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The Omohundro Institute of Early American
History and Culture has granted a one-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral
Research Fellowship to Assistant Professor of History Joseph Cullon.
The award carries a year’s support to revise the recipient’s first book
manuscript, and the institute’s commitment to publish the resulting study.
Cullon will be completing revisions to “Work Upon the Ark: New England
Shipbuilding and the Launching of a Maritime Empire.”
Joseph Cullon
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“New England vessels were indispensable tools in shaping the first age of
globalization,” says Cullon. His research anchors New England shipbuilding in
the larger context of the early modern Atlantic world: “As the primary carriers
of England’s Atlantic trade and as commodities in their own right, New
England-built ships supported, expanded, and cemented England’s maritime
empire. England’s claims of ruling the waves in the 18th century rested upon
the ability of colonial shipwrights to build vessels cheaply and quickly for an
ever-increasing merchant marine.”
Cullon’s investigations have taken him to libraries and archives in nine
states as well as to London and Oxford, England. Since arriving at Dartmouth in
2003, his work has been supported by earlier grants from the Mellon Foundation
(through the American Antiquarian Society), the Huntington Library, and the
National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, as well as by a Burke Research
Initiation Award and two Rockefeller research grants from Dartmouth. “My
research for this book is largely complete,” notes Cullon. “I’m now excited to
have the opportunity to work closely with the institute’s editorial staff as we
bring my first manuscript to completion. The institute has long nurtured some
of the best scholarship in my field, so to be invited to join its impressive
list of authors is as humbling as it is thrilling.”
Cullon is the sole recipient of the fellowship this year, selected from
applicants who are scholars of history, English, art history, and comparative
literature.
The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Institute is a
National Endowment for the Humanities-designated Independent Research
Institution, and is cosponsored by the College of William and Mary and the
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Its scope encompasses the history and
cultures of North America’s indigenous and immigrant peoples during the
colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods of the United States and
the related histories of Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America, the British
Isles, Europe, and Africa from the 16th century to approximately 1815. The
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship is made possible by a grant
to the institute by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Cullon’s appointment
to his postdoctoral research fellowship begins Sept. 1, 2008.
By KELLY SEAMAN
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