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X-Sender: abaxter@postoffice.sas.upenn.edu To: earam-l@listserv.kent.edu, H-OIEAHC@H-NET.MSU.EDU, h-shear@H-NET.MSU.EDU, SHARP-L-request@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Delivered-to: H-OIEAHC@H-NET.MSU.EDU Original-recipient: rfc822;john.saillant@vmh.cc.wmich.edu The McNeil Center for Early American Studies is pleased to announce its fellowship appointments for the 2002-2003 academic year. Sean Xavier Goudie of the English Department at Vanderbilt University will join the Center for a nine-month term as its Barra Postdoctoral Fellow. Sean, who received his PhD from Berkeley in 1999, will be writing a book with the working title "Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of U.S. Literature and Culture," in which he argues that in crucial ways North American authors defined themselves against the societies of the Carribean. Beginning a two-year term as the Center's new Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow will be David M. Stewart. A Canadian citizen with a BA and MA from Dalhousie University, David has been, since earning his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1997, a member of the English Department at National Central University in Taiwan. His project, "Consuming Recreations: Print, Pleasure, and the Disorder of Men's Books," is a fascinating study of male reading habits in the antebellum period. Kathleen DuVal, will return to the Center for her second year as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow to continue revisions to her 2001 University of California, Davis, PhD dissertation, "'Faithful Nations' and 'Ruthless Savages': The Rise and Fall of Indian Diplomacy in the Arkansas River Valley, 1740-1828." Among its dissertation fellowship appointments, the Center is particularly proud to announce the first in what it hopes will be a series of collaborations with the International Center for Jefferson Studies. As the Monticello-McNeil Dissertation Fellow, Deborah J. Allen, a PhD candidate in Literatures in English at Rutgers University, will spend three months in Charlottesville, Virginia, and six months in Philadelphia. Thomas Jefferson's geographical ideas play a major role in her dissertation, "To Measure and Describe 'the Whole Globe of the Earth': Geographical and Imperial Enterprise in the English Atlantic World, 1660-1815." The nine-month Barra Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in Art and Material Culture has been awarded to Peter J. Brownlee, a doctoral candidate in American Studies at the George Washington University. His dissertation, "The Economy of the Eyes: Vision and the Cultural Production of Market Revolution, 18281855," is a fascinating analysis of how everything from philosophical and scientific writings to daguerreotypes and street-side billboards produced new cultural understandings of what the very concept of vision entailed. Joshua R. Greenberg of the History Department at American University has been awarded a nine-month MCEAS Dissertation Fellowship for "Advocating 'the Man'": Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Market Revolution in New York, 18001840," a work that-in its imaginative use of "light reading" newspaper articles and a variety of other sources-promises a significant contribution to the growing literature on the social construction of gender. Ashli White, a PhD candidate in History from Columbia University, has been awarded a nine- month MCEAS Dissertation Fellowship for of "'A Flood of Impure Lava': Saint Dominguan Refugees in the United States, 1791-1820." Tracing the impact of the Haitian Revolution in its broadest geographical, cultural, and political dimensions, Ashli's dissertation explores an aspect of life in the Early Republic that has long cried out for systematic study. Recipient of a nine-month Marguerite Bartlett Hamer Dissertation Fellowship is Martha E. Schoolman of the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Her study of "American Abolitionist Geographies" situates William Wells Brown, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frances E.W. Harper, and Harriet Beecher Stowe in an imaginative realm that crossed time and space throughout the Atlantic World to inform their view of themselves and their capacity to affect events. Hana Layson, PhD candidate in English at the University of Chicago, has been awarded a one-semester MCEAS Dissertation Fellowship for "Injured Innocence: Sexual Injury, Sentimentality, and Citizenship in the Early Republic," which examines the way in which literary narratives of rape and seduction cultivated the capacity of the public for sentiment and thus helped create a particular form of citizen-subject at the turn of the eighteenth century. And, finally, thanks to the generosity of annual contributions from the Center's supporters, two promising young scholars will be appointed as one-semester Friends of the MCEAS Fellows. Carl Robert Keyes, a PhD candidate in History at the Johns Hopkins University, will research "Advertising and the Commercial Community in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia" to challenge the standard view that self-conscious advertising was a creation of a much later era. Michael Dean Mackintosh, of the History Department at Temple University, will work on his dissertation, "The Nature of Contact: Natives, Newcomers, and the Natural World in Pennsylvania, 1638-1765," which brings together ecological, intellectual, and diplomatic history in exciting ways. Established at the University of Pennsylvania in 1978 as the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies in 1978, and renamed in 1998 in honor of its benefactor Robert L. McNeil, Jr., the McNeil Center for Early American Studies facilitates research and scholarly inquiry into the histories and cultures of North America and the Caribbean before 1850, with a particular but by no means exclusive emphasis on the mid-Atlantic region. It conducts a fellowship program designed to capitalize upon Philadelphia's magnificent manuscript, book, and museum collections, a seminar series intended to promote intellectual community among local and visiting faculty and graduate students, and a publication program intended to disseminate the best new research. Deadlines for its next round fellowship competitions, for the 2003-2004 academic year, are 1 November 2002 for postdoctoral appointments and 1 March 2003 for dissertation awards. For more information, please visit http://www.mceas.org
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