Fellowships Awarded for 2011
Matthew Amato of the University of Southern California • for research on photographic images and image-practices in the cultures of slavery, antislavery, and post-emancipation America
Michael Bennett of High Point University • for research on the forces that restrained and then facilitated lawful and unlawful killing during the Civil War
Michael Bernath of the University of Miami • for research on the role of northern teachers and tutors in the Old South, 1790–1860
Charles Bodie, president of the Rockbridge Historical Society • for research on James McDowell (1795–1851), a Virginia governor and U.S. congressman
Michael Conlin of Eastern Washington University • for research on sectional identity in the political struggle over slavery in the antebellum era
Natalie Deibel of George Washington University • for research on the role sports, games, and other pastimes played in the lives of women and the formation of gender roles from 1600 to 1800
Zachary Dresser of Rice University • for research on religious thought in the postwar South
Bartow Elmore of the University of Virginia • for research on an environmental history of Coca-Cola
Allison Fredette of the University of Florida • for research on gender, regional identity, and the law in the border South, 1840–80
Claire Gherini of Johns Hopkins University • for research on the cultures and economies of health and healing between 1730 and 1800
Trenton (Cole) Jones of Johns Hopkins University • for research on prisoners of war and the American military culture during the Revolutionary War
Lindsay Keiter of the College of William and Mary • for research on changes in courtship and marriage in British North America between the 1750s and the Civil War
Cindy Kierner of George Mason University • for research on the 1811 Richmond Theatre fire
Andrew Lang of Rice University • for research on garrison, occupation, and home guard military service during the Civil War
Janet Lindman of Rowan University • for research on friendship in early America
Jessica Linker of the University of Connecticut • for research on female naturalists in early America between 1720 and 1860
Allison Madar of Rice University • for research on the role and importance of indentured servants in eighteenth-century Virginia
Ashley Mays of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill • for research on Confederate widows and grief in the postwar South
Matt McCook of Oklahoma Christian University • for research on the Second Great Awakening
Michelle Orihel of Southern Utah University • for research on the Virginia democratic movement and its reception in the late eighteenth century
Robert Owens of Wichita State University • for research on the role of mediators, both Indian and white, who tried to keep the peace on the Trans-Appalachian frontier in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Traci Parker of the University of Chicago • for research on African American saleswomen in department stores in the post–World War II era
James Rice of SUNY, Plattsburgh • for research on Bacon's Rebellion
Dorothy Spencer Rivera of the University of Maryland • for research on the social significance of childrearing in the British-American colonies
Catherine Saunders of George Mason University • for research on the influence of Emily Clemens Pearson's year at Mount Airy on her abolitionist fiction
Samantha Seeley of New York University • for research on mobility, citizenship, and freedom in the Early Republic
Blair Smith of the University of Dundee • for research on social hierarchy in Kentucky from the early 1770s to 1800
Matthew Spooner of Columbia University • for research on the reconstruction of southern slavery, 1778–1808
Colin Stephenson of Ohio State University • for research on the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798
Albert Tillson of the University of Tampa • for research on maritime workers in Revolutionary and antebellum Virginia
David Williard of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill • for research on the courses former Confederate soldiers took in attempting to reclaim control over their personal lives and sense of manhood
Michael Woods of the University of South Carolina • for research on the role of emotion in antebellum sectional politics and the coming of the Civil War
Ben Wright of Rice University • for research on early American antislavery clergy and their political inactions and actions
Christopher Young of Indiana University Northwest • for research on the relationship between foreign affairs, public opinion, and the American presidency during the 1790s
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