Research Fellowship Awards at The Huntington 2003-2004

The Huntington has one of the most important humanities fellowship programs in the nation, providing funds to assist qualified scholars who come to the Library to research and write. Grantees range from young doctoral candidates working on their dissertations to senior historians doing research for new books.

This year, 121 scholars from the United States and abroad have been awarded short-term fellowships for periods of study ranging from one to five months. A record number of 15 long-term fellows are also coming to the Huntington this fall for the full academic year.

Three of these scholars are Huntington Distinguished Fellows, senior scholars invited to fill specially endowed positions:

• Jean Howard of Columbia University, New York City, joins us as the R. Stanton Avery Fellow. Howard is a specialist in Renaissance drama and especially Shakespeare. Among her many books are Shakespeare’s Art of Orchestration, The Stage and Struggle in Early Modern England, and with Phyllis Rackin, Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories. She is also a co-editor of The Norton Shakespeare. While at The Huntington, she will be working on a new book entitled Theater of a City.
  
  
• The Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow is David Cressy of Ohio State University, Columbus. Cressy is one of the most distinguished historians of early modern England. His publications include Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England and Birth, Marriage and Death: The Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. His current research is focused on the period before the outbreak of the English Civil War.
  
  
• Awarded the Los Angeles Times Fellowship, Professor Daniel Usner of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, specializes in colonial America, where he has made significant contributions to our understanding of Native American history. Among his publications are Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy and American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley. He is completing a book on frontier Mississippi and starting another on southern Indians from 1800 to 1930.

A complete list of long- and short-term research fellows and their topics follows below.


LONG-TERM AWARDS:

R. STANTON AVERY DISTINGUISHED FELLOW

Jean Howard, Professor, Columbia University. Theater of a City: Social Change and Generic Innovation on the Early Modern Stage

FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED FELLOW

David Cressy, Professor, Ohio State University. The English Revolution

LOS ANGELES TIMES DISTINGUISHED FELLOW

Daniel Usner, Professor, Vanderbilt University. American Indians in Louisiana from 1803 to 1930

MELLON POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWS

Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Associate Professor, SUNY at Buffalo. Chivalry, Nature, Science, and Politics in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Alison Games, Associate Professor, Georgetown University. Agents of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1558-1660

NEH FELLOWS

Eve Bannet, Professor, University of Oklahoma. Empire of Letters: Epistolary Manuals and Transatlantic Correspondence

Ann Bermingham, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara. Sensibility: Studies in a Point of View

Ariela Gross, Professor, University of Southern California. As the Alligator Knows: A History of Racial Identity on Trial in America

BARBARA THOM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

Maria-Elena Martinez, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California. Religion, Blood, and “Race” in Late Colonial Mexico

John Smolenski, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis. Friends and Strangers: The Evolution of a Creole Civic Culture in Early Pennsylvania

SHORT-TERM AWARDS: (one to five months)

ERNESTINE RICHTER AVERY FELLOW

Jane Potter, Research Editor, New DNB, Oxford University Press. “Over There”: The American Woman’s Written Response to World War I

FRANCIS BACON FOUNDATION FELLOWS

Patricia Cahill, Assistant Professor, Emory University. Tales of Iron Wars: Martial Bodies and Manly Economies in Elizabethan Culture

Conal Condren, Professor, University of New South Wales. Office and Persona of the Philosopher in Early Modern England

James Daybell, Research Fellow, University of Reading. Women’s Letter-Writing in Early Modern England

Angus Fletcher, Ph.D. candidate, Yale University. Gilbert’s De Magnete and Mixed Metaphors of Attraction in Seventeenth-Century England

Eva Griffith, Ph.D. candidate, King’s College London. Material Contexts for Dramatic Production in Early Modern London: The C.W. Wallace Collection

Bernice Kliman, Professor Emeritus, Nassau Community College. New variorum edition of Hamlet

Catherine Martin, Professor, University of Memphis. Proteus Unbound: The Poetics of the Baconian Revolution

Carla Mazzio, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago. The Inarticulate Renaissance

Catherine Molineux, Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins University. The Peripheries Within: Race, Slavery, and Empire in Early Modern England

HELEN L. BING FELLOW

Amanda Vickery, Reader, Royal Holloway University of London. Gender and the Domestic Interior in England and Wales, 1660-1830

C. ALLAN AND MARJORIE BRAUN FELLOW

Maria Farland, Assistant Professor, Fordham University. Science and Sentiment: American Poetry and the Poetics of Nature

CHANDIS SECURITIES FELLOW

Michael Braddick, Professor, University of Sheffield. English Society during the British Civil Wars, 1638-1651

MICHAEL J. CONNELL FOUNDATION FELLOWS

Noel Jackson, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. British Romanticism, Human Science, and the Poetry of Sensation

Jon Mee, Fellow and Lecturer, University College, Oxford. Bloody Blake: The Circulation of Energy in the Illuminated Books

Orianne Smith, Ph.D. candidate, Loyola University Chicago. Romantic Women Writers at the End of the World: Gender and Millenarianism, 1780-1835

Carolyn Weber, Independent scholar. Unorthodox Theologies: The Dynamics of Strange Spiritualities among the Romantics

ELIZABETH CRAHAN FELLOW

Jeremy Schmidt, Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins University. Melancholia, Religion, and Medicine in Early Modern England: The Languages of Therapy and the Construction of Illness Identities

TRENT R. DAMES CIVIL ENGINEERING FELLOW

Alan Rauch, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. The Road to Knowledge: The Cultural Impact of English Highways, 1770-1850

GILBERT AND URSULA FARFEL FELLOW

Alexandra Gillespie, Postdoctoral Researcher, Balliol College, Oxford. Chaucer and Lydgate in Print: Medieval Authority and Renaissance Book Production, 1476-1561

JOHN RANDOLPH HAYNES AND DORA HAYNES FOUNDATION FELLOWS

April de Stefano, Ph.D. candidate, Rutgers University. “The Unrest of Modern Woman”: Gender, Marital Status, and Wage Work in Los Angeles, 1900-1929

Greg Robinson, Assistant Professor, Université du Québec. A Long Road Back: Japanese Americans in Los Angeles after World War II

KENNETH E. AND DOROTHY V. HILL FELLOW

Bruce Lenman, Professor, University of St. Andrews. Maritime Cartography and Conflict in the Americas in the Long C17

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD FOUNDATION FELLOW

Jamie Carr, Ph.D. candidate, University of Rhode Island. Christopher Isherwood’s Aesthetic and Political Experimentation: Fascism, Pacifism, and Identity Politics

WILBUR R. JACOBS FELLOW

Roy Webb, Archivist, Marriott Library, University of Utah. “I had arrived at perfection”: The Lost Canyons of the Green River

FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION FELLOWS

Fiona Brideoake, Ph.D. candidate, Australian National University. Reading and Writing the Self: The Ladies of Llangollen and Their “Spiritual Descendents”

Andrew Cambers, Ph.D. candidate, University of York. Self-Fashioning Dissent: Manuscript, Print, and the “Hidden Transcripts” of Nonconformist Religious Cultures in England, 1650-1750

Elisabeth Ceppi, Assistant Professor, Portland State University. Unnatural Bonds: Servitude and the Representation of Labor in Early American Culture

Jason Colby, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University. Jim Crow Empire: Race and Nation Building in U.S.-Central American Relations, 1870-1940

Jeannie Dalporto, Assistant Professor, University of Charleston. “To build, and plant, and keep a table”: Class, Gender, and the Ideology of Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Literature

Emma Dillon, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania. The Sense of Sound: Music and Meaning in Thirteenth-Century France

Bart Eeckhout, Assistant Professor, Ghent University and Catholic University of Brussels. Re/Globalizing Wallace Stevens

Carole Emberton, Ph.D. candidate, Northwestern University. Citizens in Leviathan: Violence and the Political Culture of Reconstruction

Jennie Evenson, Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan. Reformation England in the Age of Discovery

Joel Fredell, Professor, Southeastern Louisiana University. Book Design and Authorship in Late Medieval England

Franziska Kirchner, Independent scholar. Antebellum Americans Traveling to Germany: Transfer of Cultural Knowledge

Christina Lupton, Ph.D. candidate, Rutgers University. Literary Responses to Skepticism in England and America, 1739-1776

Thomas McLean, Ph.D. candidate, University of Iowa. The Biography and Bibliography of Jane Porter

Steven Pincus, Associate Professor, University of Chicago. The First Modern Revolution: The Revolution of 1688-89 in England

Edward Robinson, Ph.D. candidate, Pembroke College, Oxford. Political Portraiture: The Collection of Early Press Photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1890-1910

Christopher Storrs, Senior Lecturer, University of Dundee. The Resilience of Spain as an Imperial Power in the Reign of the Last Spanish Habsburg, Carlos II (1665-1700)

W.M. KECK FOUNDATION FELLOWS

Anne Baker, Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University. “Such a Heartless Immensity”: Geography, National Form, and the American Renaissance

Arianne Chernock, Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Berkeley. Men and the Rights of Women: British Political Culture and the Creation of Modern Feminism, 1780-1825

Jason Colby, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University. Jim Crow Empire: Race and Nation Building in U.S.-Central American Relations, 1870-1940

Mark Hanna, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University. Captain Quelch’s Paradox: Piracy and the Colonial Currency Crisis

Alexandra Lumbers, Ph.D. candidate, Brasenose College, Oxford. The Discourses of Whoredom, c.1600-c.1680

Jeanne McCarthy, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Oglethorpe University. Monarchs, Playwrights, and the Early Modern Children’s Companies

Laura Moore, Lecturer, Yale University. “By Her Weaving”: Gender, Art, Work, Modernity, and the Navajo Rug Trade, 1870s-1930s

Jeremy Schmidt, Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins University. Melancholia, Religion, and Medicine in Early Modern England: The Languages of Therapy and the Construction of Illness Identities

Philip Stern, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University. “One Body Corporate and Politick”: The Growth of the English East India Company-State in the Later Seventeenth Century

Douglas Trevor, Assistant Professor, University of Iowa. John Milton’s Theology of Love

Andrew Wallace, Ph.D. candidate, University of Toronto. Virgilian Georgic and Educational Reform in Seventeenth-Century England

Kimberly Woosley, Ph.D. candidate, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. “Counterfeit Color”: Cosmetics, Race, and Gender in Early Modern England

Adam Zucker, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University. Comedies of Place: The Social Work of Comic Form, 1580-1642

JOHN HASKELL KEMBLE FELLOW

Michael Bravo, Lecturer, Downing College, Cambridge. Francis Beaufort: Community and Reform in British Hydrography, 1800-1830

LOS ANGELES CORRAL OF WESTERNERS FELLOW

Michelle Berry, Ph.D. candidate, University of Arizona. Cow Talk: Ecology, Culture, and Identity in the Twentieth-Century Intermountain West Cattle Industry

MAYERS FELLOWS

Natalka Freeland, Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine. Trash Fiction: The Victorian Novel and the Rise of Disposable Culture

Daniel Hamilton, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University. The Limits of Sovereignty: Legislative Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy

Kimberly Hyde, Ph.D. candidate, Case Western Reserve University. Marsden Hartley and the Homosexual Subculture of Berlin

Theresa Kelley, Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Clandestine Marriage: Botany and Romantic Culture

James Marino, Ph.D. candidate, Stanford University. Personification of the Text: Intellectual Property and the Early Modern Drama

David Murray, Professor, University of Nottingham. Body and Soul: Native and African American Representations

Terri Snyder, Associate Professor, California State University, Fullerton. Suicide in Early America

Carlene Stephens, Curator, National Museum of American History. Time Standards at Mt. Wilson and Mt. Palomar Observatories

Kathleen Tonry, Ph.D. candidate, University of Notre Dame. William Caxton and the Labor of Literature in the Fifteenth-Century

Helena Wall, Professor, Pomona College. A Twice-Told Tale: Reconsidering Colonial New England

Carrie Wasinger, Ph.D. candidate, Northwestern University. “Thus Grew the Tale of Wonderland”: Victorian Gender and the Figure of the Child

Richard Wendorf, Director and Librarian, The Boston Athenaeum. Abandoning the Capital: Readers, Writers, and Printers in Eighteenth-Century London

Laura Wertheimer, Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University. The False Saint of Peterborough Abbey: Sanctity and Dissent in Fourteenth-Century England

Isabel Wünsche, Associate Professor, International University Bremen. Biocentrism in California Modernism, 1918-1945

GILES W. AND ELISE G. MEAD FOUNDATION FELLOW

Reuben Ellis, Faculty, Prescott College. The Last Place in the World: The Ancient Puebloans in Southwestern American Literature

Jen Huntley-Smith, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Nevada, Reno. Making a Scene: Yosemite, James Mason Hutchings, and the Creation of California Landscapes, 1855-1902

ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION FELLOWS

Deirdre Boleyn, Ph.D. candidate, University of Manchester. Aspects of Seventeenth-Century Reading, c.1600-c.1630

Michael Burden, Dean, New College, Oxford. Opera on the Forestage 1659-1859: Producing Opera in England from Purcell to Mozart

Ashley Byock, Ph.D. candidate, Northwestern University. From the Hospital to the Memorial: Local and National Contexts of Mourning during the American Civil War

Emma Christopher, Independent scholar. The Sons of Neptune and the Sons of Ham: Slave Ship Sailors and their Captive Cargoes

Jennifer Davis, Ph.D. candidate, Pennsylvania State University. Practicing Distinction: Gender, Labor, and Authority in France’s Culinary Trades, 1730-1830

Garrett Epp, Associate Professor, University of Alberta. The Towneley Plays

Erika Esau, Lecturer, Australian National University. The Aesthetic Connections between Australia and the American West, 1850-1925

Tanya Hagen, Ph.D. candidate, University of Western Ontario. “Old Plays”: Editorial Constructions of the Non-Shakespearean Text, 1661-1800

Deborah Heller, Professor, Western New Mexico University. An Edition of the Letters of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu

Hartmut Keil, Professor, University of Leipzig. Francis Lieber’s Attitude on Race, Slavery, and Abolition

Elizabeth Kim, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. Ambivalent Complicity: Maria Edgeworth’s Colonialist Vision and the Popular Tales

Nicole Lassahn, Assistant Director, University Writing Programs, University of Chicago. Scribe, Poet, Bureaucrat: John Lydgate and John Shirley as Canon-Builders

Thomas Leng, Ph.D. candidate, University of Sheffield. A Comparative Study of Benjamin Worsley and William Blathwayt: English Colonial Administration in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century

Alexandra Lumbers, Ph.D. candidate, Brasenose College, Oxford. The Discourses of Whoredom, c.1600-c.1680

Anne Mallory, Assistant Professor, University of Georgia. The Writing of Disaffection: Acting Out Feeling in Burke, Austen, and Thackeray

Tilar Mazzeo, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period

George Milne, Ph.D. candidate, University of Oklahoma. “Today we are walking as slaves”: The Evolution of French and Indian Relations, 1650-1740

Bob Morrissey, Ph.D. candidate, Yale University. Bottomlands, Borderlands: Empire and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Illinois Country

Natalie Nenadic, Ph.D. candidate, Yale University. The Limits of Modern Freedom in Nineteenth-Century American and British Women’s Legal and Cultural History

Margaret Newell, Associate Professor, Ohio State University. “The Drove of Adam’s Degenerate Seed”: Indian Slavery in Colonial New England

David Peters Corbett, Reader, University of York. Making the History of English Art: The Papers of Charles Henry Collins Baker

David Randall, Ph.D. candidate, Rutgers University. English-Language Battlefield Reports, ca.1585-1637: Soldiers, Newsmen, and the Reading Public

Emily Robinson, Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz. Immigrant Covenanters: Sacred History and Political Theology in a Trans-Atlantic Context

Melissa Sanchez, Faculty Fellow, University of California, Irvine. Monstrous Eros: A Reconsideration of Seventeenth-Century British Romance

Barbara Shapiro, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley. English Political Culture, 1550-1688

Diana Solomon, Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara. Media Darlings: Actresses’ Prologues and Epilogues on the London Stage, 1660s-1740s

Philip Stern, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University. “One Body Corporate and Politick”: The Growth of the English East India Company-State in the Later Seventeenth Century

Rachel St. John, Ph.D. candidate, Stanford University. Line in the Sand: The Desert Border between the United States and Mexico, 1848-1934

Richard Street, Independent scholar. We Are Not Slaves: A Narrative History of California Farm Workers, the Struggle to Organize, from the Wheatland Hop Riot to the United Farm Workers Union, 1913-2000

John Styles, Head of Postgraduate Studies, Victoria and Albert Museum. Clothes, Fashion, and the Plebeian Consumer in England, 1660-1830

Abigail Swingen, Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago. The Politics of Labor and the Origins of the British Empire, 1650-1720

Joanne Tong, Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Los Angeles. Romantic China: From the Macartney Mission to the Opium Wars

Douglas Trevor, Assistant Professor, University of Iowa. John Milton’s Theology of Love

Amanda Vickery, Reader, Royal Holloway University of London. Gender and the Domestic Interior in England and Wales, 1660-1830

Andrew Wallace, Ph.D. candidate, University of Toronto. Virgilian Georgic and Educational Reform in Seventeenth-Century England

David Wrobel, Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The American West through Travelers’ Eyes, 1860-1940

Adam Zucker, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University. Comedies of Place: The Social Work of Comic Form, 1580-1642

MELLON MATCH FELLOW

David Baulch, Associate Professor, University of West Florida. “Forms Sublime”: William Blake’s Sublime Aesthetic in The Four Zoas, Milton, and Jerusalem

MELLON POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWS

Rebecca Lemon, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California. Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Early Modern England

Anthony Parr, Professor, University of the Western Cape. Renaissance Mad Voyages

ROBERT L. MIDDLEKAUFF FELLOW

William Carter, Ph.D. candidate, Princeton University. The Imperial Iroquois: From Aggressive Matrilineages to an Empire of Goods, AD 900-1800

Trudy Eden, Assistant Professor, University of Northern Iowa. Physiologic: Food and Human Nature in Early America

Heather Weidner, Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia. Quakers in the Atlantic World: Trade, Slavery, and Materialism

EVELYN S. NATION FELLOW

Brian Nance, Professor, Coastal Carolina University. Renaissance Medical Narratives

REESE FELLOW IN AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY

Matt Cohen, Assistant Professor, Duke University. “A Special Instrument”: Information Technology in Early New England

WILLIAM A. RINGLER JR. FELLOW

Linda Salamon, Professor, George Washington University. Reading the Arts of Practice in Early Modern England

SECURITY PACIFIC FELLOW

Anthony Bale, Lecturer, Birkbeck University of London. Fictions of Judaism in Medieval England

ROBERT R. WARK FELLOWS

Karen Livingstone, Curator, Victoria and Albert Museum. International Arts and Crafts

Stacey Loughrey, Ph.D. candidate, University of Southern California. Making China: Design, Empire, and Aesthetics in Britain, 1745-1880

Anne Nellis, Ph.D. candidate, Brown University. “The Shrine of Art”: Rhetorics of Collection and Display in Early Nineteenth-Century London

MSGR. FRANCIS J. WEBER FELLOW

Mary Edsall, Postdoctoral Fellow, Villanova University. Animal and Spiritual: The Literature of Monastic Spiritual Formation and Devotional Treatises for Women in the Middle Ages, 1050-1250

EXCHANGE FELLOWS

British Academy:

Paul Baines, Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool. Edmund Curll: A Bio-Bibliographical Study

Karen Harvey, Lecturer, University of Sheffield. Male Authority and the Household Economy, c.1650-1850: A Social and Cultural History

Julian Hoppit, Professor, University College London. The Forms and Functions of Economic Thought in Britain, 1660-1775

Ann Hughes, Professor, University of Keele. Presbyterian Publishing and Political Mobilization, 1643-1651
Alexandra Shepard, Lecturer, University of Sussex. Violence and Violation in Early Modern England

Ceri Sullivan, Lecturer, University of Wales Bangor. Troping the Conscience in Metaphysical Verse

Lincoln College:

Elaine Leong, Ph.D. candidate, Lincoln College, Oxford. Medical Remedy Collections

JOINT FELLOWS

William Andrews Clark Library/Huntington Joint Bibliographical:

Ann Hughes, Professor, University of Keele. Presbyterian Publishing and Political Mobilization, 1643-1651

North American Conference on British Studies:

Abigail Swingen, Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago. The Politics of Labor and the Origins of the British Empire, 1650-1720

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association:

Diana Solomon, Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara. Media Darlings: Actresses’ Prologues and Epilogues on the London Stage, 1660s-1740s

Western History Association/Martin Ridge:

Robin Conner, Ph.D. candidate, Emory University. Civilizing Soldiers: Gender and Domesticity in the Western Army, 1865-1898



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