Colonial Williamsburg Research Division Web Site

Current Fellows, 2012 & 2013

Gilder Lehrman Fellows

Kilroy Abney, Dalhousie University
“A Comparative Study of Jamestown, Virginia, and Port Royal, Acadia”
Dr. Madge Dresser, University of the West of England
“Atlantic Legacies: Slavery and Social Networks in Bristol, England, Virginia, and Carolina”
Matthew Dziennik, University of Edinburgh
“Mobilization, Not Motivation: The Raising of Military Resources During the American Revolution”
William Farrell, Birkbeck College, University of London
“Silk and Globalization in 18th Century London”
Christopher Farrish, Claremont Graduate University
“Accomodating the Southern Kitchen: Shifting Structures of Race and Labor in the Plantation Culinary Sphere, 1776–1876”
Dr. Audrey Horning, Queen’s University Belfast
“Aqua Vitae Hath such Virtue: alcohol and the early colonial encounter in Ireland and the Chesapeake”
Matthew Kruer, University of Pennsylvania
“The Susquehannock War: Bacon’s Rebellion, Native Americans and the Transformation of the English Empire”
Christopher Minty, University of Stirling
“Popular Loyalism and Counter-Revolution in the British Atlantic World, 1776–1800”
Steve Harris Scott, George Mason University
“A Slow and Messy Transition: From Indentured Servitude to African Slavery in Bermuda and Virginia’s Northern Neck, 1610–1710”
Linda Sturtz, Beloit College (Wisconsin)
“Jerdone/Jordan: A Tale of Two Widows”
   

Robert M. & Annetta J. Coffelt and Robert M. Coffelt, Jr. Fellows

Ryan Bibler, University of Virginia
“Extension and Adaptation of European Legal Forms to the English Atlantic World, c1550–1700”
Joshua Canale, Binghamton University
“American Dictators: Executive Bodies During the American Revolution, 1774–1784”
Dr. Matthew Crow, University of California-Los Angeles
“Jefferson’s Fragments: Language, Text, and Usage in the Course of Human Events”
Benjamin Lyons, Columbia University
“John Jay, the Law of Nations, and the Diplomacy of the American Revolution”
Craig Smith, Brandeis University
“Rightly to be Great: Ideas of Honor and Virtue among the American Founders”
   

NEH African and African American History and Culture Fellows

Terry Brock, Michigan State University
“‘We All Walked Together’: The Transition from Slavery to Freedom on a 19th Century Plantation in Maryland”
Dr. Katie McDade, University of Nottingham
“‘A Particular Spirit of Enterprise’: Bristol and Liverpool Slave Trade Merchants as Entrepreneurs in the Eighteenth Century”
Dr. Julie Richter, College of William & Mary
“The Students of Williamsburg’s Bray School: A Biographical Study of Eighty-Six Enslaved and Free Black Children in Virginia’s Colonial Capital, 1762”
Dr. Jill Rowe, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Migration of Gowen/Goins/Goings Family: A Free Tri-racial Family with Virginia Origins”
Dr. Arwin Smallwood, University of Memphis
“Common Threads: Cultural Interactions among Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans in Colonial America”
Amanda Stuckey, College of William & Mary
“Within the Great House: Domestic Experience During Shirley Plantation’s Antebellum Years”
Dr. Albert Tillson, University of Tampa
“Those Who Go By Water: Enslaved and Free Maritime Workers in the Revolutionary and Antebellum Chesapeake”
   

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library Fellows

Katherine Egner, College of William & Mary
“The Public Store of Williamsburg, Virginia, 1775–1780”
Julia Kaziewicz, College of William & Mary
“Using America’s Past to Ensure its Successful Future: Cold War Cultural Programming at Rockefeller’s Colonial Williamsburg”
   

Invited Scholars and Fellows

Hank Lutton, Boston University (Invited Research Fellow)
Rebecca Schumann, College of William & Mary (Invited Research Fellow)
Peter J. Wrike, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Invited Research Fellow)