THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY 2018-2019 RESEARCH FELLOWS

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Short-term (2 to 4 monthS)

Danielle Abdon PhD Candidate, Art History, TempleUniversity “Poverty, Disease, and Port Cities: Global Exchanges in Hospital Architecture during the Age of Exploration”January 2019 – April 2019 | Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow (4)

Michael Becker PhD Candidate, History, Duke University“Customary Arrangements, Amelioration, and the Law inJamaica, 1786-1838”September 2018 – December 2018 | Paul W. McQuillen Fellow (4)

Scott Berthelette PhD Candidate, History, University ofSaskatchewan“Between Sovereignty and Statecraft: New France and theContest for the Hudson Bay Watershed, 1663-1774”mid-April 2019 – mid-June 2019 | Jane L. Keddy Memorial Fellow (2)

Celine Carayon Associate Professor, History, SalisburyUniversity“Lost? Colonial Failures and Memory in the Early Atlantic World”June 2018 – August 2018 | John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellow (3)

Guadalupe Carrasco-González Professor, History, Universidad de Cádiz“American merchants as intermediaries in the Spanish colonial trade: traffic and commercial practice, 1790-1815”July 2018 – August 2018 | José Amor y Vázquez Fellow (2)

David Horacio Colmenares González PhD Candidate, Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University“Antiquarian Gazes on the Mexican Past”July 2018 – August 2018 | John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellow (2)

Cecilio M. Cooper PhD Candidate, African American Studies, Northwestern University“Other|worldly Possessions: Territory, Slavery + Cosmography in the Atlantic World, 1441-1655”October 2018 – November 2018 | Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow (2)

Long-term (5 to 10 monthS)

Surekha Davies Historian and writer“Collecting Artifacts in the Age of Empire”September 2018 — March 2019 | InterAmericas Fellow (7)

Kathrinne Duffy PhD Candidate, American Studies, Brown University “Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Popular Knowledge in Antebellum America”September 2018 — May 2019 | Interdisciplinary Opportunities Fellow (9)

Katherine Johnston Assistant Professor, History, Beloit College“Atlantic Bodies: Environmental Health and Racial Slavery in the Greater Caribbean”January 2019 — May 2019 | National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (5)

Dana Leibsohn Professor, Art History, Smith College“No Strangers in Trade: Local Residents, Foreign Travelers, and the Art of Pacific Exchange 1750-1850”January 2019 – May 2019 | National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (5)

Myron McShane Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto“Reframing Worlds: Translating Travel Literature and Early Modern Print Culture”January 2019 – May 2019 | David R. Parsons Fellow (5)

Fabrício Prado Associate Professor, History, The College of William & Mary“Inter-American Connections: North-South American Networks in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions”mid-February 2019 – mid-August 2019 | National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (6)

Erika Valdivieso PhD Candidate, Classics, Brown University“The Virgilian Tradition in Colonial Latin America”September 2018 – May 2019 | J.M. Stuart Fellow (9)

JCB RESEARCH FELLOWS, 2018-2019

Marcella Hayes PhD Candidate, History, Harvard University“The Black Spaniards: Logics of Inclusion in Colonial Lima”January 2019 – April 2019 | Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellow (4)

Pablo Hernández Sau PhD Candidate, History and Civilization, European University Institute “The Mississippi Region as a trans-imperial frontier (1770-1800)”mid-March 2019 – mid-July 2019 | Center for New World Comparative Studies (4)

George Klaeren Postgraduate Student, Theology and Religious Studies, University of Oxford “The Medico-Moral Realm: Negotiating Science and Religion Across the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire”July 2018 – August 2018 | Gulbenkian Foundation Fellow (2)

Georgi Kyorlenski PhD Candidate, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA“Huascar: Remembering the Final Inca Ruler and His Lasting Impact”October 2018 – December 2018 | John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellow (3)

Mary Caton Lingold Assistant Professor, English, Virginia Commonwealth University“Sounds of Archival Silence: A Literary History of Afro-Atlantic Music (1630-1830)”May 2019 – June 2019 | Alice E. Adams Fellow (2)

Beatriz Marín-Aguilera Renfrew Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge“Clothing, race, and body politics in colonial Chile (1540-1823)”April 2019 – June 2019 | José Amor y Vázquez Fellow (3)

Nicole Maskiell Assistant Professor, History, University of South Carolina“From “Roode Eylandt” to Rhode Island: Examining Networks of Anglo-Dutch Slavery in Rhode Island”mid-May 2019 – mid-July 2019 | Charles H. Watts Fellow (2)

Megan McDonie PhD Candidate, History, Pennsylvania State University“Explosive Encounters: Volcanic Landscapes, Indigenous Knowledge, and Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Mesoamerica”March 2019 – June 2019 | Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellow (4)

Eleanor Coulter PhD Candidate, History, McGill University“Printing Empire in Early Modern France: Cartography, History, and Travel Writing in the life and work of Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville”September 2018 – October 2018 | Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow (2)

John Donoghue Associate Professor, History, Loyola University Chicago“Creative Destruction: Pirates, Maroons, and the Rise of Plantation Capitalism”May 2019 – June 2019 | Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellow (2)

Selene García Operational Coordinator of the “Patrimonio para niños” Project, Fundación Alfredo Harp Helú de Oaxaca“El Origen y el Culto a la Imagen de la Virgen de la Soledad y Sus Promotores en Oaxaca, 1682-1728”February 2019 – March 2019 | Maria Elena Cassiet Fellow (2)

Shantel George Assistant Professor, Marist College“Kola in the Atlantic World: Medicine, Religion, and Identity, 1500-1900”June 2019 – July 2019 | John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellow (2)

Juan Sebastián Gómez González Associate Professor, History, Universidad de Antioquia“Smuggling and Rebellion: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Societies in Panama, 1724-1750”April 2019 – June 2019 | Maria Elena Cassiet Fellow (3)

Gabrielle Greenlee PhD Candidate, Visual Studies, University of California Santa Cruz“Colonial Fabrications: Understanding Spanish Legal Constructs for Land Use in the Colonial Andes”mid-July 2018 – mid-September 2018 | John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellow (2)

Roberto Guedes Ferreira Associate Professor, History, Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro“Compadrazgo Networks in the South Atlantic World: A Comparative Look at Baptism Rituals and Slavery in Luanda (Angola) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 18th Century”October 2018 – November 2018 | Almeida Family Fellow (2)

Stefan Hanß Senior Lecturer, Early Modern History, University of Manchester“Hair, Social Order and Cultural Encounters in the Habsburg Colonial World, c. 1492-1700”May 2019 – July 2019 | Center for New World Comparative Studies (3)

Raphaèle Preisinger Postdoctoral Researcher, Art History, University of Bern“The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Hapsburg Eagle: A Surprising Merging of Iconographies in Colonial New Spain”February 2019 – May 2019 | Norman Fiering Fellow (4)

Javier Puente Assistant Professor, History, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile“Eighteenth-Century Climate and the Making of an Andean Rebellion”July 2018 – August 2018 | Maria Elena Cassiet Fellow (2)

Richard Reinhardt PhD Candidate, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan“Grammars of Conversion: Slavery, Idolatry, and Capuchin Friars in the Atlantic World”May 2019 – August 2019 | Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow (4)

Asiel Sepúlveda PhD Candidate, Art History, Southern Methodist University “Havana and the Visual Consciousness of the Atlantic World”September 2018 – October 2018 | Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellow (2)

Henry Stoll PhD Candidate, Music, Harvard University“The Strains of Haitian Independence, 1764-1820: Music at the Beginning and End of Empire”November 2018 – December 2018 | John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellow (2)

Hannah Knox Tucker PhD Candidate, History, The University of Virginia“Masters of the Market: Mercantile Ship Captaincy in the Colonial British Atlantic, 1607-1774”March 2019 – May 2019 | Marie L. and William R. Hartland Fellow (3)

Sonia Tycko PhD Candidate, History, Harvard University “Captured Consent: Bound Service and Freedom of Contract in Early Modern England and English America”July 2018 – August 2018 | Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow (2)

Arthur Weststeijn Assistant Professor, Humanities, Utrecht University“Intruding News: Information Management and Interloping in the Seventeenth-Century Iberian Atlantic”May 2019 – June 2019 | Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellow (2)

Kenneth Mills Professor, History, University of Michigan“Apostolic Longing and Experience in the Early Modern Spanish World”June 2019 – August 2019 | Paul W. McQuillen Memorial Fellow (3)

Elizabeth del Pilar Montañez-Sanabria Postdoctoral Researcher, History, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Valparaíso“Privateers, Pirates, and the Opening of the Two “Locks” to the South Sea, 1570-1700”March 2019 – June 2019 | Marie L. and William R. Hartland Fellow (4)

Federica Morelli Associate Professor, Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin“Race and Citizenship: The Status of Free People of Color in Spanish America, 1800-1850”July 2018 – August 2018 | Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow (2)

Peter Olsen-Harbich PhD Candidate, History, The College of William & Mary“A Meaningful Subjection: Coercive Inequality and Indigenous Political Economy in the Colonial Northeast”May 2019 – June 2019 | Alice E. Adams Fellow (2)

Felice Physioc PhD Candidate, History, Princeton University“The Political Economy of Information: State Intelligence and the Fiscal Reorganization of the River Plate-Andean Region, 1760-1840”September 2018 – November 2018 | Maury A. Bromsen Memorial Fellow (3)

Nydia Pineda Postdoctoral Fellow, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México“The production and reading of astronomical images in New Spain”July 2018 – August 2018 | Maria Elena Cassiet Fellow (2)

Isabel María Povea Moreno Researcher, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico“Mining Impact in the Environment and Population of Spanish America in the Age of Revolutions (1750-1850)”January 2019 – February 2019 | John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellow (2)

CoLLaborative CLuSter FeLLowS

The John Carter Brown Library Collaborative Cluster Fellowships (CCFs) are meant to expand the disciplinary scope of research at the Library and emphasize the role of the JCB as a laboratory for cutting-edge research methods. These small interdisciplinary groups (between two and four scholars) will be in simultaneous residence for periods of up to one month to work in collaboration on a particular theme, object, or scholarly project.

“Bound Images: Maps in Books Since 1453” – January 2019

Jordana Dym, Professor, History, Skidmore CollegeCarla Lois, Researcher, CONICET and Professor, University of Buenos Aires

“The Italians and the Expansion of Europe to the West 1450-1800: Preliminary Study for Research in an Interdisciplinary and Pan-American Perspective” – June 2019

Paolo L. Bernardini, Professor, History, University of Insubria, Italy and Fellow, Accademia dei Lincei, ItalyElisa Bianco, Assistant Professor, Early Modern European History, University of Insubria, Italy

“Creating an Early Modern French Caribbean Digital Database” – June 2019

Elizabeth Heath, Associate Professor, History, Baruch College-CUNYJulia Landweber, Associate Professor, History, Montclair State University

DigitaL FeLLowShip For Former FeLLowS

With generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Digital Fellowship for Former Fellows supports former JCB research fellows to spend up to three months at the Library transforming their research project carried out during an earlier fellowship into a digital project or product.

Guadalupe García, Associate Professor, History, Tulane University“Urban Space and Colonial Logic in Nineteenth-Century Havana”May 2019 – June 2019 (2)

Caleb Wittum PhD Candidate, History, University of South Carolina“Chasquis of Liberty: Revolutionary Messengers in the Bolivian Independence Era, 1808-1825”July 2018 – August 2018 | John Carter Brown Library Associates Fellow (2)

Isabel Yaya McKenzie Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, College de France, EHESS, CNRS (Paris)“Beyond Inca kinship: The Social and Spatial Practices of Ayllu Membership in Ancient Cuzco”October 2018 – January 2019 | Alice E. Adams Fellow (4)

Corinna Zeltsman Assistant Professor, History, Georgia Southern University“Ink under the Fingernails: Printing and the Materiality of Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico”May 2019 – July 2019 | William Reese Company/John Alden Memorial Fellow (3)

hoDSon truSt-John Carter brown Library FeLLowShip The Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellowship supports work by academics, independent scholars, and writers working on significant projects relating to the literature, history, culture, or art of the Americas before 1830. The award is co-sponsored by the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, in Chestertown, MD. Recipients spend two months in Providence researching and two months in Chestertown writing.

Tara Bynum Assistant Professor, African American Literature and Culture, Hampshire College“Reading Pleasures”December 2018 – January 2019 | Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Library Fellow (2)

subjects. The Almeida Family Fellowship and the Gulbenkian Foundation Fellowship support research related to Portugal and Brazil; the John Alden Memorial Fellowship is for bibliographical research; the Jane L. Keddy Fellowship is for projects related to the history and culture of early modern France or Italy; the Virginia and Jean R. Perrette Fellowship supports the study of early modern France and its connections to the Americas. The Charles H. Watts and Paul W. McQuillen Memorial Funds support research in the fields of British and North American history and literature. The John R. Bockstoce award is for Pacific Ocean Studies, including Russian America. Maria Elena Cassiet fellowships are restricted to scholars who are citizens and permanent residents of countries in Spanish America. Other fellowships are available without topical or geographical restrictions with support from the Arthur F. And Alice E. Adams Foundation Fund, the Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fund, the Barbara S. Mosbacher Fund and the Norman Fiering Fund. Eight fellowships in 2018-2019 will be underwritten by annual gifts from the John Carter Brown Library Associates.

Of the 56 fellows invited this year, 22 are coming from outside the United States, and 20 are completing work on doctoral dissertations. The number in parentheses in the foregoing list indicates the number of months awarded. All scholars must relocate to Providence and be in continuous residence for the entire term of their fellowship. The JCB maintains a residence, Fiering House, for its research fellows less than four blocks from the Library. For more information visit www.jcbl.org. ___________________________________________________

The John Carter Brown Library is a center for advanced research in history and the humanities, established in 1846 and located at Brown University since 1901. Its world-class collection on the early Americas includes rare books, manuscripts, maps, and supporting materials from the early decades of European print to the first half of the nineteenth century. The Library’s events, exhibitions, residential research fellowships, open-access policy, and digitization program make these resources available to researchers from around the world.___________________________________________________

Cover Image: Arnoldus Montanus, Nova Mexico (Amsterdam, 1671)

reSearCherS-in-reSiDenCe

JCB Researchers-in-Residence are scholars who reside in Providence but who have been deemed to have an important contribution to make to the ongoing intellectual community of the Library, and who are welcome to use the resources of the Library to advance their own scholarly pursuits.

Amy Turner BushnellCarol DelaneyJack P. GreeneDennis LandisJames Muldoon

about the FeLLowShipS

All of the fellows will be conducting research in the Library’s renowned collections of primary materials related to the European discovery, exploration, and settlement of the New World, from Greenland to Patagonia, prior to 1825, including books, maps, newspapers and other printed objects.

In total, seven long-term fellowships (five to ten months) were awarded. Three awards will be funded in whole or in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). One is underwritten by the J.M. Stuart Fund (which is reserved for the support of graduate students at Brown University). Additional long-term fellowships are made possible by Donald L. Saunders, R. David Parsons, and The Reed Foundation, which has endowed the InterAmericas Fellowship (for research on the history of the British West Indies and the Caribbean basin).

The Library has also awarded forty-three short-term fellowships (two to four months) from a number of endowed funds,

some of which have been restricted to a specific area of study. The Jeannette D.

Black Memorial Fellowship funds research on the history of cartography; Center for New World Comparative Studies fellowships are for research in the comparative history of the colonial Americas; the Alexander O. Vietor Memorial Fellowship and the Marie L. and William R. Hartland Fellowship focus on early maritime history; the Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellowship supports research on the history of women and the family, social history, and gender. The Maury A. Bromsen Fellowship is focused on colonial Spanish American history. The José Amor y Vázquez Fund supports projects relating to Spanish and Spanish-American