Katie Moore and Aaron Hiltner Win Shotwell Dissertation Fellowships
Congratulations to the two History Department PhD Candidates, Katie Moore and Aaron Hiltner, who were each just awarded the Robert Shotwell Fellowship for their dissertations!
‘A Just and Honest Valuation’: Money and Value in Colonial America, 1690-1750 by Katie Moore “argues that colonists mediated economic change within existing moral and social frameworks by re-imagining value, a concept denoting the worth, esteem, usefulness, or quality of something or someone. More simply, early Americans maintained their values by re-conceptualizing value itself.”
Aaron Hiltner‘s dissertation, Under Friendly Occupation, “recovers the long forgotten history of American ‘liberty ports’—cities in the United States enormously impacted by military mobilization where millions of sailors and soldiers took leave and liberty, emboldened by the privilege of their uniforms and near immunity from civilian laws and authorities.”