2012-2013 Residential Fellows
VFH Residential Fellows for 2012-2013 are (right to left) Sandhya Shukla, Andrea Press, Earl Swift, Catherine Kerrison, Pat Sullivan, and Kendra Hamilton. Not pictured are Don Debats and Monika Siebert.
Donald Debats
American Studies, Flinders University (Australia)
Unlocking the Social Logic of Past Politics: Individual Voting Records, Social Networks, and Neighborhoods in Two Nineteenth Century Cities (Alexandria, Virginia, and Newport, Kentucky)
Kendra Hamilton
Women, Gender, and Sexuality, University of Virginia
Ninety-Six Stages on the River
Catherine Kerrison
History, Villanova University
Jefferson’s Daughters
Andrea Press
Media Studies, University of Virginia
Feminism LOL: Media Culture & “Feminism on the Ground” in a Postfeminist Age
Sandhya Shukla
English, University of Virginia
Cross-Cultures of Modern Harlem
Monika Siebert
English, University of Richmond
Indians Playing Indians? North American Indigenous Art in the Age of Multiculturalism
Pat Sullivan
History, University of South Carolina
To Achieve Our Country: Robert F. Kennedy & the Struggle for Racial Justice during 1960s
Earl Swift
Independent Writer
Auto Biography
Spring 2012 Fellows
Lawrie Balfour
Politics, University of Virginia
Reparations: A Democratic Idea
Jasmin Darznik
English, Washington & Lee University
LUSTRE: A Nonfiction Novel of Iran
William Freehling
History, VFH Senior Fellow
The Falls and Rises of Abraham Lincoln
Susan McKinnon
Anthropology, University of Virginia
Marital Signs of Progress: The Prohibition of Cousin Marriage and the Making of “Modernity”
John Ragosta
Independent Scholar
Patrick Henry: Federalist
Allison Robinson
Robert Russa Moton Museum Junior Fellow
Prince Edward County: Oral History Project
Robert Vinson
History, College of William and Mary
Shaka’s Progeny: Zulu Cultures and the Making of a Modern Atlantic World
(co-authored book with Ben Carton, history, George Mason University)
Kara Vuic
History and Political Science, Bridgewater College
A Touch of Home: Gender, Recreation, and Twentieth Century Wars
Lisa Woolfork
English, University of Virginia
Racial Parity Parody: Post Soul Visions of Blackness
Senior Fellow Emeritus
William Freehling
VFH Senior Fellow
The Falls and Rises of Abraham Lincoln
Showdown in Virginia: The 1861 Convention and the Fate of the Union
I’m writing a book titled The Falls and Rises of Abraham Lincoln. As the title suggests, the book focuses on Lincoln’s growth during his presidency. The later presidential part of the story is well known. But the earlier part of Lincoln’s life that I will emphasize has not been adequately handled, and it throws great light on how far Lincoln—and the nation he all too well epitomized —had to travel.
