Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship in Memory of Kenneth R. LaVoy Jr.听
This program supports the research of scholars as they write new, important books on the history of Colonial America.听
Learn more about this program: view the October 2021 press release (link).
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Upcoming Lecture
The Authors of their Sovereignty: How Indigenous Peoples Used Petitions in the Colonial South
Bradley Dixon, University of Memphis
2024 Fellowship Recipient
Wednesday, January 29, 4pm
ZOOM Webinar
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Publications That Have Resulted from the SCW LaVoy Program
A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire by Adrian Chastain Weimer
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The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660 by Misha Ewen听
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Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America
by Mairin Odle听
Conference Papers That Have Resulted from the SCW LaVoy Program
- Adrian Finucane, 鈥淭he Opportunities of War: Captivity and Freedom in the Early 18th听Century鈥 at the , The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, October 13-14, 2023. 听
- Adrian, Finucane 鈥淣ative American Practices of Captivity and the Development of Prisoner-of-War Practices in the Southeast鈥 at the , Ticonderoga, New York, May 20-22, 2022. 听
- Adrian Finucane, 鈥淐aptivity and Freedom: Prisoners of War of African Descent in the Eighteenth-Century Southeast鈥 at , held online, February 24-26, 2022.听
Past Public Events
A Constitutional Culture:听 New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the 17th Century听 听 听 听 Adrian Weimer, Ph.D., Profesor of History, Providence College
Thursday, January 25, 2024
'What must Strangers think of such a Law?': Scalp Bounties in Colonial America
Mairin Odle, Ph.D., Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Alabama
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Colonial Wars as the 'Wrath of God': The Origins of American Antislavery
Nicholas Wood, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Spring Hill College
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Captive Exchanges: Prisoners of War in the 18th Century
Adrian Finucane, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, 大象传媒
January 26, 2022
The People Behind the First Colony: How English Society Established Jamestown, Virginia
Misha Ewen, Ph.D., Curator and Historian, Historic Royal Palaces (UK)
November 18, 2021
This program is made possible by the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Florida through the Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship in Memory of Kenneth R. LaVoy Jr., the 大象传媒 Libraries, and the Department of History.
For more information contact Dr. Jason Sharples, email: jsharples@fau.edu.