New England Regional Fellowship Consortium

Past Recipients of New England Regional Fellowship Consortium

2017-2018

• Chris Babits, Ph.D. candidate, University of Texas at Austin, “To Cure a Sinful Nation: A Cultural History of Conversion Therapy and the Making of Modern America, 1930 to the Present Day”
• Laura McCoy, Ph.D. candidate, Northwestern University, “In Distress: Family and a Marketplace of Feeling in the Early American Republic”
• Tyler Sperrazza, Ph.D. candidate, Pennsylvania State University, “Defiant: African American Cultural Responses to Northern White Supremacy, 1865-1915”
• Donald Yacovone, Associate, lifetime, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, "The Liberator's Legacy: Memory, Abolitionism, and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1865-1965”

2016-2017

•    Louis Gerdelan, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University, "Calamitous Knowledge: Understanding Disaster in the British, Spanish, and French Atlantic Worlds, 1666-1755"
•    Jonathan Lande, Ph.D. candidate, Brown University, "Disciplining Freedom: Union Army Slave Rebels and Emancipation in the Civil War Courts-Martial"
•    Rachel Miller, Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan, "Capital Entertainment: Creative Labor and the Modern Stage, 1860-1930"
•    Alexandra Montgomery, Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania, "Projecting Power in the Dawnland: Colonization Schemes, Imperial Failure, and Competing Visions of the Gulf   of Maine World, 1710-1800"

2015-2016

• Amy Sopcak-Joseph, Ph.D. candidate, University of Connecticut, "The Lives and Times of Godey's Lady's Book, 1830-1877"
• Emily Torbert, Ph.D. candidate, University of Delaware, "Going Places: The Material and Imagined Geographies of Prints in the Atlantic World, 1770–1840"

2014-2015

• Christina Groeger, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University, "Paths to Work: The Rise of Credentials in American Society 18-70-1940"
• Rachel Trocchio, Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Berkley, "The Partisan Sublime"
• Sean Moore, Associate Professor of English, University of New Hampshire, "Slavery and the Making of the Early American Library: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade"

2013-2014

• Anna Bonewitz, Ph.D. Candidate, University of York (UK), "Fashioning the British Empire: Fashion, Imagery and Colonial Exchange in Eighteenth-Century New England"
• Marian Desrosiers, Adjunct Professor, Salve Regina University, "John Banister and the Influence of a Colonial Newport Merchant on the Economy of Pre-Revolutionary America"
• Russell Fehr, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Riverside, "Anxious Electorate: City Politics in Mid-1920s America"
• Ashley Smith, Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell University, "'We Have Never Not Been Here': Place, History, and Belonging in Native New England"

2012-2013

• Justin Clark, Ph.D. candidate, University of Southern California, “Training the Eyes: Romantic Vision and Class Formation in Boston, 1830-1870”
• Jared Hardesty, Ph.D. candidate, Boston College, “The Origins of Black Boston”
• Allison Lange, Ph.D. candidate, Brandeis University, “Pictures of Change: Transformative Images of Woman Suffrage, 1776-1920”

2011-2012

• Mazie Harris, Ph.D. candidate, Brown University, “Photography and American Property Law in the 1850s”
• Robyn McMillin, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, “Science in the American Style, 1680-1815: A School of Fashion and Philosophy, of Liberty and People”

2010-2011

Hayley Glaholt, Ph.D. candidate, Northwestern University, “’Reversing the Chivalry of Christ’: Quaker Women Challenge the ‘Species Line’ of Pacifist Ethics”

2009-2010

• Sean Harvey, Ph.D. candidate, College of William and Mary, “American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty;"
• Whitney Martinko, Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia, “Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860;"
• Amber Moulton-Wiseman, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University, “Marriage Extraordinary: Interracial Marriage and the Politics of Family in Antebellum Massachusetts;”
• John Wong, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University, “Global Positioning: China Trade and the Hong Merchants of the 18th and 19th Centuries.”<.li>

2008-2009

• James Revell Carr (Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) who is continuing his research for a book titled Hawaiian Music and Dance in New England, 1802-1862
• Daniel W. Hamilton, Assistant Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, for his project “Emancipation and the Law: Litigating Human Property in the Civil War and Reconstruction,”
• Christine N. Reiser, Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Brown University (dissertation: “Rooted in Movement: Community Keeping in 18th and 19th Century Native Southern New England”

2007-2008

• Rachel Tamar Van, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University, “Great Expectations: Free Trade Family Values, and the Culture of Early American Capitalism, 1782-1891”
• Kanisorn Kid Wongsrichanalai, Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia New England’s Elite: Young Northerners in the Civil War Era”

2006-2007

• Elise M. Ciregna, University of Delaware, "Ornamental Stonework in America, 1780-1850."
• Margaret A. Lowe, Bridgewater State College, "'Why Must I Be the Only Woman to Lose my Birthright?' Gender and Modernity in Upper-Class Twentieth Century American Life"
• Eric C. Stoykovich, University of Virginia, "Live Stock Nation: How Farm Animals Domesticated the Northern United States During the Early Republic, 1794-1876"L/li>
• Lisa M. Tetrault, Carnegie Mellon University, "Memory of a Movement: Re-Imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1890"

2005-2006

• Glenn Grasso, University of New Hampshire, "Fixed in Ocean Reveries:" Antimodernism, the Colonial Revivial, and the Refinement of the Maritime Past"
• Kimberley A. Hamlin, University of Texas, Austin, "Beyond Adam's Rib: The Impact of Darwin and Evolutionary Discourse on Gender and Feminist Thought, 1870-1925"
• Marina Moskowitz, University of Glasgow, "Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America"
• Katherine Stebbins-McCaffrey, Boston University, "Reading Glasses: American Spectacles from BEnjamin Franklin's Bifocals to the Tillyer Lens"
• Wendy Warren, Yale University, "African Slavery in New England, 1638-1700"

2004-2005

• Beverley K. Brandt, Professor, School of Design, College of Architecture and Design, Arizona State, “The Craftsman and the Critic: Defining Usefulness and Beauty in Turn-of-the-Century Boston.”
• Phyllis B. Cole, Professor of English, American Studies, and Women’s Studies, Penn State Delaware County, “Literary Feminism in Nineteenth-Century New England
• Heather Miyano Kopelson, Research Associate, Department of History, University of Vermont, and Ph.D. candidate, University of Iowa, “Performing Faith: Religious Practice and Identity in the Puritan Atlantic, 1660-1720”
• Amanda Moniz, Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan, “’Labours in the Cause of Humanity in Every Part of the Globe’: Transatlantic Philanthropic Collaboration and the Cosmopolitan Ideal, 1760-1815”

2002-2003

• Sally E. Hadden, Assistant Professor, Florida State University, “Legal Cultures in an Early American City: Boston.”
• Karen L. Jessup, Ph.D. candidate, The Centre for Conservation Studies, DeMountfort University, U.K., “Searching for the Past: The New England Domestic Landscape of 1876 to 1917, and the Influence of the British Idyll.”
• Stephen A. Mihm, Ph.D. candidate, New York University, “Making Money: Bank Notes, Counterfeiting, and Confidence, 1789-1877”
• David Montejano, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California at Berkeley, “A Red Badge of Cotton? On the Circulation of Southern Cotton During the American Civil War

2001-2002

No Fellowships Offered due to Renovation

2000-2001

No Fellowships Offered due to Renovation