Present and Former Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellows
2005-2006
Joseph F. Cullon
(assistant professor of history, Dartmouth College)
Dissertation:
"Colonial Shipwrights and their World: Men, Women, and Markets in Early
New England"
2004-2005
Cindy R. Lobel
(CUNY Graduate Center Ph.D.)
Dissertation: "Consuming Classes: Changing Food Consumption Patterns in
New York City,
1780-1860"
2003-2004
Molly A. McCarthy
(Brandeis Ph.D.)
Dissertation: "A Page, A
Day: A
History
of the Diary in America."
2002-2003
Bridget Ford
(University of
California, Davis Ph.D.)
Dissertation: "Crossing
Over:
Religion, Race, and Nation in Civil War America."
2001-2002
David Silverman
(Princeton Ph.D.), assistant professor of history at
George Washington University
Dissertation: "Faith
and
Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community Among the Wampanoag
Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871."
2000-2001
Melissa Homestead
(University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D.), assistant professor of English at the University of Oklahoma,
Dissertation: "Imperfect
Title, Nineteenth-Century American Women Authors and Literary Property."
1999-2000
Timothy W. Marr
(Yale Ph.D.), assistant professor of English, University of
North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Dissertation:
"Imagining Ishmael: Studies of Islamic Orientalism in America
from the Puritans to Melville."
1998-1999
Renée M. Sentilles
(College of William and Mary Ph.D.) asstistant professor of history, Case
Western Reserve
Dissertation: "Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs
Menken's American
Odyssey."
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David J. Silverman, Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and
Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871,
Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Melissa J. Homestead, American Women Authors and Literary Property,
1822-1869,
Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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The first book by an AAS-Mellon Post-Dissertation Scholar,
Performing
Menken: Ada Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity, by
Renée
M. Sentilles was published by
Cambridge
University Press in the Spring
of 2003.
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