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Directed by '''[[Claire Sponsler]]''', Professor of English at the University of Iowa
Directed by [[Karen Ordahl Kupperman]], Professor of History at New York University
   
   
June 21 through July 23, 2010
June 19 through July 28, 2000
[[File:STC_22790.jpg|thumb|431x431px|left|[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/1j591q STC 22790]: John Smith. The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles…]]
This [[NEH_Summer_Institute_for_college_and_university_faculty|NEH Summer Institute for College and University Faculty]] looks ahead to the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 and the beginning of successful English colonization in America. But rather than taking a purely celebratory stance and seeing the English presence as somehow unique in American history, we will seek to place that venture in the context of contemporaneous French and Spanish efforts along America's east coast and within the Atlantic context in which all such enterprises were undertaken. The English who were conscious of their location on the margins of Europe---the "Suburbs of the old world" as John Donne wrote-now found themselves poised to look outward as Europe reoriented toward the west. Those who hoped that American exploits would pull their nation into the ranks ofthe leading European nations were also interested in Africa and the eastern Mediterranean region. The Powhatans among whom the first colonists settled had had extensive contact with Europeans before 1607 and brought their own understanding of Atlantic realities to this new relationship. Thus, the institute's premise is that we cannot understand what Jamestown should mean to us without looking at the entire Atlantic context in which it began and struggled through its early years.


This [[NEH_Summer_Institute_for_college_and_university_faculty|NEH Summer Institute for College and University Faculty]] offered a comparative study of ritual and ceremony across related European cultures from 1300 to 1700. It built on anthropological theories of the ubiquitous role of ritual and ceremony and the impact of that work in performance studies. Testing assumptions about influence and exchange among national traditions and local contexts, it sought a new understanding of the processes and effects of cultural hybridity and assimilation.
We intend to explore the kinds of assumptions and expectations that European promoters and migrants brought to the business of colonization, including their ideas about other peoples, their notions of the engines of economic growth, and their conception of how society is constituted and how it could be replicated in a new setting. We will also explore the assumptions on which the Powhatans and other coastal Algonquians acted in allowing the first settlers to become established. The institute will consider the range of options open to Africans in this early period when the institution of slavery was coming into being in English colonies, and the ways in which they adapted their own traditions in unanticipated circumstances.                                                                                                                                                
[[File:ART Box R763 no.23.jpg|thumb|411x411px|right|[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/i7cx0w Source Call Number: ART Box R763 no.23]: Nuoua et essatta pianta del conclaue con le funtioni e ceremonie per l'elettione del nuouo pontefice fatto nella sede vacante…]]
[[File:066502.jpg|thumb|546x546px|right|[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/69mne5 Source Call No. STC 18963.3]: The first five bookes of Ovids Metamorphosis]]
 
In order to accomplish this exploration, the faculty of the institute includes literary scholars, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, and the readings draw on a mix of disciplinary approaches and modes of scholarly analysis. The principal focus of the meetings will be on the primary sources of the period. We will look at familiar texts such as Sir Thomas More's ''Utopia'' and Captain John Smith's ''Generall Historie'' but also at other less well known sources such as John Pory's translation of Leo Africanus's ''A Geographical Historie of Africa'' (London, 1600). Encompassing Shakespeare's time as it does, the early period of colonization is illuminated by the Folger's vast collection of early printed and manuscript materials. Participants will work with documents in their first printed versions at the Folger Library, with the remains of the built and archaeological record in Jamestown itself, and with a range of other "primary" materials available on academic and institutional websites. In the course of the institute, participants will create a multifaceted web site with such features as a set of images culled from the Folger's collections, links to documents and other teaching and research materials on the web, and suggested syllabi and bibliographies for undergraduate courses.                                                                                                                                                
Beginning with an exploration of the theories and definitions of “ritual,” each subsequent session advanced topically, chronologically, and geographically while touching on the implications of ceremony and ritual in religious, domestic, and secular contexts. Throughout the institute, participants used the Folger’s collections. They first read about ceremonies and liturgical performance through medieval authors including Hildegard of Bingen and Chaucer. Rituals surrounding motherhood and birthing practices, specifically the childbed, were also examined as sites of domestic ritualistic performance. Moving into the civic sphere, the session topics included records of Lord Mayor shows, pageant plays, royal entries, and other public ceremonies. The institute concluded with representations of ceremony on the early modern stage through histories and tragedies, discussions of the materials of ritual, and sites of pilgrimage.


<u><br>'''Materials and Products'''</u>
<u><br>'''Materials and Products'''</u>


The syllabus is available [[Media:Ritual and Ceremony syllabus.pdf|here]].
The syllabus is available [[Media:Texts of Imagination and Empire -- Bibliographies -- Syllabus.pdf|here]].


While the website is no longer supported, it has been archived:
While the website is no longer supported, it has been archived: [https://web.archive.org/web/20140319081116/http://www.folger.edu/html/folger_institute/jamestown/index_main.htm Institute Website: Texts of Imagination and Empire: The Founding of Jamestown in its Atlantic Context]
[http://wayback.archive-it.org/2873/20140918232027/http://www.folger.edu/folger_institute/ritual_ceremony/ Institute Website: Ritual and Ceremony]


A PDF of the[[Media:Ceremony.pdf| website's pages]] with the participants' interpretive essays.
A PDF of the[[Media:Imagination and Empire 2000Website.pdf| website's pages]] with the participants' interpretive essays.


A PDF of the original [[Media:NEHRitual&Ceremony.pdf|promotional flyer]].
A PDF of the original [[Media:2000NEHSI.pdf|promotional flyer]].




[[File:STC_20488.jpg|thumb|661x661px|left|[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/525anq Source Call Number STC 20488]: Histoire de l'entree de la reyne mere du roy tres-Chrestien, dans la Grande-Bretaigne. Enrichie de planches. Par le Sr. de la Serre, Historigraphe de France.]] 
'''<u>Resulting Publication</u>'''


'''<u>Participants</u>'''
Appelbaum, Robert and John Wood Sweet. ''Envisioning an English Empire''. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=191252&_ga=2.112694532.1272375871.1497963940-335304767.1496674123 F234.J3 J3255 2005]


(All affiliations are as of the program's date)


<strong>Bernadette Andrea</strong>, Professor of English, University of Texas, San Antonio


<strong>Christopher J. Bilodeau</strong>, Assistant Professor of History, Dickinson College
[[File:000305.jpg|thumb|586x586px|left|[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/1bxdzd Source Call No. STC 22790c.2]: The generall historie of Virginia …]] 


<strong>Rachel L. Burk</strong>, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University
'''<u>Participants</u>'''


<strong>Peter Craft</strong>, PhD Candidate in English, University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign
(All affiliations are as of the program's date)


<strong>J. Caitlin Finlayson</strong>, Assistant Professor of English, University of Michigan, Dearborn
'''Robert Appelbaum,''' Postdoctoral fellow in English at the University of San Diego


<strong>Elina Gertsman</strong>, Assistant Professor of Medieval Art, Case Western Reserve University
'''Rebecca Ann Bach,''' Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama, Birmingham


<strong>Marcia B. Hall</strong>, Professor of Art History, Temple University
'''Pompa Banerjee''', Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Denver


<strong>Matthew C. Hansen</strong>, Assistant Professor of English, Boise State University
'''Lisa A. Blansett,''' Assistant Professor of English at Florida International University


<strong>Kenneth L. Hodges</strong>, Associate Professor of English, University of Oklahoma
'''Harvey W. DuMarce''', Dean of Instruction and English Instructor at the Sisseton Wahpeton Community College


<strong>John M. Hunt</strong>, Term Assistant Professor of History, University of Louisville
'''Ellen Eslinger''', Associate Professor of History at DePaul University in Chicago


<strong>Matthew W. Irvin</strong>, Assistant Professor of English, Sewanee The University of the South
'''Maria Franklin,''' Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation


<strong>Nancy J. Kay</strong>, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History, Merrimack College
'''G. Curtis Gaul,''' Supervisory Park Ranger at the Colonial National Historical Park of Jamestown


<strong>Andrew D. McCarthy</strong>, Assistant Professor of English, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
'''Eric J. Griffin''', Assistant Professor of English at Millsaps College


<strong>Cynthia Nazarian</strong>, Assistant Professor of French and Italian, Northwestern University
'''Andrew T. Harris,''' Assistant Professor of History at Bridgewater State College


<strong>Patrick O’Banion</strong>, Assistant Professor of History, Lindenwood University
'''Constance Jordan''', Professor of English at Claremont Graduate University


<strong>Stephanie M. Seery-Murphy</strong>, Lecturer in History, California State University, Sacramento
'''Karen Paar''', Research Assistant Professor at the Institute of Southern Studies and the Historian for the Santa Elena project at the University of South Carolina


<strong>Christopher Swift</strong>, PhD Candidate in Theatre Studies, City University of New York, Graduate Center
'''Phyllis Peres''', Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Maryland


<strong>Lisa Voigt</strong>, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University
'''Emily Rose,''' Visiting Fellow at New Hall, Cambridge (1999-2000)


<strong>Anne E. Wohlcke</strong>, Assistant Professor of History, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
'''Crandall Shifflett,''' Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Virginia Tech


<strong>Suzanne M. Yeager</strong>, Assistant Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Fordham University
'''John Wood Sweet''', Assistant Professor of History at The Catholic University of America






[[File:009112.jpg|thumb|559x559px|right|[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/j99272 http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/j99272]: A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia…]]
'''<u>Faculty</u>'''


'''<u>Faculty</u>'''
[[File:Z.e.4_Map_case.jpg|thumb|677x677px|right|[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/9sx4a6 Source Call Number Z.e.4 Map case]: St. Stephen's day hymn ]]
(All affiliations are as of the program's date)
(All affiliations are as of the program's date)


<strong>Ian Archer</strong>, Keble College, Oxford
'''James Axtell''', Kenan Professor of Humanities, College of William and Mary
 
<strong>Lawrence M. Bryant</strong>, California State University, Chico


<strong>Barbara Fuchs</strong>, UCLA
'''Emily C. Bartels''', Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University


<strong>Gail McMurray Gibson, </strong>Davidson College
'''Ira Berlin,''' Distinguished University Professor of History, University of Maryland


<strong>Bruce Holsinger</strong>, University of Virginia
'''Cary Carson''', Vice-President for Research, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation


<strong>Roslyn L. Knutson</strong>, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
'''Dominique Deslandres,''' Professor of History, University of Montreal


<strong>Joseph Roach</strong>, Yale University
'''Andrew Hadfield,''' Professor of English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth


<strong>Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly</strong>, Exeter College, Oxford
'''James Horn''', Saunders Director, International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello


<strong>Michael Wintroub</strong>, University of California Berkeley
'''William M. Kelso,''' Director of Archeology, Jamestown Rediscover, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities


<strong>Barbara Wisch</strong>, SUNY Cortland
'''Jane Landers,''' Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University


'''Barbara Mowat,''' Chair Academic Programs, Folger Shakespeare Library


'''John Murrin''', Professor of History, Princeton University


'''<u>Website Production</u>'''
'''Helen C. Rountree,''' Professor of Anthropology, Old Dominion University


<strong>Claire Sponsler</strong>, Advisory Editor 
'''David Harris Sacks,''' Professor of History and Humanities, Reed College


<strong>Kathleen Lynch</strong>, Editor 
'''Ian Smith''', Assistant Professor of English, Lafayette College


<strong>Owen Williams</strong>, Associate Editor 
'''Walter Woodward,''' Director of Education Programs, Plimoth Plantation


<strong>Adrienne Shevchuk</strong>, Production and Managing Editor 


<strong>Allison Isberg</strong>, Editorial Assistant  
[[File:077985.jpg|thumb|720x720px|left|[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/wl75u6 Source Call No. STC 22790]: The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles…]]  


<strong>Swim Design</strong>, Design and Development 


<strong>Julie Ainsworth</strong>, Folger Shakespeare Library Photographer                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               


'''<u>Website Production</u>'''


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'''Martha Fay''', Designer
[[File:V.b.74.jpg|thumb|622x622px|left|[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/2e25o0 Source Call Number V.b.74]: Armorial of English families]]


'''Julie Ainsworth,''' Folger photography


'''Karen Ordahl Kupperman,''' Senior Editor


'''Kathleen Lynch''', Editor


'''Carol Brobeck''', Managing Editor


'''<u>Folger Institute Staff</u>'''
'''Jerry Passannante,''' Research Assistant


<strong>David Schalkwyk</strong>, Chair


<strong>Kathleen Lynch</strong>, Executive Director
<strong>Owen Williams</strong>, Assistant Director
<strong>Adrienne Shevchuk</strong>, Program Assistant
<strong>Matthew Carr</strong>, Intern


'''<u>Folger Institute Staff</u>'''


'''Barbara Mowat''', Chair


'''Kathleen Lynch,''' Executive Director


'''Owen Williams''', Program Administrator


'''Carol Brobeck,''' Program Coordinator


'''Lisa Meyers,''' Program Assistant


'''Julie Will,''' Intern   




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For more past programming from the [[Folger Institute]], please see the article [[Folger Institute scholarly programs archive]].       


Hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library. For more information about current summer seminars, please visit the National Endowment for the Humanities [http://www.neh.gov/divisions/education/summer-programs/ website].


 
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For more past programming from the [[Folger Institute]], please see the article [[Folger Institute scholarly programs archive]].
 
 
Hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library. For more information about current summer seminars, please visit the National Endowment for the Humanities [http://www.neh.gov/divisions/education/summer-programs/ website].       
 
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[[NEH Summer Institute for college and university faculty|NEH Summer Institute]]
 
[[Center for Shakespeare Studies program archive|Center for Shakespeare Studies]]
 
''June 19 through July 28 2000''
 
[https://web.archive.org/web/20140319081116/http://www.folger.edu/html/folger_institute/jamestown/index_main.htm Institute Website (Archived)]: [[Media:Imagination and Empire 2000Website.pdf|Website saved as PDF]]
 
[[Media:2000NEHSI.pdf|Promotional Materials]]
 
Directed by [[Karen Ordahl Kupperman]], Professor of History at New York University                                                                                                                                                
 
This institute looks ahead to the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 and the beginning of successful English colonization in America. But rather than taking a purely celebratory stance and seeing the English presence as somehow unique in American history, we will seek to place that venture in the context of contemporaneous French and Spanish efforts along America's east coast and within the Atlantic context in which all such enterprises were undertaken. The English who were conscious of their location on the margins of Europe---the "Suburbs of the old world" as John Donne wrote-now found themselves poised to look outward as Europe reoriented toward the west. Those who hoped that American exploits would pull their nation into the ranks ofthe leading European nations were also interested in Africa and the eastern Mediterranean region. The Powhatans among whom the first colonists settled had had extensive contact with Europeans before 1607 and brought their own understanding of Atlantic realities to this new relationship. Thus, the institute's premise is that we cannot understand what Jamestown should mean to us without looking at the entire Atlantic context in which it began and struggled through its early years.                                                                                                                                                
 
We intend to explore the kinds of assumptions and expectations that European promoters and migrants brought to the business of colonization, including their ideas about other peoples, their notions of the engines of economic growth, and their conception of how society is constituted and how it could be replicated in a new setting. We will also explore the assumptions on which the Powhatans and other coastal Algonquians acted in allowing the first settlers to become established. The institute will consider the range of options open to Africans in this early period when the institution of slavery was coming into being in English colonies, and the ways in which they adapted their own traditions in unanticipated circumstances.                                                                                                                                                
 
In order to accomplish this exploration, the faculty of the institute includes literary scholars, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, and the readings draw on a mix of disciplinary approaches and modes of scholarly analysis. The principal focus of the meetings will be on the primary sources of the period. We will look at familiar texts such as Sir Thomas More's ''Utopia'' and Captain John Smith's ''Generall Historie'' but also at other less well known sources such as John Pory's translation of Leo Africanus's ''A Geographical Historie of Africa'' (London, 1600). Encompassing Shakespeare's time as it does, the early period of colonization is illuminated by the Folger's vast collection of early printed and manuscript materials. Participants will work with documents in their first printed versions at the Folger Library, with the remains of the built and archaeological record in Jamestown itself, and with a range of other "primary" materials available on academic and institutional websites. In the course of the institute, participants will create a multifaceted web site with such features as a set of images culled from the Folger's collections, links to documents and other teaching and research materials on the web, and suggested syllabi and bibliographies for undergraduate courses.                                                                                                                                                
 
'''Proposed Schedule and Faculty'''                                                                                                                                                 
 
"Texts of Imagination and Empire: The Founding of Jamestown in its Atlantic Context" will meet four afternoons a week, from Monday through Thursday (with the exception of the week of the 4th of July, when we will be in session on Friday), for the six weeks of 19 June through 28 July 2000. In the mornings, participants will be free to read in the Library or to meet informally with the faculty or their colleagues in the program. Daily tea breaks and occasional receptions will allow for conversation to continue in a more relaxed atmosphere that includes other scholars in residence at the Folger. On some evenings, the Folger will offer films dealing with issues arising from the reading.                                                                                                                                                 
 
The average week will include a sequence of presentations by Professor Kuppennan and the consulting faculty members, group discussions of required primary texts and archival materials, and oral reports by participants. Professor Kupperman will usually begin the week by reviewing the readings in primary and secondary sources and framing the discussion for the week. The second and third sessions of each week will feature the designated visiting faculty. On some days the period after tea will be used for participant presentations of research, pedagogical applications, or website analyses. The emphasis throughout will be on discussion and exchange.                                                                                                                                                
 
[[Media:Texts of Imagination and Empire -- Bibliographies -- Syllabus.pdf|Syllabus]]                                                                                                                                                
 
Week One (19 - 23 June): English Culture on the Eve of Colonization                                                                                                                                                
 
Week Two (26 - 30 June): Early Tentative Colonial Ventures                                                                                                                                                
 
Week Three (3 - 7 July): Colonies Around the North Atlantic Rim                                                                                                                                                
 
Week Four (10 - 14 July): Tracks on the Land                                                                                                                                                
 
Week Five (17 - 21 July): Crawling Toward Success                                                                                                                                                
 
Week Six (24 - 28 July): Stability and Extension                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
 
'''RESULTING PUBLICATIONS'''                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
 
Appelbaum, Robert and John Wood Sweet. ''Envisioning an English Empire''. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=191252&_ga=2.112694532.1272375871.1497963940-335304767.1496674123 F234.J3 J3255 2005]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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Directed by Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Professor of History at New York University

June 19 through July 28, 2000

STC 22790: John Smith. The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles…

This NEH Summer Institute for College and University Faculty looks ahead to the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 and the beginning of successful English colonization in America. But rather than taking a purely celebratory stance and seeing the English presence as somehow unique in American history, we will seek to place that venture in the context of contemporaneous French and Spanish efforts along America's east coast and within the Atlantic context in which all such enterprises were undertaken. The English who were conscious of their location on the margins of Europe---the "Suburbs of the old world" as John Donne wrote-now found themselves poised to look outward as Europe reoriented toward the west. Those who hoped that American exploits would pull their nation into the ranks ofthe leading European nations were also interested in Africa and the eastern Mediterranean region. The Powhatans among whom the first colonists settled had had extensive contact with Europeans before 1607 and brought their own understanding of Atlantic realities to this new relationship. Thus, the institute's premise is that we cannot understand what Jamestown should mean to us without looking at the entire Atlantic context in which it began and struggled through its early years.

We intend to explore the kinds of assumptions and expectations that European promoters and migrants brought to the business of colonization, including their ideas about other peoples, their notions of the engines of economic growth, and their conception of how society is constituted and how it could be replicated in a new setting. We will also explore the assumptions on which the Powhatans and other coastal Algonquians acted in allowing the first settlers to become established. The institute will consider the range of options open to Africans in this early period when the institution of slavery was coming into being in English colonies, and the ways in which they adapted their own traditions in unanticipated circumstances.                                                                                                                                                

Source Call No. STC 18963.3: The first five bookes of Ovids Metamorphosis

In order to accomplish this exploration, the faculty of the institute includes literary scholars, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, and the readings draw on a mix of disciplinary approaches and modes of scholarly analysis. The principal focus of the meetings will be on the primary sources of the period. We will look at familiar texts such as Sir Thomas More's Utopia and Captain John Smith's Generall Historie but also at other less well known sources such as John Pory's translation of Leo Africanus's A Geographical Historie of Africa (London, 1600). Encompassing Shakespeare's time as it does, the early period of colonization is illuminated by the Folger's vast collection of early printed and manuscript materials. Participants will work with documents in their first printed versions at the Folger Library, with the remains of the built and archaeological record in Jamestown itself, and with a range of other "primary" materials available on academic and institutional websites. In the course of the institute, participants will create a multifaceted web site with such features as a set of images culled from the Folger's collections, links to documents and other teaching and research materials on the web, and suggested syllabi and bibliographies for undergraduate courses.                                                                                                                                                


Materials and Products

The syllabus is available here.

While the website is no longer supported, it has been archived: Institute Website: Texts of Imagination and Empire: The Founding of Jamestown in its Atlantic Context

A PDF of the website's pages with the participants' interpretive essays.

A PDF of the original promotional flyer.


Resulting Publication

Appelbaum, Robert and John Wood Sweet. Envisioning an English Empire. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. F234.J3 J3255 2005


Source Call No. STC 22790c.2: The generall historie of Virginia …

Participants

(All affiliations are as of the program's date)

Robert Appelbaum, Postdoctoral fellow in English at the University of San Diego

Rebecca Ann Bach, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama, Birmingham

Pompa Banerjee, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Denver

Lisa A. Blansett, Assistant Professor of English at Florida International University

Harvey W. DuMarce, Dean of Instruction and English Instructor at the Sisseton Wahpeton Community College

Ellen Eslinger, Associate Professor of History at DePaul University in Chicago

Maria Franklin, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

G. Curtis Gaul, Supervisory Park Ranger at the Colonial National Historical Park of Jamestown

Eric J. Griffin, Assistant Professor of English at Millsaps College

Andrew T. Harris, Assistant Professor of History at Bridgewater State College

Constance Jordan, Professor of English at Claremont Graduate University

Karen Paar, Research Assistant Professor at the Institute of Southern Studies and the Historian for the Santa Elena project at the University of South Carolina

Phyllis Peres, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Maryland

Emily Rose, Visiting Fellow at New Hall, Cambridge (1999-2000)

Crandall Shifflett, Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Virginia Tech

John Wood Sweet, Assistant Professor of History at The Catholic University of America


http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/j99272: A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia…

Faculty

(All affiliations are as of the program's date)

James Axtell, Kenan Professor of Humanities, College of William and Mary

Emily C. Bartels, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University

Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor of History, University of Maryland

Cary Carson, Vice-President for Research, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Dominique Deslandres, Professor of History, University of Montreal

Andrew Hadfield, Professor of English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

James Horn, Saunders Director, International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello

William M. Kelso, Director of Archeology, Jamestown Rediscover, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities

Jane Landers, Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

Barbara Mowat, Chair Academic Programs, Folger Shakespeare Library

John Murrin, Professor of History, Princeton University

Helen C. Rountree, Professor of Anthropology, Old Dominion University

David Harris Sacks, Professor of History and Humanities, Reed College

Ian Smith, Assistant Professor of English, Lafayette College

Walter Woodward, Director of Education Programs, Plimoth Plantation


Source Call No. STC 22790: The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles…


Website Production

Martha Fay, Designer

Julie Ainsworth, Folger photography

Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Senior Editor

Kathleen Lynch, Editor

Carol Brobeck, Managing Editor

Jerry Passannante, Research Assistant


Folger Institute Staff

Barbara Mowat, Chair

Kathleen Lynch, Executive Director

Owen Williams, Program Administrator

Carol Brobeck, Program Coordinator

Lisa Meyers, Program Assistant

Julie Will, Intern   




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