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Recipients of Short-Term Grants for Research in Atlantic History, 2003-Present
Spring 2003
Audra Diptee, Ph.D. candidate, University of Toronto: “From Africa to Jamaica: Enslaved Women and Children in the Atlantic Crossing, 1775–1838”
Summer 2003
Catherine Molineaux, Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins University: “The Peripheries Within: Race, Slavery, and Empire in Early Modern England”
Michelle Craig, Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan: “History of Coffee in the British Atlantic World”
Fall 2003
Rachel O'Toole, Villanova University: “Africans and Indians in the Greater Atlantic: Colonial Peru”
R. Elizabeth Penry, Fordham University: “Hispanic Political Philosophy and Rebellion in the Old World and the New”
Emma Christopher, University College London/Australia National University: “The Sons of Neptune and the Sons of Ham: Slave Trade Seamen and Their Captive Cargoes”
Winter 2004
Maria Portuondo, Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins University: “Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World, 1570–1610”
Kristin Block, Ph.D. candidate, Rutgers University: “Faith and Fortune: The Politics of Religious Identity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean”
Summer 2004
Travis Glasson, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University: “Masters and Pastors: Anglican Missionaries and Plantation Life on Barbados”
Note: The original funds having been expended, no grants were made in 2005. When our grant from the Mellon Foundation was renewed in 2006, the grant program was reestablished, with a single academic-year cycle. Also beginning in 2006, recipients have been asked to submit a research abstract, and these are posted on the Web site. Each person's name links to his or her report.
Greg O'Malley, Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins University: “Final Passages: The British Inter-Colony Trade in Slaves in the Long Eighteenth Century”
Gabriel Paquette, Ph.D. candidate, University of Cambridge: “Regalism and Reform in the Iberian-Atlantic World, 1750–1820”
Marcella Ternavasio, National University of Rosario, Argentina: “Post-Revolutionary Argentinian Political History”
2006–2007
Charles Beatty Medina, University of Toledo: “Marronage in Spanish America from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries”
2007-2008
Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California: “Visible Empire: Colonial Botany and Visual Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic”
John Donoghue, Loyola University of Chicago: “The Atlantic Unbound: The Ideological Origins of Anglo-American Abolition, 1630–1661
Elizabeth Horodowich, New Mexico State University: “Armchair Travelers and the Venetian Discovery of the New World”
R. A. Kashanipour, Ph.D. candidate, University of Arizona: “A World of Cures: Spanish and Indigenous Healing in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic World”
Henk Looijesteijn, European University Institute: “Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy (c.1620–?1664) and His Ideal Commonwealth”
Neil Safier, University of British Columbia: “The Extraordinary Transatlantic Career of Hipólito da Costa, 1774–1823”
Katherine Smith, Ph.D. candidate, Howard University: “Slavery, Ethnicity, and Cultural Identity: British Virgin Islands' Slave Society, 1672–1672”
Molly Warsh, Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins University: “Adorning Empire: The History of the Early Modern Pearl Trade, 1492–1688”
Christopher Ebert, Brooklyn College, CUNY: “Salvador de Bahia: Economic and Social History of an Atlantic Port City, 1549-1763”
Hillel Eyal, University of California, Los Angeles: “Spanish Immigrants in Late Colonial Mexico City and Their Relations with Creoles”
Caitlin Fitz, Ph.D. candidate, Yale University: “The United States and Its Citizens in the Latin American Independence Movements”
Jeffrey Fortin, SUNY—Oneonta: “ 'Little Short of National Murder': Removal and the Making of Diasporas in the Atlantic World, 1745-1817”
Nadine Hunt, Ph.D. candidate, York University: “The Caribbean Trade of Jamaica: The Consolidation of Atlantic Networks, 1756-1807”
Christian J. Koot, Colgate University: “In Pursuit of Profit: Persistent Dutch Influence on the Inter-Imperial Trade of New York and the English Leeward Islands, 1621-1713”
Nathaniel Millett, Saint Louis University: “Slave Resistance during the Age of Revolution: The Maroon Community at Prospect Bluff, Spanish Florida”
Eric Paul, Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Davis: “Enlightenment Slavery: The Cuban Plantation Complex in the Age of Revolution”
Linda Rupert, University of North Carolina, Greensboro: “Maritime Marronage and the Shaping of Caribbean Slave Societies”
Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Texas A&M University: “France at the Edges: Life in France's Atlantic Port Cities, 1700-1850”
Hilit Surowitz, Ph.D. candidate, University of Florida, Gainesville: “La Nacion: Reconstructing Jewish Identity in the Early Modern Atlantic World”
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