Directory of Fellows and
Research Associates,
1972-Present
S
SACHS, AARON
Fellowship: Peterson 07-08, "Death and Life in the
American Environment: Radical Arcadias of the Nineteenth Century"
(asst. prof of history, Cornell)
Education: Harvard, A.B., 92; Yale, Ph.D., 04
[Updated 2007]
SACHS, HONOR
Fellowship: Peterson 02-03, "The Best Poor Woman's
Country:
Women, Gender, and Politics in the Eighteenth-Century
Kentucky Backcountry"
(Ph.D. cand. in history, Wisconsin at Madison)
Education: Dartmouth, B.A., 94; Wisconsin, M.A.,
99
[Updated 2002]
SALISBURY, NEAL
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 95-96, "From Frontier to
Society: Natives,
Settlers, and the Transformation of Southern New
England" (prof.
of history, Smith)
Education: California at Los Angeles, B.A., 63, M.A.,
66;
Ph.D., 72
Fellowship Publications: (ed.w/ intro.) The
Sovereignty
and Goodness of God, By Mary Rowlandson, With Related
Documents
(Boston: Bedford Books, 1997)
Other Publications: Manitou and
Providence: Indians, Europeans,
and the Making of New England, 1500-1643 (New
York: Oxford Univ.
Press, 1982); "The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and
the
Coming of Europeans," William and Mary Quarterly 53
(1996):
435-58; A Companion to American Indian History,
Ed. with
Philip J. Deloria, (Malden, MA. and Oxford: Blackwell,
2002)
Address: Dept.of History, Smith College, Northampton,
MA
01063; nsalisbu@smith.edu
Web Page: http://www.smith.edu/history/fac_nsalisbury.htm
[Updated 2006]
SAMUELS, SHIRLEY
Fellowship: AAS-NEMLA 88-89, "Politics and the
Family
in the Early Republic" (assoc. prof. of English,
Cornell)
Education: California at Berkeley, B.A., 77, M.A.,
81, Ph.D.,
86
Current Position: prof. of English, Cornell
Fellowship Publications: "The Identity of
Slavery,"
in Shirley Samuels, ed., The Culture of Sentiment: Race,
Gender,
and Sentimentality in 19th-Century America (Oxford
Univ. Press,
1992), repr. in Romances of the Republic: Women, the
Family,
and Violence in the Literature of the Early American
Nation (Oxford
Univ. Press, 1996); "Miscegenated America," American
Literary
History (Fall 1997)
Other Publications: "Plague and Politics in
1793: Arthur
Mervyn," Criticism (1985); "The Family,
the
State, and the Novel in the Early
Republic," American Quarterly
(1986); "Infidelity and Contagion: The Rhetoric of
Revolution,"
Early American Literature
(1987); "Wieland: Alien
and Infidel," Early American Literature
(1990); "Generation
through Violence," in Dan Peck, ed., New Essays on
Last
of the Mohicans, (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992);
Facing
America: Cultural Iconography and the Civil War (Oxford University
Press,
2004)
Address: English Dept., Cornell University, Ithaca,
NY 14853;
srs8@cornell.edu
Web Page:
target="_blank">http://www.arts.cornell.edu/english/cv/samuels.short.html
[Updated 2006]
SANTORO, LILY
Fellowship: Peterson 07-08 "The Science of God's
Creation: Popular Science and Christianity in the Early Republic" (Ph.D.
cand. in history, Delaware)
Education: USC, B.A., 01; Delaware, M.A., 04
[Updated 2007]
ST. GEORGE, ROBERT B.
Fellowship: Boni 81-82, "Popular Literature and
Reading
in Massachusetts,
1640-1720" (Ph.D. cand. dept. folklore &
folklife, Pennsylvania)
Education: Hamilton, A.B., 76; Delaware, M.A.,
78; Pennsylvania,
M.A., 80, Ph.D., 82
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history,
Pennsylvania
Fellowship Publications: "From Nature to
Culture,"
Portfolio: The Magazine of the Fine Arts 4
(1982): 88-93;
"`Set Thine House in Order': The Domestication of the
Yeomanry
in Seventeenth-Century New England," in Jonathan
L. Fairbanks,
ed., New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century
(Boston:
Museum of Fine Arts, 1982), 2: 159-83; "`Heated Speech'
and
Literacy in Seventeenth-Century New England," in David
D. Hall
and David G. Allen, eds., Seventeenth-Century New
England,
(1984), 275-322
Other Publications: ed., Material Life in America,
1600-1860
(Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1988) [Fred Kniffer
Prize, 1988];
ed., Benno M. Forman, American Seating Furniture,
1630-1730:
An Interpretive Catalogue of the Winterthur Collection
(New
York: W.W. Norton, 1988) [George Wittenborn Award of the Art
Libraries
of North America, 1988, Charles F. Montgomery Prize,
1988]; "Bawns
and Beliefs: Architecture, Commerce, and Conversion in Early
New
England," Winterthur Portfolio 25:4 (Winter
1990): 241-87;
Conversing By Signs: Place and Performance in Early New
England
Culture (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press,
1995)
Web Page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/folklore/faculty/stgeorge.html
[Updated 2006]
SANDAGE, SCOTT A.
Fellowship: Peterson 93-94, "Deadbeats,
Drunkards, and
Dreamers: The Problem of Failure in Nineteenth-Century
America"
(Ph.D. cand. in history, Rutgers)
Education: Iowa, B.A., 85; Rutgers, M.A., 92, Ph.D.,
95
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history, Carnegie
Mellon
Fellowship Publications: Deadbeats, Drunkards, and
Dreamers:
A Cultural History of Failure in America, 1819-1893
(Ph.D. diss., Rutgers) [Northeastern Association of Grad. Schools prize,
1995-96];
"The Gaze of Success: Failed Men and the Sentimental Marketplace,
1873-1893," in Chapman and Hendler, ed., Sentimental
Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture
(University of California Press, 1999);
Born Losers: A History of Failure in America (Cambridge: Harvard
Univ. Press, 2005) [awarded the Thomas J. Wilson Prize for the best
"first book" accepted by Harvard press];
Other Publications: "A Marble House Divided: The
Lincoln
Memorial, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Politics of
Memory,
1939-1963," Journal of American History 80, no. 1
(June 1993):
reprinted in Scott-Childress, ed.,
Race and the Production of Modern American
Nationalism,
(Garland Press, 1998) and in Charles Payne and
Adam Green, eds., Time Longer than Rope: A Century of African-American
Activism (NYU Press, 2003).
[Updated 2005]
SAPPOL, MICHAEL
Fellowship: Peterson 96-97, "Singing the Body
Electric" (Ph.D. cand. in history, Columbia)
Education: City College of New York, B.A.,
78; Columbia, Ph.D., 97
Current Position: Curator-historian,
History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine (NIH)
Fellowship Publications: The Cultural Politics of
Anatomy
in Nineteenth Century America: Death, Dissection, and
Embodied Social
Identity (Ph.D. diss., Columbia, 1997); A Traffic of
Dead
Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in
Nineteenth-Century
America (Princeton Univ. Press, 2002)
Other Publications: "Sammy Tubbs and
Dr. Hubbs: Anatomical
dissection, minstrelsy, and the technology of selfmaking in
postbellum
America," Configurations 4.2 (1996): 131-83; "'The
foul altar
of a dissecting table': Anatomy, sex and sensationalist
fiction
in antebellum America," Transactions & Studies of the
College
of Physicians of Philadelphia, ser.5, 20
(1998): 65-97; Dream anatomy (USGPO, 2006)
Address: National Library of Medicine; Bldg. 38, Rm
1E-21, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894;
sappolm[at]mail.nih.gov
[Updated 2008]
SASSI, JONATHAN
Fellowship: AAS-ASECS 99-00, "Clerical Communities and
the Religious
Public Sphere" (asst. prof. of history, College of
Staten
Island)
Current Position: assoc. prof of history, College of
Staten Island and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Education: Princeton, B.A., 89; California at Los
Angeles,
M.A., 91, Ph.D., 96
Fellowship Publications: A Republic of
Righteousness:
The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary New
England Clergy
(New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001)
Other Publications: "'This whole country have their
hands full of Blood this day': Transcription and Introduction of an
Antislavery Sermon Manuscript Attributed to the Reverend Samuel Hopkins,"
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 112.1 (June 2004):
29-92.
Address: Dept. of History, 2N215, College of Staten
Island,
CUNY, 2800 Victory Blvd., Staten Island, NY
10314; sassi@mail.csi.cuny.edu
Web Page: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/History/Profs/sassi.html
[Updated 2006]
SCHACHTERLE, LANCE E.
Fellowship: Mellon 73-74, An edition of James Fenimore
Cooper's
The Pioneers (asst. prof.of English, Worcester
Polytechnic
Institute)
Fellowship: R.A. 84-85, research for an edition of
Cooper's
The Spy (prof. of English, Worcester Polytechnic
Institute)
Education: Haverford, B.A., 66; Pennsylvania, Ph.D.,
70
Current Position: asst. provost and prof. of English,
Worcester
Polytechnic Institute
Fellowship Publications: "The Three 1823 Editions
of Cooper's
The Pioneers," Proceedings of the American
Antiquarian
Society 84 (1974): 219-32; ed., James Fenimore Cooper,
The
Pioneers with Kenneth Anderson (Albany: SUNY Press,
1980; repr.,
Library of America, 1985; paperback repr., Viking-Penguin,
1987);
(with Kent Ljungquist) "Fenimore Cooper's Literary
Defenses:
Twain and the Text of The
Deerslayer," Studies in
the American Renaissance 1988: 401-7; "Cooper's
Spy
and the Possibility of American Fiction," Studies in
theHumanities
(1991); "Cooper and Wordsworth," Univ. of
Mississippi
Studies in English, n.s., 10 (1992): 26-36
Other Publications: "Bandwidthas Metaphor for
Consciousness
in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow," Studies in
the Literary
Imagination 22 (Spring 1989): 101-17; (ed. with Michael
W. Vella
and Louis Mackey) The Meritorious Price of Our
Redemption
by William Pynchon (1590-1662)
Web Page: http://users.wpi.edu/~les/
[Updated 2006]
SCHANTZ, MARK S.
Fellowship: Hiatt 87-88, "Piety in Providence: The
Class
Dimensions of Religious Experience in Providence, Rhode
Island,
1790-1860" (Ph.D. cand. in history, Emory)
Education: George Washington, B.A., 77; Yale Divinity
School,
M.Div., 81; Emory, Ph.D., 91
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history,
Hendrix
Fellowship Publications: "Religious Tracts, Evangelical
Reform,
and the Market Revolution in Antebellum America," Journal
of
the Early Republic (Fall, 1997); Piety in
Providence: The
Class Dimensions of Religious Experience in Antebellum Rhode
Island
(Cornell Univ. Press, 2000)
[Updated 2005]
SCHIAVO, LAURA
Fellowship: Peterson 99-00, "'A Collection of Endless
Extent
and Beauty': Stereographs, Perception, Taste and the
American Middle
Class" (Ph.D. cand. in American studies, George
Washington)
Education: Wesleyan, B.A., 91; George Washington,
M.Phil.,
98, Ph.D., 03
Current Position: visiting asst. prof. of American
studies,
George
Washington
Fellowship Publications: "From Phantom Image to Perfect
Vision:
Physiological Optics, Commercial Photography, and the
Popularization
of the Stereoscope," in New Media, 1740-1915, Lisa
Gitelman
and Geoffrey Pingree, eds. (MIT Press, forthcoming)
[Updated 2004]
SCHIRMEISTER, PAMELA J.
Fellowship: Peterson 94-95, "A Cultural Biography
of James
Fenimore Cooper" (asst. prof. of English, New York
Univ.)
Education: Yale, B.A., 80, Ph.D., 88; Johns Hopkins,
M.A.,
81
Current Position: assoc. dean of the Graduate
School, Yale; lecturer in English, Yale
Fellowship Publications: (w/April Alliston) Biography of
James Fenimore Cooper (untitled and forthcoming); (w/ April Alliston)
"James Fenimore Cooper: Entrepreneur of the
Self," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 107 (1997); "Taking
Precautions: Gender Identification as Masquerade in James Fenimore
Cooper," in Frederick R. Karl, ed. Studies in Biography, vol. 3
(AMS Press, 1997): 39-54;
(w/ April Alliston)
"'A Gentleman-like Training,'" The Yale Review (Yale UP, Jul.
2001);
"America Abroad," American Cultural Icons: Configurations and
Refigurations, ed. Bernd Engler, (forthcoming)
Other Publications: Less Legible Meanings: Between
Poetry
and Philosophy in the Work of Emerson (Stanford
Univ. Press,
1999); The Consolations of Space: The Place of Romance in
Hawthorne,
Melville, and James (Stanford Univ. Press,
1990);
ed. and intro., Representative Man by Ralph Waldo
Emerson
(Marsilio, 1996)
Address: Yale University, Graduate School, P.O.
Box 208236, 320 York
Street,
New Haven, CT 06520-8236;
Pamela.schirmeister@yale.edu
Web Page: http://www.yale.edu/english/profiles/schirmeister.html
[Updated 2008]
SCHMIDT, KLAUS
Fellowship: R.A. 95-96, "'Between Periphery and
Center': Studies
in the Literatures and Cultures of British America,
1702-1776"
(asst. prof. of British and American studies, Univ. of
Mainz, Germany)
Education: Mainz, B.A., 85; M.A., 88; Ph.D., 94
Fellowship Publications: (ed. w/ Fritz
Fleischmann) "Anything
But Well Explored": New Essays on Early American
Culture
(Baltimore: Lang, forthcoming); (ed. w/ David
Sawyer) Blurred
Boundaries: Critical Essays on American Literature,
Language, and
Culture (Frankfurt: Lnag, 1996);
"Resonance, Resistance, Real-Life
Encounters: (Narrative) Boundary-Crossing in the Early American Contact
Zone" in Christian Todenhagen and Wolfgang Thiele,
eds. Investigations
into Narrative Structure (Peter Lang, 2002)
Other Publications: "The Outsider's Vision"
(Frankfurt:
Lang, 1994); (ed. w/ Flip Sides) New Critical Essays on
American
Literature (Frankfurt: Lang, 1995); "Between Creativity
and
Conformity: Marginality and Gender in Toni Morrison's
Sula,"
in Horst W. Drescher, ed.,
Transfer: Übersetzen-Dolmetschen-Interkulturalitbt
(Frankfurt: Lang, 1997): 412-30; "Teaching Native Son
in
a German Undergraduate Literature Class," in James
A. Miller, ed.,
Approaches to Teaching Wright's Native Son, (New
York: MLA,
forthcoming)
[Updated 2005]
SCHOOLMAN, MARTHA
Fellowship: Peterson 06-07, "American Abolitionist
Geographies" (asst. prof. of
English, Miami Univ. of Ohio)
Education: Chicago, A.B., 92; Texas at Austin,
M.A., 96; Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 05
Web Page: http://www.units.muohio.edu/english/People/Faculty/Q_Z/SchoolmanMartha.html
[Updated 2007]
SCHOONE-JONGEN, ROBERT
Fellowship: K-12 95, "Conduct a Survey of how Popular
Hymns
and Other Religious Songs Reflected Views on
Political/Social Issues,
1775-1800" (social studies teacher, SW Minnesota
Christian
High School)
Education: Calvin, B.A., 71; Kentucky, M.A., 73
Current Position: Ph.D. cand. in history,
Delaware
Address: 606 6th Ave. W., Edgerton, MN
56128; silentcal70@hotmail.com.
[Updated 2001]
SCHRADER, ARTHUR F.
(Died 2004)
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 79-80, "The Isaiah Thomas
Ballad Collection"
(performer and singing history scholar)
Education: Buffalo, B.A., 50, M.Ed., 57
Fellowship Publications: "Documentation of
Anglo-American
Folksongs Between 1770 and 1850," New Jersey
Folklore
7 (1982); "Meandering Banks of the Dee," New
York Folklore
8 (1982); "Broadside Ballads of Boston, 1813: The
Isaiah Thomas
Collection," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian
Society
98 (1988): 30-50; "Wilks," "No. 45," and
"Mr.
Billings," American Music vol.7, #4 (1989)
[Updated 2005]
SCHULTZ, HEIDI M.
Fellowship: Peterson 95-96, "Women Writing in the
American South:
Writing at Female Academies and 'Writing Without Teachers,'
1800-1860"
(Ph.D. cand. in English, North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Education: Lenoir-Rhyne College, B.A., 80; North
Carolina
at Charlotte: M.A., 89; North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Ph.D., 97
Current Position: prof. and dir. of management and
corporate communication, Kenan-Flagler Business
School, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fellowship Publications: "Southern Women Learn to
Write: 1830-1860"
(Ph.D. diss., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997)
Other Publications: "Edgar Allan Poe Sumbits 'The
Bells'"
Resources for American Literary Study vol. 22, no. 2
(Nov. 1996)
166-81; "Theed.'s Desk at Sartain's
Magazine," American
Periodicals vol. 6 (1996): 92-134
Address: Kenan-Flagler Business School, CB#3490
McColl Building,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
27599-3490;
Heidi_Schultz[at]unc.edu
Web Page: http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/Faculty/search/detail.cfm?person_id=67
[Updated 2006]
SCHURMAN, LYDIA CUSHMAN
Fellowship: Peterson 88-89, "Publishers,
Publications,
and Purveyors: The Dime Novel Publishing World,
1860-1915"
(prof. of English, Northern Virginia Comm. College)
Education: Cornell, B.A., 50; Harvard, M.A.T.,
54; George
Mason, M.A., 76; Maryland, Ph.D., 84
Current Position: prof. emerita of English, Northern
Virginia
Comm. College
Fellowship Publications: "The Sensational Stories
and Dime
Noel Writing Days of Louisa May Alcott, Horatio Alger,
Theodore
Dreiser, and Upton Sinclair," Dime Novel
Round-Up, no.
594 (Dec. 1988), 84-92; "Anthony Comstock's Lifelong
Crusade
Against `Vampire Literature,'" Dime Novel
Round-Up,
no. 600 (Dec.1989), 82-88; "Those Famous American
Periodicals--The
Bible, The Odyssey and Paradise Lost--Or, The
Great
Second-Class Mail Swindle," Publishing History XL
(1996):
33-52
Other Publications: co-ed. with Larry E. Sullivan,
Pioneers,
Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series
Books,
and Paperbacks. (Binghampton, NY: The Haworth Press,
1997);
Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism
of Popular
Mass-Produced Fiction in America, co-ed. with Deidre
A. Johnson
(Greenwood Press, 2002)
[Updated 2001]
SCHWARZLOSE, RICHARD A.
(Died 2003)
Fellowship: Peterson 84-85, "The Origins of the
Newspaper
Press" (assoc. prof. of journalism, Northwestern)
Education: Illinois, B.S., 59, M.A., 60, Ph.D.,
65
Other Publications: American Wire Services: A
Study of
Their Development as a Social Institution
(1979); Newspapers:
A Reference Guide (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1987); The
Nation's Newsbrokers: Vol. 1: The Formative Years, from
Pretelegraph
to 1865 (Evanston: Northwestern, 1988); The Nation's
Newsbrokers:
Vol. 2: The Rush to Institution, from 1865 to 1920
(Evanston:
Northwestern, 1989)
[Updated 2006]
SCHWEIGER, BETH BARTON
Fellowship: Peterson 03-04, "Reading
Slavery: Southerners and Their Books" (asst. prof. of history, Arkansas)
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 08-09, "Reading Before
Literacy: The Uses of English Grammar in the Early Nineteenth Century"
(assoc. prof. of history, Arkansas)
Education: Stephen F. Austin State, B.A., 83; Virginia, M.A., 87,
Ph.D.,
94
Other Publications: Religion in the American South: Protestants
and
Others in History and Culture. ed. with Donald G. Mathews
(University of North Carolina Press, 2004);
The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century
Virginia (Oxford University Press, 2000)
[Updated
2006]
SCOTT, DONALD M.
Fellowship: Daniels 79-80, "The Public Lecture in
Mid-19th
Century America" (assoc. prof. of history, North
Carolina State)
Fellowship: NEH 81-82, "Public Lectures and the
Formation
of America Culture, 1830-1870" (assoc. prof. of
history, North
Carolina State)
Education: Harvard, B.A., 62; Wisconsin, M.S., 64,
Ph.D.,
68
Current Position: prof. of history and Dean of
Faculty of
the Division of Social Sciences, Queens College, CUNY
Fellowship Publications: "The Popular Lecture and
the Creation
of a Public in Mid-Nineteenth Century
America," Journal
of American History 66 (1980); America's Families: A
Documentary
History (1982); "Print and the Public Lecture
System, 1840-1860,"
in William L. Joyce et al., eds., Printing and Society in
Early
America, (Worcester: AAS, 1983); "Itinerant Lectures and
Lecturing
in New England, 1800-1850," in Peter Benes, ed.,
Hierarchy in
New England and New York (1986); "Knowledge and the
Marketplace,"
in Gilbert et al., The Mythmaking Frame of Mind: Social
Imagination
and American Culture (Belmont, CA, 1993)
Other Publications: From Office to Profession: New
England
Ministry, 1750-1850 (1978)
Web Page:http://web.gc.cuny.edu/History/Profs/scott.html
[Updated 2006]
SECORD, JAMES A.
Fellowship: Botein 04-05, "Nature as News: Reporting
Science in the Antebellum American Illustrated Press" (prof. of
history and philosophy of science, Cambridge)
Current Position: prof. of history and philosophy of science,
Cambridge; director, Darwin Correspondence Project
Other Publications: Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary
Publication, Reception and Secret Authorship of "Vestiges of the Natural
History of Creation" (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2000); Controversy in
Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute (Princeton Univ.
Press, 1986).
Web Page: http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/dept/secord.html
[Updated 2006]
SEELYE, JOHN D.
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 85-86, "The River in the Early
American
Republic" (graduate research prof., Florida)
Fellowship: R.A. 87-88, "Plymouth
Rock" (graduate
research prof., Florida)
Fellowship: R.A. 94-95, "Plymouth
Rock" (graduate
research prof., Florida)
Education: Wesleyan, B.A., 53; Claremont Graduate
School,
M.A., 56, Ph.D., 61
Current Position: prof. of English, Florida
Fellowship Publications: "`Rational
Exultation': The
Erie Canal Celebration of 1825," Proceedings of the
American
Antiquarian Society 84 (1984): 241-68; "Monumental
Trivia:
The Rhetorical History of Plymouth Rock" (paper,
Southeastern
American studies Association, 1987); Beautiful
Machine: Rivers
and the Republican Plan, 1755-1828 (New York: Oxford
Univ. Press,
1991)
Other Publications: Melville: The Ironic
Diagram (1970);
Prophetic Waters: The River in Early American Life and
Literature
(1977)
Web Page: http://web.english.ufl.edu/faculty/jseelye/indexFrame.html
[Updated 2006]
SEEMAN, ERIK R.
Fellowship: Hiatt 92-93, "Laity, Clergy, and the
Shaping
of Popular Religious Culture in New England,
1720-1770" (Ph.D.
cand. in history, Michigan)
Education: Harvard, A.B., 89
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history, SUNY at
Buffalo
Fellowship Publications: "She Died Like Good Old Jacob,
Deathbed
Scenes and Inversions of Power in New England,
1675-1775,"
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
104:4: 285-314;
Pious Persuasions: Laity and Clergy in Eighteenth-Century
New
England (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1999)
Other Publications: "The Spiritual Labour of
John Barnard:
An Eighteenth-Century Artisan Constructs His
Piety," Religion
and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 5
(Summer
1995): 181-215
Web Page: http://web.english.ufl.edu/faculty/jseelye/indexFrame.html
[Updated 2006]
SENTILLES, RENÉE M.
Fellowship: Mellon Post-Diss. 98-99, "Performing
Menken: Adah
Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey" (visiting
asst. prof. of
history, Franklin & Marshall)
Fellowship: Peterson 03-04, "Tomboys and Other
Nineteenth-Century
Girls" (asst. prof. of history, Case Western Reserve)
Education: Mount Holyoke, B.A., 88; Utah State, M.A.,
91;
William & Mary, Ph.D., 97
Fellowship Publications: Performing Menken: Ada Isaacs Menken
and the Birth of American Celebrity (Cambridge Univ. Press,
2003)
Web Page: http://www.case.edu/artsci/hsty/sentilles.html
[Updated 2006]
SHALHOPE, ROBERT E.
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 95-96, "A Yeoman's Life: Hiram
Harwood,
1806-1837" (George Lynn Cross prof. of history,
Oklahoma)
Education: DePauw, B.S., 63; Missouri, M.A., 64,
Ph.D., 67
Fellowship Publications: A Tale of New England:
The Diaries of Hiram
Harwood, Vermont Farmer, 1810-1837 (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press,
2003)
Other Publications: Bennington and the Green
Mountain Boys:
The Emergence of Liberal Democracy in Vermont, 1760-1850
(Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1996)
Web Page: http://www.ou.edu/cas/history/faculty_bio_shalhope.html
[Updated 2006]
SHEEHAN, TANYA
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 09-10,
"Blacks and Whites: Race and Early Photographic Humor"
(asst. prof. of Art History, Rutgers)
Education: Brown, Ph.D.
[Updated 2009]
SHEETS, KEVIN B.
Fellowship: Peterson 97-98, "Latin America, The Dead
Language,
Schools, and the Culture of the Educated
Man" (Ph.D. cand.
in history, Virginia)
Education: Gettysburg, B.A., 92; Virginia, M.A.,
94
Current Position: asst. prof., State Univ. of New
York, College
at Cortland
Fellowship Publications: Et Tu America? The Rise
and Fall
of Latin in Schools, Society, and the Culture of the
Educated Man
(diss.)
Address: Dept. of History, SUNY Cortland, Cortland,
NY 13045
Web Page: http://www.cortland.edu/history/faculty/sheetsk.asp
[Updated 2006]
SHEIDLEY, HARLOW W.
Fellowship: Hiatt 83-84, "Sectional
Nationalism: Massachusetts
Conservatives and the Epic of New England,
1815-1836" (Ph.D.
cand. in history, Connecticut)
Education: Stanford, A.B., 63; Connecticut, M.A., 78,
Ph.D,
90
Current Position: asst. prof. of history, Colorado at
Colorado
Springs
Fellowship Publications: "Preserving the `Old
Fabrick':
The Massachusetts Conservative Elite and the Constitutional
Convention
of 1820-1821," Proceedings of the Massachusetts
Historical
Society 103 (1991): 114-37; "The Webster-Hayne
Debate:
Recasting New England's Sectionalism," New England
Quarterly
67 (1994): 5-29; Sectional Nationalism: Massachusetts
Conservative
Leaders and America, 1815-1836 (Northeastern
Univ. Press., 1999)
Other Publications: Dialogues of a New
Republic: An Exhibition
of Selected Items from the Pierce Welch Gaines Collection of
Americana
(1980)
Web Page: http://web.uccs.edu/history/faculty/index.html
[Updated 2003]
SHELL, MARC
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 81-82, "Money and Symbolism in
America:
Case Studies" (assoc. prof. of English, SUNY at
Buffalo)
Education: Stanford, B.A., 68; Trinity College,
Cambridge,
B.A., 70; Yale, M.A., 72, Ph.D., 75
Current Position: Irving Babbit Professor of
Comparative Literature and prof. of English,
Harvard
Fellowship Publications: Money, Language, and
Thought: Literary
and Philosophical Economies from the Medieval to the Modern
Era
(Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1982); The End of
Kinship:
"Measure for Measure," Incest, and the Idea of
Universal
Siblinghood (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1988)
Other Publications: Money, Language, and
Thought: Literary
and Philosophical Economies from the Medieval to the Modern
Era
(Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1982); "Babel in
America;
or, The Politics of Language Diversity in the United
States,"
Critical Inquiry 20 (1993): 103-27
Web Page: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~complit/mshell.htm
[Updated 2006]
SHERIFF, CAROL
Fellowship: Peterson 91-92, "The Social and
Cultural Impact
of the Erie Canal, 1790-1860" (Ph.D. cand. in history,
Yale)
Education: Wesleyan, B.A., 85; Yale, M.A., 88,
M.Phil., 90,
Ph.D., 93
Current Position: prof. of history, William
& Mary
Fellowship Publications: The Artificial River: The
Erie Canal
and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862 (New York: Hill
&
Wang, 1996) [Awarded the 1996 New York State Historical
Association
prize for the best ms. on NY State History and the 1996
Award for
Excellence in Research using the holdings of the New York
State Archives]
Web Page:
http://www.wm.edu/history/directory.php?personid=6516
[Updated 2008]
SHIELDS, DAVID S.
Fellowship: Haven 85-86, "Literary Neoclassicism
during
the 1740s and 1750s in Massachusetts" (asst. prof. of
English,
The Citadel)
Current Position: McClintock Professor of Southern
Letters, depts. of English and history, South Carolina
Education: William & Mary, B.A., 73; Chicago,
M.A., 75,
Ph.D., 82
Fellowship Publications: "Clio Mocks the
Masons: Joseph
Green's Anti-Masonic Satires," in J. A. Leo Lemay, ed.,
Deism,
Masonry, and the Enlightenment,
(1986): 109-26; "Then Shall
Religion to America Flee: Herbert and Colonial American
Poetry,"
in Edmund Miller and Robert DiYanni, eds., Like Season'd
Timber;
New Essays on George Herbert, (New York: Peter Lang,
1987);
"Nathaniel Gardner, Jr., and the Literary Culture of
Boston
in the 1750s," Early American Literature 24
(1989):
196-216; Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics, and
Commerce in
British America, 1690-1750 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago
Press,
1990); "Belles Lettres in British America," in
Sacvan
Bercovitch, ed., vol. 1, The Cambridge History of
American Literature,
(Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992)
Other Publications: "The Wits and Poets of
Pennsylvania,"
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
(1985); "The
Religious Sublime and New England Poets of the
1720s," Early
American Literature 19 (1985)
Web Page:
http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/eal/davidsshields/
[Updated 2005]
SHOEMAKER, NANCY
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 06-07, "The Whaling
History of New England Indians"
(prof. of history, Connecticut)
Education: Wellesley, B.A., 80; New York, M.A., 83;
Minnesota, Ph.D., 91
[Updated 2006]
SHORE, LAURENCE
Fellowship: Daniels 81-82, "The Degradation and
Dignity
of Labor: Political Economy and the Southern Ruling Elite,
1850-76"
(Ph.D. cand. in history, Johns Hopkins)
Fellowship Publications: Southern Capitalists: The
Ideological
Leadership of an Elite, 1832-1885 (Chapel Hill, Univ. of
North
Carolina Press, 1986)
[Updated 1997]
SHUSTER, ROBERT
Fellowship: Baron 06, "America's culture of war and
the military in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for his
non-fiction book The Indestructible Soldier "
(writer)
[Updated 2006]
SIDBURY, JAMES
Fellowship: Mellon 02-03, "Conceptions of Africa
in Early African-American Culture, 1760-1830" (asso. prof. of
history, Texas at Austin)
Education: Johns Hopkins, B.A., 80; M.A.,
88; Ph.D. 91
Other Publications:
Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black
Atlantic (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Other Publications:
Ploughshares into
Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia,
1730-1810 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997)
Web Page:
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/faculty/profiles/sidbury/james/
[Updated 2008]
SIEGEL, NANCY
Fellowship: Last 08-09, "Bodily Functions as Body
Politic: Scenes of Protest in Eighteenth-Century Prints" (asst.
prof. of art history, Juniata)
Education: Franklin & Marshall, B.A., 88;
Rutgers, M.A., 94, Ph.D. 99
Other Publications: The Morans: The Artistry of a
Nineteenth-Century Family of Painter-Etchers (Huntingdon, PA:
Juniata Press, 2001); Along the Juniata: Thomas Cole and the
Dissemination of American Landscape Imagery (Seattle: University of
Washington Press in association with the Juniata College Museum of Art,
2003)
[Updated 2008]
SIEVENS, MARY BETH
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 09-10, "The Fruit of My Industry: Household Economy, the Market, and Consumer Society in New England, 1790-1865"
(assoc. prof. of history, SUNY-Fredonia)
Education: Mount Holyoke, A.B.; Boston, Ph.D., 97
[Updated 2009]
SIKORYAK, R.
Fellowship: Baron 06, "Comic Strip Adaptation of
Moby Dick"
(cartoonist)
Education: Parsons, B.F.A., 87
Other Publications: Masterpiece Comics (forthcoming May
2009)
Web page:
rsikoryak.com
[Updated 2008]
SILVER-ISENSTADT, JEAN
Fellowship: Peterson 95-96, "Pure Pleasure: The
Shared
Life and Work of Mary S. Gove Nichols and Thomas Low Nichols
in
American Health Reform" (Ph.D. cand. in history and
sociology
of science, Pennsylvania)
Education: Wesleyan, B.A., 90; Johns Hopkins, M.A.,
91, Pennsylvania,
M.A., 94, Ph.D., 97
Current Position: medical student, Maryland School of
Medicine
Fellowship Publications: Shameless: The Visionary
Life of
Mary Gove Nichols (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press,
2002);
"A Comprehensive and Confidential
Treatise" chapter in
Charles E. Rosenberg, ed. Health In The Home
(Baltimore:
John Hopkins Univ. Press, in press); "Mary S. Gove
Nichols:
Making the Personal Political," chapter in Kristie
Lindenmeyer,
ed. Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives (Wilmington,
DE:
Scholarly Resources Inc., 2000); "Nichols, Thomas
Low,"
entry in American National Biography, edited by John
A. Garraty
and Mark C. Carnes (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999)
Address: 9038 Queen Maria Ct., Columbia, MD
21045; jsilv001@umaryland.edu
[Updated 2002]
SILVERMAN, DAVID
Fellowship: Mellon Post-diss. 01-02, "Conditions for
Coexistence,
Climates for Collapse: The Challenges of Indian Life on
Martha's
Vineyard, 1524-1871" (asst. prof. of history, Wayne
State)
Fellowship: AAS-ASECS 05-06, "Brothertown: American
Indians and the Problem of Race" (asst. prof. of history, George
Washington)
Education: Rutgers, B.A., 93; William & Mary,
M.A., 96;
Princeton, Ph.D., 00
Current Position: asst. prof. of history, George
Washington
Fellowship Publications: "'We chuse to be
bounded': Indian
Animal Husbandry in Colonial New England," William and
Mary Quarterly
(2003); Faith and Boundaries: Colonists,
Christianity, and Community Among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's
Vineyard, 1600-1871 (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005);
"Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation: Creating Wampanoag
Christianity in Seventeenth-Century Martha's Vineyard," William and
Mary Quarterly, 3d ser. 72 (2005), 141-74 [Lester J. Capon Award,
2005]
Other Publications: "The Impact of Indentured
Servitude on
Southern New England Indian Society and Culture,
1680-1810,"
NEQ 74 (2001), 622-66; "Deposing the Sachem to Defend
the Sachemship:
Indian Land Sales and Native Political Structure on Martha's
Vineyard,
1680-1740," Explorations in Early American Culture 5
(2001),
9-44; "The Church in New England Indian Community Life: A
View from
the Islands and Cape Cod," in Reinterpreting New England
Indians
and the Colonial Experience (2004)
Address:
History Dept.,
The George Washington University,
335 Phillips Hall, 801 22nd St., NW,
Washington, DC 20052
; djsilver@gwu.edu
Web Page:
http://columbian.gwu.edu/departments/faculty.php/f_id/465/sortby/
[Updated 2006]
SIMON, JANICE
Fellowship: Peterson 93-94, "The Forest Interior in
American
Painting, 1840-1900" (asst. prof. of art, Georgia)
Fellowship: R.A. 95-96, "The Forest Interior in
American
Painting, 1840-1900" (asst. prof. of art, Georgia)
Education: SUNY at Buffalo, B.A., 78; Michigan, M.A.,
81,
Ph.D., 90
Current Position: Joseph Meigs Teaching Professor, Georgia
Fellowship Publications: "'Naked Wastes glorious
woods': The
Forest View of the White Mountains" in Bryant Tolles, ed.,
A
Suburb of Paradise: the White Mountains & the Visual
Arts
(Concord, NH, New Hampshire Historical Society,
2000) "'Nature's
Forest Volume': The Aldine, The Adirondacks, and the Sylvan
Landscape"
in Caroline Welsh, ed., The Call of the Wild
(Syracuse Univ.
Press, 1988); "Consuming Pictures: The Aldine; The At
Journal of
America and the Art of Self Promotion," in American
Transidental
Quarterly, Special Issue: Print Culture in Nineteenth
Century
America, v.12, no. 3 (September 1998);
"Impressed in Memory: John Frederick Kensett's Italian Scene" in Paul
Manoguerra, Classic Ground: Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Painting and the Italian
Encounter (Athens, GA:
Georgia Museum of Art, 2004) [Southeastern Museum Award for best art
museum catalogue];
"Re-envisoning `this well-wooded land'" in Patricia Johnston, ed.,
Seeing High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual
Culture (University of California Press, 2006)
Other Publications: "Imaging a New Heaven on a
New Earth:
The Crayon and Nineteenth-Century American Periodical
Covers,"
American Periodicals, 1, 1991; "Seeking to 'Keep
that
Earlier, Wilder Image Bright'," Winterthur
Portfolio,
27 (1992); Sanford R.Gifford's Kaaterskill Falls: A
Place
of Intimate Immensity," Bulletin, Detroit Institute
of Arts,
67 (Spring 1993); "Glimpses of Eternity: The Mythic
Late Paintings
of Charles Burchfield," Extending the Golden
Year: The Charles
Burchfield Centenary (Clinton, NY: Hamilton College,
1993);
"The Promise of 1893," co-ed. with, Donald
Keyes, Crosscurrents
in American Art at the Turn of the Century
(Athens: Georgia
Museumof Art, 1994). Cont. of ten essays to American
Paintings
in the Detroit Institute of Arts v. 2 (Husdon Hills
Press, Fall
1997);
Images of Contentment: John Frederick Kensett and the Connecticut
Shore
(Waterbury CT: Mattatuck Museum, 2001)
Address: University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of
Art,
Visual Arts Building, Athens, GA30602; jsimon@arches.uga.edu
Web Page: http://art.uga.edu/html/ahist.php?getLinks=getTopPrograms&getContent=getFaculty&contentValue=57
[Updated 2006]
SIMONCELLI, MICHAEL
Fellowship: Morgan 99-00, "Becoming Northern: The Clash
of Regional
Cultures and the Creation of a Northern Identity in Ohio,
1770-1877"
(Ph.D. cand. in history, William & Mary)
Education: Rhode Island College, B.A., 95; William
&
Mary, M.A., 99
[Updated 1999]
SIMMONS, RICHARD C.
Fellowship: Boni 82-83, "British Imprints Relating
to North
America, 1621-1760" (reader in American history,
Birmingham)
Education: Cambridge, B.A., 58, M.A., 62; California
at Berkeley,
Ph.D., 65
Current Position: prof. of American history,
Birmingham
Fellowship Publications: "Massachusetts and the
Glorious
Revolution, 1689-92: Select Documents," Publications
of
the Colonial Society of Massachusetts (Boston,
1988); ed., The
U.S. Constitution: The First Two Hundred Years. Proceedings
of the
Fulbright Colloquium, 1987 (Manchester Univ. Press,
1989); British
Imprints Relating to North America 1621-1760: An Annotated
Checklist
(British Library, 1996)
Other Publications: The American Colonies from
Settlement
to Independence (1976); co-author with P. D. G. Thomas,
Proceedings
and Debates of the British Parliaments Respecting North
America,
1754-1783, 6 vols. (1982-87)
[Updated 1997]
SIMONS, STEPHEN
Fellowship: Teacher 97, Middle school American History
curriculum
on cookbooks of the Early Republic (seventh grade teacher,
The Peter
Rouget School, Brooklyn, NY)
Education: Marquette, B.A., 91; Columbia, M.A.T.,
92; CUNY,
M.A., 96
[Updated 1997]
SINGLEY, CAROL J.
Fellowship: Peterson 97-98, "Adoption in American
Literature
and Culture" (assoc. prof. of English, Rutgers)
Education: Penn. State, B.A., 72, M.A., 75; Brown,
Ph.D., 86
Current Position: assoc. prof. of English, co-director
of American Studies, Rutgers)
Fellowship Publcations: "Building a Nation, Building a
Family: Adoption in Nineteenth-Century American Children's
Literature," in Wayne Carp, ed., Adoption
in America: Historical Perspectives (Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002) 51-81.
Other Publications: ed. (with Susan Elizabeth
Sweeney), Anxious
Power: Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence in Narrative by
Women
(Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1993); Edith
Wharton:
Matters of Mind and Spirit (New York: Cambridge
Univ. Press,
1995, paper 1998); ed. (with Aliki Barnstone and
Michael Tomasek Manson), The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era: Essays
on Fiction, Drama, and Poetry (Hanover, NH: University Press of
New England, 1997); ed. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton, New
Riverside Editions (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000); ed. (with Caroline
Levander), The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader (New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003);
ed. Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth: A Casebook (New
York: Oxford University Press, 2003);
ed. A Historical
Guide to Edith Wharton (New York: Oxford University Press,
2003).
Address: Rutgers University, Department of English, 311 N. Fifth
St., Camden, NJ, 08102; singley@camden.rutgers.edu
Web Page:
http://children.camden.rutgers.edu/profile/singley.htm
[Updated 2006]
SINHA, MANISHA
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 04-05, "Redefining
Democracy: African Americans and the Movement to Abolish Slavery,
1775-1865" (asso. prof. of Afro-American studies and
history, Massachusetts at Amherst)
Education: Columbia, Ph.D., 94
Other Publications: The Counterrevolution of
Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina
(Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2000)
Web Page:
http://www.umass.edu/afroam/sinha.html
[Updated 2006]
SISSON, KELLY
Fellowship: Peterson 08-09 "King Corn in American Culture,
1862-1936" (Ph.D. cand. in American culture, Michigan)
Education:
[Updated 2008]
SJOGREN, BRITTA
Fellowship: Baron 03-04, "A Chain of
Windows" (asst. prof. of cinema, San Francisco State)
Education: California at Berkeley, A.B.,
81; California at Los Angeles, M.F.A., 92; Ph.D. 97
Current Position: assoc. prof. of cinema, San Francisco State
Address: San Francisco State University,
Cinema, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA, 94602; britta[at]sfsu.edu
Web Page:
http://www.cinema.sfsu.edu
[Updated 2008]
SKLANSKY, JEFFREY
Fellowship: ACLS Burkardt 06-07, "The Rise and
Fall of the 'Money Question' in the Nineteenth-Century United States"
(assoc. prof. of history, Oregon State)
Education: California at Berkeley, B.A., 88;
Columbia, M.A., 90, Ph.D., 96
Other Publications: The Soul's Economy: Market Society and
Selfhood in
American Thought, 1820-1920 (University of North Carolina Press,
2002); "Progress and Populism," Reviews in American History 32
(March 2004): 58-67; "'A Bank on Parnassus': Nicholas Biddle and the
Beauty of Banking," Common-place 6:3 (April 2006); "Business and
Solitude," Modern Intellectual History 3:2 (Aug. 2006): 357-369
Web Page: http://oregonstate.edu/cla/history/faculty/sklanskyj/
[Updated 2007]
SKLAR, KATHRYN KISH
Fellowship: Daniels 76-77, "Female Education in New
England,
1780-1820" (assoc. prof. of history, California at Los
Angeles
Education: Radcliffe/Harvard, B.A., 65; Michigan,
Ph.D.,
69
Current Position: Harmsworth Professor of U.S.
History, Oxford
Fellowship Publications: "The Schooling of Girls
and Community
Values in Massachusetts Towns, 1750-1820," History
of Education
Quarterly (Spring and Fall 1994)
Other Publications: Catharine Beecher: A Study in
American
Domesticity (1973); ed., Notes of Sixty Years: The
Autobiography
of Florence Kelley, 1859-1926 (1985); "`The Greater
Part
of the Petitconers Are Female': The Reduction by Statute of
Women's
Working Hours in the Paid Labor Force, 1840-1917," in
Gary
Cross, ed., The International History of the Shortening
of the
Work Day (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press,
1988); "Who
Funded Hull House?," in Kathleen McCarthy, ed., Lady
Bountiful
Revisited: Women, Philanthropy, and Power (New
Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers Univ. Press, 1990); (ed. with Thomas
Dublin) Women and
Power in American History: A Reader, 2 vols. (Englewood
Cliffs,
NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991); "Coming to Terms with
Florence Kelley:
The Tale of a Reluctant Biographer," in Sara Alpern et
al.,
eds., The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the
Lives
of Modern American Women (Urbana and Champaign: Univ. of
Illinois
Press, 1992); (co-ed. and contrib.) The Social Survey
Movement
in Historical Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge
Univ. Press,
1992); "The Historical Foundations of Women's Power in
the
Creation of the American Welfare State, 1830-1930," in
Seth
Koven and Sonya Michel, eds., Mothers of a New
World: Maternalist
Politics and the Origins of Welfare States (New
York: Routledge,
1993); "`Women Who Speak for an Entire Nation:' American and
British
Women Compared at the World Anti-Slavery Convention, London,
1840,"
in Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. Van Horne, eds., The
Abolitionist
Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum
America
(Cornell Univ. Press, 1994); Florence Kelley and the
Nation's
Work: the Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900,
(New
Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1995). [Volume I of a two-volume
study.
Winner of the 1995 Berkshire Prize of the Berkshire
Conference of
Women Historians; Chosen by the New York Times as a Notable
Book
of 1995. Winner of the 1998 prize for Outstanding Book in
Nonprofit
and Voluntary Action Research, awarded by the Association
for Research
on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary
Action]; U.S. History
as Women's History: New Feminist Essays, co-ed., (Chapel
Hill:
Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1995); "Jane Addams's Peace
Activism,
1914-1922: A Model for Women Today?" Women's Studies
Quarterly,
Special Issue on Rethinking Women's Peace Studies, (23
(Fall/Winter
1995), pp. 32-47; "Engendering Women's History: New
Paradigms and
Interpretations in American
History," Amerikastudien/American
Studies, Vol. 41: 2 (1996); "The Consumers' White Label
of the
National Consumers' League, 1898-1918," in Susan Strasser,
Charles
McGovern, and Matthais Judt, eds., Getting and
Spending: American
and European Consumption in the Twentieth Century (New
York:
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998); "The `Quickened
Conscience': Women's
Voluntarism and the State, 1890-1920,"in Civil Society,
Democracy,
and Civic Renewal, Robert K. Fullinwider, ed., (Lanham,
MD:
Rowman & Littlefield, 1999); "Florence Kelley Tells German
Readers
About the Pullman Strike, 1894," Mid-America: An
Historical Review,
Vol. 82, nos. 1 & 2 (Winter/Summer 2000),
pp. 127-47. Social
Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany: A
Dialogue in
Documents, 1885-1933, co-ed. (Ithaca: Cornell
Univ. Press, 1998);
Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery
Movement: A Short
History with Documents, 1830-1870, (Boston: Bedford
Books, St.
Martin's Press, 2000); "The Women's Studies
Moment: 1972," in The
Politics of Women's Studies: Testimony from 30 Founding
Mothers,
Florence Howe, ed. (New York: Feminist Press, 2000)
Address: Dept. of History, SUNY at Binghamton,
Binghamton,
NY 13902; Longford Lake, Brackney, PA
18812; kksklar@binghamton.edu
Web Page:
http://research.binghamton.edu/faculty/sklar/sklar.htm
[Updated 2006]
SMITH, BILLY G.
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 91-92, "Fugitives from Slavery
in the
Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic Region" (prof. of
history,
Montana State)
Education: California at Los Angeles, B.A., 71, M.A.,
73,
Ph.D., 81
Fellowship Publications: Life in Early
Philadelphia: Documents
from the Revolutionary and Early National Periods (State
College:
Penn State Univ. Press, 1995); "Runaway Slaves in the
Mid-Atlantic
Region during the Revolutionary Era," in Ronald Hoffman
and
Peter J. Albert, eds., "The Transforming Hand of
Revolution":
Reconsidering the American Revolution as a Social
Movement (Charlottesville:
Univ. Press of Virginia, forthcoming)
Other Publications: The "Lower
Sort": Philadelphia's
Laboring People, 1750-1800 (New York: Cornell
Univ. Press, 1990);
with Richard Wojtowicz, Blacks Who Stole
Themselves: Advertisements
for Runaways in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-90
(Philadelphia:
Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1989); with Susan E. Kleep,
The
Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley,
an Indentured
Servant (Penn State Press, 1991); "The Vicissitudes
of
Fortune: The Careers of Laboring Men in Phila.,
1750-1800,"
ed. Stephen Innis (Univ. of North Carolina
Press,1988): 221-51;
with J. Worth Estes, "A Melancholy Scene of
Devastation":
The Public Response to the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever
Epidemic
(Philadelphia: Science History Publications, 1997);
Down and Out in Early America (Penn State Press, 2004)
Web Page:
http://www.montana.edu/~wwwhi/docs/facultystaff.htm#smith
[Updated 2006]
SMITH, CASSANDRA
Fellowship: Artist 99, "Slaves, Free Blacks,
Runaways: Dolls
of the Antebellum United States" (doll artist, Chicago,
IL)
Education: Michigan, B.A., M.A., Ph.D
[Updated 1999]
SMITH, DWIGHT L.
Fellowship: Haven 82-83, "The War of 1812: A
Bibliography"
(prof. of history, Miami at Ohio)
Education: Indiana Central, A.B., 40; Indiana, A.M.,
41,
Ph.D., 49; Litt.D., Indianapolis, 87
Current Position: prof. emeritus of history, Miami at
Ohio
Fellowship Publications: The War of 1812: An
Annotated Bibliography
(New York: Garland, 1985)
Other Publications: Indians of the United States
and Canada:
A Bibliography, vol. 1 (1974), vol.2 (1983); The
History
of Canada: An Annotated Bibliography (1983); co-author,
with
C. Gregory Crampton, The Colorado River Survey: Robert
B. Stanton
and the Denver, Colorado Canyon & Pacific Railroad
(Salt
Lake City: Howe Bros., 1987); Survival on a Westward
Trek, 1858-1859:
The John Jones Overlanders (Athens: Ohio Univ. Press,
1989);
with Ray Swick, A Journey through the West: Thomas
Rodney's 1803
Journey from Delaware to the Mississippi Territory
(Athens:
Ohio Univ. Press, 1997)
[Updated 1997]
SMITH, GAIL K.
Fellowship: R.A. 95-96, "Reading the Word: Harriet
Beecher
Stow and Nineteenth-Century American
Hermeneutics" (asst. prof.
of English, Marquette)
Education: Yale, B.A., 85; Virginia, Ph.D., 93
Current Position: assoc. prof. of English,
Birmingham-Southern
Fellowship Publications: "Reading with the
Other: Hermeneutics
and the Politics of Difference in Stowe's
Dred," (American
Literature, June 1997); "From the Seminary to the
Parlor: The
Popularization of Hermeneutics in The Gates
Ajar," Arizona
Quarterly, 1998
Web Page:
http://www.bsc.edu/academics/faculty/smith-gail.htm
[Updated 2006]
SMITH, LAURA
Fellowship: , "Material Domesticity: Textiles in
Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons" (lecturer in English, New
Hampshire)
Education:
[Updated 2008]
SMITH-ROSENBERG, CARROLL
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 76-77, "Prescribed and Actual
Gender
Roles in the American Family,
1760-1895" (assoc. prof. of history
and psychiatry, Pennsylvania)
Education: Connecticut College for Women, B.A.,
57; Columbia,
M.A., 58, Ph.D., 68
Current Position: prof. of history and women's
studies and
graduate chair, American Culture Program, Michigan at Ann
Arbor
Fellowship Publications: "Sex as Symbol in
Jacksonian America,"
American Journal of Sociology 84
(1978): 212-47; "Davy
Crocket as Trickster: Pornography, Liminality, and
Perversion in
Victorian America," Journal of Contemporary
History
17 (1982); Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in
Victorian
America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985)
Other Publications: "Domesticating
Virtue: Coquettes
and Rebels in Young America," in Elaine Scarry, ed.,
Literature
and the Body, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press,
1988);
"Dis-covering the Subject of the Great Constitutional
Discussion
1786-1789," Journal of American History 79
(1991): 84-93;
"Subject Female: Engendering American Identity," American
Literary
History (1993): 481-511
[Updated 1997]
SMOLINSKI, REINER
Fellowship: Peterson 02-03, "Authority &
Interpretation: Cotton
Mather's 'Biblia Americana'" (assoc. prof. of English,
Georgia State)
Education: Universitat, Mainz, Germany, B.A.,
79; Oklahoma
State, M.A., 81; Penn State, Ph.D., 87
Other Publications:
The Threefold Paradise of Cotton Mather (Athens and London:
University
of Georgia Press, 1995; "Israel Redivivus: The Eschatological Limits of
Puritan Typology in New England." New England Quarterly 63.3
(1990): 357-95; "The Logic of Millenial Thought: Sir Issac Newton Among
His Contemporaries," in Newton and Religion. Eds. Richard H. Popkin and James
E. Force. International Archives of the History of Ideas (ARCH
161) (Dordrecht, Boston, London: Klower Academic Publishers, 1999): 259-89.
Web Page: http://english.gsu.edu/people/smolinski.html
[Updated 2006]
SNAY, MITCHELL
Fellowship: Tracy 00-01, "A Nation of our Own: Ethnic
Nationalism
in the Era of Reconstruction" (prof. of history,
Denison)
Education: Michigan, B.A., 75; Brandeis, Ph.D., 84
Fellowship Publications: "Freedom and Progress: Southern Republican
Thought during Radical Reconstruction" American Nineteenth-Century
History 5 (Spring 2004): 100-114
Other Publications: Gospel of Disunion: Religion
and Separatism
in the Antebellum South (Cambridge Univ. Press,
1993)
Address: Dept. of History, Denison University,
Granville,
OH 43023; 1101 Highland St., Columbus, OH
43201; snay@denison.edu
[Updated 2006]
SOCARIDES, ALEXANDRA
Fellowship: Botein 04-05, "Lyric Contexts: Emily
Dickinson and the Nineteenth-Century Extended Poetic
Project" (Ph.D. cand. in English, Rutgers)
Education: Bates, B.A., 96
[Updated 2004]
SOVINE, MELANIE L.
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 83-84, "The Primitive Baptists
and
the Anti-Mason Party" (clinical anthropologist, MacNeil
Hospital)
Education: Anderson, B.A., 76; Georgia, M.A.,
78; Kentucky,
Ph.D., 82
[Updated 1997]
SPIRES, DERRICK
Fellowship: Peterson 08-09 "Reimagining a 'Beautiful but Baneful
Object': Black Writers. Theories of Citizenship and Nation in the
Antebellum U.S." (Ph.D. cand. in English, Vanderbilt)
Education:
[Updated 2008]
STEEL, DAVID WARREN
Fellowship: Daniels 79-80, "Stephen Jenks, American
Musician
and Publisher" (Ph.D. cand. in music, Michigan)
Education: Harvard, A.B., 68; Michigan, A.M., 76,
Ph.D.,
82
Current Position: assoc. prof. of music and Southern
culture,
Mississippi
Fellowship Publications: "Stephen
Jenks," New Grove
Dictionary of American Music; Stephen
Jenks: Collected Works
(Madison: A-R Editions, 1995)
Other Publications: "L. L. Jones and The
Southern
Minstrel (1849)," American Music 6
(1988): 123-57;
"John Wyeth and the Development of Southern Folk
Hymnody,"
in Carmelo P. Comberiati and Matthew C. Steel, eds.,
Music from
the Middle Ages through the 20th Century,
(London: Gordon &
Breach, 1988); "Truman S. Wetmore and His `Republican
Harmony,'"
Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 45
(1980): 75-89
Web Page:
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/
[Updated 2006]
STEINER, BRUCE E.
Fellowship: Haven 82-83, "Lawyers, Dissenting
Churches,
and Connecticut's Republican Party,
1790-1820" (prof. of history,
Ohio)
Education: St. Thomas, A.B., 56; Virginia, M.A., 59,
Ph.D.,
62
Current Position: emeritus prof. of history, Ohio
Other Publications: "Anglican Office-Holding
in
Pre-Revolutionary
Connecticut: The Parameters of New England
Community," William
and Mary Quarterly 31 (1974): 369-406; Connecticut
Anglicans
in the Revolutionary Era: A Study in Communal Tensions
(1979)
Web Page: http://www-as.phy.ohiou.edu/Departments/History/faculty/steiner.html
[Updated 2006]
STEVENS, JAMES THOMAS
Fellowship: Baron 04-05 (asst. prof. of
American Indian studies and English, SUNY Fredonia)
Education: Brown, M.F.A., 93; Inst. of American
Indian Arts, A.F.A., 90
Current Position: prof. of creative writing and literature, Institute of American Indian Arts
Fellowship Publications: "Alphabets of Letters," a long poem
contained in
my larger work, A Bridge Dead in the Water (Cambridge: Salt
Publishing, 2006)
Other Publications: Tokinish (1994); Combing the Snakes
from His Hair (2002);
(dis)Orient (Palm Press, 2005); The Mutual Life (Plan B
Press, 2006); Mohawk/Samoa: Transmigrations (Subpress 2006)
Address: Institute of American Indian Arts, Creative Writing Department,
83 Avan Nu Pu Road, Santa Fe, NM 87508-1300; jstevens@iaia.edu
Web Page: http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/stevens/
[Updated 2010]
STEVENSON, LOUISE L.
Fellowship: Botein 00-01, "Women's Intellectual
Life,
1750-1820" (prof. of history and American studies,
Franklin
& Marshall)
Education: Barnard, B.A.; New York Univ.,
M.A.;Boston, Ph.D.
Other Publications: The Victorian
Homefront: American
Thought and Culture, 1860-1880 (Cornell Univ. Press,
2001)
Web Page:
http://www.fandm.edu/x2449.xml
[Updated 2005]
STEWART, DAVID M.
Fellowship: AAS-NEMLA 99-00, "George Thompson and Men's
Reading"
(asst. prof. of English, National Central Univ., Taiwan)
Education: Dalhousie, B.A., 88, M.A., 90; Chicago,
Ph.D.,
97
[Updated 1999]
STILLSON, RICHARD
Fellowship: Botein 00-01, "Communication and Information
Dispersal
in the California Gold Rush" (Ph.D. cand. in history,
Johns
Hopkins)
Education: Washington State, B.A., 64; Stanford,
Ph.D., 70;
George Mason, M.A., 94
[Updated 2000]
STOLL, STEVEN
Fellowship: Peterson 98-99, "Larding the Lean
Earth: Agriculture
and the Environment in America, 1800-1850"
(asst. prof. of history, Yale)
Education: California at Berkeley, B.A., 88; Yale,
M.A.,
90; M.Phil., 92; Ph.D., 94
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history and
American stuties, Yale
Fellowship Publications: Larding the Lean
Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America (Hill and Wang,
2002)
Other Publications: The Fruits of Natural
Advantage (Berkley:
Univ. of California Press, 1998)
Web Page:
http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/stoll.html
[Updated 2005]
STOUT, HARRY S.
Fellowship: Daniels 80-81, "A Cultural History of
the Sermon
in Colonial New England" (assoc. prof. of history,
Connecticut)
Fellowship: R.A. 88-90, "A Biography of George
Whitefield"
and "A History of the Sermon in Early
America" (assoc.
prof. of history, Connecticut)
Education: Calvin, B.A., 69; Kent State, M.A., 72,
Ph.D.,
74
Current Position: master of Berkeley College and
Jonathan
Edwards prof. of American Christianity, Yale
Fellowship Publications: The New England
Soul: Preaching
and Religious Culture in Colonial New England (New
York: Oxford,
1986); The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the
Rise of
Modern Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids, MI: Eardmans Press,
1991)
Other Publications: co-ed., Jonathan Edwards and
the American
Experience (New York: Oxford, 1988)
Web Page:
http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/stout.html
[Updated 1997]
STOYKOVICH, ERIC
Fellowship: Peterson 06-07, "Live Stock Nation: How
Farm Animals Domesticated the Northern United States During the Early
Republic, 1794-1876" (Ph.D. cand. in history, Virginia)
Education: Brown, B.A., 02; Virginia, M.A., 03
[Updated 2006]
STRAND, GINGER
Fellowship: Baron 06, "Nonfiction work on Niagara
Falls"
Education: Kalamazoo, B.A., 87; Princeton, Ph.D., 92
[Updated 2006]
STUBENRAUCH, JOSEPH
Fellowship: Last 08-09, "Faith in Goods: Religion and
the Consumer Revolution" (Ph.D. cand. in history, Indiana)
Education:
[Updated 2008]
SULLIVAN, SHERRY A.
Fellowship: Boni 87-88, "Noble-Savage Iconography
in 19th-Century
Giftbooks" (asst. prof. of English, Alabama at
Birmingham)
Education: Oregon, B.A., 68; Saskatchewan, M.A.,
71; Toronto,
Ph.D., 79
Other Publications: "The Literary Debate over
the Indians
in the 19th Century," American Indian Culture and
Research
Journal (1985); "Indians in American Fiction: An
Ethnohistorical
Perspective, 1820-50," Clio (1986); "The
Indianization
of Heroes and Heroines in 19th-Century American
Fiction," JMMLA
(1987)
[Updated 1997]
SWIFT, ELAINE K.
Fellowship: Hiatt 85-86, "Reconstitutive
Congressional
Change: The Case of the U.S. Senate,
1789-1841" (Ph.D. cand.
in political science, Harvard)
Education: Syracuse, B.A., 79; Harvard, M.A., 83,
Ph.D.,
89
Current Position: assoc. prof. of government, Eastern
Washington
Fellowship Publications: "Reconstitutive Change in
the
U.S. Congress: The Early Senate,
1789-1841," Legislative
Studies Quarterly 14 (1989): 175-204; "The Making of an
American
House of Lords: The U.S. Senate in the Constitutional
Convention
of 1787," Studies in American Political Development 7
(Fall
1993); The Making of an American Senate: Reconstitutive
Change
in Congress, 1787-1841 (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan
Press,
1996)
Other Publications: "The Electoral Connection
Meets
the Past: Lessons from Congressional History,
1789-1841," Political
Science Quarterly 102 (1988): 625-46; (with David
Brady) "Common
Ground: History and Theories of American Politics," in
Calvin Jillson
and Lawrence Dodd, eds., The Dynamics of American
Politics: Approaches
and Interpretations, (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994)
[Updated 1997]
SZCZESIUL, ANTHONY
Fellowship: Peterson 05-06, "Reconstructing
'Southern Hospitality': Print Culture and the Invention of a Cultural
Fiction" (assoc. prof. of English, Massachusetts at Lowell)
Education: John Carroll, B.A., M.A.; South Carolina,
Ph.D.
Other Publications: Racial Politics and Robert Penn Warren's
Poetry
(University Press of Florida, 2002)
Web Page: http://www.uml.edu/Dept/English/Szczesiul.html
[Updated 2005]
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