The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

Fellowship Program

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

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