Past and Current Massachusetts Historical Society Short-term Fellowship Recipients

African American Studies Fellows, 1999-

Alumni Fellows, 2011-

Andrew Oliver Research Fellows, 1996-

Andrew W. Mellon Fellows, 1996-

Benjamin F. Stevens Fellows, 1996-

Boston Marine Society Fellows, 2002-2005

Cushing Academy Fellows, 2012-

Library Fund Fellow, 2001

Malcolm and Mildred Freiberg Fellows, 2009-

Marc Friedlaender Fellows, 1999-

The Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellows, 1997-

Paine Publication Fund Fellow, 2010

Paul Revere Memorial Association Felllows, 1996-2003

Ruth R. & Alyson R. Miller Fellows, 1998-

Society of Colonial Wars of Massachusetts Fellows, 1997-2004

Twentieth-Century History Fellows, 2006-2010

W. B. H. Dowse Fellows, 1996-

African American Studies Fellowship

2012-2013
Heather Cooper
University of Iowa
"Representing the Race: African American Performances of Slavery and Freedom in the Nineteenth Century"

2011-2012
Millington Bergeson-Lockwood
University of Michigan
"Not as Supplicants but as Citizens: Race, Party, and African American Politics in Boston, Massachusetts, 1864-1903"

2010-2011
Richard Boles
The George Washington University
"Divided Faiths: The Rise of Segregated Northern Churches"

2009-2010
Karen Woods Weierman
Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Literature, Worcester State College
"The Case of the Slave-Child, Med: The Geography of Freedom in Antebellum Boston"

2008-2009
Shevaun Watson
University of South Carolina
"African American Studies Testimony & Transformation: African American Rhetorical Performance, 1729-1829"

2007-2008
Hilary N. Green
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Educational Reconstruction: African-American Education in the Urban South, 1865-1890”

2006-2007
Maria Alessandra Bollettino
Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Texan at Austin
"Slavery, War, and Empire: The Meaning of the Seven Years War for the African Atlantic World."

2005-2006
Christianna Elrene Thomas
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, The Ohio State University
"A Cry for Mercy: An Examination of African Americans and Religion in Eighteenth-Century New England."

2004-2005
Reginald Howard Pitts
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
"Harriet E. 'Hattie' Wilson: Life After Our Nig; or A Small Medium at Large"

2003-2004
Matt Clavin
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, American University
"'Men of Color, to Arms!' Remembering Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in the American Civil War"

2002-2003
Thomas L. Doughton
Independent Scholar
"Good Masters Well Served: Slavery and African Americans in Cotton Mather's Boston"

2001-2002
Jeannine DeLombard
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Puget Sound
"'At the Bar of Public Opinion': Black Testimony and White Advocacy in Antebellum Literary Abolitionism"

2000-2001
Chernoh M. Sesay, Jr.
Ph.D. candidate, History Department, Northwestern University
"'all things are changeable': The Worlds of Prince Hall and the Development of Black Atlantic Identities, 1760-1820"

1999-2000
Lois Brown
Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College
"'Free at Last?' Former Slaves in Boston's Home for Aged Colored Women, 1861-1900"

Alumni Fellow

2012-2013
Lauri Coleman
College of William and Mary
"Interpretations of New England Weather in the Revolutionary Era"

2011-2012
Megan Prins
University of Arizona
"Winters in America, 1880-1930"

Andrew Oliver Research Fellowship

2012-2013
Katelyn Crawford
University of Virginia
"Mobility and Portrait Painting in the Late Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World"

2011-2012
Mary Katherine Matalon
University of Texas, Austin
"From Painting to Porcelain: American Women Collectors, c. 1780-1915"

2010-2011
Annie Rudd
Columbia University
"The Performance of Everyday Life: A History of the Photographic Pose"

2009-2010
Mazie Harris
Ph.D candidate, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University
"'To Feast Our Bodily Eyes': Nineteenth Century American Portrait Vignettes and Card Albums"

2008-2009
Mary Niall Mitchell
University of New Orleans
"The Real Ida May: A Story of Slavery, Freedom, and Race in Antebellum America"

2007-2008
Christopher Reed
Professor, Art Department, Lake Forest College
“Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and the Construction of Masculinity”

2006-2007
Emily Gerhold
Ph.D. Candidate, Virginia Commonwealth University
"American Beauties: Breasts in Nineteenth Century American Art and Culture."

2005-2006
Caroline Baer Frank
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
"China as Object and Idea in the Making of an American Identity, 1680-1820."

2004-2005
Wendy J. Katz
Professor, Department of Art & Art History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
"The Truthful Likeness in 17th–Century Boston"

2003-2004
Christopher Lukasik
Assistant Professor, Departments of English and American Studies, Boston University
"Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and The Face in American Literary and Visual Culture, 1780-1850"

2002-2003
JoAnne Marie Mancini
Lecturer, Department of History, University College Cork
"A Culture in Colour: Chromolithography in Massachusetts, 1860-1900"

2001-2002
Carma R. Gorman
Assistant Professor, Art History, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
"Cultivating Audiences: Henry Sargent and the Marketing of Art in the United States, 1795-1845"

1999-2000
Shannon Ross McBriar
Ph.D. candidate in English Literature, Oxford University
The Works of Washington Allston

1998-1999
Phillip H. Round
Assistant Professor, Department of English, The University of Iowa
"Citizenship in Black and White: Early National Identity and the Popularity of Silhouettes."

1996-1997
Eric Robert Papenfuse
Ph.D. candidate, Yale University
"Canvas and Quill: John Singleton Copley, Mercy Otis Warren, and the Cultural Construction of American Independence."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship

2012-2013

Frances Clarke
University of Sydney
"Home Fires Burning: Keeping Warm in the Industrializing North"

Eberhard Faber
Princeton University
"'Everybody Talks of Visiting That Country': New England Reactions to the Louisiana Purchase, Territorial Rule, and Louisiana Statehood, 1803-1812"

Michael Hevel
University of Iowa
"'Betwixt Brewings': A History of College Students and Alcohol"

Ann K. Johnson
University of Southern California
"Cabinets of Miscellany and Meaning: Managing Information in Antebellum America"

Greta LaFleur
University of Hawai'I at Manoa
"American Insides: Popular Narrative and the Historiography of Sexuality, 1675-1815"

Jen Manion
Connecticut College
"Crossing Gender; Female Masculinity in the 18th and 19th Centuries"

Brooke Newman
Virginia Commonwealth University
"Island Masters: Gender, Race, and Power in the Eighteenth-Century British Caribbean"

Benjamin Park
University of Cambridge
"Localized Nationalisms in Post-Revolutionary America"

Brad Snyder
University of Wisconsin
"The House of Truth: The Men Who Created Modern Progressivism"

2011-2012

Sean Adams
University of Florida
"Home Fires Burning: Keeping Warm in the Industrializing North"

Jane Fiegen Green
Washington University, St. Louis
"The Boundary of Youth: Employment, Adulthood, and Citizenship in the Early United States"

Kerima Lewis
University of California, Berkeley
"Atlantic Fires Burning: Arson as a Weapon of Slave Resistance in the British American Colonies, 1675-1775"

Andrew Lipman
Syracuse University
"The Saltwater Frontier: Indians, Dutch, and English on Seventeenth-Century Long Island Sound"

Bonnie Lucero
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Race, Space, and Nation: Social Change amidst Imperial Transition in Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1895-1906"

Patricia Roylance
Syracuse University
"Anachronisms: The Temporalities of Early American Media"

Nancy Siegel
Towson University
"Political Appetites: Revolution, Taste, and Culinary Activism in the Early Republic"

Jared Taber
University of Kansas
"Last Dams Standing: Environmental Perspectives on Deindustrialization in Twentieth-Century Massachusetts"

Ben Wright
Rice University
"Early American Clergy and the Transformation of Antislavery: From the Politics of Conversion to the Conversion of Politics, 1770-1830"

2010-2011

Anthony Antonucci
University of Connecticut
"`When in Rome': American Relations with the Italian States from Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1790-1860"

Matthew Bahar
University of Oklahoma
"The People of the Dawnland and Their Atlantic World"

Irene Cheng
Columbia University
"Forms of Function: Self Culture, Geometry, and Octagon Architecture in Antebellum America"

Rachel Herrmann
University of Texas at Austin
"Food and War: Indians, Slaves, and the American Revolution"

Sarah Keyes
University of Southern California
"Circling Back: Migration to the Pacific and the Reconfiguration of America, 1820-1900"

Susan Pearson
Northwestern University
"Registering Birth: Population and Personhood in American History"

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
Columbia University
"Corresponding Republics: Private Letters and Patriot Societies in the American, Dutch and French Revolutions, ca. 1765-1792"

Marc Selverstone
University of Virginia
"Henry Cabot Lodge and the Withdrawal of American Troops from Vietnam"

David Silverman
The George Washington University
"Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America"

2009-2010

Carol Bundy
Independent Scholar
"McClellan's Visit to Boston, January 28-February 8, 1863"

Jan Cigliano
Independent Scholar
"John Hay: Genius of Diplomacy"

Lindsay DiCuirci
Ph.D candidate, Department of English, The Ohio State University
"History's Imprint: The colonial Book and the Writing of American History in the Nineteenth Century"

Jim Downs
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Connecticut College
"Sick From Freedom: The Unexpected Consequences of the American Civil War"

Caroline Frank
Visiting Lecturer, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
"Native American Enslavement in Southern New England, 1630-1730"

Elizabeth Gray
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Towson University
"Worlds of Pain: Opium and Early America"

Matthew Hudock
Ph.D candidate, Department of History, University of Delaware
"African American Colonization and Identity"

Whitney Martinko
Ph.D candidate, Department of History, University of Virginia
"Progress Through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860"

Rachel Shelden
Ph.D candidate, Department of History, University of Virginia
"Washington Brotherhood: Friendship and Politics in the Civil War Era"

2008-2009

Evan Cordulack
College of William and Mary
"Constructing Saigon: Space, Cultures, and the American War in Vietnam"

Hidetaka Hirota
Boston College
"Nativism, Citizenship, and Civil Liberties: Immigration Control and the Deportation of Paupers in Mass., 1846-1878"

Deborah Kent
Hillsdale College
"Substituting Science for the brooding omnipresence in the sky? The Role of Expert Witnesses in Late 19th Century American Courtrooms"

Noam Maggor
Harvard University
"Producing the Zone of Emergence: The Lower Middle Class and Boston's Politics of Property, 1865-1917"

Jennifer Egloff
NYU
"Popular Numeracy in Early Modern England and British North America"

Courtney Fullilove
Columbia University
"A Case in the Patent Office: Properties of Knowledge in the Early American Republic"

Cathryn Halverson
Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
"Ellery Sedgwick, the Atlantic, and Faraway Women"

Dael Norwood
Princeton University
"An Empire of Liberty on the Seas: The Old China Trade & American National Development in a Global Context, 1784-1860"

Wendy Wong
Temple University
"Diplomatic Subtleties & Frank Overtures: Publicity, Diplomacy, and Neutrality in the Early American Republic, 1793-1801"

2007-2008

Edward Andrews
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of New Hampshire
“Prodigal Sons: Indigenous Missionaries in the British Atlantic, 1640-1790”

Michael Les Benedict
Emeritus Professor, Department of History, Ohio State University
“The Favored Hour’: Constitutional Politics in the Era of Reconstruction”

Gregory A. Donofrio
Ph.D. Candidate and Visiting Lecturer, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
"The Container and the Contained: Preserving the Historic Uses of Historic Food Markets”

Holly Kent
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Lehigh University
“All Reform Depends Upon You’: Femininity, Authority, and the Politics of Authorship, 1821-1861”

Christine LaHue
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Ohio State University
“The Resurrection of John Wise”

Katherine Rieder
Ph.D. Candidate, History of American Civilization, Harvard University
“The Remainder of Our Effects We Must Leave Behind’: American Loyalists and the Meaning of Things”

Timothy M. Roberts
Assistant Professor of History, Bilkent University (Turkey)
“The American Opium Trade & Christian Missions in the Near East”

Rachel Tamar Van
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
“Free Trade and Family Values: Kinship Networks and the Culture of Early American Capitalism, 1782-1891”

Bryan Waterman
Assistant Professor, Department of English, New York University
“Looking for Elizabeth Whitman; Connecticut Salons, National Newsprint, Regional Folklore”

2006-2007

Gabriel Abend
Ph.D. Candidate, Northwestern University
"A Social History of 'Business Ethics' and 'Social Responsibility' (1865-1934)."

Dr. Elizabeth MacDonald Bischof
Post Doctoral Fellow, Boston College
"Friendship, Collaboration and Clubbing: A community of artists and writers in turn-of-the-century Boston."

Kelly K. Erby
Ph.D. Candidate, Emory University
"Public Dining and Antebellum Class Consciousness."

Marti Jaye Frank
Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University
"Carrying the Mills: New England Textile Mills and the Adoption of the Steam Engine, 1827-1905."

Professor Heather S. Nathans
Department of Theatre, University of Maryland
"Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861: Lifting the Veil of Black"

Ja'Nean Palacios
Ph.D. Candidate, University of California-Santa Barbara
"Emancipation, Anxiety and Race: Black Mental Health During the Time of Reconstruction."

Professor Aaron Sachs
Cornell University
"Wild Arcadia: Radical Landscapes of Nineteenth-Century America."

Benjamin Soskis
Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University
"The Problem of Charity in Industrial America."

Catherine L. Thompson
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Connecticut
"From Autonomy to Dependency?: Patient-Physician Relations, 1750-1850."

2005-2006

Joshua Beatty
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, College of William and Mary
"Performances of Authority: A Cultural History of the Stamp Act Crisis."

Sarah Crabtree
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Minnesota
"A Nation of God: the Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in the Age of Revolution"

Russell Duncan
Professor of American History, University of Copenhagen
"Destroying Babylon: James Montgomery and the Expansion of Freedom During the Civil War Era"

Jeffrey A. Fortin
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, University of New Hampshire
"Little Short of National Murder: Removal, Exile and the Making of Diasporas in the Atlantic World, 1745-1865."

Kathleen E. LeMieux
Director, Project Gould 2003
"PROJECT GOULD 2003 (Navigating the Transatlantic Matrix with Alice Bache Gould, 1868-1953)."

Will Mackintosh
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Michigan
"A Restless Nation: Mobility, Cosmopolitanism, and Class in the United States, 1790-1865."
Christopher McKnight Nichols
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Virginia
"From Empire to Isolation: Isolation and Internationalism in American Thought, 1890-1925."

Derek Pacheco
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
"One Great Moral Enterprise": Literature and Education.

2004-2005

Richard J. Bell
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
"Humane Societies and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830"

Daniel Cavicchi
Professor, Department of History, Rhode Island School of Design
"A History of Music Listening in the United States."

Jason M. Colby
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Cornell University
"Jim Crow Empire: Race and U.S. Colonialism in the Caribbean Basin, 1870-1940."

Robb Keith Haberman
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Connecticut
"Expectations of Failure" or "a Network of Benefits: Magazine Production and the Economics of the Print Trade in Post-Revolutionary America."

Kathleen Lawrence
Ph.D., Lecturer, Department of American Studies, Boston University
"Margaret Fuller's Aesthetic Transcendentalism and its Legacy."

Amanda Bowie Moniz
PhD Candidate, Department of History, The University of Michigan
"Labours in the Cause of Humanity in Every Part of the Globe: Transatlantic Philanthropic Collaboration and the Cosmopolitan Ideal, 1760-1815."

John C. Orr
Professor, Department of English & Foreign Languages, The University of Portland
"Henry Adams and the Discourse of Eugenics."

Padraig Griffin Riley
PhD candidate, Department of History, UC Berkeley
"The Origins of Doughface: The Northern Jeffersonians in the Early American Republic."

Kelly A. Ryan
PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park
"Regulating Passion: Sexuality and Citizenship in the Early Republic."

2003-2004

Kristin Bayer
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, New York University
"Substance and Symbol: China and the Global Opium Trade of the 19th Century"

Jason Eden
Ph.D. Candidate in American History, University of Minnesota
"Beyond Survival: New England Indians in Bermuda and Southeastern Massachusetts, 1620-1750"

Aki Kalliomäki
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz
"'The Most God-provoking Democrats on This Side of Hell' - The United Irishmen in the Early American Republic"

Paul C. Kemeny
Assistant Professor, Religion and Philosophy Department, Grove City College
"The First Moral Majority: The New England Watch and Ward Society and Moral Reform Politics in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century America"

Peter Leavenworth
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of New Hampshire
"Taste and Cultural Hierarchy in American Popular Music, 1770-1825"

Charlene Mires
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Villanova University
"Capitals of the World: Urban Identity, Boosterism, and City Planning in the Twentieth Century"

Robert Strong
Ph.D. Candidate, Creative Writing and Literary Studies, University of Denver
"American Common Prayers"

John Wood Sweet
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"American Dreams: Communities of Interpretation in the Atlantic World, 1620-1850"

2002-2003

Rachel Chernos Lin
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Brown University
"The Rhode Island Slave Traders and their Communities, 1750-1807"

Frances Clarke
Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
"Sentimental Bonds: Suffering, Sacrifice and Benevolence in the Civil War North"

Frank A. Guridy
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Michigan
"Transnational Connections: Cuba and the United States Through the Lens of E. Atkins & Co., 1898-1920"

M. H. Hoeflich
Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Kansas
"The Business of the Law in Antebellum America"

Phyllis Whitman Hunter
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of North Carolina Greensboro
"Geographies of Capitalism: Imagining 'the Orient' in Early America"

Catherine Lanford
Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art, Yale University
"Silver in Antebellum Boston"

Douglas Mann
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Georgia
"Becoming Creole: Material Life and Society in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica"

Julia Ott
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Yale University
"Selling Confidence: Credit, Character, and the Origins of American Market Culture"

Michael J. Rawson
Ph.D. Candidate, American History, University of Wisconsin - Madison
"Nature and the City: Class, Power, and the Creation of Metropolitan Boston, 1820-1920"

2001-2002

Joseph S. Bonica
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Rutgers University
"The Politics of Private Experience in Nineteenth-Century America"

James Delbourgo
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
"Political Electricity: Experimentalism, Enthusiasm and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century British America"

Johannes Dillinger
Visiting Fellow, Georgetown University
"Communalism and Communal Representation in Comparative Perspective"

John Howe
Professor, Emeritus, University of Minnesota
"The Social Politics of Verbal Discourse in Revolutionary America"

Kent A. McConnell
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia
"'There Must Be Tears in the Houses': A Search for Religious Meaning from the Carnage of the American Civil War"

Michael A. McDonnell
Lecturer, Department of American Studies, University of Wales
"The Ideology of Disaffection in Revolutionary New England"

Karen O'Brien
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University
"Making the Personal Political: Religion, Obligation, and Identity in the American Revolution"

Jean-Pierre Sawaya
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Laval University
"The Seven Nations of Canada, 1778-1814: a colonial confederacy"

Chernoh M. Sesay, Jr.
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University
"'all things are frail and changeable': The Worlds of Prince Hall and the Development of Black Atlantic Identities, 1740-1830"

2000-2001

Thomas E. Conroy
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Before 'Bulfinch's Boston': Building, Builders, and the Politics of Style in Boston, 1750-1801"

Holly M. A. Heinzer
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Yale University
"On the Move: The Means and Meanings of Travel in Northeastern America, 1750-1850"

Thea K. Hunter
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
"Publishing Freedom, Winning Arguments: Somersett, Natural Rights and Massachusetts Freedom Suits 1772-1836"

Timothy W. Jensen
Ph.D. Candidate, American History, University of Oregon
"The Wares: Three Generations of American Unitarians"

Thierry Lalande
Visiting Fellow, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Teaching and Lecturing on Natural Philosophy in 18th-century Boston and Cambridge

Joshua M. Smith
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Maine
"The Rogues of Quoddy: Smuggling in the Maine-New Brunswick Borderlands, 1783-1820"

Tamara Plakins Thornton
Associate Professor, Department of History, SUNY—Buffalo
"The Bowditches: The Practice of Science and the Business of Class in Nineteenth-Century America"

Rohit Daniel Wadhwani
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
"Creating the Citizen Saver: Household Economy, Financial Institutions, and the State in the Northeastern US, 1830-1930"

Christopher J. Young
Ph.D. candidate, American History, University of Illinois at Chicago
"The Dimensions of Public Opinion in Post-Revolutionary American Politics"

1999-2000

Terry Catapano
The Papers of Thomas A. Edison
"Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana: A Bibliographical and Textual Study."

Shannon E. Duffy
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park
"A Flair for Controversy: Five Generations of the Hutchinson Family in Massachusetts, 1629-1774."

Kristian Matthew Marks
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, The Ohio State University
"'Like Thunder and Lightning:' British Force Projection in the West Indies, 1739-1800."

Samuel J. Martland
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago at Urbana-Champaign
"Gateway to the Pacific: International Trade and Urban Modernization in Valparaiso, Chile, 1820-1914."

Sarah Messer
Assistant Professor, Creative Writing Department, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Memoir: "The Red House."

Burke Miller
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Miami University
"The World of William Burke in the Early American Republic."

J. Richard Olivas
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of California Riverside
"The Virtual Boston Project."

Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago
"Constructing a New American Forum: Cosmopolitanism, Liberalism, and Public Accommodation, 1760-1830."

Karen Marie Woods
Ph.D. candidate, Department of English, University of Minnesota
"'A Slave Story I Began and Abandoned': Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Abolitionist Fiction"

1998-1999

Leslie Butler
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Reed College
"The Mugwump Dilemma: Democracy and Cultural Authority in Victorian America."

Alison Games
Assistant Professor of History, Georgetown University
"Agents of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1558-1660."

Mark Herlihy
Ph.D. candidate, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
"Leisure, Space, and Collective Memory in Boston, 1890-1980."

R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Oregon
"Roads to the Modern State: Fiscal Policy in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, Oregon, and Nevada."

Sarah Kidd
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Missouri
"Crisis of the Marketplace: The Panic of 1819 and the Culture of the Early Republic."

Timothy P. McCarthy
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
"An Abolitionist America: Antislavery Culture and the Making of a Nation."

Nancy E. Packer
Ph.D. candidate, History of American Civilization, University of Delaware
"'Altho' the Seas Divide': Perceptions of a Trans-Atlantic Landscape among Americans in Britain, 1760-1810."

Andrew M. Taylor
Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
"From Individualism to Communalism: Caroline Dall and the Decline of American Romanticism."

Emily B. Todd
Ph.D. candidate, Department of English, University of Minnesota
"Sir Walter Scott and 19th-Century Boston Literary Culture."

Douglas Wilson Saunders
Director, International Center for Jefferson Studies
"Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia."

1997-1998

Susanna Lynn Blumenthal
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Yale University
"Law and the Modern Mind: The Problem of Consciousness in American Legal Culture, 1800-1930."

Mary Kupiec Cayton
Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Miami University
"Orthodoxy in New England Revived: Evangelical Congregationalism and the Cultural Origins of the Benevolent Empire, 1785-1833."

Carolyn Eastman
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
"Oratory, Print, and the Development of the American Audience, ca. 1780-1850."

Janet Greenlees
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of York
"The Impact of a Female Labor Force on 19th-Century Capitalist Industry in New England and England: A Comparative Study."

Lauranett Lorraine Lee
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Virginia
"'Getting a Right Smart Education': Community and Change in the Reconstruction South."

Michael Millender
Assistant Professor of History and Law, University of Florida
"Transformation of American Trial Procedure, 1800-1850."

Heather Shawn Nathans
Ph.D. candidate, Program in Theater History, Tufts University
"Post-Revolutionary Theater as Cultural Artifact in Boston and Philadelphia."

Daniel Winer
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Delaware
"The Development and Meaning of Firefighting, 17th-19th Centuries."

Kariann Akemi Yokota
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, UCLA
"From an Unstable Beginning: American Post-Colonial Identity."

1996-1997

Juniper Ellis
Ph.D. candidate, Vanderbilt University
"American Literatures of the South Pacific."

Sara Errington
Ph.D. candidate, Brown University
"The Politics of Providence: Religious Interpretation of Remarkable Natural Events in America, 1720-1820."

Anthony A. Iacarino
Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
"The Northern Antislavery Challenge and the Problem of Slavery in Early National Virginia, 1776-1832."

Karen L. Kilcup
Lecturer in American Studies, University of Hull, England
"'I am neither Painter nor Poet': The Diaries of Lorenza Stevens Berbineau, Beacon Hill Domestic."

Ben Mutschler
Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University
"Cultures of Sickness, Cultures of Health: The American Experience with Illness, 1690-1820."

Joseph T. Rainer
Ph.D. candidate, College of William and Mary
"Early-19th-Century Peddlers of New England."

Kevin Brooks Sheets
Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia
"Latinity and American Culture."

Carl Smith
Professor, Northwestern University
"Water and Cities in Antebellum America."

Peter Way
Reader in American History, University of Sussex, England
"Artisans of War: The British Army and Regular Soldiers in North America during the French and Indian War."

Rachel Wheeler
Ph.D. candidate, Yale University
"Forgotten Conversations: The Indian-European Negotiation of Religion in the 18th-Century Northeast"

Benjamin F. Stevens Fellowship

2012-2013
Sarah Sutton
Brandeis University
"Industrializing the Family Farm: Dairy Farming, Milk Consumption, and the New England Landscape"

2011-2012
Randi Lewis
University of Virginia
"To 'the most distant parts of the Globe': Trade, Politics, and the Maritime Frontier in the Early Republic, 1763-1819"

2009-2010
Lori Veilleux
Ph.D candidate, Department of Religious Studies, Brown University
"Religion, Science, and Boston's 1832 Cholera Epidemic"

2008-2009
Michael Block
University of Southern California
"New England Merchants, the China Trade, and the Origins of California"

2007-2008
R. Todd Romero
Assistant Professor of History, University of Houston
“Colonizing Childhood: Native American Children in Early New England”

2006-2007
Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai
PhD candidate, The University of Virginia
"New England's Elite: Young Northerners in the Civil War Era."

2005-2006
Deborah Walling
Department of English, Auburn University
"The Spiritual Trance: James Freeman Clarke's Ministry and Mesmerism."

2004-2005
Margaret Sumner
PhD Candidate, Department of History, Rutgers University
"Reason, Revelation, and Romance: The Social and Intellectual Construction of Early American College Communities, 1782-1860"

2003-2004
Nian-Sheng Huang
Associate Professor, Department of History, California State University Channel Islands
"The Poor in Massachusetts, 1630-1830"

2002-2003
William van Arragon
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Indiana University - Bloomington
"Cotton Mather in American Cultural Memory, 1728-1892"

2001-2002
Jennifer Anderson
Ph.D. candidate, American and Atlantic World History, New York University
"Currencies of Environmental Knowledge: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade, c. 1700-1800"

1999-2000
Melissane Parm
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Boston University
"A Freedom to Suit Themselves: Negotiating Indian Identity on Cape Cod, 1757-1834."

1998-1999
Paul A. Van Dyke
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Southern California
"Port Canton, 1690-1840: Explorations of American Enterprise in an Expanding World."

1997-1998
Roger Francis Thompson
Professor of American History, University of East Anglia
"East Anglian Towns in Early New England."

1996-1997
Daniel A. Cohen
Associate Professor of History, Florida International University
"Rebecca Reed and the Burning of the Charlestown Convent: Gender, Class, and Sectarian Conflict in 19th-Century America"

Boston Marine Society Fellowship

2005-2006
Jane T. Merritt
Associate Professor, Department of History, Old Dominion University
"The Trouble With Tea: Consumption, Politics, and the Making of a Global Colonial Economy."

2004-2005
Kevin McDonald
PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of California.
"Praying Pirates, Mettlesome Merchants and Malagasy Matriarchs: The Making and Breaking of an Indo-Atlantic Trade World, 1645-1730."

2003-2004
Stephen Berry
Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Program in Religion, Duke University
"Those Who Go Down to the Sea in Ships"

2002-2003
Matthew McKenzie
Ph.D. Candidate, American History, University of New Hampshire
"Navigating Federalism: Science, Public Policy and the Boston Marine Society in Early Republican Boston, 1790-1803"

Cushing Academy Fellowship

2012-2013
Jennifer Staver
University of California Irvine
"Energy, Work, and Power along the Pacific Coast of North America, 1768 to 1820"

Library Fund Fellowship

2001-2002
Orlando Felix Garcia Martinez
Director Archivo Histórico Provincial de Cienfuegos
Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1879-1920

Malcolm and Mildred Freiberg Fellowship

2012-2013
Katherine Grandjean
Wellesley College
"'Terror ubique tremor': Communicating Terror in Early New England, 1677-1713"

2011-2012
Amy Morsman
Middlebury College
"Reading, Writing, Race & Respectability: "Yankee Schoolmarms," Race Reform, and Northern Views on Reconstruction"

2010-2011
Mary Kelley
University of Michigan
"American Reading and Writing Practices, 1760-1860"

2009-2010
Alea Henle
Ph.D candidate, Department of History, University of Connecticut
"Preserving the Past, Making History: Historical Societies, Editors, and Collectors in the Early Republic"

Marc Friedlaender Fellowship

2012-2013
Rick Kennedy
Point Loma Nazarene University
"Cotton Mather Biblia Americana Volume 8"

2011-2012
Jonathan Beecher Field
Clemson University
"Antinomian Idol: Anne Hutchinson & American Historiography"

2010-2011
Marc-William Palen
University of Texas at Austin
"The Cleveland 'Conspiracy': Mugwumpery, Free Trade Ideology, and Foreign Policy in Gilded-Age America"

2009-2010
Matthew Hale
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Goucher College
"The French Revolution and American National Identity"

2008-2009
Margery Heffron
"Researching the Papers of Louisa Catherine Adams at the MHS"

2007-2008
Kenneth P. Minkema
Executive Director, Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University
“Biblia Americana”

2006-2007
Virginia Gilmartin
Ph.D. Candidate, Rutgers University
"Henry Adams: Imagining Women."

2005-2006
Linus B. Kafka
Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
"The World and Henry Adams: Cosmopolitan Intellectuals and the Making of Modern America."

2004-2005
Bradford J. Wood
Professor, Department of History, Eastern Kentucky University
"The James Murray Letters and Colonial North Carolina"

2002-2003
William C. diGiacomantonio
Associate Editor, First Federal Congress Project
"Thatcher Letters"

2001-2002
Margaret A. Lowe
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Bridgewater State College
An edition of the diary of Marion Lawrence Peabody

2000-2001
Richard A. Samuelson
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Virginia
Brooks Adams's Biography of John Quincy Adams

1999-2000
Elizabeth Miles Nuxoll
Robert Morris Papers
"The Personal and Family Papers of Robert Morris."

The Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship

2012-2013
Holger Hoock
University of Pittsburgh
"Scars of Independence: Practices and Representations of Violence in the American Revolutionary War"

2011-2012
Trenton Jones
Johns Hopkins University
"Deprived of Their Liberty": Prisoners of War and American Military Culture

2010-2011
David Preston
The Citadel
"Braddock's Veterans: Paths of Loyalty in the British Empire, 1755-1775"

2009-2010
Jeffrey Kosiorek
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Hendrix College
"The Power of Our Patriot Fathers: Memory, Commemoration, and the American Revolution in the 19th Century"

2008-2009
Jeffrey Malanson
Boston College
"Addressing America: Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics and Diplomacy, 1796-1850"

2007-2008
Peter C. Messer
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Mississippi State University
“Revolution By Committee: Law, Language and Ritual in Revolutionary America”

2006-2007
Professor Daniel J. Hulsebosch
New York University-School of Law
"Writs to Rights: The Transformation of the Anglo-American Common Law in the Age of Revolution."

2005-2006
John Anthony Ruddiman
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Yale University
"'Becoming men of some consequence' Young Men of the Continental Army in Revolutionary War and Peace."

2004-2005
Stephen C. Bullock
Professor, Department of Humanities and Arts, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"The Politics of Politeness: Culture, Class, and Power in Provincial America, 1690-1776."

2003-2004
Keith Beutler
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis
"The Death of the Parents: Loss of the United States' Founding Generation and Historicized Epistemologies of Memory, 1790-1840"

2002-2003
Christopher A. Sleeper
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Riverside
"Boston's Beachcombers: The Economic, Social and Legal Milieus of Boston's Maritime Community, 1740-1810"

2001-2002
Benjamin Carp
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Virginia
"Cityscapes and Revolution: Urban Spaces and Revolutionary Mobilization in North America, 1740-1790"

2000-2001
Karen O'Brien
Ph. D. candidate, Northwestern University
"Making the Personal Political: Religion, Obligation, and Identity in the American Revolution";

1999-2000
George Quintal, Jr.
Independent Scholar
"Participants in the Boston Tea Party."

1998-1999
Walter L. Sargent
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Minnesota
"The Soldiers of Plymouth, 1775-1783: Citizen Soldiers or Sunshine Patriots?"

1997-1998
Max Cavitch
Ph.D. candidate, Department of English, Rutgers University
"Revolutionary Mourners: The Poetic Response to George Washington's Death."

Paine Publication Fund Fellowship

2010-2011
Edward Hanson
The Papers of Robert Treat Paine

Paul Revere Memorial Association Fellowship

2003-2004
Donald Burke
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Wayne State University
"James Otis and the Political Culture of Whig Constitutionalism"

2002-2003
Daniel McDonough
Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee at Martin
"Boston Under British Occupation, 1774-1776"

2001-2002
Gayle E. Sawtelle
Visiting Research Collaborator, Department of History, Princeton University
"The commercial landscape of pre-industrial Boston"

2000-2001
Louis Arthur Norton
Master's candidate, History Department, University of Connecticut
"Paul Revere and the Penobscot Expedition, 1779"

1998-1999
Robert Martello
Ph.D. candidate, Science, Technology, and Society Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Paul Revere's Copper Rolling Mills"

1997-1998
Rob Martello
Ph.D. candidate, Science, Technology, and Society Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Paul Revere's Copper Rolling Mills"

1996-1997
Wayne Bodle
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Iowa
"Alchemy in Reverse?: New England's 'Copper' and the Transformation of the American Mineralogical Imagination."

Ruth R. & Alyson R. Miller Fellowship

2012-2013

Bonnie Lucero
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
"Privates, Prostitutes, and Pardos: Women and Racial Conflict in Cienfuegos, Cuba, circa 1898"

Lindsay Moore
Boston University
"A Consuming Femininity: Gender, Culture and the Material Worlds of Young Womanhood, 1750-1850"

2011-2012

Kathryn Goetz
University of Minnesota
"A Consuming Femininity: Gender, Culture and the Material Worlds of Young Womanhood, 1750-1850"

Jessica Linker
University of Connecticut
"'It is my wish to behold Ladies among my hearers': Early American Women and Practices of Natural History, 1720-1860"

2010-2011

Nora Doyle
University of North Carolina
"'A Higher Place in the Scale of Being': Experience and Representation of the Maternal Body in America, 1750-1865"

Laura Prieto
Simmons College
"New Woman: New Empire: 1898 and Its Legacies for Women in the United States"

2009-2010

Sara Lampert
Ph.D candidate, Department of History, University of Michigan
"The Public Woman: Taking to the Stage in 19th Century America"

Deborah McNally
Ph.D candidate, Department of History, University of Washington
"Within Patriarchy: Puritan Women in Massachusetts's Congregational Churches, 1630-1715"

2008-2009

Rachel Cope
Syracuse University
"'In Some Places a Few Drops and Other Places a Plentiful Shower': The Religious Impact of Revivalism on Women in the 19th Century"

Serena Zabin
Carleton College
"Street Politics and the Boston Massacre"

2007-2008

Dana Magill Cooper
Assistant Professor of History, Stephen F. Austin State University
“Our American Cousin: Mary Endicott Chamberlain”

Ann Schofield
Professor of American Studies and Women’s Studies, University of Kansas
“Women in Black: A Comparative Study of Class, Gender and Mourning in Britain and the United States”

2005-2006

Bonnie Laughlin Schultz
Ph.D. Candidate, Indiana University
"'COULD I NOT DO SOMETHING FOR THE CAUSE?': The Brown Women and John Brown's Female Networks"

2005-2006

Natalie A. Dykstra
Assistant Professor of English, Hope College
"Still Life: The Photographs of Marian 'Clover' Adams"

Mary Trautman
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Case Western Reserve University
"She's All at Sea: Space, Place, and Women's Writing on Water"

2004-2005

Judith Ann Giesberg
Professor, Department of History, Villanova University
"Northern Women's Work and Poverty in the U.S. Civil War."

April Rose Haynes
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Bodies of Knowledge: Women's Activism and Ideas in the Popular Health Movement, 1830-1860."

Marla R. Miller
Professor, Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"The Last Mantua Maker: Gender, Commerce and Change in Boston, 1789-1840."

2003-2004

Linzy A. Brekke
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
"Fashioning America: Consumption, Clothing and the Politics of Appearance, 1783-1836"

Laurie Hochstetler
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Virginia
"Places of Faith: Parish Structure and Women's Lives in Seventeenth-Century Old and New England"

Rebecca Rix
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History; Legal History Fellow, Yale Law School, Yale University
"Gender and Reconsitution: The Family and Individual Basis of Democracy Contested, 1880-1933"

2002-2003

Lee Chambers-Schiller
Associate Professor of History, University of Colorado at Boulder
"'Rocking the Nation Like a Cradle:' Maria Weston Chapman and the Construction of Political Womanhood"

Kate Davies
Permanent Lecturer, Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture, University of York
"Republican Sensibilities: Women, Writing and Atlantic Political Culture 1760-1810"

Judith S. Graham
Lecturer, Department of History, Boston College
"World War I Letters of Eleanor (Nora) Saltonstall"

2001-2002

Ellen A.Foster
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Literature, Duquesne University
"C.M. Sedgwick's Representations of American Nationhood"

Karen Leroux
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University
"Servants of Democracy: Women's Work in U.S. Public Education, 1866-1902"

Teresa Anne Murphy
Associate Professor, American Studies Department, The George Washington University
"Angels of History: Women and Historical Imagination in the Early Republic"

2000-2001

Natalie A. Dykstra
Assistant Professor of English, Hope College
The Life and Photography of Marion 'Clover' (Hooper) Adams

Monica D. Fitzgerald
Ph.D. candidate, History Department, University of California, Davis
"Saints and Sinners: Defining Gender in a Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Town and Church"

Erin Elizabeth McMurray
Ph.D. candidate, American History, New York University
Early 20th-century history of the Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls

1999-2000

Jenifer B. Elmore
Ph.D. candidate, Department of English, Florida State University
The Personal Writings of Catharine Sedgwick.

1998-1999

Kirsten Sword
Ph.D. candidate, Program in the History of American Civilization, Harvard University
"Wayward Wives, Runaway Slaves and the Limits of Patriarchal Authority in Early America."

Society of Colonial Wars of Massachusetts Fellowship

2004-2005
Christian A. Crouch
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, New York University
"Imperfect Reflections: French use of Indian Warfare and the Six Nation's use of European Patronage During The Seven Years' War, 1754-1761"

2002-2003
John E. Grenier
Assistant Professor of History, United States Air Force Academy
"The Mi'kmaq Insurgency of the Seven Years' War"

2001-2002
Christopher Bilodeau
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Cornell University
"The Making of Maine: Sébastien Râle, the Eastern Abenakis, and the Expansion of Colonial New England"

Denver A. Brunsman
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
"From Riots to Rights: Opposition to British Naval Impressment in Transatlantic Perspective, 1689-1815"

1999-2000
Kirk Davis Swinehart
Ph.D. candidate, Department of American Studies, Yale University
"Indians in the House: Sir William Johnson among the Mohawks, 1738-1824."

1997-1998
Jenny Hale Pulsipher
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Brandeis University.
"Crisis of Authority: Massachusetts Bay Colony in King Phillip's War"

Twentieth Century History Fellowship

2010-2011
Brian Gratton
Arizona State University
"Henry Cabot Lodge and the Politics of Immigration Restriction"

2009-2010
Derek Attig
Ph.D candidate, Department of History, University of Illinois
"Race, Region, and the Idea of America in 20th Century Bookmobility"

2008-2009
Bernadette Beredo
University of Hawaii
"From Colonial Bureau to Commonwealth Institution: Cultures of Government Archives in the Phillipines, 1898-1935"

2007-2008
Kenneth Weisbrode
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
“The State Department’s Bureau of European Affairs and American Diplomacy, 1909-1989”

2006-2007
Brian K. Kennedy
Ph.D. Candidate, The Ohio State University
"A Divisive Decade: How Foreign Events and Cultural Conflicts Divided Americans During the 1930s"

W. B. H. Dowse Fellowship

2012-2013

Nichole George
University of Notre Dame
"Riots and Remembrance: America's Idols and the Origins of American Nationalism"

Reiner Smolinski
Georgia State University
"Cotton Mather: The Life of a Puritan Intellectual"

2011-2012

Robyn McMillin
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
"Science in the American Style, 1680-1815: A School of Fashion and Philosophy, of Liberty and People"

Tyler Boulware
University of West Virginia
"Next to Kin: Native Americans and Friendship in Early America"

2010-2011

Sara Damiano
The Johns Hopkins University
"Financial Credit and Professional Credibility: Lawyers and Laypeople in New England Ports, 1700-1776"

Neal Dugre
Northwestern University
"Creating New England: Intercolonial Political Culture and the Birth of a Region in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic"

2009-2010

Justin Pope
Ph.D candidate, Department of History, George Washington University
"Whispers and Waves: Insurrection, Conspiracy, and the Search for Salvation in the British Atlantic, 1729-1742"

Richard Rath
Visiting Residential Scholar, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
"The Disenchantment of America: Mediating the Senses in the 18th-Century Atlantic World"

2008-2009

Ian Aebel
University of New Hampshire
"Constructing History: Producing America: Anglo-American Historical Thought, Historiography, and the Birth of American History in the Early Modern English Atlantic World, 1485-1714"

Len Travers, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
"Casualties of War and the Massachusets Home Front, 1756-1761"

2007-2008

Kevin M. Sweeney
Professor of History and American Studies, Amherst College
“The Possession and Use of Firearms in America, 1620-1820”

Shona Johnston
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Georgetown University
“The Catholic Anglo-America in the Seventeenth Century”

2006-2007

Eric Kimball
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pittsburgh
"'An Essential Link, in a vas Chain': Massachusetts and the West Indies, 1700-1775."

James W. Roberts
Ph.D. Candidate, The John Hopkins University
"New England's West Indies-Coastwise Trade."

2005-2006

Siobhan M. Hart
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
"Revisiting History's Silences: An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Approach to Seventeenth Century Native History in the Connecticut River Valley"

Christopher P. Magra
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, University of Pittsburgh
"The New England Cod Fisheries and Maritime Origins of the American Revolution."

2004-2005

Heather Miyano Kopelson
PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Iowa.
"Performing Faith: Religion Practice and Identity in the Puritan Atlantic, 1660-1720."

Michael A. LaCombe
Ph.D. Candidate, New York University.
"Food & Authority in the English Atlantic World, 1570-1640."

2003-2004

Christian A. Crouch
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, New York University
"Imperfect Reflections: New France's Adoption of Indian Violence and the Six Nations Confederacy's Exercise of European Patronage during the Seven Years' War, 1754-1761"

Owen Stanwood
Department of History, Northwestern University
"Creating the Common Enemy: Cultural Construction of Empire in British American, 1680-1715"

2002-2003

Irina Y. Khruleva
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Moscow State University
"Salem witch hunt"

Julie Sievers
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin
"Revising Religious Experience: Wonder Literature and Protestant Rhetoric in Seventeenth-Century New England"

2001-2002

James E. McWilliams
Ph.D. candidate, History Department, The Johns Hopkins University
"From the Ground Up: Internal Economic Development and Local Commercial Exchange in the Massachusetts Bay Region, 1630-1710 "

Lauren F. Winner
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
"The Anglican Communion and the Making of the British Atlantic World"

2000-2001

Thomas Agostini
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Lehigh University
Lives of Soldiers in the Seven Years' War

Reiner Smolinski
Associate Professor of English, Georgia State University
"Authority and Interpretation: Cotton Mather's 'Biblia Americana' (1693-1728)"

1999-2000

Jonathan Beecher Field
Ph.D. candidate, Department of English, University of Chicago
"A Voice Dissenting in the Wilderness: John Wheelwright's Career in Northern New England."

Marsha L. Hamilton
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, SUNY Stony Brook
"Strangers in the Land: 'Outsiders' in Eastern New England, 1640-1690."

Robert Blair St. George
Associate Professor, Department of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania
"The Trade in Talk: Communicative Economy and Performance in Early New England."

1998-1999

Robert Ernest Desrochers, Jr.
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University
"Every Picture Tells a Story: Slavery, Freedom, African Americans, and the Printed Word in 18th-Century New England."

Sally E. Hadden
Assistant Professor of History and Law, Florida State University
"The Evolution of Legal Culture in Early American Cities: Boston, Charleston, and Philadelphia."

David J. Silverman
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
"Conditions for Coexistence: Form, Function, and Meaning in the Indian-Anglo Social Dynamic of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871."

1997-1998

Irina Abramova
Teacher, St. Petersburg School 169, St. Petersburg, Russia
"Schooling and Education in 17th- and 18th-century New England."

Konstantin Dierks
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Brown University
"Letter Writing in Revolutionary America, 1750-1800."

1996-1997

Steven C. Bullock
Associate Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"The Politics of Politeness: Culture, Class, and Power in Provincial America."

Norman Gevitz
Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Medicine and Society in 17th-Century New England."