ct.,
Bloomington,
IN 47401; nord[at]indiana.edu
[Updated 2008]
NORTON, MARY BETH
Fellowship: Peterson 84-85, "Gender in
Seventeenth-Century
America" (prof. of history, Cornell)
Education: Michigan, B.A., 64; Harvard, M.A., 65,
Ph.D.,
69
Fellowship Publications: Founding Mothers and
Fathers:
Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (New
York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1996) [Pulitzer Prize finalist in history,
1997]
Other Publications: The British Americans
(1972); co-ed., with Carol Berkin, Women
of America (1979); Liberty's Daughters (1980);
co-ed., with Carol Groneman, To Toil the Livelong Day (1987), general
ed., AHA Guide to Historical Literature, 3rd ed. 1995;
In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (2002)
Address: Dept. of History, Cornell University, McGraw
Hall,
Ithaca, NY 14853; mbn1@cornell.edu
Web page:
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/falcon/history/faculty-department-norton.php
[Updated 2008]
NORWOOD, LISA WEST
Fellowship: Morgan 01-02, "Grounds for the New
Nation: Constructing
Sense of Place from 1780-1860" (Ph.D. cand.,
Stanford)
Education: Williams, B.A., 89; Stanford, Ph.D.,
01
Current Position: asst. prof. of English, Drake
[Updated 2004]
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