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Past and Current Fellowship Recipients
Short-Term Research Fellows of 2009/2010

African American Studies Fellowship

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

W.B.H. Dowse Fellowship

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

Malcolm and Mildred Freiberg Fellowship

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

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

The Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship

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

Suzanne & Caleb Loring Fellow

Kathryn Shively Meier
Ph.D candidate, Department of History, University of Virginia
"Under the Surge of the Blue": Environmental Effects on Civil War Soldier Mental and Physical Health in Virginia, 1862

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships

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

Ruth R & Alyson R. Miller Fellowship

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

Andrew Oliver Research Fellowship

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"

Benjamin F. Stevens Fellowship

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

Twentieth-Century History Fellowship

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

Short-Term Fellows of 2008/2009 and Earlier



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