Long-Term Research Fellowships at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

FAIN: RA-50134-14

Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, VA 23187-8781)
Karin A. Wulf (Project Director: August 2013 to December 2019)

12 months of stipend support (1 fellowship) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The Omohundro Institute seeks to renew, through the Endowment's Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions, funds for postdoctoral fellowships for January 1, 2015-June 30, 2018. The proposal requests support for fellows who will conduct research in areas of early American studies with the goal of preparing book manuscripts. Each fellow will be a NEH fellow for the first 12 months as part of a two-year fellowship package at the Omohundro Institute. The Omohundro Institute's sixty-eight-year-old fellowship program has a reputation for quality and productivity and is held in high regard by the historical profession. As an independent research center and a publisher of important work about the early American period, the Omohundro Institute provides an ideal setting for residential postdoctoral fellows working on their first book-length publications.

Associated Products

Marriage and the Construction of Colonial Order: Jurisdiction, Gender, and Class in Seventeenth Century Dutch Batavia (Article)
Title: Marriage and the Construction of Colonial Order: Jurisdiction, Gender, and Class in Seventeenth Century Dutch Batavia
Author: Deborah Hamer
Abstract: Looking anew at marriage in Batavia suggests that debates over marriage offer an ideal entry point into investigations of the legal pluralities that characterised Batavian society. As the discussions in 1635 and 1636 between the Company's directors and the Dutch Reformed Church surrounding the rumoured marriage ban for Company employees suggest, the law was more contentious than has previously been recognised. It was not simply that people did not obey the law and that the jurisdictional categories that authorities aimed to create were more aspirational than real, though that is true. It was also that there were disagreements within the East India Company's ranks – the directors in the Dutch Republic, Batavia's Company-appointed high government and ministers from the Reformed Church – and between the East India Company and other non-Dutch groups that claimed to have their own jurisdictions in the city, over whether to prioritise the project of separating people or whether to maximise the opportunities for legal marriage.
Year: 2017
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Gender & History

Indian Slaves from Guiana in Seventeenth-Century Barbados (Article)
Title: Indian Slaves from Guiana in Seventeenth-Century Barbados
Author: Carolyn Arena
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2017
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Ethnohistory

Market Marronage: Fugitive Women and the Internal Marketing System in Jamaica, 1781– 1834 (Article)
Title: Market Marronage: Fugitive Women and the Internal Marketing System in Jamaica, 1781– 1834
Author: Shauna Sweeney
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2019
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 76, no. 2 (April 2019): 197–222

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