Public Scholars 2018
Julie Elizabeth Byrne
Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY
U.S. History
American Catholicism and the Cantor Fitzgerald Employees Who Lost Their Lives on 9/11
Tom Dunkel
Independent Scholar
Washington, DC
U.S. History
White Knights in the Black Orchestra: A True Story of the Nazi Resistance
Natalie Anne Dykstra
Hope College
Holland, MI
American Studies
Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924): A Life in Art
Hugh Eakin
Independent Scholar
Sunnyside, NY
Art History
Picasso's Dealer: Paul Rosenberg and the 1939 Exhibition that Changed America
Jeremy Eichler
Independent Scholar
Newton, MA
European History
War and Memory in Modern Classical Music
Carl Elliott
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
Philosophy
Exposing Wrongdoing in Medical Research on Human Subjects
Carole Emberton
SUNY Research Foundation, University at Buffalo
Amherst, NY
U.S. History
An Intimate History of Freedom: The Biography of Emancipated Slave Priscilla Joyner
Cynthia Leigh Haven
Independent Scholar
Stanford, CA
Literature
“The Spirit of the Place”: Polish-American Poet Czeslaw Milosz in California
Stephen Heyman
Independent Scholar
Pittsburgh, PA
U.S. History
A Life of Louis Bromfield (1896–1956), The Lost Generation Novelist Who Inspired America’s Organic Food Revolution
Frank Lee Holt
University of Houston
Houston, TX
Interdisciplinary Studies
A Social History of Coins: Money and the Making of Civilization
Robert Kanigel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Classics
American Scholar Milman Parry (1902–1935) and the Study of Oral Tradition in Classical Literature
Devoney K. Looser
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
British Literature
Biography of Sisters Jane Porter (1775–1850) and Anna Maria Porter (1778–1832), 19th-Century British Novelists
Theresa MacPhail
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
A Cultural History of Allergies, 1819-2017
Thomas F. Madden
St. Louis University
St. Louis, MO
History
The Fall of Republics: A History
Stephen Mihm
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
U.S. History
Industrial and Technical Standards in Modern Life: A History
Stephen R. Platt
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA
East Asian History
U.S. Marine Corps Brigadier General Evans Carlson (1896–1947) and America's Long War for China, 1937–1950
James Romm
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Gender Studies
The Sacred Band of Thebes and the Last Days of Greek Freedom (379–338 B.C.)
Kevin Sack
Independent Scholar
Atlanta, GA
History of Religion
Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina: 200 Years of African-American Life
Susan Lynn Schneider
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
Metaphysics
Future Minds: Artificial Intelligence, Brain Enhancement, and the Nature of the Self
Timothy Judd Stiles
Independent Scholar
Berkeley, CA
U.S. History
The Believer: Theodore Roosevelt and the Reinvention of American Democracy
Courtney Thorsson
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR
American Literature
The Sisterhood: A Black Women's Literary Organization
John G. Turner
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
U.S. History
Out of Small Beginnings: Plymouth Colony and the Making of American Liberty