NICOLE VIGLINI
Wilson Library Dissertation Research Fellowship
Talk: "A new kind of money:" Enslaved and Free Women's Economies of Flora and Fauna in the Antebellum South

Nicole Viglini is a graduate student in the Department of History at University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation examines enslaved and free women's knowledge, use, and trade of plant and animal resources on uncultivated lands, across plantation boundaries, in the plantation household, and in local markets in the antebellum era. Focusing particularly on the Mississippi River Valley region, this project provides a gendered analysis of bondspeople’s various uses of space, claims to property, and participation in formal economies.

LIZABETH WARDZINSKI
Wilson Library Dissertation Research Fellowship
Talk: UNC’s Department of City and Regional Planning: Planning Missionaries of the South

Lizabeth Wardzinski is a doctoral student in North Carolina State University’s College of Design. Her research is focused on the New Deal and post-war architecture and planning in the United States. Her dissertation, “A Model for the World: Tennessee Valley Authority and Postwar Development,” studies the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) global impact as a planning agency in the post-World War II period.

This informal program is part of the summer and fall Wilson Library Research Forum. Each program is an opportunity to hear from one or more fellows about research work that draws on the collections and expertise of the Wilson Special Collections Library. Please visit Wilson Library’s grants and fellowships page to learn more.