Comegys Bight Fellowships
THE COMEGYS BIGHT FELLOWS
2008
Gillian Bourassa '08: "Persecution of Quakers in 17th and 18th Century Maryland"
Faculty mentor: Professor Ken Miller, Department of History
Anna Green '08: "Impressment and Seamen's Culture in the Royal British Navy"
Faculty mentor: Professor Ken Miller, Department of History
Kaitlin Wedge, '08: "Thaddeus Stevens and American Politics"
Faculty mentor: Professor Rick Striner, Department of History
2007
Carimanda Baynard '08: "Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast Educational System"
Faculty mentors: Professor Erin Anderson, Department of Sociology, and Professor Michele Volansky, Department of Drama
Brenna Bychowski '09: “The 1893 World's Fair”
Faculty mentor: Professor Richard Striner, Department of History
Ethan Criss '08: "Folk Music of the Civil War"
Faculty mentor: Professor Ken Miller, Department of History
Jan van Ewijk '09: "Social Mobility in the 17th and 18th century Chesapeake Region"
Faculty mentor: Professor Adam Goodheart, Director, C.V. Starr Center
Aundra Weissert '08: "The Revolutionary Activism of Margaret Sanger"
Faculty mentor: Professor Carol Wilson, Department of History
2006
Kaitlin Edwards ’07: “Historic Fabrics and Textiles, 1750-1790”
Erin Koster ’07: “Irish Female Domestic Servants in America, 1870-1910”
Amy Elizabeth Uebel ’07: “Watermen on the Middle Eastern Shore”
2005
Cynthia Brown ’06: “Henry Miller, an American in Paris”
Peter Knox ’06: “Hunter S. Thompson’s Funeral: A Journey to Woody Creek”
Brandon Righi ’07: “The Civil War on the Eastern Shore of Maryland”
Jeremy Rothwell ’07: “The Farming Community at Turner’s Creek, 1658-Present”
Mark Stevens ’07: “New Black Politics: The Rise of Black Conservatism and Political Thought”
2004
John R. Bohrer ’06: “The Development of the Presidential Nominating Process”
Beth Ann Hargraves ’05: “The Political Failure of the Equal Rights Amendment”
Charles A. Hohman ’05: “H.L. Mencken: A Fading Legacy”
Leslie Meredith ’06: “John Sevier and the ‘Lost’ State of Franklin.”
Mary Elizabeth Smith ’05: “Samuel Huntington and the ‘War of Ideology’”
2003
Matthew J. Burnham ‘04: “JoAnn Robinson and the Montgomery Bus
Boycott of 1955-56”
Colleen Costello ’04: “Intellectual Influences on the Authors of the U.S. Constitution”
Justin Gunn ’05: Cataloguing and preserving four centuries’ worth of historical documents from Poplar Grove, Queen Anne’s County.
Gina Ralston "04: "Dr. Peregrine Wroth, George Alfred Townsend, and the Literary Life of 19th-Century Chestertown."
