Directory of Fellows and
Research Associates,
1972-Present
W
WAGNER, WILLIAM E.
Fellowship: Legacy 06-07, "Divided Landscapes:
Geographic Literacy and the Mapping of Sectional Conflict in America,
1846-1865" (Ph.D. cand. in history, California at Berkeley)
Education: Duke, B.A., 99; California at Berkeley, M.A.,
03
[Updated 2006]
WALDSTREICHER, DAVID L.
Fellowship: Peterson 92-93, "Nationalism and
Celebration in Post-Revolutionary America,
1780-1836" (Ph.D. cand. in American Studies,
Yale)
Education: Virginia, B.A., 88; Yale, M.A.,
90, Ph.D., 94
Current Position: prof. of history, Temple
Fellowship Publications: In the Midst of Perpetual
Fetes:
The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 (IEAHAC
&
Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1997) [Jamestown Prize,
1995]
Other Publications: "`Fallen under My
Observation': Vision
and Virtue in The Coquette," Early American
Literature
27 (1992): 204-18;
"Federalism, the Styles of Politics, and the Politics of Style," in
Doron Ben-Atar and Barbara B. Oberg, eds., Federalists
Reconsidered (Charlottesville: University Press
of Virginia, 1999): 99-117;
Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and American
Revolution (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004)
Webpage:
http://www.temple.edu/history/UZ/waldstreicher/index.html
[Updated 2008]
WALGREN, KENT
(Died June 2, 2003)
Fellowship: Peterson 95-96, "Bibliography of American
Masonic
and Antimasonic Imprints, 1734-1850" (asst. attorney
general,
Salt Lake City, Utah)
Education: Brigham Young, B.A., 71; Utah College of
Law, J.D.,
74
Fellowship Publications: "A Bibliography of Pre-1851
Louisiana
Scottish Rite Imprints," in Heredom: Journal of the
Scottish Rite
Research Society, vol. 4 (1996): 189-239; "A Bibliography
of Pre-1851
American Scottish Rite Imprints (non-Louisiana)," in
Heredom: Journal
of the Scottish Rite Research Soceity, vol. 3
(1995): 55-119;
Freemasonry, Anti-Masonry and Illuminism In The United
States,
1734-1850, A Bibliography (2003)
Other Publications: "Inside the Salt Lake
Temple: Gisbert Bossard's
1911 Photographs," in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon
Thought,
vol. 29, no. 3 (Fall 1996): 1-43
[Updated 2003]
WALKER, JEFFREY
Fellowship: AAS-ASECS 92-93, "Collegiate Literary
Culture in Eighteenth-Century America" (assoc. prof. of
English, Oklahoma
State)
Education: Shippenburg, B.A., 68; Middlebury, M.A.,
71; Penn State, Ph.D., 77
Current Position: prof. of English, Oklahoma State
Other Publications: The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground,
by James Fenimore Cooper. ed. with Lance Schachterle and James P. Elliott (AMS
Press, 2002); Reading Cooper, Teaching Cooper (AMS Press, 2007).
Web Page: http://english.okstate.edu/faculty/fac_pages/walker.htm
[Updated 2007]
WALLER, ALTINA
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 01-02, "Margaret Eaton, Sexuality
and Empowerment
in Jacksonian America" (prof. and chair of history,
Connecticut)
Education: Massachusetts at Amherst, B.A., 71, M.A.,
73,
Ph.D., 80
Other Publications:
Reverend Beecher and Mrs. Tilton: Sex and Class in Victorian America
(Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1982);
Appalachia in the Making, ed. with Dwight Billings and Mary Beth
Pudup (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1995);
"Peggy Eaton and Andrew Jackson: A Presidential Scandal," in True
Stories from the American Past, Vol. 1: To 1865, ed. by Altina
Waller and William Graebner (NY: McGraw-Hill, 1996) 162-180.
Web Page:
http://web1.uits.uconn.edu/history/faculty/waller.html
[Updated 2005]
WALLER, NICOLE
Fellowship: Ebeling 07-08, "American Encounters with
Islam in the Atlantic World" (junior prof. of English and
linguistics, American studies, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität)
Education: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, M.A., 94;
CUNY, M.A., 98; Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Dr.Phil., 04
[Updated 2007]
WARD, WILLIAM R.
Fellowship: Peterson 87-88, "An International
History of
the Great Awakening" (prof. emeritus of modern history,
Durham)
Education: Oxford, B.A., 46, M.A., 51, D.Phil.,
51
Fellowship Publications: "Pastoral Office and
the General
Priesthood in the Great Awakening," Studies in
Church History
26 (1989): 303-27; The Protestant Evangelical Awakening,
1725-50:
A European View (1992); Faith and Faction
(1993)
Other Publications: Georgian Oxford
(1958); Victorian
Oxford (1965); Religion and Society in England,
1790-1850
(1972); Early Victorian Methodism (1976);
Theology, Sociology,
and Politics: The German Protestant Social
Conscience(1979);
Journals and Diocese's of John Wellesley (6 of 7
vol. published,1986-);
Parson and Parish in 18th Century Surrey
(1994); Parson
and Parish in 18th Century Hampshire
(1995); Christianity
under the Ancien R.gime (1999); Kirchengeschichte
Grossbritanniens
vom17. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (2000)
[Updated 2001]
WARNER, MICHAEL D.
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 86-87, "The Letters of the
Republic"
(asst. prof. of English, Northwestern)
Education: Oral Roberts, B.A.; Wisconsin
(Madison), M.A.; Johns Hopkins, M.A., Ph.D.
Current Position: prof. of English, Rutgers
Fellowship Publications: "Textuality and Legitimacy
in
the Printed Constitution," Proceedings of the
American Antiquarian
Society 97 (1987): 59-84; The Letters of the
Republic: Publication
and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America
(Cambridge,
MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1990)
Other Publications: "Professionalization and the
Rewards
of Literature, 1875-1900," Criticism
(1985): 1-26; "Value,
Agency, and Stephen Crane's `The
Monster,'" Nineteenth-Century
Fiction (1985); (ed. w/ Gerald Graff) The Origins of
Literary
Studies in America (Routledge, 1989); ed. Fear of a
Queer
Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory (Minnesota,
1993);
(ed. w/ Myra Jehlen) The English Literatures of America,
1500-1800
(Routledge, 1997);
The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life
(Harvard, 2000);
Professor Warner wrote the following publications: Publics and
Counterpublics (Zone Books, 2002)
Web Page :
http://english.rutgers.edu/faculty/profiles/warner.html
[Updated 2005]
WARREN, WENDY
Fellowship: Peterson 05-06, "African Slavery in New
England, 1638-1700" (Ph.D. cand. in history, Yale)
Education: Santa Clara, B.A., 95; Yale, M.A., 03;
M.Phil., 04
Fellowship Publications:
"'The Cause of Her Grief': The Rape of a Slave in Early New England,"
Journal of American History 93.4 (2007):1031.49
[Louis Pelzer Award of the Organization of American Historians, 2006]
[Updated 2008]
WATSON, PATRICIA A.
Fellowship: Hiatt 84-85, "Preacher-Physicians of
Colonial
New England" (Ph.D. cand. in history, Johns
Hopkins)
Education: California at Berkeley, B.A.; Johns
Hopkins, Ph.D.,
87
Fellowship Publications:
The Angelical Conjunction: The Preacher-Physicians of
Colonial New England (Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press,
1991)
[Updated 2005]
WAY, PETER J.
Fellowship: Hiatt 88-89, "Rough Labor: The Digging
of North
America's Canals, 1780-1860" (Ph.D. cand. in history,
Maryland)
Education: Trent Univ. (Canada), B.A., 81; Queen's
Univ.(Canada),
M.A., 83; Maryland, Ph.D., 91
Current Position: assoc. prof. and chair, dept. of
history,
Bowling Green State
Fellowship Publications: Common Labour: Workers
and the
Digging of North American Canals 1780-1860
(Cambridge: Cambridge
Univ. Press, 1997); "Evil Humors and Ardent Spirits: The
Rough Culture
of Canal Construction Laborers," Journal of American
History
79, no. 4 (March 1993): 1397-1428
Other Publications: "Shovel and Shamrock: Irish
Workers
and Labor Violence in the Digging of the Cheapeake and Ohio
Canal,"
Labor History 30 (1989): 489-517; "Labour's Love
Lost: Observations
on the Historiography of Class and Ethnicity in the
Nineteenth Century,"
Journal of American Studies 28 (April
1994): 1-22; "Canal Wars:
The Making of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal," in Altina
Waller and
William Graebner, eds., True Stories from the American
Past.
Volume 1 to 1865, (New York: McGraw-Hill,1997),
181-200
Address: Dept. of History, Williams Hall, Bowling
Green State,
Bowling Green, OH 43403
Web Page: http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/history/faculty/page16507.html
[Updated 2006]
WEIERMAN, KAREN WOODS
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 00-01, "One Nation, One
Blood: Interracial
Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law,
1820-1870"
(asst. prof. of English, Worcester State)
Education: Georgetown, B.A., 93; Minnesota, Ph.D.,
99
Fellowship Publications: "Reading and Writing Hope
Leslie:
Catharine
Maria Sedgwicks Indian `Connections," New England Quarterly 75
(2002): 415-43; One Nation, One Blood:
Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820-1870
Univ. Massachusetts Press, 2005)
Address: Worcester State College, 486 Chandler
Street, Worcester,
MA 01602-2597; kweierman@worcester.edu
[Updated 2005]
WEIKLE-MILLS, COURTNEY
Fellowship: Reese 08-09 "Imaginary Citizens: Child
Readers and the Making of a U.S. Literary Public, 1700-1852"
(asst. prof. of English, Pittsburgh)
Education:
[Updated 2008]
WEIR, DAVID A.
Fellowship: Hiatt 84-85, "The Covenant in New
England, 1620-80" (Ph.D. cand. in history of Christianity,
Princeton)
Education: Haverford, B.A., 80; Princeton, M.A.,
83; St. Andrews, Ph.D., 84; Princeton, Ph.D. 92
Current Position: prof. of history, Nyack
Fellowship Publications: Covenant and Covenanting in
Seventeenth-Century
New England [Emory Univ. Studies in Law and Religion]
(Grand
Rapids: William B. Eerdmans and Co., 2005) [Choice
2006 Outstanding Academic Title]
Other Publications: The Origins of the Federal
Theology
in Sixteenth-Century Reformation Thought
(Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1990) [Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the
American
Society of Church History for 1984]
Address: Dept. of History and Political Science,
Nyack College,
1 South Boulevard, Nyack, NY 10960; 18 Midland Ave.,
Bronxville,
NY 10708; David.Weir@nyack.edu
Web Page:
http://www.nyackcollege.edu/?include=FacultyProfile.php&name=David.Weir
[Updated 2006]
WEISBERG, BARBARA
Fellowship: Artist 98, "Research for a non-fiction
children's
book about the Fox sisters" (writer and producer, New
York City)
Education: Pennsylvania, B.A.; Yale,
M.Phil.; Brooklyn College,
M.F.A.
Fellowship Publications: "They Spoke with the
Dead," American Heritage, Sept. 1999: 84-92; book review of
Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide by Vanessa Dickerson
in International Journal of Parapsychology, 2000; Talking to the
Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism (HarperSanFrancisco, 2004)
Other Publications:
Susan
B. Anthony, young adult nonfiction (Chelsea House,
1989); Coronada's
Golden Quest, children's nonfiction (Steck-Vaughn, 1993)
Other:
Producer, Livewire, current affairs show for
teens on Nickelodeon, 1983; Co-Creator, Charles in Charge,
situation comedy series, 1984; Producer, To Care, documentary on
homecare for the aging screened at the Museum of Modern Art and shown on
PBS, 1987.
Awards: Brooklyn College/MacArthur
Scholarship in Poetry, awarded on the nomination of Allen
Ginsberg, 1992; D. Scott
Rogo Award [Parapsychology Foundation] for manuscript in progress
[Updated 2005]
WERTHEIM, AUBREY SORIN
(Died January 9, 2003)
Fellowship: Artist 96, "A Full-Length
One-Woman Show
about Fanny
Fern, the First Female American Columnist" (playwright,
Oberlin,
Ohio)
Fellowship Results: The Genuine
Article: reading,
Cleveland Playhouse (Nov. 1996); world premier, First Night
Columbus
(Dec. 1996); published (1997); Midwest 1997-1998 tour
Other: Popular Neurotics, PBS - "American
Playhouse"
(1984); Make Way For Dyklings (1993); Ohio Arts
Council Playwriting
Fellowship (1994 & 1996); Costume Drama
(1996) [Chilcote
Award]
[Updated 2006]
WESSEL, CAROLA
(Died February 14, 2004)
Fellowship: Peterson 02-03, "Bibliography and Editions of German
Language Broadsides Printed in North America, 1700-1830" (research librarian,
Univ. of Goettingen)
Education: Univ. of Goettingen,
M.A. 89; Ph.D. 97; Univ. Cologne, M.S. in Library Science, 00
[Updated 2006]
WEST, MICHAEL D.
Fellowship: Peterson 85-86, "Thoreau and the Search
for
the Language of Nature, 1690-1865" (prof. of English,
Pittsburgh)
Education: Harvard, A.B., 59, A.M., 61, Ph.D., 65
Fellowship Publications: "Spellers and
Punsters,"
Southwest Review 72 (1987): 492-511 (DeGolyer
Prize); "Analogy,
Metaphor, and Etymology in Thinking," in Sondra
J. Stang and
Robert Wiltenburg, eds., Collective Wisdom: A Sourcebook
of Lessons
for Writing Teachers (New York: Random House, 1988),
288-92;
"No Common Parlance: Recent Linguistic Approaches to
Nineteenth-Century
American Authors," Review 12
(1990): 53-67; "Reclaiming
Thoreau's Humor for the Classroom," in Richard
J. Schneider,
ed., Approaches to Teaching Thoreau's Walden and Other
Works
(New York: Modern Language Association,
1996): 91-97; Transcendental
Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the
Language
of Nature (Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 2000) [Phi
Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Award, 2002]
Other Publications: "Reflections on Star Wars
and Scholarly
Reviewing," in James O. Hoge, ed., Literary
Reviewing,
(Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1987),
pp. 112-39; "Correcting
Grammatical Errors beyond the Composition Course," in
Sondra
J.Stang and Robert Wiltenburg, eds., Collective
Wisdom, (New
York: Random House, 1988), pp. 342-47; "Spenser's Art
of War:
Chivalric Allegory, Military Technology, and the Elizabethan
Mock-Heroic
Sensibility," Renaissance Quarterly 41
(1988): 654-704;
"Emily Dickinson's Ambrosian Nights with Christopher
North," Harvard
Library Bulletin, no. 5 (1994): 67-71
Web Page: http://www.english.pitt.edu/people/faculty/west.html
[Updated 2006]
WESTBROOK, ELLEN E.
Fellowship: Peterson 92-93, "Cultural
Captives: Euro-Amer-Indian
Literary Landscapes" (asst. prof. of English, Southern
Mississippi)
Education: Simmons, B.A., 77; Michigan, M.A., 79,
Ph.D.,
87
[Updated 1997]
WETHERELL, CHARLES W.
Fellowship: Daniels 78-79, "A Social History of the
Early
American Press" (Ph.D. cand. in history, New
Hampshire)
Education: St. Lawrence, B.A., 69; New Hampshire,
Ph.D.,
80
Current Position: dir., Lab. for History Research,
California
at Riverside
Fellowship Publications: "`For These and Such Like
Reasons':
John Holt's Attack on Benjamin
Franklin," Proceedings of
the American Antiquarian Society 88
(1978): 251-75; co-author,
with Charles Clark, "The Measure of Maturity: The
Pennsylvania
Gazette, 1728-65," William and Mary
Quarterly (1989)
Other Publications: co-author, with Ronald Lettieri,
"The
New Hampshire Committees of Safety and Revolutionary
Republicanism,
1775-1784," History of New Hampshire 35
(1980): 241-83;
co-author with Andrejs Plakans, "The Kinship Domain in
an Eastern
European Peasant Community: Pinkenhof,
1833-50," American
History Review 93 (1988): 359-96; co-author, with Sharon
Salinger,
"Wealth and Renting in Pre-Revolutionary
Philadelphia,"
Journal of American History 71 (1985): 826-40
[Updated 1997]
WEWERS, DANIEL C.
Fellowship: Peterson 05-06, "Divisible Under God:
American Religion, Politics, and the Idea of Secession, 1783-1833"
(Ph.D. cand. in history, Harvard)
Education: Princeton, A.B., 98; Harvard, A.M., 02
[Updated 2005]
WEYLER, KAREN A.
Fellowship: Botein 95-96, "Issues of Privacy and
Publicity in the Early American Novel" (Ph.D. cand. in English,
North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Education: Centre, B.A., 88; North Carolina at Chapel
Hill,
M.A., 90, Ph.D., 96
Current Position: assoc. prof. of American
literature, North
Carolina at Greensboro
Fellowship Publications: "'A Speculating Spirit': Trade,
Speculation, and Gambling in Early American Fiction," Early American
Literature 31.3 (1996): 207-242; "'The Fruit of Unlawful
Embraces': Sexual Transgression and Madness in Early American Sentimental
Fiction," in Merrill Smith, ed., Sex and Sexuality in Early
America (New York: New York Univ. Press, 1998);
Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction,
1789-1814 (University of Iowa Press, 2005)
Other Publications: "Melville's 'The Paradise of
Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids': A Dialogue About Experience,
Understanding, and Truth." Studies in Short Fiction 31.3
(1994): 461-69;
"Creating a Community of Readers: Mary Mebane's
Exploration
of Difference in Mary and Mary, Wayfarer," Southern
Quarterly vol. 35.3 (1997);
"Race, Redemption, and Captivity in the Narratives of Briton Hammon
and John Marrant" in Vincent Carretta and Philip Gould, eds.,
Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic
(Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky Press, 2001): 39-53;
"Literary Labors and Intellectual Prostitution: Fanny Fern's Defense of
Working Women" South Atlantic Review 70.2 (2005): 96-131;
"An Actor in the Drama of Revolution: Deborah Sampson, Print, and Performance in the Creation of
Celebrity" in Mary Carruth, ed., Feminist Interventions in Early
American Studies (Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press, 2006): 183-93;
"Marriage, Coverture, and the Companionate Ideal in Early American
Fiction" Legacy 26.1 (Spring 2009)
Address: English Department, 3143 Moore Humanities
Building, University of North Carolina - Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
27402-6170; KAWeyler[at]uncg.edu
[Updated 2008]
WHEELER, RACHEL M.
Fellowship: Peterson 96-97, "Forgotten Conversation: The
Indian-European
Negotiation of Religion in the Eighteenth-Century
Northeast"
(Ph.D. cand. in history, Yale)
Education: Carleton, B.A., 91; Yale, Ph.D., 98
Current Position: asst. prof. of religious studies,
Indiana
Web Page: http://w3.liberalarts.iupui.edu/faculty/fgMain.asp?action=view&FacultyNumber=412
[Updated 2006]
WHITE, SHANE
Fellowship: Peterson 90-91, "Black Festivals in the
United
States, 1750-1860" (lecturer in history, Univ. of
Sydney, Australia)
Education: Sydney, B.A., 79, Ph.D., 89
Current Position: senior lecturer in history,
Univ. of Sydney,
Australia
Fellowship Publications: "'It was a Proud
Day'; African
Americans, Festivals, and Parades in the North,
1741-1834,"
Journal American History 81, (1994): pp. 13-50
Other Publications: Somewhat More Independent: The
End
of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810 (Athens: Univ. of
Georgia
Press, 1991); (w/ Graham White) "Slave Hair and African
American
Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries," Journal
of Southern History 61 (February 1995): 45-76; (w/
Graham White)
"Slave Clothing and African-American Culture in the
Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries," Past and Present 148 (August
1995):
149-86; "Slavery in New York State in the Early
Republic," Australasian
Journal of American Studies 14 (December
1995): 1-29; (w/ Graham
White) "Reading the Slave Body: Gesture, Demeanor and
African-American
Culture," in John Salmond and Bruce Clayton, eds.,
Varieties
of Southern History: New Essays on a Region and Its
People (Westport:
Greenwood Press, 1996): 41-62; Stories of Freedom in
Black New York (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002)
Web Page: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/history/staff/profiles/swhite.shtml
[Updated 2006]
WIENER, ELLEN
Fellowship: Hearst 02, "A new 'Book of Hours' using
imagery
from nineteenth century sources" (visiting asst. prof.,
Princeton)
Education: Bennington, B.A., 76; Queens, CUNY,
M.F.A., 85
Fellowship Exhibitions: An Album of Hours.
Princeton
Theological
Seminary,
Princeton, NJ, September 1 - October 17, 2003; Painting Toward a Book
of Hours. The Icehouse
Gallery,
Greenport, NY, July 3-30, 2004
Address: ellenwiener[at]gmail.com
[Updated 2008]
WILF, STEVEN R.
Fellowhsip: Hiatt 88-89, "Public Executions and the
Rituals
of Order in the Late 18th Century" (Ph.D. cand. in
history,
Yale)
Education: Arizona State, B.S. 77; Duke, M.A.,
81; Princeton, M.A., 85; Yale, M. Phil., 86, J.D., 95; Ph.D. 95
Current Position: prof. of law, Connecticut
School
of Law
Other Publications: "Anatomy and Punishment in Late
Eighteenth-Century
New York," Journal of Social History
(1989); "Trade Secrets, Property, and Social Relations," 34 Connecticut
Law Review 787 (2002)
Web Page: http://www.law.uconn.edu/faculty/swilf/index.html
[Updated 2006]
WILLBERG, KRIOTA
Fellowship: Updated version for a performance of The Black
Crook
Education: Northeastern Illinois, B.A., 91
Web Page: http://www.duramater.org
[Updated 2007]
WILLIAMS, DANIEL E.
Fellowship: AAS-ASECS 93-94, "The Theft of
Authorship"
(assoc. prof. of English, Mississippi)
Education: Washington, B.A., 73; Denver, M.A., 76,
84, Ph.D.,
80
Current Position: chair and prof. of English, Texas
Christian Univ.
Address: Department of English,
TCU Box 297270,
Fort Worth, TX 76129
Web Page: http://www.eng.tcu.edu/Faculty/profiles/dwilliams.htm
[Updated 2006]
WILLIAMS, HARRY M.
Fellowship: Haven 85-86, "Charles Lenox Remond and
the
Community of Female Abolitionists" (Ph.D. cand. in
history,
Brown)
Education: Lincoln, B.A., 71; Missouri, M.A.,
82; Brown,
M.A., 84, Ph.D., 88
Current Position: David and Marian Adams Bryn-Jones
Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and the Humanities,
Carleton
Other Publications: "When Black Is Right: The Life
and
Writings of George S. Schuyler" (Ph.D. diss., Brown,
1988)
[Updated 2006]
WILLIAMS, J. GARY
Fellowship: Haven 83-84, "James Fenimore Cooper's
Notions
of the Americans" (assoc. prof. of English,
Idaho)
Education: Washington, A.B., 69; Cornell, M.A.,
Ph.D., 73
Current Position: prof. of English, Idaho
Fellowship Publications: Edition of Cooper's Notions
of the
Americans (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991)
Other Publications: Hungry Heart: The Literary
Emergence
of Julia Ward Howe (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts
Press, 1999)
Web Page: http://www.class.uidaho.edu/jgw/
[Updated 2006]
WILLIAMS, SUSAN S.
Fellowship: Botein 97-98, "Writing Home: Female
Authorship and Print Culture in America, 1820-1900" (assoc. prof. of
English,
Ohio State)
Education: Yale, B.A., 85, M.A., 89, Ph.D., 91
Current Position: prof. of English, Ohio State
Fellowship Publications: "Publishing an Emergent
'American'
Literature," in Scott E. Casper, Joanne D. Chaison, and
Jeffrey
D. Groves, eds., Perspectives on American Book
History: Artifacts
and Commentary (Boston: Univ. of Massachusetts Press,
2002); Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in America, 1850-1900
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)
Other Publications: "Widening the World: Susan
Warner, Her
Readers, and the Assumption of Authorship," American
Quarterly
42 (Dec.1990): 565-586; "'Promoting an Extensive Sale': The
Production
and Reception of The Lamplighter", New England
Quarterly
59 (June 1996): 179-200; "Manufacturing Intellectual
Equipment:
The Tauchnitz Edition of The Marble Faun," in Michele
Moylan
and Lane Stiles, eds., Reading Books: Essays on the
Material
Text and Literature in America, (Amherst: Univ. of
Massachusetts
Press,1996), 117-150; Confounding Images: Photography and
Portraiture
in Antebellum American Fiction (Philadelphia: Univ. of
Pennsylvania
Press, 1997); Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in
America, 1850-1900 (2006)
Ohio State University, Department of English, 164 West 17th Avenue,
Columbus, OH, 43210-1370; williams.488[at]osu.edu
Web Page: http://english.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=253
[Updated 2001]
WILLIAMS-WITHERSPOON, KIMMIKA L.H.
Fellowship: Artist 96, "Life and Times of Lucy
Terry"
(faculty fellow, Temple)
Education: Howard, B.A., 80; Temple, M.F.A., 96
Current Position: asst.prof. of theatre, Temple
Other: Theater Association Fellowship (1990); Pew
Charitable
Trust Exchange Grant (1993-94); Future Faculty Fellow in
Anthropology
(1996-97); Pew Charitable Trust Exchange Playwright
(1997-); Sign
of the Times; Culture Pop (Three Goats Press,
1999); Epic
Memory (Three Goats Press, 1996)
Address: 207 Tomlinson Hall, Temple University,
Philadelphia,
PA 19122; 423 Pine St., Darby, PA
19023; kwilli01@temple.edu
Web Page:
https://zeus.scat.temple.edu/scat/FacBios.asp?Detail=101
[Updated 2006]
WINANS, ROBERT B.
Fellowship: Daniels 79-80, "A Descriptive Checklist
of
Book Catalogues Separately Printed in America, 1639-1800,
Part 2"
(asst. prof. of English, Wayne State)
Fellowship: Boni 84-85, "Checklist of Catalogues
of
Books Printed in 18th-Century American
Newspapers" (asst. prof.
of English, Wayne State)
Education: Cornell, B.A., 64; New York Univ., M.A.,
65, Ph.D.,
72
Current Position: asst. prof. of English,
Gettysburg
Fellowship Publications: A Descriptive Checklist of
Book
Catalogues Separately Printed in America, 1639-1800
(Worcester:
AAS, 1981)
Other Publications: "The Folk, the Stage, and
the Five-String
Banjo in Nineteenth-Century America," Journal of
American
Folklore 89 (1976): 407-37; "`Sadday Night and
Sunday Too':
The Uses of Slave Songs in the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives for
Historical
Study," New Jersey Folklore 7
(1982): 10-15; "Bibliography
and the Cultural Historian: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century
Novel,"
Printing and Society in Early America,
(1983); "Early
Minstrel Show Music," in William L. Joyce et al.,
eds.,
Musical Theater in America: Papers and Proceedings of the
Conference
on Musical Theater in America, ed. Glenn Loney
(1984); "The
Early Minstrel Show," New World Records, NW 338,
(1985)
[Updated 1997]
WINCH, JULIE P.
Fellowship: Peterson 87-88, "American Free Blacks
and Emigration
to Haiti in the 1820s" (asst. prof. of history and
black studies,
Massachusetts at Boston)
Education: Cambridge, B.A., 75; London, M.A.,
76; Bryn Mawr,
M.A., 79, Ph.D., 82
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history and black
studies,
Massachusetts at Boston
Fellowship Publications: Philadelphia's Black
Elite: Activism,
Accommodation, and the Struggle for Autonomy (1988)
Other Publications: "Virginia Pindell
Trotter,"
Trotter Institute Review 2
(1988): 10-14; "Philadelphia
and the Other Underground Railroad," Pennsylvania
Magazine
of History and Biography 3 (1987): 3-26; "American
Free
Blacks and Emigration to Haiti," (paper, Eleventh
Caribbean
Congress, Caribbean Institute and Study Center for Latin
America,
August 1988); "You Have Talents - Only Cultivate
Them: Philadelphia's
Black Female Literary Societies and the Abolitionist
Crusade," in
Jean Fagan Yellin & John C. Van Horne, eds. The
Abolitionist
Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum
America
(Cornell Univ. Press, 1994); A Gentleman of Color: The
Life of
James Forten (Oxford Univ. Press, 2002)
Web Page: http://www2.www.umb.edu/directory/person_detail.php?id=1242
[Updated 2006]
WINKLER, LOUIS
Fellowship: Daniels 78-79, "Popular Astronomical
and Astrological
Thought in New England before 1800" (astronomer, Penn
State)
Education: Rutgers, B.S.; Adelphi,
M.S.; Pennsylvania, Ph.D
Fellowship Publications: "Almanacs in Early
America"
(paper, AHA, History of Science Society,
1979); "Thousands
of Years of Celestial Medicine," Griffith
Observer 46
(1982): 2-8
Other Publications: "Early American Earthquake
History,"
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
(1979):
568-602; "Sketches of a UFO Seen in
1742," Mufon UFO
Journal 148 (1980): 10; Catalog and Analysis of
UFO-like
Data before 1947 (Mt. Ranier, Md.: Fund for UFO
Research, Mt.
Rainier, 1984)
[Updated 1997]
WINSHIP, MICHAEL B.
Fellowship: Peterson 89-90, "Publishers' Trade
Sales in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (ed.,
Bibliography of American Literature)
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 93-94, "The American Book in
the Industrial Era" (assoc. prof. of English, Texas at
Austin)
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 09-10,
"Reaching the Market: Book Distribution in the United States, 1825-1950"
(Iris Howard Regents Prof. of English, Texas at
Austin)
Education: Harvard, A.B., 71; Simmons,;M.S.,
82; Oxford, D.Phil., 89
Current Position: prof. of English, Texas at Austin
Fellowship Publications:
co-ed., with Scott Casper, Jeff Groves, and Steven Nissenbaum,
The Industrial Book, 1840-1880, A History of the Book in America,
vol. 3 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
Other Publications: Bibliography of American
Literature vols. 7-9 (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1983-91);
"Publishing
in America," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian
Society
96 (1986): 133-74; Hermann Ernst Ludewig (New
York: Columbia
Univ., 1986); Ticknor and Fields: The Business of
American Literary
Publishing in the 19th Century (Chapel Hill: Hanes
Fdn. and
Univ. of North Carolina Library, 1992; American Literary
Publishing
in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and
Fields
(Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995); Epitome
and
Selective Index (Golden, CO: North American Press,
1995);
"`The Greatest Book of Its Kind: A Publishing History
of `Uncle Toms Cabin," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian
Society
109
(1999): 309-32
Address: bal[at]mail.utexas.edu
[Updated 2008]
WITHINGTON, ANN FAIRFAX
Fellowship: AAS-NEH 91-92, "Elite and Popular
Culture in
the Confederation and Early National
Period" (asst. prof. of
history, Michigan State)
Education: Harvard, B.A., 66; California at Berkeley,
M.A.,
72; Yale, Ph.D., 83
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history, SUNY at
Albany
Other Publications: Plays Cocks, Horses, and
Funerals: Morality
and Ideology in the American Revolution (Oxford
Univ. Press,
forthcoming); "Consumption and Republican Ideology in
the Early
Republic," in Everyday Life in the Early
Republic (Norton,
forthcoming); "Republican Bees: The Political Economy
of the
Beehive in Eighteenth Century America," Studies in
Eighteenth-Century
Culture 18 (1988): 39-77; "The Trial of Anne
Hutchinson:
A Political Trial," New England Quarterly
(1978): 226-40
Web Page: http://www.albany.edu/history/withington/
[Updated 2006]
WITTMANN, MATTHEW
Fellowship: Peterson 05-06, "American Popular
Culture and the Pacific World in the Nineteenth-Century"
(Ph.D. cand. in American culture, Michigan)
Education: Colorado at Boulder, B.A., 99, M.A., 01
[Updated 2005]
WOJTUSIK, BARBARA
Fellowship: Peterson 93-94, "The Somers
Mutiny" (English
teacher, Bristol, CT, Eastern H.S.)
Education: Central Connecticut State, B.S., 58, M.A.,
70
Other Publications: "Ellen Sturgis
Hooper," in
American National Biography; "Samuel Gray
Ward," "Anna
Barker Ward," and "Squire Samuel Hoar," in
Encyclopedia
of Transcendentalism
Address: 57 Burton St., Bristol, CT
06010; CTEJBW@aol.com
[Updated 2001]
WOLOSON, WENDY
Fellowship: Peterson 05-06, "Underground Economies:
People, Markets, and Used Goods in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century
America" (curator, Library Company of Philadelphia)
Education: Iowa State, B.F.A., 86; Montana
State, M.F.A., 90; Bowling Green State, M.A., 93; Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 99
[Updated 2005]
WOLFFE, JOHN R.
Fellowship: Peterson 88-89, "Aspects of
Anti-Catholicism
in the United States, 1830-60" (lecturer in history,
York)
Education: Oxford, B.A., 80, D. Phil., 85
Current Position: senior lecturer in religious
studies, The
Open Univ.
Fellowship Publications: The Protestant Crusade in
Great
Britain 1829-1860 (1991); "Anti-Catholicism and
Evangelical
Identity in Britain and the U.S., 1830-1860," in Mark
A. Noll,
David W. Bebbington, and George Rawlyk, eds.,
Evangelicalism
(New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994); "Unity or
Diversity? North
Atlantic Evangelical Thought in the Mid-Nineteenth
Century," in
Studies in Church History 32: Unity and Diversity in the
Church
(1996): 363-375
Other Publications: "Protestant Societies and
Anti-Catholic
Agitation in Great Britain, 1829-60" (Ph.D. diss.,
Oxford,
1985); "The Evangelical Alliance in the
1840s," Studies
in Church History 23 (1986); God and Greater
Britain: Religion
and National Life in Britain and Ireland, 1843-1945
(London
and New York: Routledge, 1994)
[Updated 1997]
WOO, ILYON
Fellowship: Peterson 04-05, "Mother against
Mother" (Ph.D. cand. in English and comparative literature, Columbia)
Education: Yale, B.A., 94; Columbia, M.A., 97, M.Phil., 00
[Updated 2005]
WOOD, JOSEPH S.
Fellowship: Peterson 88-89, "The Literary Origins
of New
England Village Symbolism" (assoc. prof. of geography,
George
Mason)
Education: Middlebury, B.A., 68; Vermont, M.A.,
73; Penn
State, Ph.D., 78
Current Position: provost, vice president for
academic affairs, and prof. of geography, Southern
Maine
Fellowship Publications: "`Build, Therefore, Your
Own World':
The New England Village as Settlement Ideal," Annals
of
the Association of American Geographers 81
(1991): 32:50; (with
Michael Steinitz) "A World We Have Gained: House,
Common, and
Village in New England," Journal of History
Geography
18 (1992); The New England Village (Johns
Hopkins
Univ. Press, 1997)
Other Publications: "Center City,"
Geographical
Review 78 (1988): 325-29; "Making a Suburban
Landscape: Vietnames-Americans
in North Virginia," Geographic Review 86 (1996)
Web Page:
http://www.usm.maine.edu/gany/JWood.htm
[Updated 2006]
WOOD, MARCUS
Fellowship: Peterson 92-93, "Abolition Propaganda
in Britain
and the United States, 1780-1860" (Worcester College,
Oxford)
Education: St. Catherine's College, Oxford, B.A.,
80; Royal
College of Art, M.A., 86; Worcester College, Oxford, Ph.D.,
91
Current Position: prof. of English, Sussex
Fellowship Publications: Blind Memory: Visual
Representations
of Slavery in England and America (Routledge, 2000)
Web Page:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/english/profile97133.html
[Updated 2006]
WOODS, ANDREA E.
Fellowship: Artist 96, "Ballad of the Black
Cowboy" (independent
dancer/choreographer/teacher, Brooklyn, NY)
Education: Adelphi, B.FA, 86
Current Position: also artistic dir. of
Souloworks Dances
by Andrea E. Woods
Web Page: http://www.souloworks.com/bio.shtml
[Updated 2006]
WOODWARD, WALTER W.
Fellowship: Peterson 97-98, "The Magic in
Colonization: Religion,
Science and the Occult in the Creation of New England
Culture"
(Ph.D. cand. in history, Connecticut)
Education: Florida, B.A., 70; Cleveland State, M.A.,
89
Current Position: asst. prof. of history, Connecticut
and Connecticut State Historian
Fellowship Publications: "Prospero's America: John
Winthrop,
Jr., Alchemy and the Creation of New England
Culture" (1606-1676)
(Ph.D. diss., Connecticut) May 2001
Web Page:
http://www.history.uconn.edu/faculty/woodward.html
[Updated 2005]
WRIGHT, ROBERT E.
Fellowship: Peterson 99-00, "Early American
Finance: Revolution,
Integration, Expansion" (visiting asst. prof.,
Intellectual
Heritage Program, Temple)
Education: SUNY at Buffalo, B.A., 90, M.A., 94,
Ph.D., 97
Current Position:
clinical assoc. prof. of economics, Stern School of Business,
New York Univ.
Fellowship Publications : Wealth of Nations
Rediscovered (Cambridge, 2002); Hamilton Unbound (Praeger,
2002); The
First Wall Street (Chicago, 2005)
Other Publications : Mutually Beneficial (NYU,
2004); Financial Founding Fathers (Chicago, 2006); Knowledge
for Generations (Wiley, 2008); One Nation Under Debt
(McGraw-Hill, 2008)
Address : Stern School, New York University,
Economics, 44 West 4th St., New York, NY 10012; rwright[at]stern.nyu.edu
Web page :
http://home.comcast.net/~alexanderhamilton
[Updated 2008]
WRIGHT, ROBERT L.
Fellowship: Daniels 74-75, "Music and Broadside
Ballad
Collections for Ballads and Songs of the Western
Migration,
vol.3" (prof. of American thought and language,
Michigan State)
Education: Defiance, B.A., 43; Minnesota, M.A.,
47; Columbia's
Teachers College, Ed.D., 55; post-doc. study, Stockholm,
57-58
Current Position: prof. emeritus, American Thought
and Language,
Michigan State
Fellowship Publications: Irish Emigrant Ballads and
Songs
(Bowling Green State Univ. Press, 1975) [M.S.U.book
award]; contributor,
Patricia Conroy, ed., Ballads and Ballad Research,
(Seattle:
Univ. of Washington Press, 1978); co-author, with Rochelle
Wright,
English, Scottish, and Welsh Emigrant Ballads and
Songs
Other Publications: Writing Without Rules
(Dubuque:
W.C. Brown, 1951, rev. 1954); Swedish Emigrant
Ballads (Lincoln,
Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1965); co-ed., with David
D. Anderson,
The Dark and Tangled Path: Race in America
(Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1971); co-author, with Rochelle Wright, Danish
Emigrant
Ballads and Songs (Southern Illinois Univ. Press,
1983)
Address: 274 Oakland Dr., E. Lansing, MI 48823
[Updated 2001]
WRIGHTSON, NICHOLAS M.
Fellowship: Peterson 06-07, "Locating
Philadelphia in the Print Culture of the British Atlantic World,
1730-65" (Ph.D. cand. in modern history, Oxford)
Education: Oxford, B.A., 03, M.Phil., 04
[Updated 2006]
WULF, KARIN
Fellowship: AAS-ASECS 00-01, "In the Shade of the
Family
Tree: Genealogy andRepresentations of Family Identity in
Early America"
(asst. prof. of history, American)
Education: American, B.A., 85; Johns Hopkins, M.A.,
90; Ph.D.,
93
Current Position: assoc. prof. of history and
American studies, William and Mary
Fellowship Publications: "'Of the Old Stone'
Genealogical Representations
in British America "in Robert Olwell and Alan Tully
eds. Society
and Culture in Colonial America (Johns Hopkins,
forthcoming)
Other Publications: Not All Wives: Women of
Colonial Philadelphia
(Cornell Univ. Press, 2000); co-ed., Milcah Martna
Moore's
Book: A Commonplace Book from Revolutionary America
(Penn State,
1997)
Web Page:
http://www.wm.edu/history/research.php?personid=403155
[Updated 2006]
WYSS, HILARY
Fellowship: AAS-ASECS 06-07, "Native Literacy and
Education in Early America" (assoc. prof. of English, Auburn)
Education: Hamilton, B.A., 86; North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, M.A., 91, Ph.D., 98
[Updated 2006]
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