Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society

FAIN: RA-50049-07

Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA 02215-3631)
Conrad Edick Wright (Project Director: September 2006 to June 2013)

The equivalent of two fellowships a year for three years.

The Massachusetts Historical Society requests a grant of $218,000 in outright funds and $20,000 in matching funds, a total of $238,000, for a program of long-term postdoctoral fellowships. To this sum the MHS will add a match of $20,000 and $40,500 in its own funds, a total of $60,500. The initiative will extend an existing program of MHS/NEH awards and complement programs of short-term and regional grants. Fellows use their awards at the MHS, where they make use of one of the great research collections for the study of American history. Fellows benefit from residence at a lively research center at the heart of one of the most intellectually stimulating cities in the United States.

Associated Products

The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America (Book)
Title: The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America
Author: Linford D. Fisher
Abstract: This book tells the story of American Indians' attempts to wrestle with the ongoing realities of colonialism between the 1670s and 1820. Fisher's analysis of church records, court documents, and correspondence reveals a complex reality. Placing the Awakening in context of land loss and the ongoing struggle for cultural autonomy in the eighteenth century casts it as another step in the ongoing, tentative engagement of native peoples with Christian ideas and institutions in the colonial world. Charting this untold story of the Great Awakening and the resultant rise of an Indian Separatism and its effects on Indian cultures as a whole, this book challenges long-held notions about religion and Native-Anglo-American interaction.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/ColonialRevolutionary/?view=usa&ci=9780199740048
Primary URL Description: Publisher's website
Secondary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/indian-great-awakening-religion-and-the-shaping-of-native-cultures-in-early-america/oclc/758646873&referer=brief_results
Secondary URL Description: WorldCat
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780199720048

Phillis Wheatly: Biography of a Genius in Bondage (Book)
Title: Phillis Wheatly: Biography of a Genius in Bondage
Author: Vincent Carretta
Abstract: Biography of the first published Black poet in the American colonies.
Year: 2011
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Type: Single author monograph

New England/New Israel: Jews and Puritans in Early America (Book)
Title: New England/New Israel: Jews and Puritans in Early America
Author: Michael Hoberman
Abstract: Combined study of the influence of Jewish representation in the Bible on New England Puritan religious thought and the practical consequences of the presence of a small number of Jews in colonial New England.
Year: 2011
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Type: Single author monograph

"'Under Their Captivity & Dispersion': The Story of Boston's First Jewish Business Venture" (Article)
Title: "'Under Their Captivity & Dispersion': The Story of Boston's First Jewish Business Venture"
Author: Michael Hoberman
Abstract: Study of the commercial influence of colonial Boston's very small Jewish community.
Year: 2012
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Early American Studies
Publisher: McNeil Center for Early American Studies and University of Pennsylvania Press

Jeremiah's Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England (Book)
Title: Jeremiah's Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England
Author: Meredith Marie Neuman
Abstract: New England Puritan sermon culture was primarily an oral phenomenon, and yet its literary production has been understood mainly through a print legacy. Meredith Marie Neuman turns to the notes taken by Puritan auditors in the meetinghouse in order to fill out our sense of the lived experience of the sermon. By reconstructing the aural culture of sermons, Neuman shifts our attention from the pulpit to the pew to demonstrate the many ways in which sermon auditors helped to shape this dominant genre of Puritan New England. Tracing the material transmission of sermon texts by readers and writers, hearers and notetakers, Jeremiah's Scribes challenges the notion of stable authorship by individual ministers. Instead, Neuman illuminates a mode of textual production that pervaded communities and occurred in the overlapping media of print, manuscript, and speech. Even printed sermons, she demonstrates, bore the traces of their roots in the oral culture of the meetinghouse. Bringing material considerations to bear on anxieties over the perceived relationship between divine and human language, Jeremiah's Scribes broadens our understanding of Puritan literature. Neuman examines the controlling logic of the sermon in relation to nonsermonic writing—such as conversion narrative—ultimately suggesting the fundamental permeability among disparate genres of Puritan writing.
Year: 2013
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/jeremiahs-scribes-creating-sermon-literature-in-puritan-new-england/oclc/821218332&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Secondary URL: http://wordpress.clarku.edu/meneuman/sermon-notebooks-online/
Secondary URL Description: Sermon Notebooks Online: you can browse a gallery of images of sermon notebooks, read a transcription of a set of sermon notes, view frequently asked questions on sermon notetaking, find resources for further study, or get involved with creating and perfecting new transcriptions.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780812245059
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

"Blood and Lust: Masculinity and Sexuality in Illustrated Print Portrayals of Early Pirates of the Caribbean" (Book Section)
Title: "Blood and Lust: Masculinity and Sexuality in Illustrated Print Portrayals of Early Pirates of the Caribbean"
Author: Carolyn Eastman
Editor: Thomas A. Foster
Abstract: Studies the role of printed illustartions in shaping attitudes.
Year: 2009
Publisher: New York University Press
Book Title: New Men: Manliness in Early America

"Beware the Abandoned Woman: European Travelers, 'Exceptional Native Women,' and Interracial Families in Early Modern Atlantic Travelogues" (Book Section)
Title: "Beware the Abandoned Woman: European Travelers, 'Exceptional Native Women,' and Interracial Families in Early Modern Atlantic Travelogues"
Author: Carolyn Eastman
Editor: Toni Bowers
Editor: Tita Chico
Abstract: Looks at gender in 18th-century travelogues
Year: 2012
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Title: Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century

" The 'Woman Pigeon': Gender and the Anglo-American Commercial Community in Canton & Macao, 1849" (Article)
Title: " The 'Woman Pigeon': Gender and the Anglo-American Commercial Community in Canton & Macao, 1849"
Author: Rachel Tamar Van
Abstract: Investigates gender and families in the European and American communities of Canton and Macao during the height of the 19th-century China trade.
Year: 2014
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Pacific Historical Review
Publisher: Pacific Branch, American Historical Association

Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America (Book)
Title: Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: April R. Haynes
Abstract: Discusses attitudes toward masturbation in the nineteenth-century United States.
Year: 2015
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226284590

The Working Lives of Eighteenth-Century Authors of African Descent (Book Section)
Title: The Working Lives of Eighteenth-Century Authors of African Descent
Author: Vincent Carretta
Editor: William J. Christman
Editor: Kevin Binfield
Abstract: Not available
Year: 2018
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Book Title: Teaching British Laboring-Class Literature

The Lessons of Loo Choo: The Historical Vision of American Peace Reformers, 1815-1837 (Book Section)
Title: The Lessons of Loo Choo: The Historical Vision of American Peace Reformers, 1815-1837
Author: Margot Minardi
Editor: John Smolenski
Editor: Michael Goode
Abstract: not available
Year: 2018
Publisher: Leiden: Brill
Book Title: The Specter of Peace: Rethinking Violence and Power in the Colonial Atlantic

Burritt, Elihu (Book Section)
Title: Burritt, Elihu
Author: Margot Minardi
Editor: Mitchell K. Hall
Abstract: Encyclopedic entry
Year: 2018
Publisher: Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO
Book Title: Opposition to War: An Encylopedia of U.S. Peace and Antiwar Movements

Worcester, Noah (Book Section)
Title: Worcester, Noah
Author: Margot Minardi
Editor: Mitchell K. Hall
Abstract: Encyclopedic Entry
Year: 2018
Publisher: Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO
Book Title: Opposition to War: An Encylopedia of U.S. Peace and Antiwar Movements

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