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2004-2005
Lord Baltimore Fellows
The
following scholars have been awarded fellowships ranging from one
week to one year at the Maryland Historical Society:
Willa
Young Banks,
“A Perspective on Slavery and the Free Black Population: C. W. Jacobs”
Ms.
Banks is an independent scholar with master's degrees from the University
of Maryland at Baltimore County and Western Michigan University.
Herbert
Brewer,
“Black Christian Republicanism in the Atlantic World, 1776-1848”
Mr.
Brewer is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Maryland
at College Park.
Elizabeth
M. Cox,
“The Political Career of Mary Risteau: First Woman Elected to the
Maryland Assembly”
Ms.
Cox is an independent scholar with a master's degree in political
science from Northeastern University. She has published books on
female politicians, including Women State and Territorial Legislators,
1895-1995 and Women in Modern American Politics, 1900-1995.
Peter
Hansell,
“Francis Scott Key and the Writing of the National Anthem”
Mr.
Hansell is a master's candidate in history at California State University
— Hayward .
Mara
Katkins,
“The Ridgelys of Hampton and the Consumption of Beverages”
Ms.
Katkins is a master's candidate in historical archaeology at Temple
University .
Thomas
Latham,
“The American War of Independence , Metaphor and Visual Imagery
in Britain”
Mr.
Latham is a doctoral candidate in history at University College
in London, England .
Jessica
Millward,
“Freedom's Paradox: Maryland 's Slave Families in the Era of the
American Revolution”
Dr.
Millward recently earned a Ph.D. at the University of California
at Los Angeles and is an assistant professor history and Afro-American
studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Karen
Ryder,
“Insuring Slaves: Risk, Slavery, and the Development of Life Insurance
in the United States , 1830-1890”
Ms.
Ryder is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Delaware.
Kevin
Sheets,
“Undying Slaves Destroyed: Modernism and the Realist Avant Garde
in Twentieth-Century Baltimore ”
Dr.
Sheets, who earned a Ph.D. in history at the University of Virginia,
is an assistant professor of history at the State University of
New York College at Cortland.
Gary
Smith,
“Lincoln , the Border States , and the Emancipation of Slaves”
Mr.
Smith is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Dundee
in Scotland.
Lisa
Strong,
“The Baltimore Patrons of Alfred Jacob Miller”
Ms.
Strong is an independent scholar with a Ph.D. in art history from
Columbia University. She is the guest curator of an upcoming exhibition
on Alfred Jacob Miller at the Amon Carter Museum in Texas.
Nancy
Struna,
“The Transformation of the Ordinary: The Tavern Industry and Culture
in Baltimore County, Maryland, 1750-1820”
Dr.
Struna, a professor of American studies at the University of Maryland
at College Park, is the author of People of Prowess: Sport,
Leisure, and Labor in Early Anglo-America.
Daniel
Vivian,
“John R. Niernsee and the Architectural Profession in Baltimore,
ca. 1840-1880”
Mr.
Vivian, who has a master's in applied history from the University
of South Carolina, is a historian at the National Register of Historic
Places.
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