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Botein Fellows

Stephen Botein Fellowships are for research in the history of the book in American culture. Funding is derived from an endowment established by the family and friends of the late Mr. Botein.

			Fellowship	Affiliation	Position	Project
Adelman	Joseph	2007-8	Botein	Johns Hopkins University	PhD candidate	The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765-1789
Badley	Dana	2018-19	Botein	University of California, Santa Barbara	Ph.D. candidate in English	Aesthetic Sociality and Nineteenth-Century America
Baker	Anne	1999-00	Botein	Reed College	visiting assistant professor	Geography Schoolbooks and Nation Formation in the Antebellum United States
Barrett	Faith	2006-7	Botein	Lawrence University	assistant professor	'To fight aloud is very brave': American Poetry and the Civil War
Barrett	Faith	2013-14	Botein	Lawrence University	associate professor	Poems and Parodies: Voice-Effects and the Profession of Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America
Bell	Richard	2003-4	Botein	Harvard University	Ph.D. candidate	Newspapers and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830
Blankenship	Avery	2023-24	Botein	Northeastern University	PhD candidate in English	Kitchen Ventriloquisms
Bledstein	Burton	1997-98	Botein	University of Illinois, Chicago	associate professor	By the Book: Reference and Information as Authority in 19th-Century America
Brylowe	Thora	2017-18	Botein	University of Colorado, Boulder	assistant professor	Impressions and Folds: The Ecology of Romantic-Era Paper
Carlson	Hannah	2006-7	Botein	Boston University	Ph.D. candidate	In the Company of Books: Reading the Pocket Companion
Carter	Michael	2005-6	Botein	University of Southern California	Ph.D. candidate	Mathew Carey and the Public Emergence of Roman Catholicism in the United States, 1789-1839
Casey	Jim	2015-16	Botein	University of Delaware	Ph.D. candidate	Editing a Revolution in Newspaper Printing, 1847-1849
Casmier-Paz	Lynn	2009-10	Botein	University of Central Florida	associate professor	Slave Literacy, Children's Textbooks, and Antebellum Education
Chiles	Katy	2014-15	Botein	University of Tennessee	assistant professor of English	Raced Collaboration: The Idea of Authorship and Early African American and Native American Literature
Cohen	Daniel	1992-93	Botein	Florida International University	assistant professor	Beyond Domesticity: Literary Images of Working-Class Women, 1790-1860
Cohen	Lara	2008-9	Botein	Wayne State University	assistant professor	Notes from Underground: Nineteenth-Century American Print Subcultures
Cohen	Lara	2011-12	Botein	Wayne State University	assistant professor	Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature
DiCuirci	Lindsay	2013-14	Botein	University of Maryland	assistant professor	History's Imprint: The Colonial Book and the Writing of American History, 1790-1855
Emerson	D. Berton	2016-17	Botein	Pomona College	visiting assistant professor of English	Local Rules: Vernacular Aesthetics and Alternative Democracies in Antebellum Print Culture
Evelev	John	1996-97	Botein	Duke University	PhD	Tolerable Entertainment: Herman Melville, the Literary Profession, and the Cultural Life of Antebellum New York
Fabian	Ann	1994-95	Botein	Yale University	associate professor	Selling Experience: Amateur Authors and Pamphlet Publication inthe Nineteenth-Century US
Fahs	Alice	1995-96	Botein	UC Irvine	assistant professor	Publishing the Civil War: Northern Publishers and the Literary Marketplace of War
Fidler	Ann	1998-99	Botein	Ohio State University	assistant professor	A Cultural History of the American Law Book, 1700-00
Fraser	Gordon Dennis	2023-24	Botein	University of Manchester	lecturer in English, American studies, and creative writing	Engineering Peace
Green	James	1989-90	Botein	Library Company of Philadelphia	associate librarian	The Transformation of the American Book Trade, 1785-1825
Harthorn	Steven	2002-3	Botein	University of Tennessee, Knoxville	Ph.D. candidate	James Fenimore Cooper and the American Literary Market, 1838-1851
Highland	Kristen	2012-13	Botein	New York University	Ph.D. candidate	At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York City
Huntley-Smith	Jen	1998-99	Botein	University of Nevada, Reno	Ph.D. candidate	The Genius of Civilization: The Publishing Industry and the Creation of Western Regional Identity,1848-00
Hutchison	Coleman	2005-6	Botein	Northwestern University	Ph.D. candidate	Occasioning Verse and Volume
Johnson	Ann	2002-3	Botein	Fordham University	assistant professor	Engineering Handbooks as Carriers of Knowledge into the Field
Klimasmith	Betsy	2008-9	Botein	University of Massachusetts, Boston	associate professor	Cities and Seductions: Sex and Early American Urban Fiction
Mahoney	Nicole	2019-20	Botein	University of Maryland, College Park	Ph.D. candidate in history	Liberty, Gentility, and Dangerous Liaisons: French Culture and Polite Society in Early National America, 1770-1825
Mattes	Mark	2009-10	Botein	University of Iowa	Ph.D. candidate	Letter Interception and Publication during the Era of Good Feelings
McLaren	Scott	2012-13	Botein	York University	associate professor	Nurseries of Faith: The New York Methodist Book Concern and the Growth of Methodist Sunday Schools in Upper Canada, 1815-1850
Mullaney	Clare	2017-18	Botein	University of Pennsylvania	Ph.D. candidate	American Imprints: Disability and the Material Text, 1858-1932
Nord	David	1996-97	Botein	University of Indiana, Bloomington	professor	The Religious Roots of Mass Media in America, 1800-1860
Oliva	Justine	2016-17	Botein	University of New Hampshire	Ph.D. candidate	Anne C. L. Botta and the Business of Friendship
Parrish	Susan	2003-4	Botein	University of Michigan	assistant professor	Colonial and Early National American Almanac
Peterson	Mark	1999-00	Botein	University of Iowa	assistant professor	The Mather Family and the Construction of an Atlantic Protestant International
Rawson	David	1993-94	Botein	College of William and Mary	Ph.D. candidate	The Print Distribution and Consumer Nexus in Piedmont Virginia, 1760-1810
Rezek	Joseph	2015-16	Botein	Boston University	assistant professor	Transatlantic Currents, 1820-1860, for The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture
Rice	Grantland	1993-94	Botein	Brandeis Univesity	Ph.D. candidate	The Transformation of Authorship in Early America
Rosenthal	Caitlin	2010-11	Botein	Harvard University	Ph.D. candidate	Accounting for Control: Book-keeping in early Nineteenth-Century America
Salter	Sarah	2022-23	Botein	Texas A&M University	assistant professor of English	Sex in Pages: A Theoretical History of Periodical Sexualities
Secord	James	2004-5	Botein	University of Cambridge	professor	"Nature as News: Reporting Science in the Antebellum American Illustrated Press"
Sharren	Kandice	2020-21	Botein	Simon Fraser University	instructor of English	Politics, Paratexts, and Transatlantic Fiction, 1790-1840
Socarides	Alexandra	2004-5	Botein	Rutgers University	PhD candidate	Lyric Contexts: Emily Dickinson and the 19th Century Extended Poetic Project
Stevenson	Louise	2000-01	Botein	Franklin and Marshall College	professor	Women's intellectual Life, 1750-1820
Stewart	Anna	2011-12	Botein	University of Texas at Austin	PhD candidate	Slave Narratives and Freedmen's Education
Stewart	J. Brenton	2011-12	Botein	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Ph.D. candidate	Informing the City: On the Print Culture of Antebellum Augusta, Georgia
Stillson	Richard	2000-01	Botein	Johns Hopkins University	Ph.D. candidate	Communication and Information Dispersal in the California Gold Rush
Stinson	Kristofer	2022-23	Botein	George Mason University	PhD candidate in history	Shadows and Solid Things: Religion and Archaeology in the Atlantic World
Teute	Fredrika	1994-95	Botein	Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture	editor of publications	Writing a Woman's Life in the Early Republic
Thomas	Amy	1990-91	Botein	Duke University	PhD candidate	Reading in the Antebellum South
Tomlin	T.J.	2010-11	Botein	University of Northern Colorado	assistant professor	A Faith for All Persuasions: Almanacs and American Religious Life, 1730-1820
Tripp	Bernell	1991-92	Botein	University of Alabama	PhD candidate	The Nineteenth-Century Black Press
Van Zandt	Cynthia	2001-2	Botein	University of New Hampshire	assistant professor	Brothers among Nations: Kinship and Alliance in Early America
Walkup	Kathleen	2014-15	Botein	Mills College	Professor of Book Arts	Printing at the Margins
Weyler	Karen	1995-96	Botein	UNC, Chapel Hill	Ph.D. candidate	Issues of Privacy and Publicity in the Early American Novel
Williams	Susan	1997-98	Botein	Ohio State University	associate professor	Writing Home: Female Authorship and Print Culture in America, 1820-00
Yankaskas	Lynda	2007-8	Botein	Brandeis University	Ph.D. candidate	Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731-1851
Zapedowska	Magdalena	2018-19	Botein	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Ph.D. candidate in English	Black Dissent and Black Freedom: Revolution, Emigration, Reform, 1850-1870
Zehnder	Madeline	2019-20	Botein	University of Virginia	Ph.D. candidate in English	Pocket-Sized Nation: Cultures of Portability in America, 1790-1840

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