2006-2007 Fellows and Their Projects
Mellon Distinguished Scholar
- Philip F. Gura, Newman Distinguished Professor of American
Literature and Culture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "The
Club of the Like-Minded: A History of New England Transcendentalism."
Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship
- Jennifer Anderson, Ph.D. candidate, New York University,
"Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade, 1725-1825."
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured
Scholars
- Jeffrey Sklansky, associate professor of history, Oregon
State University, "The Rise and Fall of the 'Money Question' in the
Nineteenth-Century United States."
AAS-National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowships
- Robert Bonner, visiting assistant professor of history,
Dartmouth College, "Crossings to Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and the
Completion of American Liberty."
- Edward Larkin, assistant professor of English,
University of Delaware, "The Loyalist Origins of United States
Culture."
- Seth Rockman, assistant professor of history, Brown University,
"Self-Made and Slave-Made: Capitalism, Slavery, and the Rise of the Early
American Economy."
- Nancy Shoemaker, professor of history, University of
Connecticut, "The Whaling History of New England Indians."
American Historical Print Collectors Society
Fellowship
- Kenneth Cohen, Ph.D. candidate in history, University of
Delaware, "'To Give Good Sport': The Making and Meaning of Sporting
Leisure in Early America, 1750-1840."
AAS-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Fellowship
- John G. McCurdy, assistant professor of history and philosophy,
Eastern Michigan University, "The Politics of Bachelorhood in Early
America."
- Hilary E. Wyss, associate professor of English, Auburn
University, "Native Literacy and Education in Early America."
Stephen Botein Fellowships
- Faith Barrett, assistant professor of English, Lawrence
University, "'To Fight Aloud is Very Brave': American Poetry and the Civil
War."
- Hannah Carlson, Ph.D. candidate in American studies, Boston
University, "In the Company of Books: Reading the Pocket Companion."
Drawn to Art Fellowship
- Sarah Kate Gillespie, Ph.D. candidate in art history, City
University of New York, "'One Thing New Under the Sun': The Cross-Currents
of Science and Art in the American Daguerreotype, 1839-1850."
Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowships
- Kristina Hinz-Bode, assistant professor of English and Romance
Languages, University of Kassel, "America's Cultural Deficits: A
Transatlantic Debate and Its Reflection in American Literature."
- Katja Kanzler, associate lecturer in American studies,
University of Leipzig, "Genre and Separate Spheres in Antebellum Women's
Writing."
Legacy Fellowship
-
William E. Wagner, Ph.D. candidate in history, University of
California at Berkeley, "Divided Landscapes: Geographic Literacy and the
Mapping of Sectional Conflict in America, 1846-1865."
Northeast Modern Language Association Fellowship
- Dawn Coleman, assistant professor of English, University of
Tennessee, "Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel."
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowships
- Ruma Chopra, Ph.D. candidate in history, University of
California at Davis, "Loyalist Persuasions: New York City, 1776-1783."
- Polly Ha, research fellow in history, University of Cambridge,
"The Decalogue and Formation of Denomination"
- Candice L. Harrison, Ph.D. candidate in history, Emory
University, "The Politics of Exchange in Philadelphia's Public Markets,
1770-1859."
- Natasha Lightfoot, Ph.D. candidate in history, New York
University, "Race, Class, and Resistance: The Aftermath of Emancipation in
Antigua, 1831-1858."
- Gabriel Loiacono, Ph.D. candidate in History, Brandeis
University, "The People and the Poor: Experiences and Ideas of Poverty in
Rhode Island, 1780 to 1888."
- James M. Lundberg, Ph.D. candidate in history, Yale
University, "Reading Horace Greeley's America, 1834-1872."
- Gesa Mackenthun, Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik,
Universität Rostock, "The Conquest of Antiquity: Geographical Discovery
and Romantic Scholarship in the USA."
- Robert Naeher, chair, history and social sciences, Emma
Willard School, "Puritan Prayer, Expressive Voice, and the Shaping of
Identity."
- Margaret A. Nash, assistant professor of education, University
of California, Riverside, "Higher Education for Women and the Formation of
Gender, Class, and Race Identity in the United States, 1840-1875."
- Eleanor H. McConnell, Ph.D. candidate in history, University
of
Iowa, "A Scarce Plenty: Economics, Citizenship, and Opportunity in
Revolutionary New Jersey, 1760-1820."
- Martha Schoolman, assistant professor of English, Miami
University of Ohio, "American Abolitionist Geographies."
- Eric Stoykovich, Ph.D. candidate in history, University of
Virginia, "Live Stock Nation: How Farm Animals Domesticated the Northern
United States During the Early Republic, 1794-1876."
- Catherine L. Thompson, Ph.D. candidate in history, University
of Connecticut, "From Autonomy to Dependency? Patient-Physician
Relations, 1750-1850."
- Nicholas M. Wrightson, Ph.D. candidate in modern history,
Oxford University, "Locating Philadelphia in the Print Culture of the
British Atlantic World, 1730--65."
Reese Fellowship
- Joanne van der Woude, graduate instructor in English,
University of Virginia, "Towards a Transatlantic Aesthetic: Immigration,
Translation, and Mourning in the Seventeenth Century."
Joyce A. Tracy Fellowship
- Edward B. Rugemer, postdoctoral fellow in history, Boston
College, "The Problem of Emancipation: The United States and Britain's
Abolition of Slavery."
William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fellowships
- Robert Sikoryak, New York City, cartoonist and illustrator,
research for comic strip adaptation of Moby Dick
- Tess Taylor, Cambridge, Massachusetts, poet, research for a
book of poems titled "The Family Chest"
- Kriota Willberg, New York City, choreographer, research for
updated version of America's first musical theatre production, "The Black
Crook"
Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowships
- Robert Shuster, Yorktown Heights, New York, novelist, to
research a nonfiction book titled The Indestructible Soldier: A
Personal Account of Vicarious War
- Ginger Strand, New York City, nonfiction writer, research for a
history of Niagara Falls
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