Colonial Williamsburg Research Division Web Site

Current Fellows, 2009-2010

Gilder Lehrman Fellows

July 2009 Kevin Quinn Doyle, Ph.D. Candidate, Brandeis University
“Empire, Holiday, People: A History of Pope’s Day in Early America”
July-Aug 2009 Kristin Tremper, Masters Candidate, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Death and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Virginia”
July-Aug 2009 Karen M. Wilson, Assistant Director, Gluck Fellows Program for the Arts, University of California, Riverside
“The Water Was White: Leopard Society Spiritual Practice in The Old Plantation
Aug-Sept 2009 Chris Evans, Professor, University of Glamorgen
“The Hoe: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Commodity”
Aug-Sept 2009 Gregory E. O’Malley, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Santa Cruz
“The British Inter-Colonial Slave Trade, 1619-1807”
Feb 2010 Brent Fortenberry, Ph.D. Candidate Boston University
“Atlantic Urbanity: 400 Years of Public Publics Space in Saint George, Bermuda”
Mar-Apr 2010 Thomas Chambers, Associate Professor, Department of History, Niagara University
“Place and Memory in Early Republic Virginia: Yorktown, Williamsburg, and Lafayette”
June 2010 Justin Pope, Ph.D. Candidate, George Washington University
“Whispers and Waves: Insurrection, Conspiracy, and the Search for Salvation in the British Atlantic, 1729-1742”
   

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

May-June 2010 Megan Walsh, Ph.D. Candidate, Temple University
“Inconspicuous Consumption: Objects, Citizenship and Visible Nationhood in Early American Literature, 1770-1800”
   

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library Fellows

Oct 2009 Maurizio Valsania, Associate Professor, University of Torino
“Thomas Jefferson’s Emotional Geography”
Nov-Dec 2009 Samuel K. Fore, Curator, Harlan Crow Library
A biography of William Pierce