Colonial Williamsburg fellows present portions of their research during their residence, where they engage directly with our community of scholars and interpreters. The brief list below highlights some of the topics studied by our most recent fellows.
2022
- Adam McNeill
Coffelt Fellowship
“I Would Not Go With Him: Black Women’s Survival and Resistance in the Revolutionary Era Tidewater.”
2020
- Giovanna Fregni
EXARC Fellowship
“Cuts Stones of all Sorts, In the Best Manner…”: Experiments in 18th Century Lapidary Work in America - Meg Roberts
Coffelt Fellowship
Domestic Caregiving in the American Revolution – see Meg’s fellowship report at Shots, Pots, and Pox: Researching Caregiving in Williamsburg during the Revolutionary War
2019
- Robert Cloutier
NEH 3D Visualization Fellow - James Mackay
Coffelt Fellowship
‘‘What They Call Free in This Country’’: Flight and Freedom in Revolutionary America, 1775-1783.
2018
- Warren Billings
Jack Miller Center Fellowship
Just laws for the happy guiding and governing of the people: Statute law in Colonial Virginia - Dusty Marie Dye
Coffelt Fellowship
A Decent External Sorrow: Death and Mourning in the 18th Century - Lauren Massari and Shayne Brandon
NEH 3D Fellowship
Then and Now 360° Panoramic Exploration of the Douglass Theatre Site - John Seidel
EXARC Fellowship
A multi-faceted project to pursue artifact analysis and structured experiments with Colonial Williamsburg Trades
2017
- Libby Cook
Ivor Noel Hume Fellowship in Archaeology
Public programs in Archaeology - Caroline Creeden
John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library fellowship
Eat Them, Toss Them, Fire Them: The Significance of the Oyster Shell in Colonial American Architecture & Landscape - Jobie Hill
NEH We the People fellowship
Saving Slave Houses - Nikola Krstovic
EXARC
Museum Off Boundaries - John Ragosta
Jack Miller Center fellowship
Patrick Henry, Federalist - Thomas Whitfield
Coffelt fellowship
Materializing Liberty - The material culture of the Wilkes and Liberty movement in colonial America
2016
- Janine Boldt
Coffelt fellowship
Research for dissertation on dissertation titled "Facing the Old Dominion: Portraiture in Colonial Virginia”. - Tim Breen
Jack Miller Center and John D. Rockefeller Jr fellowships
The Face of Revolution: American’s Domestic Enemies During the War for Independence - Sierra Dorschutz
NEH 3D fellowship
Colonial Williamsburg in 3D Motion - Brian Emery
NEH 3D fellowship
Robert Carter House Attic 3D - Odai Johnson
Jack Miller Center fellowship
Imagining the Rebellion: Theatre, Genre, and the Shape of the American Revolution - Russell Dylan Reudiger
Coffelt fellowship
Research for dissertation, which explores the meaning and practice of tributary relations between Virginians and a wide range of Algonquin, Siouan, and Iroquoian peoples of the Chesapeake and Piedmont during the 17th & 18th centuries. - Sarah Thomas
Coffelt fellowship
Long Gone Buildings & Indifferent Improvements: The Fleeting Material Culture of Mid-18th Century Shenandoah County, Virginia - Natalie Zacharewski
John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library fellowship
Whisperings around Williamsburg: Channeling Information during the Revolutionary War
2015
- Anne Bissonnette
John D. Rockefeller Jr Library fellowship
Reassessing the Macaroni - James Coltrain
NEH 3D fellowship
Azimuth 3D - Elizabeth Cook
Jack Miller Center fellowship
Creating the City at the Falls: Building Culture in Richmond, Virginia 1780-1860 - Jobie Hill
NEH We the People fellowship
Slave house database - Craig Gallagher
John D. Rockefeller Jr Library fellowship
Covenants and Commerce: Scottish Networks and the Making of the British Atlantic World 1660-1715 - Erin Holmes
NEH We The People fellowship
Within the House of Bondage: Constructing and Negotiating the Plantation Landscape in the 18th Century British Atlantic - Mary Richard McGuire
Jack Miller Center fellowship
Translating Natural Knowledge in an Age of Revolution: Tobacco, People, and Science in Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s Virginia Journals 1795 to 1798 - Daniel Maudlin
John D. Rockefeller Jr fellowship
Colonial Taverns - The Inn and the Traveler in the Atlantic World - Nikos Pappas
Gilder Lehrman fellowship
Keyboards and Keyboard Music of Colonial Williamsburg - Thomas Rogers
John D. Rockefeller Jr fellowship
Coercion and the Constitution - Sarah Thomas
Coffelt fellowship
Objects of the Early Southern Backcountry: The People of Shenandoah County and their Material Culture - Sally Tuckett
John D. Rockefeller Jr Library fellowship
Cloth, Clothing and Control: Dressing Slaves in the Eighteenth Century - Brittany Venturella
NEH 3D fellowship
A Virtual Reconstruction of Alexander Purdie’s Virginia Gazette Office in 1776 - Holly White
Gilder Lehrman fellowship
Adolescence in the Early Republican South: Conceptions of Age, Communities of Knowledge, and Youth Cultures.