VFH Announces 2016-2017 Residential Fellowships and Upcoming Fellows Talks
Charlottesville, VA—Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) announces fourteen humanities scholars in residence during the 2016-2017 year. The Fellows, their affiliations, and projects are as follows; summary descriptions of each project can be found in the attachment.
Frank Brannon – Independent author, SpeakEasy Press, Charlottesville
Will It Survive? A History of Cherokee Printing
Don DeBats – American Studies, Flinders University (Australia)
Black and White Oral Voting in the First Enfranchisement
Martien Halvorson-Taylor – Religious Studies, University of Virginia
The Song of Songs in Diachronic and Synchronic Perspective
Kate Jones – History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Child Prisoners and the Limits of Citizenship in the New South
Paul D. Jones – Religious Studies, University of Virginia
Patience: A Theological Exploration
Thomas P. Kapsidelis – Independent Author, Richmond
Higher Aim: Guns, Safety and Healing in the Era of Mass Shootings
Sarah Milov – History, University of Virginia
Growing the Cigarette: Tobacco in the Twentieth Century
Kiki Petrosino – English, University of Louisville
White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia – Exploring Virginia’s Complex Racial History Through Poetry
Lynn Rainville – Humanities, Sweet Briar College
Mobilizing for and Commemorating the Great War in Virginia, 1915-2015
Paula Seniors – Africana Studies/Sociology, Virginia Tech
For Freedom Now: African American Woman Radical Activists (1958-1984)
Jon Sensbach – History, University of Florida
The Art of Freedom: Camille Pissarro and the Age of Emancipation
Earl Swift – Independent Author, Crozet
Tangier Island: The Long Life and Prospective Demise of a Storied Island Community
Greg Wilson – History, University of Akron
Toxic Dust: The Virginia Kepone Disaster and the Legacy of Chlorinated Insecticides
Doug Winiarski – Religious Studies, University of Richmond
Shakers, Jerkers & the Shawnee Prophet: Religious Encounters on the Early American Frontier, 1805-1815
Fellows Talks
Each semester, VFH invites the public to learn more about the diverse and fascinating areas of the humanities explored by our Fellows through lunchtime talks featuring each Fellow in informal conversation about his or her research. The following Fellows Talks are free and open to the public; a light lunch will be provided:
12-1 PM at the VFH Conference Center, 145 Ednam Drive, Charlottesville:
Tuesday, October 4 – Kiki Petrosino
White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia – Exploring Virginia’s Complex Racial History Through Poetry
Tuesday, October 18 – Deborah Lee
Love and Debt: “A True Story” of Mary Ann Cord, John T. Lewis, and Mark Twain at Quarry Farm
Tuesday, November 1 – Don DeBats
A New View of Reconstruction
Tuesday, November 15 – Earl Swift
Going Down Slow: The Long, Strange Life and Threatened Demise of Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay
Tuesday, December 6 – Aprilfaye Manalang, Norfolk State University
Religion, Citizenship and Military Service: How Religion Shapes Citizenship Among America’s Newer Immigrants
12-1 PM at the Library of Virginia, 800 E. Broad Street, Richmond:
Tuesday, November 22 – Greg Wilson
Toxic Dust: The Virginia Kepone Disaster and the Legacy of Chlorinated Insecticides
Thursday, December 1 – Kate Jones Child Prisoners and the Limits of Citizenship in the New South
About the Fellowship Program: The VFH Residential Fellowship Program supports humanities scholars and writers whose work is intellectually stimulating, imaginative, and accessible to the public, promoting greater understanding of and access to the humanities. To date it is the only residential fellowship program among all fifty-six state humanities councils. Fellowship projects explore the humanities broadly, including history, literature, folklife, and historical and contemporary cultures.