HomeEccles Centre Fellowships in North American Studies: Recipients
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2013 Visiting Professor
2013 Visiting Fellows
Dr
Michael Cullinane, Northumbria University
Research for Remembering Theodore Roosevelt
Dr Fabian
Hilfrich, University of Edinburgh
Research for Crusader or Exemplar: the American Vietnam War Debate, 1964 - 1973
Dr
Paul McGarr, University of Nottingham
Research for Quiet Americans in India: Intelligence, culture and paranoia in US-South Asian relations
Professor
Urszula Niewiadomska-Fils, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Research into foodways and identity in Latina literature
Dr
Emma Staniland, University of Leicester
Research into contemporary Latino Caribbean writers in the United States
Professor Coll Thrush,
University of British Columbia
Research for Indigenous London
Dr
Emily West, University of Reading
Research into enslaved wetnursing in the US
2013 Postgraduate Awards
Jade Broughton, University of Leicester
Research for The influence of popular culure on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories
Lorenzo Costaguta, University of Nottingham
Research into concepts of race and ethnicity in pre-1900 American socialism
Laura Helyer, University of Chichester
Research into representations of voice hearing in fiction
Charles Landerman, Sidney Sussex college, University of Cambridge
Research for Sharing the burden: the Armenian question and the search
for a new world order, 1894 - 1923
Alessandra Magrin, University of Strathclyde
Research for Italy and the Wild West: the reception, memory and
legacy of Buffalo Bill's Wild West's Show in Italy
Barbara Pitak, University of Warsaw, Poland
Research on The grotesque as an aesthetic category in American stage and film musical
2012 Visiting Professor
Professor Betsy
Donald, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
Research for Food and the City: The making and remaking of the American Urban Foodscape
2012 Visiting Fellows
Jesse F. Battan, California State University, Fullerton,
California
Research for ’Incompatible Bedfellows’: Love and Freedom in Early Twentieth-Century America.
Steffi Dippold, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Research for Plain as in Primitve: The Figure of the Native in Early American Literature
Bahar
Gursel, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Research for The East, the West and America: How Nineteenth Century American Women Writers
Depicted Foreign Nations in Children's Books
Daniel Kane,
University of Sussex
Materials cited in the British Library's Beats
and Friends archive (printed
materials / audio-visual)
Robert
Mason, University of Edinburgh
Research for The struggle for free time: television, elections and the politics of
campaign reform in the United States, 1948 - 2008
Andrew Mumford,
University of Nottingham
Research for The Special Relationship in Counter-Insurgency: Britain, America and
Irregular Warfare
Theresa Saxon,
University of Central Lancashire
Research on the relationship between the American and English stages
from the colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century.
2012 Postgraduate Awards
Candela Delgado-Marin, University of Seville, Spain
Researching the short fiction of Bobbie Ann Mason
Katharina Donn, University of Augsburg,Germany
Research for Trauma in Post - 9/11 Literature
Karen P. Heath, St Anne's College, Oxford
Research for Painting the Town Red: Conservatives and the Politics of Art, from Cold War
to Culture War
Robert W. Jones II, University of Leicester
Research on William Burrough's work of the cut-up period
Christopher F. Minty, University of Stirling
Research for Men Glowing with Resentment: Loyalism in Revolutionary New York, c. 1763 - 1783
Asya Ostroukh, University of Edinburgh
Research for the Reception of the French Civil Code in Quebec, Louisiana and Suisse
Romande: A Socio-Legal Study
Amelia Precup, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Research for The Jewish American Postmodern Self in Woody Allen's Fiction
2011 Visiting Professor
Professor
Owen Stanwood, Department of History, Boston College
Research for The First Refugees: French Huguenots in the British Atlantic World
2011 Visiting Fellows
Dr
Rachel Farebrother, Lecturer in American Studies, University of
Swansea
Research for "Thinking in Hieroglyphics": Representations of Egypt
in the New Negro Renaissance
Dr Andrew
Lawson, Senior Lecturer in English, Leeds Metropolitan University
Research for Men of Small Property: Manhood, Class and the Market Revolution in America
Dr JoAnne Marie
Mancini, Lecturer in History, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Research for The Floridas in an Age of Global Turmoil
Dr
Gillian Roberts, Lecturer in North American Cultural Studies, Nottingham
University
Research for Discrepant Parallels: Cultural Implications of the Canada-US Border
Dr J Simon
Rofe, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Leicester
Research for The American Embassy in London 1938 - 2008: 70 years in Grosvenor Square
Dr Alexandra Urakova, Associate Professor, Russian State Univeristy for the Humanities
Research for The Economy of Gift Books: Reconsidering Antebellum Gift Book
Literature and Culture in Social Perspective
Dr
Paul Williams, Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature, University
of Exeter
Research for The Strategic Uses of Racial Representation in the Comics of Robert Crumb
Dr Pia Wiegmink,
Lecturer, English and Linguistics/American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University
Mainz, Germany
Research for Reconfiguring the Nation: Abolitionist Discourses and Narratives of Personhood and Gender, 1776 - 1920
2011 Postgraduate Awards
David Doddington, History, Warwick University
Research for Hierarchies and honour among enslaved men in the antebellum South
Simon James Hill, History, Liverpool John Moores University
Research into the economic and political impact of the American Revolution upon the port of Liverpool
Ruth Martin, History, Clare College, Cambridge University
Research into civil liberties in the USA, 1941 to 1977
Christian O'Connell, Humanities, University of Gloucestershire
Research for The British bluesman: Paul Oliver and the nature of transatlantic blues scholarship
Ben Offiler, American and Canadian Studies, Nottingham University
Research into the evolution of US foreign policy towards, and relations with, Iran during the 1960s
Marleen Schulte, Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Research into the role and function of the regional, the national, and the global in literature
2010 Visiting Professors
Professor Sarah Carter, University of Alberta
Research for Driving the Estate: Land Grants, Gender, and Indigenous People in the Canadian and US Wests, and Settler Dominions,
1860s - 1920s
Professor Patrick James, University of Southern California
Research for Grab the Signatures and Run: The Conflict Dynamics of Canada's Constitutional Patriation
Professor Lisa Merrill, Hofstra University
Research for Performing Race and Reading Antebellum American Bodies: The Construction and Reception of Nineteenth
Century Performances of Gender, Race and Nationality
2010 Visiting Fellows
Dr Malcolm
Gaskill, University of East Anglia
Research for Migration and Emotion: Seventeenth Century Transatlantic Culture
and Mentalities
Dr Jo Gill,
Exeter University
Research for The Poetics of the American Suburbs
Dr Kirsten MacLeod, Newcastle University
Research for Fashioning Modernism for America: Carl Van Vechten and the Arts
Dr Gwenda
Morgan, Newcastle University
Research for Banished: Convicts, Rebels and Slaves
Dr Simon
Middleton, Sheffield University
Research for Cultures of Credit in Eighteenth Century America
Dr Timo
Mueller, University of Augsburg
Research for The African American Sonnet
Dr Andrew
Priest, Aberystwyth University
Research for The United States and European Imperialism
2010 Postgraduate Awards
Olivia Badoi, University of Wroclaw
Research on Breaking the Pattern: Challenging Conventional Femininity in Nineteenth Century American Domestic Fiction and Painting
Hannah Durkin, University of Nottingham
Research on the African American dancers Josephine Baker and Katherine
Dunham
Tim Foster, University of Nottingham
Research on Escaping the Split-Level Trap: Postsuburban Narratives in Contemporary
American Fiction
2009 Visiting Professor
Professor Crandall Shifflett, Department of History, Virginia Tech
Research for The Death of My People Thrice: Indians and English in early America and the world they made
See also digital project Virtual Jamestown
2009 Visiting Fellows
Dr Alex Goodall,
University of York
Making Joe McCarthy: the fall and rise of American anticommunism, 1917-1954
Dr Tony McCulloch, University College London, Institute of the Americas
Research on Canada's role in the "North Atlantic Triangle", and it significance for the special relationship
between the USA and Britain
Dr Brooke N. Newman, Virginia Commonwealth University
Mastery and Empire: metropolitan culture and slaveholding in the British Caribbean, 1661-1763
Dr Devin Zuber, Pacific School of Religion
Hieroglyphics of Nature: Swedenborg, romantics and the American environmental imagination
also The Annotated Letters of J.J.G. Wilkinson
2009 Postgraduate Awards
Roham Alvandi, St Catherine's College, Oxford
Nixon, Kissinger and the Shah: US-Iran relations and the Cold War, 1969-1976
Laura K. Inglis, Brasenose College, Oxford
New York Legacy: the origins of substantive due process and the rise of judicial discretion
Ariane Knüsel, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Research on on media images of China in Britain, Switzerland and the USA between 1911 and 1949
Marco Morini, University of Pavia (Italy)
Negative campaigning in American Presidential Elections
Laura Pollard, University of East Anglia
Selling what people need: how the modern Broadway musical capitalized on
economic, social and political change
Will Smith, University of Nottingham
Contemporary literary narratives of Toronto
Nicholas Witham, University of Nottingham
After the New Left: cultures of anti-imperialism in late Cold War America
2008 Visiting Professor
Professor William G. Thomas III
John and Catherine Angle Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History, University of Nebraska
Jupiter's Bow: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Roots
of Modern America
See also digital project The Roots of Modern America
2008 Visiting Fellows
Dr Jacqueline Fear-Segal University of East Anglia
Shadow Catchers at the Indian School: photography, representation
and reclamation
Dr Faye Hammill University of Strathclyde
Sophistication: A Cultural History
Dr Michèle Mendelssohn, Oxford University
Transatlantic Aestheticism and Decadence
Professor Stephen A. Royle Queen's University, Belfast
The Hudson's Bay Company Rule of Vancouver Island
2008 Postgraduate Awards
Adam Burns, University of Edinburgh
Race, Empire and Immigration: The Case of William Howard
Taft, 1900-1921
Daniel R. Koch, University of Oxford
Research on slave emancipation in the Caribbean.
Rafael Torrubia, University of St Andrews
Culture from the Midnight Hour
Mei-Chuen Wang, Cardiff University
Research on the postmodern Canadian historical fiction.
Daniel Wood, University of Reading
Research on post-war agricultural policy highlighting links between
the rise of anti-statism and the decline of liberalism
2007 Visiting Professor
Professor Austin Lane Crothers
Illinois State University
Research on the American demand for violence following the terror attacks on
9/11 and the role of the United States in global policy-making today
2007 Visiting Fellows
Professor Matthew Jones University of Nottingham
America, Asia and the Atomic Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Race and the Containment
of China, 1945-1965
Professor Simon Newman University of Glasgow
The transformation of working life and culture in the Anglo-American
Atlantic World, 1600-1800
Dr Jennifer Terry University of Durham
'Shuttles in the Rocking Loom of History': Mapping the Black Diaspora
in African American and Caribbean Fiction
Dr Ellen McWilliams University of Exeter
Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman
2007 Postgraduate Awards
Mark Storey, University of Nottingham
Research on emerging modernity manifested in the culture of America
Matthew Carter, University of Essex
Research on analysis of the western genre
Michael J Collins, University of Nottingham
Research on American culture portrayed in the works of Edward Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne
and Herman Melville
Clare Elliott, University of Glasgow
Research on the influence of William Blake on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman
James McAteer, University of Ulster
Research on the capabilities approach with regard to social economics and the environmental
issues concerning Quebec and Northern Ireland
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