2008-2009
John Carter Brown Library Scholars in Residence
The John Carter Brown Library, an independently funded and administered institution for advanced research in history and the humanities, located at Brown University since 1901, has awarded fellowships to 43 scholars from around the world for the 2008–2009 academic year.
Of the 43 fellows invited this year, 9 are coming from foreign countries, and 21 are completing work on doctoral dissertations. According to the Director of the Library, Ted Widmer, “The eternal mission of the John Carter Brown Library is to make its incomparable collection available to the world’s scholars, and to provide the wherewithal that will allow them to journey from distant places to Providence.”
A list of fellows, their current institutional affiliations, and the titles of their projects follows. The number in parentheses indicates the number of months each will be in residence at the Library.
Emily Berquist, University of Texas
“The Science of Empire: Bishop Martínez Compañón
and the Hispanic Enlightenment in Peru”
Maury A. Bromsen Fellow
(2) Summer 2008
Eva Botella-Ordinas, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
"Debating Empires: Spain and Britain in Darien, 1690s-1700"
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow
(3) Summer 2008
Stelio Cro, King College
“The Critical Edition of the 1511 Edition of Peter Martyr's De
Orbe Novo (“Of the New World”) and Allied Documents, with English Translation”
Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Foundation Fellow
(4) Spring 2008
Christa Dierksheide, University of Virginia
“The Amelioration of Slavery in the Anglo-American Imagination,
1780–1840”
Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow
(2) Summer 2008
Kristin Huffine, Northern Illinois University
"Producing Christians From Half-Men and Beasts:
Jesuit Ethnography and Guarani Response"
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
(5) Fall 2008
Shona Johnston, Georgetown University
“The Catholic Anglo-Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century”
Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellow
(2) Summer 2008
Laura Keenan, University of Pennsylvania
“The Shawnees in the Colonial Atlantic World: From Ethnogenesis
to Lord Dunmore's War”
Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellow
(2) Summer 2008
Lia Markey, University of Chicago
“The New World in Renaissance Italy: A Vicarious Conquest of
Art and Nature at the Medici”
Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow
(2) Summer 2008
Vanessa Mongey, University of Pennsylvania
“Cosmopolitan Republics: The Gulf of Mexico between 1783 and
1836”
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow
(2) Summer 2008
Janice Neri, Boise State University
“The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern
Europe”
John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellow
(4) Summer 2008
Chris M. Parsons, University of Toronto, CANADA
"Plants and Peoples in Early Canada"
John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellow
(2) Summer 2008
Fabricio Prado, Emory University
"In the Shadow of Empires: Trans-Imperial Interaction, Identity, and Sovereignty in Rio de la Plata, 1750-1830"
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow
(3) Summer 2008
Mónica Ricketts, Harvard University
“Pens, Politics, and Swords: The Struggle for Power in the Breakdown
of the Spanish Empire, Peru and Spain, 1760–1830”
Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellow
(2) Summer 2008
Pedro Rueda Ramírez, Universidad Nacional de Educación
a Distancia, Barcelona, Spain
“Atlantic Books: The Networks of Book Trade and Cultural Exchange,
16th-17th Centuries”
Paul W. McQuillen Memorial Fellow
(2) Summer 2008
Peer Schmidt, Universitat Erfurt, GERMANY
"Religion in New Spain (1760-1820): The Social Knowledge of the Clergy Concerning Religiosity at the End of the Colonial Period"
Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellow
(3) Fall 2008
Denise Galarzada Sepúlveda, Lafayette College
“Luxury Goods and Immigrant Evils: The Economics of Eighteenth-Century
Nationalism”
Paul W. McQuillen Memorial Fellow
(2) Summer 2008
Cristina Soriano, New York University
“Papers and Rumors of Change: The Influence of Caribbean Turmoil
in Venezuelan Political Culture, 1790–1810”
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow
(2) Summer 2008
Peter Villella, University of California, Los Angeles
"The True Heirs to Anahuac: The Creole Appropriation of Indigenous History in Eighteenth-Century New Spain"
J. Amor y Vazquez Fellow
(3) Fall 2008
Kelly Wisecup, University of Maryland
"Communicating Disease: Encounters of Medical Knowledge and Literary Technologies in Colonial British America"
Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellow
(3) Summer 2008
Anya Zilberstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Planting Improvement: Small Farms and Scientific Agriculture
in the British North Atlantic, 1740–1820”
Paul W. McQuillen Memorial Fellow
(2) Spring 2008
In addition, the following scholars will be in official residence at the Library for varying lengths of time:
Jennifer L. Anderson, Stony Brook University
Invited Research Scholar, Fall 2007
Patricia U. Bonomi, Professor Emerita, New York University
Invited Research Scholar, Summer 2007
Amy Turner Bushnell, Independent Scholar
Invited Research Scholar
Carol L. Delaney, Professor Emerita, Stanford University,
and Research
Scholar, Department of Religious Studies, Brown University
Invited Research Scholar
Catherine Desbarats, McGill University, Canada
Invited Research Scholar, Summer 2007
David M. Fitzsimons, Independent Scholar
Invited Research Scholar
Jack P. Greene, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Research Scholar
Tony Horwitz
Visiting Scholar, Fall 2007
Toby Lester
Invited Research Scholar
Dryden G. Liddle, Open University, United Kingdom
Invited Research Scholar, Summer 2007
James Muldoon, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University
Invited Research Scholar
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