David Silverman will be the Barra Sabbatical Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania for the 2014-15 academic year. The fellowship will support Professor Silverman's current project, entitled Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America, which is forthcoming with Harvard University Press.
Benjamin Hopkins has received a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Professor Hopkins intends to use the fellowship, which runs from January-August 2015, to finish his current book project which is a comparative history of frontier governance in the late nineteenth century.