Fall 2019 & Spring 2020:
Don DeBats
American Studies, Flinders University (Australia)
Black and White Oral Voting in the First Enfranchisement
Suzette Spencer*
The College of William & Mary
Framing Freedom, Vexing Visions: History’s Provocations, Slavery’s Afterlife, & Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” (2016)
Fall 2019:
Karen Chase*
Independent Author, Richmond
ELIZA! ELIZA!: Two 18th Century Women Who Helped Found and Expand America
Sonya Donaldson
New Jersey City University
Singing the Nation Into Being: Anthems and the Politics of Black Performance
Hannah Wojciehowski
University of Texas, Austin
The Virginia Company and the Staging of America
Philip Herrington
James Madison University
Plantation Revival: White Columns in Modern America
Spring 2020:
Tracy Roof*
University of Richmond
Nutrition, Welfare, or Work Support? A Political History of the Food Stamps Program
Joshua Rothman
University of Alabama
The Ledger and the Chain: The Masterminds of America’s Domestic Slave Trade
David Hsiung
Juniata College, Huntington, PA
An Environmental History of Virginia, the War of Independence, and Its Consequences
* = in residence at the Library of Virginia, Richmond
In addition to these Fellows in residence, we support more than thirty non-residential fellows. Non-residential fellows are typically former residential fellows who are completing scholarly research and writing projects.
