2009-2010
John Carter Brown Library Scholars

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 forty-one scholars from around the world for the 2009–2010 academic year.

Of the forty-one fellows invited this year, nine are coming from foreign countries, and sixteen 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.

Monique Allewaert, Emory University
“Revolutionary Ecology:  Plantation Resistance and the End of the Subject”
Alice E. Adams Fellow      (4)

Allison Bigelow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Naturalizing Conquest: Encounter, Mining, and Sowing in the Literatures of the Colonial Americas”
Paul W. McQuillen Memorial Fellow      (4)

Kristen Block, Florida Atlantic University
“Faith and Fortune:  Religious Identity and the Politics of Profit in the Early Caribbean”
InterAmericas Fellow, funded by the Reed Foundation      (5)

Michael Booth, Northeastern University
“The Terms on Each Side:  Translation and Mathematical Insight in Early Colonial America”
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow      (5)

Jonathan Bordo, Trent University, CANADA
“The Wilderness as Symbolic Form:  A Contribution to a Cultural History of North America”
Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellow      (2)

Amy Buono, Southern Methodist University
“Plumed Identities and Feathered Performances:  Tupinambá Interculture in Early Modern Brazil and Europe”
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow     (2)

Mariana Candido, Princeton University
“Benguela and the Slave Trade: Migrations and Identity Changes, 1700-1850”
Marie L. and William R. Hartland Fellow      (3)

Carlo Célius, Laval University, CANADA
“The Haitian Revolution and the Writing of History, 1789-1830”
InterAmericas Fellow, funded by the Reed Foundation      (9)

Lisa DeLeonardis, Johns Hopkins University
“Embellishing the Sacred:  Visual and Textual Sources for the Study of the Jesuit Oratory at Santa Cruz de Lancha, Peru”
Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellow      (2)

Ana Guadalupe Díaz Álvarez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, MEXICO
“The Problem of the Mesoamerican Book: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Colonizating Graphical Patterns”
Maria Elena Cassiet Fellow      (4)

Jason Eldred, University of Virginia
“Imperial Spain and the English Imagination, 1580-1662”
Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow      (2)

Adrian Finucane, Harvard University
“Anglo-Spanish Interconnections in the Caribbean from the War of the Spanish Succession to the War of  Jenkins' Ear”
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow      (4)

Pablo Gomez, Vanderbilt University
“Bodies of Encounter: African and European Health Practices in Early Modern Nuevo Reino de Granada”
Paul W. McQuillen Memorial Fellow      (3)

Michael A. Gonzales, University of California, Berkeley “The Shaping of Empire:  History Writing and Imperial Identity in the Early Modern Spanish World”
Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellow     (2)

Kenneth Gouwens, University of Connecticut
“Human Exceptionalism in the Renaissance”
Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellow     (2)

Karen Graubart, University of Notre Dame
“Neighbors and Others:  Space, People, and Authorities in Early Modern Seville and Lima”
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow     (9)

Robert L. Gunn, University of Texas at El Paso
“Ethnology and Empire:  John Russell Bartlett and the U.S. / Mexico Borderlands”
Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow    (2)

Kim Hall, Barnard College
“Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Gender, and Material Culture in Early Modern England”
Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow     (4)

Jamie Jones, Harvard University
“American Whaling in Commerce, Culture and Memory, 1820-1930”
Marie L. and William R. Hartland Fellow     (4)

Joel Konrad, McMaster University, CANADA
“ ‛Curiously and Most Exquisitely Painted’: Body Markings of the Early Modern Atlantic World in Comparative Perspective”
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow     (2)

Daniel Krebs, University of Louisville
“An American Way of Captivity: German Prisoners of War and Their Experiences During the American Revolution, 1776-1783”
Donald L. Saunders Fellow     (5)

Jason LaFountain, Harvard University
“The Puritan Art World”
Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow     (2.5)

Esperanza López Parada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, SPAIN
“The ‘Crónica de Indias’ as a Novel Text (the self-infliction of the genre by the ‘Cronistas’)”
William Reese Company Fellow     (3)

Mark Molesky, Seton Hall University
“This Gulf of Fire:  The Great Lisbon Earthquake and the Forging of the Modern World”
John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellow     (4)

Lyra D. Monteiro, Brown University
“Racializing the Ancient World: Ancestry and Identity in the Early United States”
J. M. Stuart Fellow     (9)

Federica Morelli, University of Turin, ITALY
“From the ‘scienza del commercio’ to the ‘scienza della legislazione’: the Neapolitan Route to Modernity in the Hispanic World, 1780-1820”
Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellow     (2)

Karl Offen, University of Oklahoma
“The Mosquito Kingdom:  Environment, History, and the Geographic Imagination”
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow     (5)

Alejandra Osorio, Wellesley College
“The First Modern:  Imperial Baroque Modernity in the Spanish Hapsburg World”
Paul W. McQuillen Memorial Fellow     (4)

Diego Pirillo, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, ITALY
“Humanism and The Geographical Discoveries: Johannes Boemus's 'Omnium Gentium Mores' and Its European Reception”
R. David Parsons Fellow     (5)

Juan J. Ponce-Vázquez, University of Pennsylvania
“Challenge and Survival at the Edge of Empire: Spanish Local Elites in Hispaniola, 1585-1697”
José Amor y Vázquez Fellow     (2)

Justin Pope, George Washington University
“Whispers and Waves: Insurrection, Conspiracy, and the Search for Salvation in the British Atlantic, 1729-1742”
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow     (2)

Jamie Rosenthal, University of California, San Diego
“Of Bonds and Bondage: Gender, Slavery, and Transatlantic Intimacies in the Eighteenth Century”
Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow     (2)

David Harris Sacks, Reed College
“The Sweet Name of Liberty:  Commonwealth and Commerce in Early Modern England and the English Atlantic World”
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow     (3)

Susan E. Schopp, Independent Scholar
“ ‘Chop boats’ (lighters) in the Pearl  River Delta's China Trade: Operations, Movements, Navigation and Portrayal, c. 1700-1842”
Alexander O. Vietor Memorial Fellow     (2)

Jason Sharples, Princeton University
“The Flames of Insurrection: Fearing Slave Conspiracy in Colonial British America, 1670-1780”
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow     (4)

Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, University of Kent, UNITED KINGDOM
“Contesting the Meaning of Patria during the Wars of Independence in the Andes (1808-1825)”
Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellow      (3)

Hilit Surowitz, University of Florida
“ ‘La Nação’: Reconstructing Jewish Identity in the Early Modern Atlantic World”
Touro National Heritage Trust Fellow     (2)

Edward Test, Boise State University
“Consuming the Americas: New World Flora and Fauna in Early Modern English Literature”
Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellow     (2)

Maria Ana Travassos Valdez, University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL
“Comparing Utopias, Checking Realities:  Catholic and Sephardic Toleration in the Early Modern World?”
Touro National Heritage Trust Fellow     (4)

Verónica Williams, Buenos Aires University, ARGENTINA
“Colonial Encounters in the New World: Debating Empires and Indigenous Population in the South Andes”
Maria Elena Cassiet Fellow     (4)

Wendy Wong, Temple University
“Diplomatic Subtleties and Frank Overtures: Publicity, Diplomacy, and Neutrality in the Early American Republic, 1793-1801”
Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellow                   (2)

The Library also hosts a distinguished scholar from the U.K. appointed annually by The National Maritime Museum:

Marina Carter, University of Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM
“American Maritime Trade with the Isle of France (Mauritius) 1790–1808”
Caird North American Research Fellow      (3)

In addition, the following scholars will be in official residence at the Library for varying lengths of time:

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

Philip Dray, Independent Scholar
(Invited Research Scholar, Fall 2009)

Jack P. Greene, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University
Invited Research Scholar

Tony Horwitz, Independent Scholar
(Invited Research Scholar)

Toby Lester, Independent Scholar
(Invited Research Scholar)

Charles C. Mann, Independent Scholar
Invited Research Scholar

Gerald E. Mueller, Professor Emeritus, New Mexico State University    
Research Associate

James Muldoon, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University
Invited Research Scholar

R. S. Taylor Stoermer, University of Virginia
(Invited Research Scholar, 2009-2010)

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