2005-2006 Lord Baltimore Fellows

The following scholars have been awarded fellowships ranging from one week to one year at the Maryland Historical Society:

Dr. Carol Aiken, an independent scholar and painting conservator from Baltimore, Maryland, with a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware, will be researching 186 Maryland portrait miniature painters for inclusion in a history and biographical dictionary of American portrait miniature painters.

Emily Carey, a doctoral student at Rutgers University, is analyzing the development of the country day school movement in America, with special emphasis on the origins and early years of Baltimore’s Gilman School, the first country day school in the country, for her dissertation, “The Country School for City Boys of Baltimore.”

Dr. Kathleen Fawver, an assistant professor of history at California State University-Dominguez Hills, earned her Ph.D. at the University of California, Riverside. She is revising her dissertation, “Lords of Creation: Household and Family Structure in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake,” to identify the economic strategies for labor by age, sex, and race on late eighteenth-century Chesapeake plantations.

Rev. Alvin C. Hathaway, Sr., a doctoral student at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, and assistant of Union Baptist Church in Baltimore, Maryland, is working on a dissertation on Union Baptist Church and some of its pastors, including Rev. Dr. Harvey Johnson, founder of the Mutual United Brotherhood of Liberty and an important advocate for the African American community in Baltimore.

David Head, a doctoral student at the State University of New York at Buffalo, is studying how an outbreak of piracy and privateering in the Caribbean, stemming from revolution in Latin America, tested commercial values in the United States. His dissertation is entitled, “Pirates, Privateers, and Peaceful Trade: Commercial Legitimacy in the Early American Republic, 1815-1830.”

Vasiliki Karali, a doctoral student at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, is examining the influence Anglicanism exercised on both Maryland loyalists and revolutionaries for her dissertation, “The Political Influence of Anglicanism in the Chesapeake at the Age of the American Revolution, ca. 1760-1790.”

Dr. Jessica Millward, an assistant professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is a repeat Lord Baltimore Fellow. She is investigating how manumission, access to freedom, and developing laws shaped black family life in Maryland from 1760 to 1860 for a project entitled, “Freedom’s Paradox: Maryland’s Slave Families in the Era of the American Revolution”

Solomon Smith, a doctoral student at the University of Georgia, is exploring the development and organization of industrial activities, focusing on the relationship among colonial elites, household manufacturing, industrial ventures, and industrial slavery, for a dissertation entitled, “’A profound secret in the breast of a very few’: Industrial Activities in the Chesapeake Region During the Eighteenth Century.”

Rina Steinhauer, an independent scholar from Baltimore, Maryland, is cataloging the city’s churches and synagogues dating from the eighteenth century through the early twentieth century for a book, “Divine Spaces: Baltimore’s Historic Houses of Worship.”