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Current Fellows, 2008 through 2009
Gilder Lehrman Fellows |
| January 2008 |
David A. Brown, Ph.D. Candidate, College of William and Mary
“Confronting the Archaeology/History Divide: Landscape and Slavery at Fairfield Plantation,
Gloucester County, Virginia, 1675-1828” |
| Jan-April 2008 |
Jillian Galle, Ph.D., University of Virginia
“Strategic Consumption: Archaeological Evidence for Costly Signaling Among Enslaved Men and
Women in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake” |
| Feb-March 2008 |
Anna O. Marley, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Delaware
“Rooms with a View: The Topographic Landscape in the American Home, 1780-1820” |
| April 2008 |
James Walvin, Professor of History, University of York
“Sites of Remembrance: Slavery and the Public Memory” |
| Apr-June 2008 |
Miles Parks Grier, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University
“Reading Black Characters in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic” |
| May 2008 |
Albert Louis Zambone, Ph.D, Assistant Professor at Purdue University
“Anglican Enlightenment: Intellectual Culture in Virginia, 1690-1750” |
| July 2008 |
James Robertson, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in History,
University of the West Indies, Jamaica
“The First English Century in Jamaica, 1655-1770—Cultural and
Social Transformations Brought by the Island’s Transfer from Spanish to English
Rule” |
| July 2008 |
Camille Wells, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor,
College of William and Mary
“An Embarrassment of Riches: What Rosewell Meant in Early Virginia” |
| July 2008 |
Angela Scott, Masters Candidate,
College of William and Mary
“Colonial Williasmburg’s ‘Maritime’ Social History” |
| July-Aug 2008, Oct 2008 |
Jennifer Van Horn, Ph.D. in Art History, University
of Virginia
“The Object of Civility and the Art of Politeness in British America (1740-1780)” |
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Robert M. & Annetta J. Coffelt and Robert M. Coffelt, Jr. Fellows |
| January 2008 |
Kara E. Pierce, M.A. in History, Binghamton University, New York
“The Feudal System of Entail and Its Influences on Early Colonial Society” |
| June-July 2008 |
Jim David, Ph.D. Candidate, College of William and
Mary
“Dunmore’s New World: Political Cultures of the British Empire, 1770-1796” |
| Aug-Oct 2008 |
Katherine Rieder, Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University
“‘The Remainder of Our Effects We Must Leave Behind’: American
Loyalists and the Meaning of Things, 1765-1800” |
| TBD |
David A. Davidson, Ph.D. Candidate, Northwestern University
“Republic of Risk: Evangelicalism and Capitalism in America, 1783-1800” |
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library Fellows |
Dec 2007-
Jan 2008 |
John Bailey, Writer, Sydney, Australia
“The Life of George Wythe and the Dilemma He and His Contemporaries Have Reconciling
Their Principles of Equality and Freedom with the Realities of Southern Society” |
| June 2008 |
Kevin M. Sweeney, Ph.D., Professor of History and American
Studies, Amherst College
“The Possession and Use of Firearms in America, 1620-1820” |
| Feb-March 2009 |
Allison Stagg, Ph.D. Candidate, University College,
London
“American Political Caricatures, 1780-1810” |
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