2010 - Jefferson Scholars Foundation

the fellows
Mary Ellen Hicks
The Newman Family Fellow
Department of History
University of Iowa (B.A.)
University of Virginia (M.A.)
Chicago, Illinois
Mary most recently completed her
master’s research on labor regulations
of female domestic servants in
post-emancipation Salvador, Brazil.
She was able to conclude this research through summer research travel
she completed during the summer of 2009. She continues work on her
dissertation proposal, which will explore a topic not often researched, the
role of enslaved and free artisans in 18th-century Brazilian urban economies.
She hopes to study art and architectural history in the fall semester in order
to discover the intersections between cultural production, political economy,
and ideology in late colonial Brazil.
Mary Hicks, the Newman Family Fellow (History), and her guide
touring the colonial architecture of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerias, Brazil.
Lindsay Parsons
O’Connor
Irby Cauthen Fellow
Department of English
Tulane University (B.A.)
Peachtree City, Georgia
In February 2010, Lindsay presented a
paper about post-structuralist theory,
analytic philosophies of language,
and rap artist Lil Wayne at the 20th
Annual Mardi Gras Conference at Louisiana State University. Later that month,
she presented an extended version of this paper at the Jefferson Fellows
Symposium under the title “Loose Vowels: Linguistic Waste and Lil Wayne’s
No Ceilings.” During the 2009-10 academic year Lindsay served as a teaching
assistant for academic writing as well as 18th- and 19th- century literature
courses, and she served as a Theory Area Representative for the Graduate
English Students Association (GESA). She looks forward to spending another
summer in New Orleans, Louisiana before returning to Charlottesville for
her third year of graduate study, during which she will take her qualifying
exams in 20th-century American literature and literary theory and serve as
the GESA treasurer.
Harold Smith
Reeves
Eric M. Heiner Fellow
Department of Classics
Princeton University (A.B.)
University of Chicago (J.D.)
Catholic University of America
(Ph.L.)
University of Virginia (M.A.)
Brooksville, Florida
Harold completed his master’s this term. His thesis, “Repetition and Variation
in the Battle Narratives of Herodotus,” analyzed the ways in which Herodotus
described the battles of Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea. This summer,
Harold plans to teach in the Summer Latin Institute at U.Va. In the fall, he will
teach Greek 1010 and complete coursework requirements for his Ph.D. degree.
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