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Present and Former Post-Dissertation Fellows


2008-2009

Jessica Lepler
(assistant professor of history, University of New Hampshire)
Dissertation: "1837: Anatomy of a Panic"

 

2007-2008

Kyle Roberts
(Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania)
Dissertation: "Evangelical Gotham: Popular Religious Belief in New York City, 1783-1845"

 

2006-2007

Jennifer Anderson
(Ph.D. candidate, New York University)
Dissertation: "Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade, 1725-1825."

 

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.)
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.)
Dissertation: "Imperfect Title, Nineteenth-Century American Women Authors and Literary Property."

 

1999-2000

Timothy W. Marr
(Yale Ph.D.)
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.)
Dissertation: "Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey."

 

Faith and Boundaries
David J. Silverman, Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

American Women Authors
Melissa J. Homestead, American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

 

The Cultural Roots of 
American Islamicism
The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism, by Timothy Marr was published by Cambridge University Press, 2006.

 

Preforming
Menken
The first book by a 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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