Archie K. Davis Fellowships

Archie K. Davis Fellowships – List of Prior Winners

Since the spring of 1988, approximately 479 scholars have been awarded Archie K. Davis Fellowships in a targeted research program sponsored by the North Caroliniana Society. On a competitive basis, the program’s funding has supported hands-on research by young scholars spending time in North Carolina’s historical and cultural collections, both public and private.

Winners announced in the spring of:

2025

Chloe Landen (University of Texas at Austin): Anti-Lynching Activism, Religion, and the Rise of Privatized Execution: A Look at the Legacy of The Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching
Ashley LaRue Low (University of North Carolina, Greensboro): Tar Heels & Torah: Southern Jewish History in North Carolina, 1900-2010
Trevor McKenzie (Appalachin State University): You Soon Shall Hear: The Unsung History of Appalachia in 20 Ballads
Olivia H. Phillips (Indiana University – Bloomington): “Sometimes I’m in this Country”: Traditional Singing and Heritage Narratives in North Carolina’s Beech Mountain Community

2024

Emily Magness (William & Mary): “If you had paid attention, you would know”: The Sacred World of Eighteenth-Century Cherokee- Anglo Politics
Hunter Moskowitz (Northeastern University): Race and Labor in the Global Textile Industry: Lowell, Concord, and Monterrey in the Early 19th Century
Jordan B. Smith (Widener University): The Martin Family and a Violent Atlantic World
Joshua Strayhorn (National Park Service): Somewhere to Lay My Head: Black Mobility, Migration, and Landownership in Eastern North Carolina, 1861-1900
Francena Turner (Fayetteville State University): Carrying the Weight of the World: Black Women, Civil Rights, & Black Power at Fayetteville State University, 1960-1972

2023

Antonio Austin (Howard University): Under the Cloak of Secrecy: Relationships Between the Enslaved and Free Black Populations in Antebellum, North Carolina
Mia Edwards (University of Warwick): Masculinity, Physicality and Disability: Shifting Experiences and Ideologies within the Antebellum South, 1800-1861
Ashley N. Gilbert (University of North Carolina, Greensboro): Revolutionary Crossroads: Taverns in the Southern British Mainland Colonies, 1740-1781
Irene Adair Newman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): First in Fight: North Carolina and The White Power Movement in the Late 20th Century
Casey Price (University of Tennessee-Knoxville): Given to This Land: Mapping Settler Colonialism in Kituwah, 1682-1810

2022

G. Jasper Conner (College of William & Mary): Twice a Problem: Black Disability in the Jim Crow
Stuart H. Marshall (University of North Carolina at Greensboro): Junaluska’s Odyssey: Eastern Cherokee Sovereignty in the Civil War Era
Cristiana Shipma McFarland (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): “Bettering” Humanity: A History of the Human Betterment League of North Carolina
David Silkenat (University of Edinburgh): Heroes of the Klan War

2021

Georgann Eubanks (independent researcher): Bearing Witness: Paul Green, Playwright of the People
Barbara Ladd (Emory University): Writing in the North of the South: Moses Grande and Charles W. Chestnut
Benjamin Holtzman (Lehman College): “Smash the Klan”: Fighting the White Power Movement in the Late Twentieth Century
Noeleen McIlvenna (Wright State University): Dressed Pork: North Carolina and the Atlantic World Economy

2020

Katherine Elizabeth Burns (University of Edinburgh): “Keep this Unwritten History”: Mapping African American Family Histories in “Information Wanted” Advertisements, 1880-1902
Allison Fredette, Ph.D. (Appalachian State University): Murdering Laura Foster: Violence, Gender, and Memory in Appalachian North Carolina.
Ryan J. Johnson (Elon University): “Part II: Horace Williams, Gadfly of Chapel Hill” of Three American Hegels
LaQuanda Walters Cooper (George Mason University): Black Politics in Black Space: Black Industrial Fairs in North Carolina, 1879- 1930
Emily West (University of Reading, UK): Food, Power, and Resistance in US slavery

2019

Evan Howard Ashford (State University of New York College at Oneonta): Cast Down Your Bucket and Cast Your Ballot
Robert J. Bell (New York University): American Influences in Iran from 1911-1963
Christopher Bonner (University of Maryland): Moses Grandy’s Pursuit of Freedom
Michael K. Brantley (North Carolina Wesleyan College): Otway Burns
Heather R. Brinn (University of Massachusetts at Amherst): Black Families in Transition in the Reconstruction South
Georgann Eubanks (independent researcher): The Wild South: Lost and Found
Jonathan A. Gomez (Harvard University): Black Musical Transformations of the Great Migration
Hannah K. Hicks (Vanderbilt University): Amazons and Viragos
Lucas P. Kelley (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Bordering the Borderlines
James W. Lester, Jr. (independent researcher): NC Mapmaker C. M. Miller
James MacKay (University of Edinburgh): Flight and Freedom in Revolutionary America
Elisabeth A. Moore (West Virginia University): Tourism in Western North Carolina Post WWII
Christopher Arris Oakley (East Carolina University): Maritime Indians
Jessica M. Parr (Simmons University): Evolution of Transatlantic Black Nationalism, 1760-1860
Raja Rahim (University of Florida): How African Americans Made US College Basketball, 1937-1970
Paul Sanchez (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary): William Louis Poteat and Liberal Religion in the Baptist South
Virginia L. Summey (University of North Carolina at Greensboro): NC White Women and White Supremacy in 1898
Lizabeth Wardzinski (North Carolina State University): Tennessee Valley Authority and Postwar Development

2018

Samuel T. Allen (University of Pittsburgh): 19^th Century Conjoined Twins.
Daniel J. Burge (University of Alabama): Manifest Destiny Opposition.
Madison W. Cates (University of Florida): Bulldozer Revolution in Post WWII South.
Laura Channing (Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge): Taxation and Transition from Slave to Non-Slave Economy.
Esther Cam-Ly Cyna (Columbia University): Race, Education, Finance in 1970s South.
Ashley Foley Dabbraccio (University of Memphis): American Family, Home and Abroad.
Robert Hunt Ferguson (Western Carolina University): Post-Industrial South – Environment.
Jonathan Anthony Hanna (Claremont Graduate University): Southern Federalist Persuasion.
Jonathan Scott Jones (Binghamton University): Opiates & Insanity in the Post-Civil War South.
Cynthia A. Kierner (George Mason University): Jane Spurgin and Family RW, North Carolina.
Crawford Alexander Mann III (independent scholar): Franklin Richard Grist; Painter.
Laurie Medford (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Planter Families and Crisis.
Ashlie Richard (East Tennessee State University): Environmental Health, 58^th Regiment, North Carolina, Civil War.
Bryan C. Rindfleisch (Marquette University): Creek to Cherokee; Native American History.
Rodney J. Steward (University of South Carolina): Confederate Sequestration.
Brenda W. Stroud (University of Florida): Eugenics and Civil Rights.
Jason A. Tercha (Binghamton University): Transportation Infrastructure in Pre-Civil War North Carolina.
Kaitlyn Wiley (West Virginia University): Cherokee Economy in RW Era.
Timothy J. Williams (University of Oregon): Civil War Prisons and Intellectual History.

2017

Richard Berman (Oxford Brookes University): Freemasonry in North Carolina.
John Brannon, Jr. (Virginia Foundation for the Humanities): Cherokee Syllabary and Printing.
Robert Colby (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Slave Trading in the Civil War South.
Sara Collini (George Mason University): Enslaved Women and Midwifery.
Michael Hardy (independent): Richmond M. Pearson.
Nathaniel Holly (College of William & Mary): NC Emancipation Politics.
Tina Irvine (Penn State University): Americanizing Appalachia.
Stephanie King (University of Kentucky): Confederate Diaspora.
Michael Lynch (University of Tennessee at Knoxville): Manliness on the Rev. Frontier.
Joshua R. Shriver (Auburn University): Interpersonal Rel. and CW Soldiers.
Lewis M. Stern (independent scholar): Tommy Thompson, North Carolina Musician.
Rodney J. Steward (USC-Salkehatchie): Southern Rights Party in North Carolina.
Larry E. Tise (Eastern Carolina University): Maps of Colonial North Carolina.
Brandon K. Winford (University of Tennessee at Knoxville): Southern Regional Council.

2016

Richard Berman (Oxford Brookes University): 18th Century Freemasonry.
Tyler Boulware (West Virginia University): Attakullakulla (Little Carpenter).
Victoria Coltman (University of Edinburgh, College of Art): Janet Schaw’s Journal at Yale.
Brian K. Fennessy (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Reconstructed Rebels: Republicans.
Andrea R. Gray (George Mason University): Retirement in the Early Republic.
Amanda Kleintop (Northwestern): N.C. Emancipation Politics.
William A. Link (University of Florida): Biography of Frank Porter
Mary McAvoy (Arizona State University): U.S. Workers’ Educational Theatre Programs.
Sha Vonté Mils (Penn State University): Charlotte Hawkins Brown.
Robert S. Richard (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Panic of 1819.
Ashley Schmidt (Tulane): American Revolution Black Pensioners.
Kimberly B. Sherman (University of St. Andrews): Scottish Network in N.C. 1730-1800.
Jason Stroud (University of North Carolina at Greensboro): Justice, Piedmont N.C., 1760-1810.
David C. Williard (University of St. Thomas): Post Civil War Plight of African-American Soldier.

2015

Rebecca Adams (George Mason University): Romance, Courtship, and Marriage Rituals and Traditions of Southern Women During the Civil War.
Jennifer Scism Ash (University of Illinois, Chicago): Individual and Group Acts of Civil Disobedience By African American Women on the Bennett College Campus.
Victoria Coltman (University of Edinburgh, College of Art): Scots in North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century.
Jesse George-Nichol (University of Virginia): The Secession Crisis As Seen Through Six Former Whigs in Border States.
Robert L. Glaze (University of Tennessee, Knoxville): The Army of Tennessee in War and Memory, 1861-1930.
Larry E. Tise (East Carolina University): Original Wachovia Maps, Original Graffenried Maps, and Hand-colored Thomas Harriot Editions in German and Swiss Libraries.
Matthew R. Blaylock (University of Tennessee, Knoxville): Appalachian Aristocrats: Hillbillies, Debutantes, and Tourists in Western North Carolina, 1880-1940.
Anne Marie Brosnan (University of Limerick): Black Education in North Carolina During the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1861-1876.
Crystal R. Sanders (Penn State University): Bennett Belles in Jail: Villa Player and Black College Activism.
Timothy J. Williams (University of Oregon): Cool Brains: Intellectual Life in the Confederacy and Postwar South.

2014

Lindsay E. Beach (George Washington University): Native American communities in 18, 19 Century North Carolina
Thomas F. Brown, PHD (Virginia Wesleyan College): Lynch’s Sanctified Band: Societal reactions to a new religious sect in the 1890s
Lindsey M. Cantwel (University of Colorado at Boulder): Diaries of Southern Slave-bolding Women
Alex S. Cummings (Georgia State University): North Carolina’s Research Triangle
Bradley J. Dixon (University of Texas): Tuscarora Legal Aspects
Abby Chandler, PhD (University of Massachusetts Lowel: Loyalist Martin Howard
Randal L. Hal (Rice University): Resource Scarcity and Limits to Growth
Michael E. Harkin (University of Wyoming) The Lost Colony
Travis Jacquess (University of Mississippi): Fatherhood in the Eighteenth Century
Maurice Krochmal (Independent Journalist): Following James
Susan Hill McDowel (Independent Researcher): Plaid Production in Alamance County
Thomas Luke Manget (University of Georgia): Squatters and the commons system that supported them in southern Appalachia
Alex Christopher Meekins (State employee): Civil War Blockade Running in Northeastern North Carolina
Marvin M. Richardson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Haliwa-Saponi Indian Rights
Darin J. Waters, Ph (University of North Carolina at Asheville): Post-emancipation experiences of African Americans in Ashevile and Western North Carolina
Emily Herring Wilson (independent scholar): Doris Betts’ Letters
Angela M. Zombeck (St. Pete College): Prisons During Civil War

2013

Jessica A. Bandel (North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources): Confederate camps of instruction in North Carolina.
Richard Bel (University of Maryland): Forced migration of slaves from North to South.
Matthew R. Blaylock (University of Tennessee): Relationships betwen Protestant conference centers and their communities in western North Carolina.
Erin R. Corrales-Diaz (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Depictions of disabled veterans of Civil War.
Tyler Greene (Temple University): Highway building and economic growth in North Carolina.
Antwain K. Hunter (Pennsylvania State University): Firearms, slaves, and freedmen in North Carolina, 1729-1865.
John Thomas McGuire (Teacher, College of Saint Rose): Gladys Tillett and 1950 Primary.
Noeleen Melvenna (Wright State University): “Colonial Democrats” in Old Albemarle.
Dan Pierce (University of North Carolina at Asheville): Moonshine in North Carolina.
Kristofer Ray (Austin Peay State University): Cherokees and Trans- Appalachian Empire in British Imagination.
Marvin M. Richardson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Haliwa-Saponi Indians, 1835-1971.
John Patrick Riley (Binghamton University): Experiences of American fathers prior to 1865.
Katherine E. Rohrer (University of Georgia): “Modern” families in Wilmington, 1820-1890.
Evan C. Rothera (The Pennsylvania State University): New Introduction to “The Impending Crisis.”
Rebecca T. Sherman (Emory University): Rural families, households, and kinship in North Carolina, 1900-1940.
Daniel Troy (The Ohio State University): North Carolina Revolutionary History.

2012

Joseph Bathanti (Appalachian State University): Alma Stone Williams and Black Mountain College
Jordan R. Bauer (University of Houston): Research Triangle Park/ Post-World War II America
Adrian Brettle (University of Virginia): North Carolina and Confederate
Judkin Browning (Appalachian State University): Gettysburg and North Carolina/South Carolina
Benjamin Carp (Tufts University): Destruction of North Carolina during the Revolution
Clay Cooper (University of Florida): Masculinity in the 19 Century
Janet Davidson (Cape Fear Museum): Wilmington History
Daniel S. Goldberg (East Carolina University): Civil War Pensions in North Carolina
Julia Gunn (University of Pennsylvania): Development of the Sunbelt South
Susan Holland (East Carolina University): Camp Glenn
Thomas L. Howard (University of Virginia): Ratifcation of the United States Constitution in North Carolina
John James Kaiser (University of North Carolina, Greensboro): Walter Clark
Alex Leidholdt (James Madison University): Personal Newspapers, Moravian Falls
Elizabeth Lundeen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): African American College Presidents in the Civil Rights Movement
Marvin Richardson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Haliwa-Saponi
Laura Sandy (Keele University (United Kingdom)): Slave Stealers
Robert Shaphard (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Longleaf Pine Forest in North Carolina
James Ruchala (University of North Carolina at Greensboro): Surry County Music

2011

Vivienne Westbrook (National Taiwan University) Sir Walter Raleigh’s presentation in art
Caitlin Verboon (Yale University) Urban experiences in Raleigh, 1865-1875
Antonio L. Vásquez (Michigan State University) Mexican agricultural workers in North Carolina
J. Tortora (Duke University) Cherokees in the war for the southeast
Matthew P. Spooner (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) reconstruction of southern slavery, 1776-1808
Judy Scales-Trent (University at Buffalo Law School) biography of William Johnson Trent
Warren E. Milteer, Jr. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “Free People” in North Carolina and Virginia
R. Scott Huffard, Jr. (University of Florida) “Perilous Connections: Railroads in the Post-Reconstruction South”
Karen M. Hawkins (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) “Coastal Progress: Eastern North Carolina’s War on Poverty”
Kristal L. Ender (University of Cambridge, England) Desegregation of University of Texas, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the University of Arkansas
Laura Kathryn Baines-Walsh (Boston College) Lutherans in Piedmont North Carolina

1988-2010

Listing from “What Is Past Is Prologue: The North Caroliniana Society’s First Thirty-five Years, 1975-2010”

Eric D. Anderson, Pacific Union College, 2001, 2005; philanthropy for blacks.

James D. Anderson, UNC-CH, 1993; North Carolina Symphony tapes.

William T. Auman, College of Ozarks, 1992; dissent during Civil War.

Tony Badger, Newcastle University, England, 1989; race relations.

Amanda Badgett, Columbia University, 1996; Gothic revival.

Anna Bailey, University of Washington, 2005; Lumbee identity.

Kristin Bailey, UNC-W, 1991; Wilmington in World War I.

Robin E. Baker, Wheaton College, 1991; politics during Civil War.

Ellen Barnard, Emory University, 1993; educational reform for women.

Burt Batten, Wake Forest University, 1998; Henry G. Connor.

Margaret D. Bauer, East Carolina U, 2005, 2006, 2007; Paul Green biography.

Betsy A. Beasley, Yale University, 2010; building Soul City.

Bess Beatty, University of Oregon, 1989; textile workers and unions.

Deborah Beckel, Jefferson Papers, 2006; labor in 1900s.

James M. Beeby, Brigham University, 1998; Populist Party.

Evan P. Bennett, College of William and Mary, 2002; Old Belt tobacco.

*Warren M. Billings, University of New Orleans, 1995; William Berkeley.

Jacqueline A. Bindman, Duke University, 1997; General Sherman and women.

Catherine W. Bishir, Archives & History, 1997, culture/memory; 2004, biography.

Debra A. Blake, Archives & History, 2004; Rose O’Neal Greenhow.

Michael Bonner, Arizona State University, 2010; N.C.’s political culture, 1861-1865.

Tyler Boulware, West Virginia University, 2007; Cherokee Indians.

Nancy Bowman, University of Maryland, 1997; gender and tobacco.

Mark L. Bradley, UNC-CH, 2003 and 2004; Reconstruction era.

Brandi Clay Brimmer, UCLA, 2002; women and blacks.

James J. Broomall, University of Florida, 2009; soldiers as citizens in CW.

David C. Brown, Bristol/Northampton, England, 1994 and 2002; Hinton Helper.

David C. Brown, Sheffield University, England, 2005; CW in Piedmont.

Leslie Brown, Duke University, 1995; Durham black women.

Judkin Browning, University of Georgia, 2001; Civil War in castern NC.

*Susannah Bruce, Kansas State University, 1999 and 2000*; ethnic units in CSA.

William R. Burk, UNC-CH, 2004; botany at UNC

Lindley S. Butler, Rockingham CC, 1991, 1992; Charles Towne.

Robert M. Calhoon, UNC-G, 1992 and 2003; religion in early North Carolina.

Patrick F. Callahan, University of Cincinnati, 1996; women students during WW II.

Collin G. Calloway, University of Wyoming, 1993; Indians in the Revolution.

Karl E. Campbell, Pfeiffer College, 1990 and 1997; Sam J. Ervin.

Walter E. Campbell, independent scholar, 1995; Samuel A. Swann.

Andrew Canady, Rice University, 2009; W.D. Weatherford biography.

Derek Charles Catsam, Ohio State University, 2000; civil protests.

Kathleen Ann Clark, Yale University, 1998; race and gender.

Claude A. Clegg, III, Indiana University, 2001; black emigrants to Liberia.

Joseph C. Clifft, University of Tennessee, 1996; Tennessee election of 1824.

Michael W. Coffey, University of Southern Mississippi, 1999; Bryan Grimes.

Olen Cole, Jt., NCA&TSU, 1990; blacks in Civilian Conservation Corps.

Edwin L. Combs, III, University of Alabama, 2000; early commerce.

Michael F. Conlin, Eastern Washington University, 2001; nationalism in Civil War.

Caroline C. Cortina, Brown University, 1995; interracial gender.

Seth Cotlat, Northwestern University, 1996; Joseph Gales.

Alice R. Cotten, independent scholar, 2005; depositories of Thomas Wolfe Papers.

Annette Cox, UNC-CH, 1988 and 1989; J. Spencer Love and textiles.

Martin Crawford, Keele University, England, 1990; Ashe County 1850-1880.

Joseph W. Creech, Jr., University of Notre Dame, 1996; Populist movement.

Kevin L. Crowder, independent scholar, 2008; Robert W. Scott biography.

Anita P. Davis, Converse College, 1998; Depression-era photographs by FSA.

Tycho de Boer, Vanderbilt University, 2000; change in southeastern NC.

Pamela Dean, Louisiana State University, 1997; women at UNC-G.

Mariea C. Dennison, University of Illinois, 1998 and 2001; art colonies.

David H. Diamond, Northern Arizona University, 2002; Henderson Luelling.

Ruth Alden Doan, Hollins College, 1996; Southern evangelicals.

Robert F. Doares, Flora MacDonald Academy, 1992; Henry Lamond.

Gregory P. Downs, Northwestern University, 2002; home guard.

Wayne K. Durrill, University of Maryland, 1989, 2006; slave uprisings.

Pamela C. Edwards, University of Delaware, 1994; Pacific Mills.

John P. Ellis, Purdue University, 2008; Methodist youth in NC.

Carole Emberton, Northwestern University, 2003; Reconstruction politics.

Lynn Jones Ennis, Union Institute, 1993; Penland School.

Ronnie W. Faulkner, Campbell University, 2002; Robert Morgan.

Andrew Fearley, Cambridge University, 2006; race & insanity

*Stephen D. Feeley, College of William & Mary, 2004; Tuscarora Indians.

Crystal Feimster, Princeton University, 1997; women and mob violence.

Robert H. Ferguson, Western Carolina University, 2003; migration to Washington.

Kirsten Fischer, University of South Florida, 1997; illicit sex.

Lisa T. Frank, University of California Fullerton, 2002; women in Civil War.

Kevan D. Frazier, West Virginia University, 1997; city planning.

John C. Frederiksen, independent scholar, 1997; War of 1812.

Patricia M. Gantt, UNC-CH, 1991; Wilma Dykeman.

Michele K. Gillespie, Wake Forest University, 2009; R.J. & Katherine Reynolds.

Glenda E. Gilmore, Yale University, 1991 and 1998; women & race relations.

Scott Giltner, University of Pittsburgh, 2002; antebellum hunting by blacks.

Diane D. Glave, Loyola Marymount University, 1996; black farm life.

Lorri Glover, University of Tennessee, 2001; students at UNC-CH.

Richard Godbeer, University of California Riverside, 1994; sex and sexuality.

Christopher A. Graham, UNC-Greensboro, 2010; domestic ethos in NC.

Janette T. Greenwood, Clark University, 1992; blacks in Charlotte.

Joshua Guthman, UNC-CH, 2002; Primitive Baptists.

Kathleen M. Guthrie, East Carolina University, 1995; Alice G.H. Queen.

Sally E. Hadden, Florida State University, 1997; Thomas Ruffin and slavery.

Dixie Ray Haggard, University of Kansas, 2004; North Carolina’s Cherokees.

Charlotte A. Haller, University of Wisconsin, 1995; race and gender.

Debi Hamlin, Duke University, 1997 and 2000; Allen Parker and Albion Tourgee.

Timothy R. Hanson, University of Maryland, 1995; immigrants from Scotland.

Rene Hayden, University of California San Diego, 1999; Ku Klux Klan.

Anna Ragland Hayes, independent scholar, 1998; Susie Sharp.

Lisa Hazirjian, Duke University, 1997; Rocky Mount textile workers.

Gregg A. Hecimovich, East Carolina University, 2005; Hannah Crafts in NC.

*Douglas Helms, independent scholar, 2002; Collier Cobb.

Edwin Hendricks, Wake Forest University, 2001; Wake Forest University history.

Dean Herrin, National Park Service, 1997; Edmund T.D. Myers.

Earl J. Hess, Lincoln Memorial University, 1996; Pickett’s charge.

Battina Hessler, Northwestern University, 2009; Moravian music in NC.

Martha Hodes, Princeton University, 1990; black and white women.

Kristin Hoganson, Yale University, 1993; gender and foreign policy.

Charles J. Holden, UNC-G, 1994, 1998, and 2002; intellectual climate at UNC-CH.

Sharon Ann Holt, University of Pennsylvania, 1988; black farmers.

James V. Holton, George Washington University, 1998; opinions in Piedmont.

Angela Hornsby, UNC-CH, 2000; black men and uplift.

Jonathan T. Houghton, UNC-CH, 1990; Republican Party since 1932.

Patrick Huber, University of Missouri Rolla, 1996 and 2003; textile worker songs.

Timothy S. Huebner, University of Florida, 1993; Thomas Ruffin.

David Hursh, East Carolina University, 2006; Alice Morgan Person.

Tammy L. Ingram, Yale University, 2003; race and labor 1890-1930.

John C. Inscoe, University of Georgia, 1990; western NC in Civil War.

George F. Jack, Jr., Indiana University, 1995; Paul Green.

Thomas Jackson, University of Maryland, 2007; Wilmington blacks.

Dean S. Jacobs, Edinburgh University, Scotland, 1996; Scot Highlanders.

Anthony W. James, Central Carolina CC, 2007; Unitarians in NC.

Delores Janiewski, Victoria University, New Zealand, 1989; suffrage.

Thomas E. Jeffrey, Rutgers University, 1990 and 1991; Thomas L. Clingman.

Joan Marie Johnson, University of Pittsburgh, 1999; women’s education.

Lloyd Johnson, Campbell University, 2005; upper Cape Fear valley in 19m century.

Cheryl F. Junk, UNC-CH, 1996; Frances M. Bumpass.

Benjamin R. Justesen, independent scholar, 2003 and 2005; black officeholders.

Andrew W. Kahrl, Indiana University, 2008; park segregation in Pitt County.

Marjoleine Kars, University of Maryland, 1995; religion and rebels.

Katarina Keane, University of Maryland, 2007; feminism in NC.

Mary Kelly, Dartmouth College, 1990; women in early republic.

Robert C. Kenzer, Brigham Young University, 1988; blacks in post CW era.

Russell S. Koonts, Archives & History, 1996; David Allison.

Theodore Kornweibel, San Diego State University, 1997; blacks and railroads.

Alan K. Lamm, Mt. Olive College, 2002; Grand Army of the Republic in NC.

Leonard J. Lanier, LSU, 2010; Reconstruction political violence in ENC.

James D. LaShana, University of California Riverside, 1995; colonial Quakers.

Lisa L. Laskin, Harvard University, 1999; soldiers in the Civil War.

Anna M. Lawrence, University of Michigan, 2000; North Carolina Methodists.

Isabelle Lehuu, University of Quebec, Canada, 2000; books and reading.

Alexander S. Leidholdt, Purdue University, 2001; Nell Battle Lewis.

James E. Lewis, Jr., Louisiana State University, 1999; Aaron Burr controversy.

Johanna Miller Lewis, College of William & Mary, 1991; Rowan County artisans.

Li Li, UNC-CH, 1993; Sophie Lanneau in China.

Alex Lichtenstein, Florida International University, 1989 and 1991; convict labor.

Valinda Littlefield, University of Illinois, 1993; black female teachers.

Timothy J. Lockley, Warwick University, England, 2003; western NC debt.

Vincent Lowery, U. of Wisc.-Green Bay, 2010; Hugh MacRae biography.

Sergio Lusanna, Warwick University, England, 2009; slave networks.

Barry F. Malone, University of South Carolina, 2006; Nathan C. Newbold.

James I. Martin, Campbell University, 1996; Germans in eastern NC.

Robert S. Martin, Louisiana State University, 1992; Louis Round Wilson.

Louis Mazzari, University of New Hampshire, 1992; Arthur Raper.

John G. McCurdy, Washington University, 2001; bachelorhood in NC.

David H. McGee, University of Georgia, 1996; families in Raleigh.

John Thomas McGuire, SUNY Oneonto, 2004, 2006; Democratic women.

Michael McHugh, independent scholar, 1993; North Carolina Whigs.

Joshua L. McKaughan, UNC-CH, 1995; ethnicity in Rowan County.

Gordon B. McKinney, University of Maryland, 1993; Zebulon B. Vance.

Elizabeth G. McRae, University of Georgia, 1998; Nell Battle Lewis.

Christopher Meekins, Archives & History, 2002; CW in northeastern NC.

Maurice Melton, Albany State University, 2007; maritime trade.

Daniel Menestres, University of Alabama, 2008; NC politics since 1945.

Eli F. Merritt, Yale University, 1993; influence of Mississippi River.

Melissa L. Milewski, New York University, 2008; black poverty.

Benjamin L. Miller, University of Florida, 2009; chaplains and missionaries in CW.

Chandra Miller, Harvard University, 1999; Civil War soldiers’ attitudes.

Frank L. Miller, Trinity University, 1993; Gifford Pinchot.

Steven S. Miller, University of Maryland, 1991; Whitfield family.

*Patricia H. Minter, Western Kentucky University, 2000; segregated transit.

Henry L. Mintz, Archives & History, 2003; Thomas’s Legion.

Anne V. Mitchell, UNC-CH, 1995; Blue Ridge Parkway.

*Gregory Mixon, UNC-Charlotte, 2006; black militia.

Marie Molloy, Keele University, England, 2009; female whiteness in 19h century.

Deborah Montgomerie, Duke University, 1992; Robeson County Indians.

Cecelia Moore, UNC-CH, 2010; Federal theater project in NC.

Emily R. Moore, College of William & Mary, 2007; elite identity.

Kenneth Morgan, Bristol University, England, 1990; colonial Atlantic trade.

*Kely Morrow, UNC-CH, 2008; sexual liberation at UNC.

Alfred Moss, University of Maryland, 2001and 2005; philanthropy for blacks.

Richard Moss, Colby College, 1998; Tufts family in North Carolina.

Amy E. Murrell, University of Virginia, 1998; family life in the Civil War.

Barton A. Myers, University of Georgia, 2006; CW guerillas in NC.

William J. Nancarrow, Boston College, 2000; judicial elections.

Steven E. Nash, University of Georgia, 2008; Reconstruction in WNC.

Steven Niven, UNC-CH, 1995; whites in Durham.

Steven Noll, University of Florida, 1989; treatment of retarded persons.

Christopher A. Oakley, U. Tennessee, ECU, 2000, 2008; Cherokee sufficiency.

Margaret B. Olson, U. of Kentucky, 1990; Smoky Mountains National Park.

Patrick W. O’Neil, UNC-CH, 2006; wedding rituals in NC.

Anna Otto, University of Castilla, Spain, 2001; writings of Doris Betts.

James Owen, Cambridge University, England, 2006; election of 1824.

Robert M. Owens, Wichita State University, 2005; white-Indian relations.

John Paden, UNC-CH, 1996; economics in Albemarle region.

Craig S. Pascoe, University of Georgia, 1999; John G. Anderson.

Jane & William Pease, independent scholars, 1991; Pettigru family.

Darryl L. Peterkin, Princeton University, 1992; role of UNC in NC.

Scott Philyaw, Western Carolina University, 2000; migration to Washington.

Walter Kyle Planitzer, Johns Hopkins University, 2002; white slaveholders.

Plath, Lydia J., Warwick University, England, 2006; Nat Turner rebellion.

Julian Pleasants, Univ. of Florida, 1990 and 1996; Bob Reynolds & Chub Seawell.

Blair A. Pogue, College of William & Mary, 1994; Protestant women.

Nicholas Popper, College of William & Mary, 2009; SWR & the Renaissance.

Matthew Poteat, Central Virginia CC, 2007; Henry Toole Clark.

John C. Presley, Rappahannock College, 1998; Ellerbe School.

William S. Price, Jr., Meredith College, 1998; Nathaniel Macon.

Carl E. Pruitt, Jr., Georgetown College, 1990; Fort Fisher.

Richard Rankin, Queens College, 1991, 1992, 1996; Cape Fear; Episcopalians.

Angela P. Robbins, UNC-Greensboro, 2008; women in the Revolution.

Jeff Roberts, Sam Houston State University, 2006; CSS Alabama.

Scott Rohrer, University of Virginia, 1996; settlement of Wachovia.

Richard C. Rohrs, Oklahoma State University, 1996; Wilmington politics.

Anne Sarah Rubin, University of Virginia, 1998; North Carolina nationalism.

Rowena M. Ruf, University of Kentucky, 1994; Moravian relations with Indians.

Sharon V. Salinger, University of California Riverside, 1994; women and drinking

Richard A. Sauers, Harrisburg Community College, 1990; Burnside campaign.

Samuel L. Schaffer, Yale University, 2008; New South men in DC after CW.

Patricia Schechter, Portland State University, 1996; Ida B. Wells.

Trina N. Seitz, Appalachian State University, 2004; death penalty.

Rachel A. Shapiro, University of Virginia, 2008; NC politicians, in DC.

Stephanie J. Shaw, Ohio State University, 1989; female slaves.

Nathaniel Sheidley, Princeton University, 1995; gender, race, and religion.

Michael Shirley, Rhodes College, 1993; Winston-Salem race riot.

David Silkenat, UNC, NDSU, 2006, 2010; divorce in NC; refugee crisis in NC.

Kathryn M. Silva, University of South Carolina, 2008; black female textile workers.

Louis D. Silveri, Assumption College, 1995; culture in western North Carolina.

Kendrick N. Simpson, Archives & History, 1988; William D. Pender.

Marcus B. Simpson, George Washington University, 1994; John Fraser, botanist.

Anastasia Sims, Duke University, 1991; women’s organizations.

Arwin D. Smallwood, Bradley University, 2000; Tuscoraras and Indian Woods.

Katy Simpson Smith, UNC-CH, 2010; cross-cultural Southern motherhood study.

Michael R. Smith, Campbell University, 2004, 2006; Harrington’s ms. newspaper.

Karen Smith-Rotabi, UNC-CH, 2004; Howard Odum and social work.

Mitchell Snay, Denison University, 2000; ethnicity in Reconstruction.

Diane M. Sommerville, Rutgers, Binghamton, 1993 and 2009; rape, suicide, gender.

David V. Sowards, independent scholar, 2006; Julian S. Carr.

Neva Jean Specht, University of Delaware, 1994; Tennessee Quakers.

Richard D. Starnes, Auburn University, 1996; Buncombe County.

Scott Stephan, Indiana University, 1997; faith and family.

Cory Joe Stewart, UNC-Greensboro, 2008; Surry & Rowan counties.

Gene Stowe, Trinity School, 2002; blacks in Union County.

Christopher B. Strain, Florida Atlantic University, 2002; Soul City.

Jim Sumner, Archives & History, 1991; athletes and sports.

Karen Kruse Thomas, UNC-CH, 1997; health care desegregation.

Joseph C. Thompson, University of Florida, 1992; Willie P. Mangum.

Michael D. Thompson, Miami University, 1998; swine culture.

Robert Thompson, University of Houston, 2006; Roanoke River valley.

Sarah C. Thuesen, UNC-CH, 2001; education of blacks.

Craig Thurtell, Columbia University, 1992; Fusion ticket in 1890s.

Kim Tolley, independent scholar, 2002; Susan Nye Hutchison.

Robert M. Topkins, Archives & History, 2003; editing photographers book.

Carole W. Troxler, Elon University, 1992 and 2006; loyalists; Sallie Stockard.

Felicity Turner, Duke University, 2010; infanticide in NC.

D. Waldrep, III, independent scholar, 2000; mixed races.

Anders Walker, Yale University, 2002; welfare programs.

Kathryn Lynn Wall, UNC-CH, 1993; Chatham Manufacturing Company women.

**Peter Wallenstein, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 2005; UNC desegregation.

Bobby J. Ward, independent scholar, 2007; J.C. Raulston biography.

Brian Ward, Newcastle University, England, 1995; blacks in radio.

Thomas J. Ward, Jr., Rockhurst College, 2004; black lawyers.

Trent A. Watts, University of Chicago, 1994; post-Civil War Raleigh.

Jonathan Wels, University of Michigan, 1998; middle class North Carolinians.

Vivienne Ruth Westbrook, National Taiwan U, 2010; Sir Walter Raleigh and artists.

Willis P. Whichard, independent scholar, 2006; Justice Alfred Moore.

*Ryan Whirty, Indiana University, 2004; town of Princeville.

Keith Whitescarver, Harvard University, 1994; literacy in the state.

Wilkerson-Freeman, Arkansas State University, 1998; women in politics.

Heather A. Williams, Yale University, 2002; black education in Reconstruction.

Max R. Williams, Western Carolina University, 1988; William A. Graham.

Emily Herring Wilson, independent scholar, 2005; papers of A. R. Ammons.

Mary L. Wingerd, Duke University, 1992; Cooleemee community.

Anthony Wise, Jr., University of Tennessee, 1996; frontier authority.

Bradford J. Wood, Johns Hopkins University, 1997; lower Cape Fear.

Jeffrey Lynn Woodyard, Stetson University, 2001; Asa Spaulding

*Cynthia Wu, SUNY Buffalo, 2008; Eng & Chang Bunker, Siamese twins.

Kevin L. Yeager, Louisiana State University, 1998; Scots-Irish in Piedmont.

Jean Fagan Yellin, Pace Institute, 1990; Harriet Jacobs.

Drucilla H. York, independent scholar, 2002; Eastman in Halifax County.

Maurice C. York, East Carolina University, 1991 and 1993; Francis Speight.

Jeffrey R. Young, Emory University, 1993; slave ideology.

Valerie Yow, independent scholar, 1996; Bernice Kelly Harris.

Kathleen R. Zebley, University of Tennessee, 1997; pardon and amnesty.

John G. Zehmer, Jr., independent scholar, 2005; history of Hayes Plantation.

Jonathan L. Zimmerman, New York University, 1998; educational curricula.

Karin Lorene Zipf, University of Georgia, 1997; Reconstruction in eastern NC.

Igor Zsenzov, UNC-CH, 1992; NC in the Confederacy.