Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship in Memory of Kenneth R. LaVoy Jr.
This program supports the research of scholars as they write new, important books on the history of Colonial America.
Learn more about this program: view the October 2021 press release (link).
Upcoming Lecture
Brewing a Revolution:
The Role of Coffeehouses in Colonial Protest
Michelle Craig McDonald, American Philosophical Society
2025 Fellowship Recipient
Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 4pm
ZOOM Webinar
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Publications That Have Resulted from the SCW LaVoy Program
Let the Oppressed Go Free: Abolitionism in Colonial and Revolutionary America by Nicholas P. Wood More About This Book
Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States by Michelle Craig McDonald More About This Book
A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire by Adrian Chastain Weimer
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The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660 by Misha Ewen
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Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America
by Mairin Odle
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Conference Papers That Have Resulted from the SCW LaVoy Program
- Adrian Finucane, “The Opportunities of War: Captivity and Freedom in the Early 18th Century” at the Early Modern Studies Institute 20thAnniversary Conference, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, October 13-14, 2023.
- Adrian, Finucane “Native American Practices of Captivity and the Development of Prisoner-of-War Practices in the Southeast” at the Twenty-Sixth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War, Ticonderoga, New York, May 20-22, 2022.
- Adrian Finucane, “Captivity and Freedom: Prisoners of War of African Descent in the Eighteenth-Century Southeast” at The Forum on Early Modern-Empires and Global Interactions Biennial Meeting, held online, February 24-26, 2022.
Past Public Events
The Authors of Their Sovereignty: How Indigenous Peoples Used Petitions in the Colonial South
Bradley Dixon, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, University of Memphis
Wednesday January 29, 2025
A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the 17th Century Adrian Weimer, Ph.D., Profesor of History, Providence College
Thursday, January 25, 2024
'What must Strangers think of such a Law?': Scalp Bounties in Colonial America
Mairin Odle, Ph.D., Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Alabama
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Colonial Wars as the 'Wrath of God': The Origins of American Antislavery
Nicholas Wood, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Spring Hill College
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Captive Exchanges: Prisoners of War in the 18th Century
Adrian Finucane, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, FAU
January 26, 2022
The People Behind the First Colony: How English Society Established Jamestown, Virginia
Misha Ewen, Ph.D., Curator and Historian, Historic Royal Palaces (UK)
November 18, 2021
This program is made possible by the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Florida through the Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship in Memory of Kenneth R. LaVoy Jr., the FAU Libraries, and the Department of History.
For more information contact Dr. Jason Sharples, email: jsharples@fau.edu.