Mary Lily Research Grant Recipients, 1999

Maria R. Bevacqua, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, Emory University for her book, Rape on the Public Agenda: Feminism, Consciousness, and the Politics of Sexual Assault.

Lorraine K. Gates, Ph.D. candidate, Corcoran Department of History, the University of Virginia, for her dissertation, The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Politics in the 1920s.

Jennifer L. Gross, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, the University of Georgia, for her dissertation, "Good Angels" or Dangerous Women: Confederate Widowhood in the Postbellum South.

Michael Hardin, instructor, English Department, Houston Community College, for several projects related to the work of Kathy Acker. These will include a chapter in the essay collection, Devouring Institutions: The Life Work of Kathy Acker, edited by Hardin and María González; an article investigating Acker's unpublished work and why she chose not to publish it; and possibly an effort to have some of this work published posthumously.

Deborah A. Lee, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Cultural Studies, George Mason University, for her case study of the elite white Virginians Ann Randolph Meade Page (1781-1838), her cousin, Mary Fitzhugh Custis, and her younger brother, William Meade, who worked together to end slavery and ameliorate its conditions.

Lucia McMahon, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Rutgers University, for her dissertation "Beings Endowed with Reason": Gender, Individualism, and Education in the Early Republic.

Sarah Pearsall, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Harvard University, for her dissertation, "After All These Revolutions": Family Correspondence from the British-Atlantic World, 1760-1812.