Current Fellows
Resident Fellows - Spring 2008
Cecelia Conway
Ballad Keepers of Appalachia's Musical Crossroads
English and Appalachian Studies, Appalachian State (NC)
Hilary Holladay
Herbert Huncke: Muse of the Beat Generation
Professor,English, and Director, Jack and Stella Kerouac Center for American Studies
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Thomas Jackson We the People Fellow
American Ghandi: Martin Luther King, Jr., the
Black Freedom Movement, and the Culture of Celebrity
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Christian Spielvogel
Edna and Norman Freehling Fellow in South Atlantic Studies
Hope College (Michigan)
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
Living in the Valley of the Shadow: The Creation and Pilot of a Web-Based, Role-Playing Educational Simulation on Civil War History and Rhetoric
Viktoria Sukovata
Jewish Theater in the Holocaust
Culture and Philosophy, Kharkiv National University (Ukraine)
Resident Fellows - Fall 2007
Christian Spielvogel
Edna and Norman Freehling Fellow in South Atlantic Studies
Hope College (Michigan)
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
Living in the Valley of the Shadow: The Creation and Pilot of a Web-Based, Role-Playing Educational Simulation on Civil War History and Rhetoric
Stephen K. White
Emilia Galli Struppa Fellow in the Humanities
University of Virginia
James Hart Professor of Politics
The Ethos of a Late-Modern Citizen
Suzanne W. Jones
University of Richmond
Professor of English
Rethinking the One-Drop Rule: The Reappearance of the Racially Mixed Figure in the American Imagination
Senior Fellow
William W. Freehling
Secession Redebated: Virginia's Showdown in 1861
(A documentary publication of the Virginia Secession Convention's Debates, with extensive editing)
Disunion Reconsidered: Shorter Descriptions, Longer Perspectives
(A book of essays)
Affiliate Fellow
Henry Wiencek
A Paradox to Posterity: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
Recent Fellows
2000-2007
Julie Armstrong
Mary Turner and the Rhetoric of Lynching
University of South Florida
Katharine L. Balfour
Democracy's Reconstruction: Essays on the Political Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois
University of Virginia
Lawrie Balfour
Slavery, gender, and citizenship in the thought of W.E.B. Du Bois (UVA, politics)
Katherine C. Bassard
Race, Region, and Religion:
Virginia History and Geography in Three African American Narratives
Virginia Commonwealth University
Kenneth Bilby
Christmas with the Ancestors:
Ethnographic Contributions to the Historiography of Jankunu
Smithsonian Institution
Paddy Baker Bowman
Virginia Voices: Creating a Folklife Education Guide
Independent Scholar
James Bryant
Spiritual Bonds: Gender, Religion, Ritual, and Community in Bondage—
the Tidewater Chesapeake, 1760-1831
College of the Holy Cross
David Buisseret
History of Post-Spanish Jamaica
University of Texas, Arlington
Scott Casper
Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon:
African American Life at an American Shrine, from Slavery to Jim Crow
University of Nevada
Sinkwan Cheng
Violence and the Civilizing Process
City College of New York
Casey Clabough
George Garrett: Public Man of Letters
Lynchburg College
Sharon Davie
Voices on Violence
University of Virginia Women's Center
Wayne Durrill
God's own vengeance: Nat Turner and the Southhampton slave revolt of 1831 (University of Cincinnati, associate professor, history)
Vupenyu Dzingirai
Is Life Worth Living?
Ethnic Violence and Conflict in Africa
Agarian Studies/Yale University
Claudia Ferman
From Ritual and Rock to Aesthetics and Literature: Pogo in the Southern Cone
University of Richmond
Jennifer Geddes
The Rhetorics of Evil
University of Virginia
Jonathan Gross
Favorite Poems of Thomas Jefferson
DePaul University
Grace Hale
Invisible People: Down and Out in Rural America
University of Virginia
Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton
Millenialism on the Margins:
Islam and Patterns of Religious Change in Colonial East Africa
University of Virginia
Woody Holton
Who Will Call This Justice: The Contested Legacy of the American Revolution, 1783-1788
University of Richmond
Gordon Hylton
The African American Lawyer in the New South Era
Marquette University
Walter A. Jackson
Critiquing the Color Line:
American Intellectuals and Race in 20th Century America
North Carolina State University
William M. Kelso
Jamestown Rediscovered
Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeological Project, APVA
Deborah A. Lee
Opposition to Slavery in Northern Virginia
Independent Scholar
Alexander S. Leidholdt
Nell Battle Lewis Biography
James Madison University
Philip Levy
Between the Creeks:
The Groundings of Seventeenth-Century Middle Plantation, Virginia
University of South Florida
Andrew B. Lewis
The Shadow of Youth:
Consumer Society, Youth Culture, and the Civil Rights Movement
University of Richmond
John Lowe
Calypso magnolia: The Caribbean side of the South (LA State, professor English and comparative lit/director Caribbean studies)
Kathleen Lynch
The Uses of Religious Experience in the Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Atlantic World
The Folger Institute
Katherine McNamara
From the First Beginning: A Literary Memory of Peter Kalifornsky and His Discovery of Writing
Independent Scholar
Susan McKinnon
Kinship as Science and Culture:Narratives of Social Evolution, Difference and Equality
University of Virginia
Gregory Orr
Violence and Grief in Homer and Sappho:
The Origins of Lyric Culture
University of Virginia
Susan D. Pennybacker
Racial Politics from Scottsboro to Munich
Trinity College
Beatrice Pouligny
Conflict Resolution, Peacebuilding, and Dimensions of Rebuilding War-torn Societies
Center for International Studies and Research, Paris, France
James D. Rice
Natural Understandings: Indians, Colonists, and Environments in the Potomac Valley 700 AD - 1850
Pittsburgh State University
Tatiana van Riemsdijk
Saving Souls and Solving Slavery: Reform Politics of Chesapeake Evangelicals, 1790-1840
Wilfrid Laurier University
Victoria Sanford
The Moral Imagination of Survival
US Institute of Peace Award
Lorraine Gates Schuyler
No Discouragement Stopped Them:
African-American Women and Electoral Politics in the Jim Crow South
Virginia Commonwealth University
Mary Lee Settle
Thomas Jefferson at Shadwell
Writer
Irina Carlota Silber
A Spectral Reconciliation: Rebuilding Post-War El Salvador
National Council for Research on Women
Leonard V. Smith
Death, Mutilation, and Killing in French Combatants' Testimonies of the Great War
Oberlin College
Lucia Stanton
Getting Word: The Oral History of Monticello's African-American Families
Monticello
Chip Turner
The souls of others: John Locke, Christian mission, and Colonial America (Princeton, PhD candidate, politics)
Dianne Swan-Wright
Getting Word: The Oral History of Monticello's African-American Families
Monticello
Margarita Castillo Villarreal
Promoting Conflict Resolution between Civilians and the Military in a Post-Conflict Society: A Case-Study of Civil-Military Relations in Nicaragua (1990-2002)
Center for Latin American Studies/Harvard University
Dolora Chapelle Wojciehowski
The Buddha's Tooth: Violence and Vulnerability in Early Modern Goa
University of Texas, Austin
