Fellowships Awarded for 2008
James Alsop McMaster University for research on Dr. Gustavus R. B. Horner and the development of naval medicine, 1826–1868.
Friederike Baer Temple University for research on Baroness Friederike Riedesel and the living conditions of captured German and British troops in Virginia during the Revolutionary War.
Kevin Barksdale Marshall University for research on the Appalachian backcountry and the interactions that occurred across the region between Amerindian groups .
Audrey Bonnet Université Paris for research on the different ways the Jamestown celebrations have been organized as well as the invention of myths and traditions, the function of collective memory and popular culture, and the role and influence of symbols.
Elizabeth Crosman University of Delaware for research on the evolution of Methodist lay assertiveness by examining the separation of the Republican Methodists begun by James O’Kelly, evangelist Lorenzo Dow’s controversial career, and the struggle for lay representation led by Nicholas Snethen.
Jessica Dallow University of Alabama at Birmingham for research on sporting artist Edward Troye and his patrons, including William Ransom Johnson and John Minor Botts.
James Davis State University of New York at Fredonia for research on music in the daily life of soldiers and civilians during winter quarters of 1863–64 in central Virginia.
Patricia Davis University of California, San Diego for research on the various media involved in the construction of an emergent black southern identity centered on collective memories of slavery and the Civil War.
James Denham Florida Southern College for research on William P. Duval, a Virginia native who served as territorial governor of Florida from 1822 to 1834.
Carol Emberton University at Buffalo for research on how Virginia’s Readjuster Party used the issue of corporal punishment, particularly the abolition of the whipping post, to galvanize a progressive, biracial coalition that made Virginia unique in Reconstruction politics.
Lynette Garrett American University for research on Confederate nationalism.
Hilary Green University of North Carolina for research on African American education during Reconstruction.
Catherine Kerrison Villanova University for research on Martha Jefferson Randolph, Maria Jefferson Eppes, and Harriet Hemings, the three daughters of Thomas Jefferson.
Gabriel Klehr Johns Hopkins University for research on the conversion of slaves to evangelical forms of Christianity from roughly 1770 to 1830.
Michael Krivdo Texas A & M University for research on the 1862 battle of Drewry’s Bluff.
Barbaranne Liakos University of Iowa for research on American paintings and prints of Civil War battle scenes produced from 1869 through 1894, and in particular, those by John Adams Elder, an artist from Fredericksburg.
Jenny Masur National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom for for research on runaway slaves and northern Virginia slaveholding families and plantations.
Sarah McLennan College of William and Mary for research on the Jamestown 350th Anniversary Celebration in 1957.
Elizabeth Monroe Indiana University for research on William Wirt, U.S. Attorney General, 1817–29, and his early career as a lawyer.
Megan Nelson California State University, Fullerton for research on how the ruins of war challenged fundamental aspects of nationalism from 1861 to 1865 and in the years after the conflict.
C. Scott Nesbit University of Virginia for research on the ideas of public forgiveness and reconciliation during Reconstruction.
Yvette Piggush Florida International University for research on American social romanticism, 1790–1840.
Justin Pope George Washington University for research on slave insurrections, conspiracies, and religious movements between 1729 and 1742.
Matthew Rhoades West Texas A&M University for research on Alexander Spotswood and the fiscal-military state in Virginia during the years 1710–22.
Laura Sandy University of Reading for research on plantation overseers, with particular regard to the part they played in slave management during the American Revolution.
Rachel Shapiro University of Virginia for research on the influence of community life in Washington, D.C., on the course of American political events leading up to the Civil War, 1846–1862.
Faren Siminoff Nassau Community College, New York City for research on James Robert Lee, a free man of color who became an Adventist preacher in Long Island.
Chad Vanderford University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa for research on St. George Tucker, his sons, Henry and Beverley Tucker, and his grandson, John Randolph Tucker.
Annette Varcoe Binghamton University for research on women’s involvement in benevolent work during and after the Civil War.
Todd Wahlstrom University of California, Santa Barbara for research on the economic and social history behind southern migration to Mexico after the Civil War.
Jennifer Weber University of Kansas for research on the effect of the draft on both the United States and the Confederate States populations.
Jonathan Wells University of North Carolina at Charlotte for research on the emergence and evolution of middle-class southerners in the post–Civil War period.
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