2010 - Jefferson Scholars Foundation

the fellows
fellows completing their fellowships in 2010
Leslie Francis Cozzi
Penny S. and James G. Coulter Fellow
Department of Art History
Yale University (B.A.)
University of Virginia (M.A.)
Chicago, Illinois
Leslie is currently researching and writing a dissertation on contemporary
Italian women artists and feminism. She spent the fall 2009 semester in
Bologna, Italy, conducting archival research for her dissertation. She returned
to Charlottesville in the spring, where she continued work on her dissertation
and prepared to teach a summer school class entitled “Women and Western
Art.” She was awarded a Fulbright Student Grant for 2010-2011 to complete
her dissertation research in Italy, and is looking forward to spending the
upcoming year in Rome and Milan.
Adam Wesley Dean
John L. Nau III Fellow
Department of History
University of California-Los Angeles (B.A.)
University of Virginia (M.A.) (Ph.D.)
Salt Lake City, Utah
Adam graduated in May 2010 with a Ph.D. in United States History. His
dissertation is entitled “An Agrarian Republic: How Conflict over Land
Use Shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction.” Adam is currently working
with the University of North Carolina Press, the University of Washington
Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, and the University of Georgia Press to
transform this dissertation into a book. Adam also had an article published
in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography in December 2009 about
Virginia history education in the mid-20th-century. In fall 2010, Adam will
have an article featured in the Journal of Civil War History on the creation of
Yosemite State Park in 1864. Despite his busy research schedule, teaching
has been and will be Adam’s primary focus. In the fall of 2009, he taught
a seminar for fourth-year undergraduates entitled “The Reconstruction of
America after the Civil War.” In the summer of 2009, Adam will be teaching
the United States History Survey at U.Va. Next year, Adam plans to teach two
classes on the Civil War and Reconstruction at the University of Richmond. In
addition, Adam will serve as the new Program Coordinator for the Jefferson
Fellows Center, programming activities, managing the building schedule,
assisting with presentations, and advising graduate Fellows. Outside of
academia, Adam enjoys fly-fishing and hiking with his disobedient golden
retriever — Greeley.
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