Directory of Fellows and
Research Associates,
1972-Present
R
RADNER, JOAN N.
Fellowship: Mellon 01-02, "Performing the Paper: Rural
Intellectual
Life in Postbellum Northern New England" (prof. of
literature,
American)
Education: Radcliffe, B.A., 65; Harvard, M.A., 67,
Ph.D.
71
Current Position: freelance consultant
Web Page:
http://www.joradner.com
[Updated 2008]
RAFFETY, MATTHEW
Fellowship: Sigety 01-02, "The Republic Afloat: Labor
and 'Liberty'
in Mutinies on American Ships,
1789-1861" (Ph.D. cand. in history,
Columbia)
Education: Williams, B.A., 94; Columbia, M.A., 98
Current Position: asst. prof. of
history, Gonzaga
Web Page:
http://www.gonzaga.edu/archimedes/faculty/
contact.cfm?FID=060410144310Ra&CFID=948506&CFTOKEN=96425819
[Updated 2005]
RAINER, JOSEPH T.
Fellowship: Peterson 95-96, "Peddler Folklore in
Southern Almanacs"
(visiting instructor in Southern studies, Mississippi)
Education: Georgetown, B.A., 87, William & Mary,
M.A., 92, Ph.D. 00
Fellowship Publications: "The 'Sharper' Image: Yankee
Pedlers,
Southern Consumers, and the Market Revolution," Business
and
Economic History Journal (Fall 1997); "A 'Commercial
Scythians'
in the Valley: Yankee Peddlers' Trade Connections with
Antebellum
Virginia," in After the Backcountry: The Shenandoah
Valley in
the Nineteenth Century (Univ. of Tennesse Press,
2000)
[Updated 2005]
RAMSBOTTOM, MARY MACMANUS
Fellowship: Daniels 79-80, "Religious Experience,
17th-Century
New England" (Ph.D. cand. in history, Yale)
Education: Mount Holyoke, B.A., 75; Yale, M.A., 76,
M.Phil.,
78, Ph.D., 87
Current Position: assoc. dean for student
affairs, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Fellowship Publications: "Religious Society and the
Family
in Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1630-1740" (diss.)
[Updated 2003]
RASOVSKY, YURI
Fellowship: Artist 95, "Radio Documentary on the History
of
Thanksgiving" (Radio documentary producer, Glendale,
CA)
Education: Columbia College, B.A., 64; Goodman School
of
Drama, M.F.A., 73
Other Publications: produced and directed 2000x, a series of
26
futuristic one-hour dramatic programs for National Public Radio and
Audible.com (2000);
The Publicity Survival Manual for Small Performing Arts Organizations (The
Chicago Alliance for the Performing Arts, 1975)
[Updated 2005]
RATCLIFFE, DONALD JOHN
Fellowship: Haven 83-84, "The 1812 Presidential
Election
in Ohio" (Ph.D. cand. in history, Durham)
Fellowship: R.A. 98-99, "Origins of Party Confict in
the
U.S., 1790-1840" (senior lecturer in history,
Durham)
Education: Oxford, B.A., 63; Bristol, P.C.G.E.,
64; Oxford
and California at Berkeley, B.Phil., 66; Oxford, M.A.,
67; Durham,
Ph.D., 1985
Current Position: emeritus reader in history, Durham
Fellowship Publications: "Voter Turnout in
Ohio,"
Journal of Early Republic 7 (1987): 223-52 (repr. in
Gray
& Morrison, New Perspectives on the Early
Republic (Chicago,
1994)); "Antimasonry and Partisanship in Greater New
England, 1826-1836,"
Journal of Early Republic 15
(1995): 197-237; Party Spirit
in a Frontier Republic: Democratic Politics in Ohio,
1793-1821 (Columbus:
Ohio State Univ. Press, 1998); The Politics of Long
Division:
The Birth of the Second Party System in Ohio, 1818-1828
(Columbus:
Ohio State Univ. Press, 2000)
Other Publications: "The Crisis of
Commercialization: National
Political Alignments and the Market Revolution,
1819-1844," in Melvyn
Stokes and Stephen Conway, eds, The "Market
Revolution" in America:
Politics, Religion, and Society, 1800-1880
(Charlottesville:
Univ. Press of Virginia, 1996): 177-201; "The Market
Revolution
and Party Alignments in Ohio, 1828-1840," in Jeffrey
P. Brown and
Andrew R.L. Cayton, eds., The Pursuit of Public
Power: Political
Culture in Ohio, 1787-1861 (Kent, Ohio: Kent State
Univ. Press,
1994): 98-115, 209-14; "The Experience of Revolution
and the
Beginnings of Party Politics in Ohio,
1776-1816," Ohio History
85 (1976): 1860-230; "The Role of Voters and Issues in
Party
Formation: Ohio, 1824," Journal of American
History
59 (1973): 847-70
[Updated 2005]
RATH, RICHARD C.
Fellowship: Peterson 97-98, "North American Soundways,
1600-1800"
(Ph.D. cand. in history, Brandeis)
Education: Millersville, B.A., 91; Brandeis,
Ph.D. 01
Current Position: asst. prof. of history, Hawaii at
Manoa
Fellowship Publications: How Early America
Sounded (Cornell Univ. Press, 2003)
Web Page:
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rrath/
[Updated 2005]
RAVEN, JAMES R.
Fellowship: Peterson 86-87, "The
Economics of Bookselling in Britain 1700-1800,"
"Print
and Trade in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (fellow
of
Pembroke College, Cambridge)
Fellowship: Peterson 94-95, "The
Importation of Books to North America in the Eighteenth
Century"
(fellow and dir. of studies
in history,
Magdalene College, Cambridge)
Education: Cambridge, M.A., 81, Ph.D., 85
Current Position: Professor of Modern History,
University of Essex
Fellowship Publications: "Commercial Marts and
Early
Newspapers in Britain and the American
Colonies," Journal
of Newspaper and Periodical History 2 (1986); "I
viaggi
dei libri: realt` e raffigurazioni," in Maria Gioia Tavoni
and Frangoise
Waquet, eds., Gli spazi del libro nell'Europa del XVIII
secolo
(Bologna: Sassi, 1996); "The Representation of Philanthropy
and
Reading in the Eighteenth-Century Library," Libraries and
Culture
31, no. 2 (Spring 1996): 492-510; "Gentlemen, Pirates, and
Really
Respectable Booksellers: Some Charleston Customers for
Lackington,
Allen & Co.," in Arnold Hunt, Giles Mandelbrote, and
Alison
Shell, eds., Booksellers and their Customers
(Winchester
and Detroit, 1997); "Establishing and Maintaining Credit
Lines Overseas:
The Case of the Export Book Trade from London in the
Eighteenth
Century, Mechanisms and Personnel," in Paul Servais, ed.,
Des
Personnes aux institutions: Riseaux et culture du cridit du
XVIe
au Xxe sihcle en Europe (Mons: Fucam, 1997); "The
Importation
of Books in the Eighteenth Century," in Hugh Amory and David
D. Hall eds., A History of the Book in America: Vol. 1, The Colonial
Book in the Atlantic World
(Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999);
"Sent to the Wilderness: Mission Literature in Colonial
America,"
in James Raven, ed, Print for Free: Noncommercial
Publishing
in Comparative Perspective (forthcoming); "The Export of
Books
to Colonial North America," Publishing History
1998; London
Booskellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Community,
Literary
Conduits, and the Charleston Library Society, 1748-1811
(Columbia:
Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1999)
Other Publications: British Fiction 1750-1770: A
Chronological
Checklist of Prose Fiction Printed in Britain and
Ireland (Newark:
Univ. of Delaware Press, 1987); Judging New
Wealth: Popular Publishing
and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750-1800
(Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1992); The Practice and Representation of Reading
in England
(Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996)
Web Page:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/history/staff/raven.shtm
[Updated 2005]
RAWSON, DAVID A.
Fellowship: Botein 93-94, "The Print
Distribution/Consumer
Nexus in Piedmont Virginia, 1760-1810" (Ph.D. cand. in
history,
William & Mary)
Fellowship: R.A. 97-98, "The Print
Distribution/Consumer
Nexus in Piedmont Virginia, 1760-1810" (Ph.D. cand. in
history,
William & Mary)
Education: Salem State, B.A., 90; William & Mary,
Ph.D.,
98
Current Position: asst. prof. of history, Worcester
State
Fellowship Publications: "'Guardians of their own
Liberty:'
A Contextual History of Print Culture in Virginia Society,
1750-1820,"
(Ph.D. diss., College of William & May, 1998); "News in the
Valley:
Periodical Subscribers at the New Market Post Office,
1804-1844,"
in After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley
of Virginia,
1800-1900, Kenneth E. Koons and Warren R. Hofstra,
eds. (Knoxville:
Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2000), 249-264; "Nathaniel
Beverley Tucker"
and "J.D.B. DeBow" in Dictionary of Literary
Biography, vol.
248, Writers of the Antebellum American South, Kent
Ljungquist,
ed. (Columbia: Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, Inc., 2001),
397-405, 98-103
Address: Dept. of History & Political Science,
Worcester
State College, Worcester, MA
01602-2597; drawson[at]worcester.edu
[Updated 2001]
REAVES, WENDY WICK
Fellowship: Daniels 76-77, "18th-Century American
Portrait
Engravings" (curator of prints, National Portrait
Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution)
Education: Pennsylvania, B.A., 72; Delaware, M.A.,
77
Current Position: curator of prints and drawings, National Portrait
Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution
Fellowship Publications: "American Icon: The
Eighteenth-Century
Image of George Washington," Imprint (1982);
George
Washington, an American Icon: The Eighteenth-Century Graphic
Portraits
(Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1982)
Other Publications: ed., American Portrait
Prints: Proceedings
of the Tenth Annual American Print Conference
(Charlottesville:
Univ. Press of Virginia., 1984); "A Decade of Print
Collecting
at the National Portrait Gallery," Imprint
(1985)
Web Page:
http://www.si.edu/ofg/Staffhp/reavesww.htm
[Updated 2005]
REED, PETER P.
Fellowship: NEMLA 07-08, "Captivating Performances:
Staging Atlantic Underclasses, 1777-1852" (instructor of English, Florida
State)
Education: Harding, B.A., 98; Florida State, M.A., 00, Ph.D., 05
[Updated 2007]
REEVES, JOY
Fellowship: K-12 96, incorporation of research into a
historical
novel on indentured servants to be used as supplemental
reading
material to enhance the social studies unit on colonial
settlement
(fifth-grade teacher, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago,
IL)
Education: Quincy, B.S., 72; Columbia, M.F.A., 97
Fellowship Outcomes: developed a curriculum unit on
indentured
servants and apprentices for Social Studies, using
Freedom Has
Never Been Free, a story developed from research at
AAS
Other: school grant liaison for the DeWitt
Wallace-Reader's
Digest Grant
Address: 10740 S. Calhoun Ave., Chicago, IL
60617; 956 Olive
Road #3B, Homewood, IL 60430; JDRVS[at]aol.com
[Updated 2001]
REIS, ELIZABETH
Fellowship: Legacy 99-00, "Heaven Help Us: Angels,
Gender,
and American Religions" (adj. asst. prof. of history,
Oregon)
Education: Smith, B.A., 80; Brown, M.A.,
82; California at
Berkeley, Ph.D., 91
Current Position: asst. prof., women's and gender
studies, Oregon
Fellowship Publications: The Trouble with Angels,
Common-Place:
The Interactive Journal of Early American Life (April,
2000)
www.common-place.org; "Impossible Hermaphrodites,"
Journal of American History (forthcoming, September 2005)
Other Publications: "The Underside of Covenant
Theology:
Sinners and Witches in Early New England," Essex
Institute Historical
Collections, 129 (January 1993), 103-118; "The Devil,
the Body,
and the Feminine Soul in Puritan New England," The
Journal of
American History 82 (June 1995), 15-36. reprinted in
Elaine
G. Breslaw, ed.; Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in
Puritan
New England (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1997; paper
1999);
ed., Spellbound: Women and Witchcraft in America
(Wilmington,
DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1998); "Witchcraft," in
Robert Wuthnow,
ed., Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, 2
vols. (Washington,
D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998),
I: 791-93; "Witchcraft"
and "Salem Witchcraft Trials" in Ronald Gottesman, ed.,
Encyclopedia
of Violence in the United States (New York: Charles
Scribner's
Sons, 2000); ed., American Sexual Histories: A Blackwell
Reader
in American Social and Cultural History (London and
Malden,
MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001); "African American Vision
Stories"
and "Puritan Conversion Narratives" in Colleen McDannell,
ed., Religions
of the United States in Practice (Princeton: Princeton
Univ.
Press, 2002); Guest ed. of Special Issue on Witchcraft,
Organization
of American Historians, Magazine of History (forthcoming
2003)
Web Page:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~history/faculty/reis.htm
[Updated 2005]
REISS, BENJAMIN
Fellowship: NEH 01-02, "Antebellum Literary Culture and
the
Rise of the Asylum" (asst. prof. of English,
Tulane)
Education: Oberlin, B.A., 86; Berkeley, M.A.,
95; Ph.D.,
97
Fellowship Publications: "Letters from Asylumia: The Opal
and the Cultural
Work of
the Lunatic Asylum, 1851-1860," American Literary History 16
(2004): 1-28
[Updated 2005]
REMER, ROSALIND
Fellowship: Peterson 88-89, "Philadelphia
Publishers in
the New Republic" (Ph.D. cand. in history, California
at Los
Angeles)
Education: California at Berkeley, B.A.,
84; California at
Los Angeles, M.A., 86, Ph.D., 91
Current Position: executive director,
Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary project
Fellowship Publications: "Old Lights and New
Money:"
A Note on Religion, Economics, and the Social Order in
Boston, 1740,"
William and Mary Quarterly 48
(Oct. 1990); "Preachers,
Peddlers, and Publishers: Philadelphia's Backcountry Book
Trades,
1800-1830," Journal of the Early Republic 14
(Winter
1994): 497-522; "Building an American Book
Trade: Philadelphia
Publishing in the New Republic," Business and
Economic History
23 (Fall 1994): 1-6; Printers and the Men of Capital: The
Philadelphia
Book Trade in the New Republic (Univ. of Pennsylvania
Press,
1996); "A Scottish Printer in Late Eighteenth-Century
Phildelphia:
Robert Simpson's Journey from Apprentice to
Entrepreneur,"
Pennsylvania Magazine of Historyand Biography
Nos.1&2,
(January/April 1997): 1-28; "Capturing the Bard: An
Episode
in the American Publication of Shakespeare's Plays,
1822-1851,"
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 91
(June
1997)
Other Publications: "Old Lights and New Money: A
Note
on Religion, Economics, and the Social Order in Boston,
1740,"
William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, 48, October
1990,
566-573
[Updated 2004]
RESCH, JOHN P.
Fellowship: R.A. 87-88, "Politics, Public Policy,
and American
Culture, 1815-25: The 1818 Revolutionary War Pension
Act" (prof.
of history, New Hampshire at Manchester)
Education: Denison, B.A., 62; Ohio State, M.A., 65,
Ph.D.,
69
Fellowship Publications: "Peterborough, New
Hampshire:
After the Revolution," in William E. Gardner, ed.,
New Hampshire:
The State that Made us a Nation (Portsmouth, NH: Peter
Randall,
1989): 118-128; "Politics and Public Culture: The 1818
Revolutionary
War Pension Act," Journal of the Early Republic
(Summer
1988): 135-158; Suffering Soldiers: Revolutionary War
Vetrans
and Political Culture in the Early Republic
(Amherst: Univ.
of Massachusetts Press, 1999);
"Poverty, Patriarch, and Old Age: Analysis of the Households of
Revolutionary War Veterans, 1820-1830," in Old Age in Pre-Industrial
Society, eds. Susannah R. Ottaway, L.A. Botelho and Katharine
Kittridge (Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 2002), 31-47;
"The Revolution as a People's War: Mobilization in New Hampshire,
1775-1783" in War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization
and Home Fronts, eds. John Resch and Walter Sargent (DeKalb: Northern
Illinois University Press, 2007)
Other Publications: "Peterborough, New
Hampshire, 1750-1800:
A Case Study of the Transformation of a Frontier
Agricultural Community,"
in Richard Herr, ed., Themeson Rural History of the
Western World
(Ames: Iowa State Univ. Press, 1993);
editor-in-Chief, Americans at War, 4 vols, (Detroit: Macmillan,
2005)
Address: University of New Hampshire at Manchester,
400 Commercial
Street, Manchester, NH 03101; 279 North Bay Street,
Manchester, NH 03104; jpr[at]unh.edu
[Updated 2006]
REYNOLDS, DAVID S.
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 82-83, "Beneath the American
Renaissance"
(asst. prof. of English, Northwestern)
Education: Amherst, B.A., 70; California at Berkeley,
Ph.D.,
79
Current Position: Distinguished prof. of English,
Graduate
School & Baruch College, City Univ. of New York
Fellowship Publications: Beneath the American
Renaissance:
The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and
Melville
(New York, Knopf, 1988; paperback repr., Harvard
Univ. Press, 1989,
1991) [Christian Gauss Award]; seven articles on
nineteenth-century
American literature; "Of Me I Sing: Whitman in His
Time,"
New York Times Book Review, Oct. 4, 1992; Walt
Whitman's
America: A Cultural Biography (New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 1995),
paperback repr., Vintage, 1996 [Bancroft Prize, Ambassador
Book
Award]; (co-ed. with Debra Rosenthal) The Serpent in the
Cup:
Temperance in American Literature (Amherst and
Boston: Univ.
of Massachusetts Press, 1995); (ed. with intro.) George
Lippard,
The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall (Amherst
and
Boston: Univ. of Massachusetts Press,
1995); (ed. & cont.) Historical
Approaches to Walt Whitman (Oxford Univ. Press,
forthcoming)
Other Publications: Faith in Fiction: The
Emergence of
Religious Literature in America (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard
Univ.
Press, 1981); George Lippard (Twayne Publications,
1982);
six articles on biography, transcendentalism, Melville, Poe,
Whitman,
and the Canon Issue; "Biography Can Give the Humanities a
Firm Scholarly
Backbone," Chronicle of Higher Education
(4/25/97)
Web Page:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/departments/english/faculty/reynolds.html
[Updated 2006]
RICE, GRANTLAND S.
Fellowship: Botein 93-94, "The Transformation of
Authorship
in Early America" (Ph.D. cand. in English and American
literature,
Brandeis)
Education: Colby, B.A., 86; Pennsylvania,
M.A. 87; Brandeis, M.A., 91, Ph.D., 94
Current Position: Vice President for Administration,
Claremont Graduate University
Fellowship Publications: The Transformation of
Authorship
in America (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1997)
Other Publications: "H.S. Crevecoueur and the
Politics
of Authorship in Republican America," Early American
Literature
28, pt. 1 (1993); "H.H. Brackenridge and the Resistance
to
Textual Authority," American Literature
(1995)
[Updated 2006]
RICE, STEPHEN P.
Fellowship: Peterson 95-96, "Incorporating the
Machine: Labor,
Fatigue, and the Problem of Self-Regulation in
Nineteenth-Century
Industrial America" (Ph.D. cand. in American studies,
Yale)
Education: Gonzaga, B.A., 86; Yale, M.A., 93, Ph.D.,
96
Current Position: prof. of American studies,
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Fellowship Publications: "Minding the Machine: Languages
of
Class in Early Industrial America, 1820-1860" (Ph.D. diss.,
Yale);
Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early
Industrial America (Univ. of California Press, 2004)
[Updated 2008]
RICHARDS, ELIZA
Fellowship: NEH 02-03, "Hearing Voices: Lyric
Representation
in Nineteenth-Century America" (asst. prof. of English,
Boston
Univ.)
Education: Bates, B.A., 84; Michigan, M.A.,
90; Michigan,
Ph.D., 97
Current Position: assoc. prof. of English and
comparative literature, North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fellowship Publications: Gender and the Poetics
of
Reception in Poe's Circle (New York : Cambridge Univ. Press,
2004)
Web Page:
http://english.unc.edu/faculty/richardse.html
[Updated 2008]
RICHTER, DANIEL K.
Fellowship: Daniels 81-82, "Societies on the
Eighteenth-Century
New York Frontier" (Ph.D. cand. in history,
Columbia)
Education: Thomas More, B.A., 76; Columbia, M.A., 77,
M.Phil.,
79, Ph.D., 84
Current Position: prof. of history,
Pennsylvania
Fellowship Publications: "Rediscovered Links in the
Covenant
Chain: Previously Unpublished Transcripts of New York Indian
Treaty
Minutes, 1677-1691," Proceedings of the American
Antiquarian
Society 92 (1982): 45-85; The Ordeal of the
Longhouse: The
Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European
Colonization
(Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1992)
Other Publications: co-author "Crossing the
Cultural
Divide: Indians and New Englanders,
1605-1763," Proceedings
of the American Antiquarian Society 80
(1980): 23-29; "War
and Culture: The Iroquois Experience," William and
Mary
Quarterly 40 (1983): 528-59; "Iroquois versus
Iroquois:
Jesuit Missions and Christianity in Village Politics,
1642-1686,"
Ethnohistory 32 (1985): 1-16; co-ed. Beyond the
Covenant
Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian North
America,
1600-1800 (Syracuse: Syracuse Univ. Press,
1987); "Cultural
Brokers and Intercultural Politics: New York-Iroquois
Relations,
1664-1701," Journal of American History 75
(1988): 40-67;
"A Framework for Pennsylvania Indian
History," Pennsylvania
History 57 (1990): 236-61; "'Some of Them...Would Always
Have
a Minister with Them': Mohawk Protestantism,
1683-1719," American
Indian Quarterly XVI (1992): 471-484; "Whose Indian
History?"
William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., L
(1993): 379-393; "Native
Peoples of North America and the British Empire," in
W.R. Louis,
ed. in chief, The Oxford History of the British
Empire, vol.
II: The Eighteenth Century, ed. P.J. Marshall
(Oxford: Oxford
Univ. Press, 1998): 347-371; "Onas, the Long
Knife: Pennsylvanians
and Indians, 1783-1794," in ed. Frederick Hoxie, Ronald
Hoffman,
and Peter Albert, Native Americans and the Early
Republic
(Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1999);
Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
(Harvard Univ. Press, 2001)
Web Page:
http://www.history.upenn.edu/~drichter/
[Updated 2005]
RINEHART, LUCY
Fellowship: Hiatt 91-92, "The Drama of
Democracy: The Staging
of America from the Revolution to the Civil
War" (Ph.D. cand.
in English and comparative literature, Columbia)
Education: Barnard, B.A., 84; Columbia, M.A., 85,
M.Phil.
88, Ph.D, 1994
Current Position: assoc. prof. of English, DePaul
Fellowship Publications "A Most Conspicous
Theatre": The
Rise of American Drama and Theater, 1787-1830" (Ph.D. diss.,
Columbia,
1994); "A Nation's 'Noble Spectacle': Royall Tyler's The
Contrast
as Metatheatrical Commentary," American Drama
(Spring
1994): 29-52; "`Manly Exercises`: Post-Revolutionary
Performances
of Authority in the Theatrical Career of William
Dunlap," Early
American Literature 36 (2001): 263-93
Other Publications: assoc. ed. and contrib. author,
The
Cambridge Handbook of American Literature, ed. Jack
Salzman
(New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986); "George Henry
Boker" and
"James Kirke Paulding," in John Hollander and Eric Haralson,
eds.,
The Garland Companion to American Nineteenth-Century
Verse (1995)
[Updated 2005]
RIORDAN, LIAM
Fellowship: Tracy 99-00, "Newspapers and the Local
Meaning of
the Nation in theDelaware Valley" (asst. prof. of
history,
Maine at Orono)
Education: California at Berkeley, B.A.,
88; Pennsylvania,
Ph.D., 96
Other Publications:
"Passing as Black/Passing as Christian: African-American
Religious Autonomy in Early Republican Delaware," in Nicholas
Canny, Joseph Illick, Gary B. Nash, and William Pencak, eds.,
Empire, Society, and Labor: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Dunn,
special issue of Pennsylvania History, (Summer 1997), 207-229; "Identity
and the American Revolution: Everyday Life and Crisis
in Three Delaware River Towns," Pennsylvania History, 64 (Winter
1997), 56-101.
Web Page:
http://www.umaine.edu/history/faculty/riordan.htm
[Updated 2006]
ROBERGE, CELESTE
Fellowship: Hearst 08, sculptor, Gainesville, FL,
research on American furniture, in particular its fabrication, use,
history, and depiction in American painting, photography, and sculpture
Education: Maine College of Art; Nova Scotia
College of Art & Design, Halifax, M.F.A.; Maine, Honorary Doctorate
of Human Letters, 08
Current Position: prof., school of art and art
history, Florida
Address: University of Florida, School of Art and Art History,
P.O.Box 115801, Gainesville, FL 32611-5801; croberge[at]ufl.edu
Web Page: http://www.celesteroberge.com
[Updated 2008]
ROBERTS, BRIAN
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 98-99, "Psalms, Reels and
Glees: Popular
Music and American Identity from the Colonial-Era through
the Civil
War" (asst. prof. of English, California State at
Sacramento)
Education: California State at Sacramento, B.A.,
86; M.A.,
89; Rutgers, Ph.D., 95
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history, Northern Iowa
Fellowship Publications: American Alchemy: The
California
Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture (Univ. of North
Carolina
Press, 2000)
Web Page: http://fp.uni.edu/csbs/faculty/facultydetails.asp?Id=173
[Updated 2006]
ROBERTS, KYLE B.
Fellowship: Reese 05-06, "Writing the Evangelical
Subject: Religious Periodicals and Biographies in New York City,
1830-1860" (Ph.D. cand. in history, Pennsylvania)
Fellowship: Hench 07-08, "Evangelical Gotham: Popular
Religious Belief in New York City, 1783-1845" (Ph.D. cand. in history,
Pennsylvania)
Education: Williams, B.A., 95
[Updated 2007]
ROBERTSON, FIONA
Fellowship: R.A. 94-95, "Representing America,
1776-1830"
(lecturer in English literature, Durham)
Education: Oxford, B.A. L., 81, M.Phil., 83, D.Phil.,
88
Current Position: research prof. in English, UCE
Birmingham
Fellowship Publications: "Keats's New World: An
Emigrant
Poetry," in John Keats: Bicentenary Readings,
ed. Michael
O'Neill (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1997); "Of
Speculation
and Return: Scotts Jacobites, John Law, and the Company of
theWest,"
Scottish Literary Journal 24 (1997)
Other Publications: ed.and introd., Sir Walter Scott,
The
Bride of Lammermoor (Oxford: Oxford
Univ. Press,1991); Legitimate
Histories: Scott, Gothic, and the Authorities of Fiction
(Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1994); Walter Scott, Lives of the Great
Romantics
by their Contemporaries, 2nd ser., vol. 3
(London: Pickering
and Chatto, 1997); (ed. w/ AnthonyMellors) Stephen Crane,
The
Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories (Oxford
Univ. Press,
1998)
Web Page:
http://www.lhds.uce.ac.uk/research/fionarobertson.htm
[Updated 2006]
ROBERTSON, STACEY
Fellowship: Tracy 07-08 "'Hearts Beating for
Liberty': Women Abolitionists and the Old Northwest" (assoc. prof. of
history and women's studies, Bradley)
Education: Whittier, B.A., 87; California at Santa Barbara,
M.A., 89, Ph.D., 94
[Updated 2007]
ROBEY, ETHAN
Fellowship: AHPCS 02-03, "The Art Galleries of
Mechanics' Institute
Fairs: Liason Between Art, Commerce, and Technology in
Nineteenth-century
Thought" (independent scholar)
Education: Yale, B.A., 90; Columbia, M.A.,
93; M.Phil. 95,
Ph.D., 00
Current Position: asst. dir. MA program, Parsons
Web Page: http://www.parsons.edu/faculty_and_staff/faculty_details
[Updated 2006]
ROCKMAN, SETH
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 06-07, "Self-Made and Slave-Made:
Capitalism, Slavery, and the Rise of the Early American Economy"
(asst. prof. of history, Brown)
Education: Columbia, B.A., 93; California at Davis, Ph.D., 99
[Updated 2006]
RODERICK, DAVID
Fellowship: Baron 03-04, "Blue Colonial, a
collection of
poems on the cultural interaction between the colonists and
the
Wampanoag tribe in the early
seventeenth-century" (poet, Palo
Alto, California)
Education: Colby, B.A., 92; Massachusetts at Amherst, M.F.A., 01
[Updated 2003]
ROEBER, ANTHONY G.
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 78-79, "Law, Ideology, and
Religion
among German-Americans in Revolutionary America,
1729-1814"
(instructor in history, Princeton)
Education: Denver, B.A., 71, M.A., 72; Brown, A.M.,
73, Ph.D.,
77
Current Position: prof. of early modern history and
religious studies, Penn State
Fellowship Publications: "A New England Woman's
Perspective
on Norfolk, Virginia, 1801-1802: Excerpts from the Diary of
Ruth
Henshaw Bascom," Proceedings of the American
Antiquarian
Society 89 (1979): 277-325; "`The Scrutiny of the
Ill-Natured
Ignorant Vulgar': Lawyers and Print Culture in Virginia,
1716-1774,"
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 91
(1983): 387-417;
"`He read it to me from a book of English
law': Germans, Bench,
and Bar in the Colonial South, 1715-1770," in David
J. Bodenhamer
and James W. Ely, eds., Ambivalent Legacy: A Legal
History of
the South, (Jackson, MS: Univ. Press of Mississippi,
1984)
Other Publications: Faithful Magistrates and
Republican
Lawyers: Creators of Virginia Legal Culture, 1680-1810
(1981);
"Authority, Law, and Custom: The Rituals of Court Day
in Tidewater
Virgina, 1720 to 1750," William and Mary
Quarterly 37
(1980): 29-52; also in Robert Blair St. George, ed.,
Material
Life in America, 1600-1860, (Boston: Northeastern
Univ. Press,
1988): 419-37; "Germans, Property, and the First Great
Awakening:
Rehearsal for a Revolution?" in Winfried Herget and
Karl Ortseifen,
eds., The Transit of Civilization from Europe to
America: Essays
in Honor of Hans Galinsky, (Tbingen: Gunter Narr Verlag,
1986):
165-84; "Subjects or Citizens? German Lutherans and the
Federal
Constitution in Pennsylvania,
1789-1800," Amerikastudien/
American Studies (1989); Palatines, Liberty, and
Property:
German Lutherans in Colonial British America (Baltimore,
1992);
"Der Pietismus in Nordamerika," in Vol. 2 of
Martin Brecht
et al., eds., Die Geschichte des Pietismus, 4
vols. (Gvttingen,
1993- ; vol. 2, 1995)
Web Page: http://php.scripts.psu.edu/dept/history/faculty/roeberAG.php
[Updated 2006]
ROJAS, MARTHA ELENA
Fellowship: AAS-NMLA 03-04, "Diplomatic
Letters" (Ph.D.
cand. in English, Stanford)
Education: Harvard, B.A., 93, Stanford, Ph.D., 03
Current Position: asst. prof. of English, Rhode Island
Address: University of Rhode Island, Department of English, 210
Flagg Road, Kingston, RI 02881; marty[at]uri.edu
Web Page:
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/eng/english_NEW/Faculty/Rojas.html
[Updated 2006]
ROSENWALD, LAWRENCE A.
Fellowship: Daniels 76-77, "Analysis of Colonial
New England
Diaries" (Ph.D. cand. in English, Columbia)
Education: Columbia College, B.A., 70; Columbia,
M.A., 71,
Ph.D., 79
Current Position: prof. of English, Wellesley
Fellowship Publications: "Cotton Mather as
Diarist,"
Prospects 8 ; "Sewall's Diary and the
Margins
of Puritan Literature," American Literature
(1986)
Other Publications: Emerson and the Art of the
Diary
(New York: Oxford,1988); Theory, Texted Music,
Performance,"
Journal of Musicology (winter 1993); (ed. and
trans.) Martin
Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, Scripture and Translation
(Bloomington:
Indiana Univ. Press, 1994)
Address: c/o Dept. of English, Wellesley College,
Wellesley,
MA 02481; 10 Lovewell Rd., Wellesley, MA
02482; lrosenwald[at]wellesley.edu
[Updated 2006]
ROTH, RANDOLPH A.
Fellowship: Daniels 81-82, "Religion and Reformin
Antebellum
Vermont" (instructor in history, Grinnell)
Education: Stanford, B.A., 73; Yale, Ph.D., 81
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history, Ohio
State
Fellowship Publications: The Democratic
Dilemma: Religion,
Reform, and the Social Order in Vermont, 1791-1850
(1987); "The
Generation Conflict Reconsidered," in Leonard
Dinnerstein &
Kenneth T. Jackson, eds., American Vistas, (Oxford
Univ.
Press, 7th ed., 1995)
Other Publications: "The First Radical
Abolitionists:
The Reverend James Milligan and the Reformed Presbyterians
of Vermont,"
New England Quarterly 55 (1982): 540-63; "Is
History
a Process? Revitalization Theory, Nonlinearity, and the
Central
Metaphor of SocialScience History," Social Science
History
16 (Summer 1992); "The Other Masonic Outrage: The Death
and
Transfiguration of Joseph Burnham," Journal of the
Early
Republic 14 (Spring 1994); "Blood Calls for
Vengeance!:
The History of Capital Punishment in
Vermont," Vermont History
65 (1997):10-25; "Spousal Murder in Northern New England,
1791-1865,"
in Christine Daniels, ed., Over the Threshold: Intimate
Violence
in Early America, 1640-1865 (Routledge, 1999); "Child
Murder
in New England," Social Science History (2001)
Web Page: http://history.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=725
[Updated 2006]
ROTH, SARAH N.
Fellowship: Drawn to Art 00-01, "The Slavery Controversy
in
Antebellum Popular Culture" (Ph.D. cand. in history,
Virginia)
Education: Southwestern, B.A., 94; Virginia, M.A.,
96, Ph.D.
Current Position: asst. prof. of history, Widener
[Updated 2006]
ROTHMAN, JOSHUA
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 05-06, "Slavery and Speculation in
the Flush Times: The Heart of Jacksonian America" (asst. prof. of
history, Alabama)
Education: Cornell, B.A., 94; Virginia, M.A., Ph.D.,
00
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history, Alabama
Web Page: http://www.as.ua.edu/history/new/html/faculty/rothman.html
[Updated 2005]
ROYLANCE, PATRICIA
Fellowship: Last 08-09, "Eclipse of Empire" (asst.
prof. of English, Syracuse)
Education: Stanford, Ph.D., 05
[Updated 2008]
RUBIN STUART, NANCY
Fellowship: Hearst 05-06, "Mercy Otis Warren" (director,
Women Writing Women's Lives Seminar, Graduate Center of CUNY)
Education: Tufts, B.A., 66; Brown, M.A.T., 67; Mount
Vernon, Ph.D. (honorary), 95
Other Publications:
The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox (2005);
American Express: The Life and Times of
Marjorie Merriweather Post (1995, 2002); Isabella of Castile: The
First Renaissance Queen (1991,1992); The Mother Mirror: How A Generation
of Women Is Changing Motherhood in America (1984); The New Suburban Woman:
Beyond Myth and Motherhood (1982)
Web Page: http://www.nancyrubinstuart.com
[Updated 2005]
RUFFIN, JAMES RIXEY
Fellowship: Peterson 98-99, "William Bentley and the
Politics
of Rational Religion, 1783-1800" (Ph.D. cand. in
history, Delaware)
Education: Virginia, B.A., M.Ed., 92; Delaware, M.A.,
Ph.D.
Current Position: asst. prof. of history,
Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Other Publications: "Urania's Dusky Vails": Heliocentrism in the
Colonial Almanacs, 1700-1735," New England Quarterly 70 (June
1997),
306-13;
"The Efficacy of Medicine During the Campaigns of Alexander the Great,"
Military Medicine 157 (September 1992), 467-75.
Web Page:
http://www.uwsp.edu/history/faculty/J.%20Rixey%20Ruffin/ruffin.htm
[Updated 2005]
RUFFMAN, ALAN
Fellowship: Peterson 97-98, "Historic Meterology and the
1775
Hurricane" (president, Geomarine Associates Ltd.)
Education: Toronto, B.Sc., 64; Dalhousie, M.Sc.,
66
Current Position: president, Geomarine Associates
Ltd., Halifax, N.S.; honourary research asso., Dalhousie; lecturer,
Dalhousie Law School
Fellowship Publications: "The Catastrophic 1775 Hurricane(s): The
Search for Data and Understanding," [Extended Abstract], 23rd conference
on
Hurricanes and Tropical Cyclones, American Meterological Society, 79th
Annual Meeting, January 10-15, 1999, Dallas, Texas, Preprints, Vol. II,
paper 11A.1, Thursday, January 14, pp. 787-790; "Lessons Learned from Past
Hurricanes: The Saxby Gale." Proceedings from the National Hurricane
Conference, September 24, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Institute for Catastropic
Loss Reduction, Toronto, Ontario, [December, 1999]. pp. 12-14;
modified
transcript without illustrations;
"Hurricanes of Renown," [Exended Abstract]. First talk in the three-part
Hurricane Talk Series & Public Forum, presented as part of Hurricane
Havoc; One year After Juan, An Exhibit and Special event, Maritime
Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Tuesday, September 21, 7:30
p.m., 9 pp.
Other Publications:
Comment on: "The Great Newfoundland storm of 12 September 1775" by A.E.
Stevens and M. Staveley. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of
America, Comments and Replies, Vol. 85, No. 2, April, 1995, pp.
646-649;
"The multidisciplinary Rediscovery and Tracking of 'The Great
Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre et miquelon hurricane of September 1775'".
The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord, vol. 85, no. 2, April, 1996,
pp. 646-649;
"A multi-disciplinary and Inter-scientific Study of The Saxby Gale: An
October 4-5 Hybrid Hurricane and Record Storm Surge." CMOS Bulletin
SCMO,
Canadian Meteorologic and Oceanographic Society, Ottawa, Ontario, vol. 27,
no. 3, june, 1999, cover and pp. 67-73;
The Saxby Gale of 1869 in the Canadian Maritimes, A Case Study of Flooding
Potential in the Bay of Fundy," [Extended Abstract]
Address: Geomarine Associates Ltd., P.O. Box 41, Station M,
Halifax, N.S., Canada B3J 2L4
[Updated 2006]
RUGEMER, EDWARD B.
Fellowship: Peterson 06-07, "The Problem of
Emancipation: The United States and Britain's Abolition of Slavery"
(postdoc. fellow in history, Boston College)
Education: Fairfield, B.A., 93; Boston College, M.A.,
99; Ph.D., 05
Fellowship Publications: The Problem of Emancipation: The
Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War (Louisiana State
University Press, 2008)
[Updated 2008]
RYAN, SUSAN M.
Fellowship: Peterson 97-98, "Race and the Language
Benevolence
in Antebellum America" (Ph.D. cand. in English, North
Carolina
at Chapel Hill)
Education: Washington, B.A., 88; North Carolina at
Chapel
Hill, M.A., 92, Ph.D., 99
Current Position: assoc. prof. and director of
graduate studies of English,
Louisville
Fellowship Publications:
American Literary History, (12/2000), 685-712;
The Grammar of Good Intentions: Benevolence and Racial Identity in Antebellum
American Literature, (Ph.D. diss. Univ. of North Carolina, 1999);
"Charity Begins at
Home: Stowe's Antislavery Novels and the Forms of Benevolent
Citizenship," American Literature (72/2000),
751-82;
"Misgivings: Melville, Race and the Ambiguities of
Benevolence"
The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of
Benevolence (Cornell University Press, 2003).
Other Publications: "Errand into
Africa: Colonization
and Nation Building in Sarah J. Hale's
Liberia," New
England Quarterly 68 (1995): 558-83; "Rough Ways
and Rough
Work: Jacob Ri, Social Reform, and the Rhetoric of
Benevolent Violence,"
American Transcendental Quarterly 11
(1997): 191-212
Address: Dept. of English, Humanities 315, University
of
Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292; 1913 Deerwood Avenue,
Louisville,
KY 40205; sryan[at]louisville.edu
Web Page:
http://coldfusion.louisville.edu/webs/a-s/english/people_2.cfm?id=24
[Updated 2006]
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