2006-2007 Lord Baltimore Fellows

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

Aaron Bryant, a doctoral candidate in American studies at University of Maryland at College Park, “Eubie Blake: The Ineffable Articulation”

Jessica Cannon, a doctoral candidate in history at Rice University, “Nationalism and Identity in Maryland in the Civil War Era”

Alexa Cawley, a visiting assistant professor at Delaware State who earned a doctorate in history from American University, “Settlement and Society on the Early Eastern Shore of Maryland”

Jennifer Copeland, a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland at College Park, “Shaping Their Sphere: The Lives of Baltimore Women, 1790-1860”

Donna Dodenhoff, a doctoral candidate in American studies at the College of William and Mary, “Baltimore 's Black Churches and the Public Sphere from the Late 19th Century to the Mid 20th Century”

Dean Herrin, the National Park Service coordinator at the Catoctin Center for Regional Studies, who earned a doctorate in American history from the University of Delaware, “James W. C. Pennington, The Fugitive Blacksmith”

Timothy Huebner, an associate professor of history at Rhodes College who earned a doctorate from the University of Florida and is co-editor of the Studies in the Legal History of the South Series for the University of Georgia Press, “Rediscovering Roger B. Taney's Antislavery Legal Career”

Daniel Hulsebosch, a professor of law at the New York University School of Law who earned a doctorate in the history of American Civilization at Harvard and a JD at Columbia, “Writs to Rights: The Tranformation of the Anglo-American Common Law in the Age of Revolution”

Lisa Kraus, a doctoral student in anthropology at the University of Texas , “Wye House's Long Green”

Emily Lieb, a doctoral student in history at Columbia University, “Ashes and Dust: Unbuilding the American Urban Landscape”

Mary Anne Long, a lecturer in music at the University of Wisconsin who earned a PhD in musicology from the same university, “Singing through the Feminine Voice: Gender Reconstruction on the Boards of early 20th Century Baltimore”

Sarah Mulhall, a graduate student in history at the Johns Hopkins University, “Treated as a Child Should be: Orphan Asylums and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Conceptions of Childhood”

Jack “Calvin” Schermerhorn, a doctoral student in history at the University of Virginia, “Against All Odds: Slavery and Enslaved Families in the Making of the Antebellum Chesapeake”

K. Wise Whitehead, a doctoral student in the language, literacy, and culture program at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, “Free and Enslaved Women in 19th-Century Baltimore and Philadelphia”

Psyche Williams-Forson, an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Maryland at College Park where she earned a doctorate in American studies, “What the Colored Women Need[s] is an Opportunity to Make Money: African American Women, Food Service, and the Waterways”