Directory of Fellows and
Research Associates,
1972-Present
V
VALERI, MARK
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 89-90, "The Eighteenth-Century
Clergy
and Economics in New England" (asst. prof. of religious
studies,
Lewis and Clark)
Fellowship: AAS-ASECS 98-99, "Religion, Moral
Discipline,
and the Market in Early America" (E.T. Thompson
Professor of
Church History, Union Theological Seminary)
Education: Whitworth, B.A., 76; Yale, M.Div.,
79; Princeton, Ph.D., 85
Current Position: E.T. Thompson Professor of Church History, Union
PSCE
Fellowship Publications: "The Economic Thought
of Jonathan
Edwards," Church History 60
(1991): 37-54; Law and
Providence in Joseph Bellamy's New England: The Origins of
the New
Divinity in Revolutionary America (New York: Oxford
Univ. Press,
1994) [Francis Makemie Prize, 1995]; "Religious Discipline
and the
Market: Puritans and the Issue of Usury," William and
Mary Quarterly
(October 1997)
Other Publications: "The New Divinity and the
American
Revolution," William and Mary Quarterly 46
(1989): 741-69
Web Page: http://www.union-psce.edu/community/faculty/fulltime/valeri.shtml
[Updated 2006]
VALSANIA, MAURIZIO
Fellowship: Last 07-08, "The Curse of History:
Leaders' Distrust of American History, 1783-1828" (assoc. prof. of
history of philosophy, Torino)
Education: Torino, M.A., 93; Rome, Ph.D., 97
[Updated 2007]
VAN ARRAGON, WILLIAM
Fellowship: Peterson 00-01, "Cotton Mather in American
Cultural
Memory, 1728-1892" (Ph.D. cand. in history,
Indiana)
Education: Calvin, B.A., 92; Indiana, M.A.,
97, Ph.D., 05
Current Position: asst. prof. of history, The King's
University College
Fellowship Publications: "Cotton Mather in American Cultural
Memory" (Indiana University Press, forthcoming)
Address: History Department, The King's University College, 9125
50 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T6B 2H3 Canada;
william.vanarragon[at]kingsu.ca
[Updated 2007]
VAN BROEKHOVEN, DEBORAH BINGHAM
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 86-87, "Rhode Island Women in
the Antislavery
Network" (assoc. prof. of women's studies, Brown)
Education: Bowling Green, Ph.D.
Current Position: executive dir., American Baptist
Historical
Society
Fellowship Publications: "'Let Your Name be
Enrolled':
Process and Ideology in Female Anti-Salvery
Petitioning," in
John Van Horne and Jean Fagan Yellin, eds., The
Abolitionist
Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum
America,
(Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1994); "'Better than a Clay
Club':
The Organization of Anti-Slavery Fairs,
1835-1860," Slavery and
Abolition 19 (April 1998): 24-45l; "Needles, Pens,
and
Petitions: Reading Women into Antislavery History," in
Martin
Blatt, ed., The North Looks at Slavery (Garland
Press, 1998);
"Francis Wayland and Baptist Schism Over Slavery," in
Mitchell Snay
and John C.McLivigan, eds., Slavery, Religion, and
Sectionalism
(Univ. of Tennesse Press,1998); Abolitionists Were
Female: Rhode
Island's Women Organize Against Slavery (Univ. of
Illinois,
1999);
The Devotion of These
Women: Rhode
Island in the Antislavery Network (Univ. of Massachusetts Press,
2002)
Other Publications: "Crisis in the Life of a
Literary
Patriot: Brockden Brown's Shift from Cosmopolitan to
Chronicler,"
Psychohistory Review 12 (1984): 34-44;"`A
Determination
to Labor': Female Antislavery Activity in Rhode
Island," Rhode
Island History (1985): 35-45
[Updated 2005]
VAN DER WOUDE, JOANNE
Fellowship: Reese 06-07, "Towards a Transatlantic
Aesthetic: Immigration, Translation, and Mourning in the Seventeenth
Century" (grad. instructor in English, Virginia)
Education: Amsterdam, B.A., 01
[Updated 2006]
VAN HORN, JENNIFER
Fellowship: AHPCS 08-09, "The Object of Civility and
the Art of Politeness in British America (1740-1780),"
(Ph.D. cand. in art history, Virginia )
Education:
[Updated 2008]
VAN ZANDT, CYNTHIA J.
Fellowship: Botein 01-02, "Brothers Among
Nations: Kinship and
Alliance in Early America" (asst. prof. of history, New
Hampshire)
Education: Virginia, B.A., 84; Connecticut, M.A., 91,
Ph.D.,
98
Fellowship Publications: "Mapping and the European
Search for Intercultural
Alliances in the Colonial World," Early American Studies 1 (Fall
2003): 72-99
[Updated 2005]
VAUGHAN, ALDEN T.
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 82-83, "Indians and Europeans
in British
North America" (prof. of history, Columbia)
Fellowship: R.A. 85-86, "Indians and Europeans
in British
North America" (prof. of history, Columbia)
Fellowship: R.A. 86-87, "Indians and Europeans
in British
North America" (prof. of history, Columbia)
Education: Amherst, B.A., 50; Columbia Teacher's
College,
M.A., 56; Columbia, M.A., 58, Ph.D., 64
Current Position: prof. emeritus of history,
Columbia
Fellowship Publications: "Frontier Banditti and the
Indians:
The Paxton Boys' Legacy, 1763-75," Pennsylvania
History
51 (1984): 1-29; "Shakespeare's Indian: The
Americanization
of Caliban," Shakespeare Quarterly 39
(1988): 137-53;
Roots of American Racism: Essays on the Colonial
Experience
(New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995)
Other Publications: New England Frontier: Puritans
and
Indians, 1620-1675 (1965); American Genesis: Captain
John
Smith and the Founding of Virginia (1975); co-author
Shakespeare's
Caliban: A Cultural History (Cambridge Univ. Press,
1991)
[Updated 1997]
VILES, PERRY
Fellowship: U.S. Steel 72-73, "Adolescence in
America since
1790" (asst. prof. of history, Lyndon State)
Education: Harvard, A.B., 54, M.A., 57, Ph.D., 65
Current Position: retired
[Updated 1997]
VINOVSKIS, MARIS A.
Fellowship: Rockefeller 73-74, "Changes in Family
Values
and Demographic Behavior and the Urban and Industrial
Development
of Massachusetts, 1770-1860" (assoc. prof. of history,
Michigan)
Education: Wesleyan, B.A., 65; Harvard, A.M., 66,
Ph.D.,
75
Current Position: prof. of history, Michigan
Fellowship Publications: "Angels' Heads and Weeping
Willows:
Death in Early America," in Tamara K. Hareven, ed.,
Themes
in the History of the Family (Worcester: AAS,
1978); Fertility
in Massachusetts from the Revolution to the Civil War
(New York:
Academic Press, 1981)
Other Publications: Education and Social Change in
19th-Century
Massachusetts (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press,
1980); An
Epidemic of Adolescent Pregnancy? Some Historical and Policy
Perspectives
(New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988); Religion, Family,
and the
Life Course: Explorations in the Social History of the Early
Republic
(Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1992); Education,
Society,
and Economic Opportunity: Some Historical Perspectives on
Persistant
Problems (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1995); History
and
Policymaking: Exploring the Uses of History for Educational
Policymaking
(New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1999)
Web Page: http://www.fordschool.umich.edu/faculty_staff/person_display.php?personid=68
[Updated 2006]
VOGEL, KERSTIN
Fellowship: Ebeling 05-06, "Looking-Glass Legacies --
The Writings of William Apess" (Ph.D. cand. in American Studies,
Mainz)
Education: Mainz, M.A., 00
Web Page:
http://www.amerikanistik.uni-mainz.de/vogel.html
[Updated 2006]
VON FRANK, ALBERT J.
Fellowship: Peterson 95-96, "Anthony Burns, Fugitive
Slave"
(prof. of English and American studies, Washington State at
Pullman)
Education: Amherst, A.B., 67; Wisconsin, M.A.,
68; Missouri,
Ph.D., 76
Fellowship Publications: Anthony Burns and the
Revolution
of 1854 (Harvard Univ. Press, 1998)
Other Publications: The Sacred Game: Provincialism
and
Frontier Consciousness in American Literature (Cambridge
Univ.
Press, 1985); The Poetry Notebooks of Ralph Waldo
Emerson
(Univ. of Missouri Press, 1986); The Complete Sermons of
Ralph
Waldo Emerson (Univ. of Missouri, 4 vols,
1988-1991); An
Emerson Chronology (G.K. Hall/Macmillan, 1995)
[Updated 2006]
VORENBERG, MICHAEL
Fellowship: Peterson 02-03, "Reconstructing the
People: The
Invention of Citizenship During the American Civil
War" (asst. prof
of history, Brown)
Education: Harvard, A.B., 86, A.M., 90, Ph.D. 95
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history, Brown
Fellowship Publications:
"Bringing the Constitution Back In: Amendment, Innovation, and Popular
Democracy during the Civil War Era," in Meg Jacobs, William Novak, and
Julian Zelizer, eds., The Democratic Experiment: The Promise of
American
Political History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003)
Other Publications:
Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the
Thirteenth Amendment (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Web Page: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/History/faculty/mvoren.html
[Updated 2006]
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