The John Carter Brown Library has awarded fellowships to 42 scholars from around the world for the 2012–2013 academic year.

Of the 42, ten are coming from foreign countries and eighteen are completing work on doctoral dissertations.  The mission of the John Carter Brown Library is to make its collection available to the world’s scholars and to provide the means that will allow them to journey from distant places to Providence.

Most JCB Fellowships are supported by endowed funds, but the Library is also pleased to announce that this year it will host five NEH Fellows.

A list of current fellows, institutional affiliations, titles of project, names of awards, and duration (in parentheses) follows.

María José Afanador, University of Texas at Austin   
"Territories of Nature:  Shaping Post-Colonial Identities  in New Granada, 1780-1830"
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow (4)

Diane Boucher, Clark University
"Amelia Island: A Frontier Community Negotiating the Atlantic World in the Second Spanish Period 1783-1821"
Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom / Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellow (2)

Benjamin P. Breen, University of Texas at Austin   
"Tropical Transplantations: Medicine, Globalization and Drugs in the Portuguese and British Empires, 1640-1750"
Almeida Family Fellow  (3)
   
Sophie Brockmann, University of Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM
"Surveying Nature in Central America, c.1768-1838"
Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellow  (4)

Derek S. Burdette, Tulane University       
"Sacred Statues and Devotional Books: Reconstructing the Reception of Mexican Images of Christ"
Helen Watson Buckner Memorial / John Alden Memorial / William Reese Company Fellow (4)

Anibal Herib Caballero Campos, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, PARAGUAY  
"The Learned Elite and the Power in the Colonial Paraguay"
Maria Elena Cassiet Fellow  (3)

Céline Carayon, Salisbury University   
"Beyond Words: Nonverbal Communication and Culture Change in the French-Indian Atlantic, 1500-1763"
National Endowment for the Humanities / InterAmericas Fellow, funded by The Reed Foundation  (8)

Isaac Curtis, University of Pittsburgh    
"The Common Sea: Masterless People and the Making of the Colonial Caribbean"
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow (2)

Elena Daniele, Brown University
"Representations of American Cannibalism in Early Modern European Writing"
J.M. Stuart Fellow (9)

Helen M. Dewar, University of Toronto, CANADA
"Accidental Empire: The Compagnie des Indes Occidentales and Royal Government in the French Atlantic, 1664-1674"
Virginia and Jean R. Perrette Fellow (2)

Sebastián Díaz Angel, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, COLOMBIA
"The Netherlanders and/vs. the Iberians and the First Printed Maps of Present-Day Colombia, Panama and Neighbors (1584-1630)"
Maria Elena Cassiet / Alice E. Adams Fellow (4)

Andréa Doré, Universidade Federal do Paraná, BRAZIL
"The Mines of Peru and the Construction of Expectation for Brazil (1530-1700)"
Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow (4)

Patrick Funiciello, George Washington University
"The Role of Contraband in the Iberian Atlantic,  1580-1640"
Alexander O. Vietor Memorial Fellow (4)

Julia Gaffield, Duke University
"Haiti and the Atlantic World in the Early 19th Century"
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow  (4)

Rebecca Goetz, Rice University
"Indian Enslavement in the English Atlantic World,  1500-1700"
Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow     (2)

Ana Hontanilla, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
"Sentiment and the Law: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean (1785-1820)
Donald L. Saunders Fellow (5)

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, University of California, Berkeley
"Islands of the Mind: Mapping a New World"
John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellow (2)

Hal Langfur, SUNY Buffalo
"Adrift on an Inland Sea:  The Projection of Portuguese Power in the Brazilian Wilderness"
R. David Parsons / Donald L. Saunders Research Fellow (5)

Andrew Lipman, Syracuse University
"The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Colonization of Greater Long Island Sound"
Paul W. McQuillen Memorial Fellow   (2)

Katherine L. McDonough, Stanford University
"Building Communities in the Early Modern French Atlantic World"
 Jane L. Keddy Memorial Fellow  (2)

Carme Montaner, Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, SPAIN
"The Maps Made by the Franciscans of Santa Rosa de Ocopa in the Second Half of the 18th- Century and their Contribution to the Reconnaissance of the Amazonia Region of South America"
Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow (2)

Elizabeth del Pilar Montañez-Sanabria, University of California, Davis   
"Challenging the Spanish Empire: Pirates in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1570-1750"
John R. Bockstoce Fellow (3)

Mairin Odle, New York University   
"Stories Written on the Body: Cross-Cultural Markings in the North American Atlantic, 1600-1830"
Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow (2)

Liliana Pérez Miguel, Universidad de Burgos, SPAIN   
"Powerful Women:  Doña Inés Muñoz and the encomenderas of Sixteenth-Century Peru"
Maury A. Bromsen Memorial Fellow  (4)

Guadalupe Pinzón Ríos, National University of Mexico, MEXICO
"English and French Descriptions of the Pacific Coasts of New Spain"
Alexander O. Vietor / Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellow (2)

Fabricio Prado, Roosevelt University
"Trans-Imperial Networks and Sovereignty in the South Atlantic"
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow (2)

Nathan Probasco, University of Nebraska, Lincoln       
"Researching Norumbega:  Sir Humphrey Gilbert's 1583 Expedition and the Transformation of English Colonization in the Americas"
Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellow   (2)

Frances L. Ramos, University of South Florida       
"The War of the Spanish Succession in New Spain: Rumor, Gossip, and Political Discourse in Early Eighteenth-Century Mexico City"
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (5)

Benjamin Reed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Oratorian Devotion in Mexico City, 1659-1821: A Political Culture of Religious Identity"
José Amor Y Vázquez Fellow (4)

James Robertson, University of the West Indies, Mona, JAMAICA   
"The First English Century in Jamaica 1655-c. 1770"
InterAmericas Fellow, funded by The Reed Foundation  (5)

Caitlin Rosenthal, Harvard University
"From Memory to Mastery: Accounting for Control in America, 1750-1900"
Ira Unschuld Fellow (2)

April G. Shelford, American University
"A Caribbean Enlightenment"
Donald L. Saunders Research / InterAmericas Fellow, funded by The Reed Foundation  (5)

Cristobal Silva, Columbia University       
"Republic of Medicine"
John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellow  (2)

Danielle Skeehan, Northeastern University   
"Creole Domesticity: Colonial Women and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Textile Trade"
Paul W. McQuillen Memorial / Norman Fiering Fellow (2)

Scott Sowerby, Northwestern University
"Acquisitive Cosmopolitanism and the Early British Empire, 1660-1720"
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow (2)

Linda L. Sturtz, Beloit College   
"Guilty Honours; The Jamaican Set-Girls: An African American Expressive Culture in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World"
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow  (5)

Matthew Suazo, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Marais Impraticable: Translating Colonial Louisiana in Chateaubriand's Atala"
Jane L. Keddy Memorial Fellow (2)

Lisa Voigt, The Ohio State University
"Spectacular Wealth: Power and Participation in the Festivals of Colonial Potosí and Minas Gerais"
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (5)

Tamara Walker, University of Pennsylvania   
"Slave Seafarers of Spanish America's Pacific World"
John R. Bockstoce Fellow (2)

Jerusha Westbury, New York University   
"Marvelous and Monstrous: The Thorny Problem of Control in Atlantic Colonial Botany"
John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellow  (2)

Chi-ming Yang, University of Pennsylvania
"Global Chinoiserie and the Lives of Objects, 1660-1800"
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (5)

Sandra Young, University of Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA
“The Textual Production of Difference as Knowledge: Imagining Africa and the New World in the Sixteenth-Century Literature of Exploration”
Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellow (2)

The Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellowship supports work by academics, independent scholars, and writers working on significant projects relating to the Literature, history, culture, or art of the Americas before 1830. The award is co-sponsored by the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, in Chestertown, Md. Recipients split their time between Chestertown and Providence.

Robert P. Forbes, University of Connecticut
“'The Cause of This Blackness':  The Early American Republic and the Construction of Race"
Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Library Fellow

INVITED RESEARCH SCHOLARS

The Library is pleased to extend unremunerated privileges of fellowship to the following noted scholars and writers who will be in residence for varying lengths of time in the 2012-13 academic year.

Patricia U. Bonomi, Professor Emerita, New York University

Amy Turner Bushnell, Independent Scholar

Carol L. Delaney, Professor Emerita, Stanford University, and Research Scholar, Department of Religious Studies, Brown University

Burton Van Name Edwards, Independent Scholar

Jennifer Gage, Independent Scholar

Jack P. Greene, Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University

Michael T. Hamerly, Professor Emeritus, University of Guam

Allen Kurzweil, Independent Scholar

Toby Lester, Independent Scholar

Charles C. Mann, Independent Scholar

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

James Muldoon, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University

Chet Van Duzer, Independent Scholar