2007-08 David Library Fellows

Prof. Jane E. Calvert

Assistant Professor of History at St. Mary's College of Maryland

Fellowship subject: Quaker Constitutionalism and the Origins of American Civil Disobedience

Mr. William H. Carter

PhD candidate at Princeton University

Fellowship subject: Chains of Consumption: The Iroquois and British Consumer Goods, 1550-1800

Mr. James C. David

PhD candidate at the College of William and Mary

Fellowship subject: Dunmore's New World 1770-1798

Ms. Ruth Ann Denaci

PhD candidate at Temple University

Fellowship subject: The Revolutionary Experience of Women in the Delaware Valley

Ms. Laura T. Keenan

PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania

Fellowship subject: The Shawnees in the Colonial Atlantic World

Mr. Philip Mead

PhD candidate at Harvard University

Fellowship subject: Melancholy Landscapes: Unfamiliar Places and the American Identity in the Continental Army

Dr. Peter C. Messer

Assistant Professor of History at Mississippi State University

Fellowship subject: Revolution By Committee: Law, Language, and Ritual in Revolutionary America, 1765-1776

Mr. Patrick Spero

PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania

Fellowship subject: The Conjocular War: Colonial Competition and Pennsylvania's Expansion West

Mr. Gregory Wigmore

PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis

Fellowship subject: Across the Line: Empire and Allegiance in the Detroit River Borderland

DAVID LIBRARY FELLOWS

2006-2007

Joseph M. Adelman, Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins University, The Business and Politics of Printers and the Creation of a Political Communications Infrastructure in Revolutionary America. 

Joshua Beatty, Ph. D. candidate, College of William and Mary, Performances of Authority: A Cultural History of the Stamp Act.

Maria Alessandra Bolletino, Ph. D. candidate, University of Texas, Austin, Slavery, War, and Empire: The Meaning of the Seven Years War for the African Atlantic World.

Rebecca Brannon, Ph. D. candidate, University of Michigan, Burying the Hatchet in South Carolina: A Case Study of Civil Conflict and Reconciliation.

Michael G. Gunther, Ph. D. candidate, Lehigh University, Watershed, Bloodshed: War, Community, and the Politics of Land in the Upper Hudson-Champlain Corridor, 1745-1825.

Gregory T. Knouff, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Keene State College (NH), From Liminal to Loyalist: The Conflation of Images of Social Outsiders and Tories in Revolutionary New Hampshire, 1763-1783.

Kimberly Sambol-Tosco, Ph. D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania, Relational Politics: Gender, the Household, and African-American Public Culture in the North, 1780-1860.

Steven M. Tobias, Ph. D. candidate, University of Washington, Engaging Sacred Africa: Productions of the Secular Within the Context of the U.S.- Barbary Conflicts.