Past Fellows
Henry Wiencek
Patrick Henry Writing Fellow, 2008–2009
Historian Henry Wiencek was Washington College’s inaugural Patrick Henry Writing Fellow. Wiencek devoted his year in Chestertown to completing a substantial portion of his forthcoming book on Thomas Jefferson and his slaves, to be published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. During the spring semester, he taught a popular American Studies course, “The Enigma of Slavery,” which drew students from many different majors. For his next project, Wiencek is contemplating a book on the first large-scale battle of the American Revolution, the clash at Bunker Hill.
Fredrika Teute
C.V. Starr Center Fellow, 2007–2008
Dr. Fredrika Teute dedicated her year at Washington College to writing a book on early Washington, D.C. “The Spectacle of Washington” uses the career of the novelist, journalist, and saloniste Margaret Bayard Smith, a little-known but important figure in the rough-and-tumble world of Jeffersonian-era politics, to explore residents’ attempts to transform the nation into a political – not just geographical – community. Editor of Publications at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Teute accepted a 2008-09 research fellowship at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, to finish her project.
