National Humanities Center

Sarah Meacham (Virginia Commonwealth), "'The Polite Assurance and Affable Cheerfulness of a Gentleman': Status and Emotions in the Eighteenth-Century South"

Justin Blanton (UNC), "Becoming Chiquitano: Crafting Ethnic Identity in the Imperial Borderlands of the Greater Paraguayan River Basin"

Holly Brewer (Maryland), "Slavery and Sedition," co-sponsored by the Triangle British Global History Seminar and the Triangle Legal History Seminar

Thomas Sheppard (UNC), "A Radical Change of System: The Navy Board and Civilian Control, 1815-1820"

Liz Ellis (UNC), "Friends or Enemies?: The Petites Nations' Shifting Alliances in the Eighteenth-Century Lower Mississippi Valley"

Reeve Huston (Duke), "Democratic Pentecost: Explaining the Emergence of Multiple Democracies in the United States, 1826-28"