Kate Fawver, Ph.D.

Title: Assistant Professor, History

Department: History

Office: LCH A-311
Phone Extension: x3494
Email Username: kfawver

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Publications

Fawver, Kathleen, “Gender and the Structure of the Planter-Household in the Eighteenth Century,” Early American Studies, (Fall 2006)
“The Slave Family in the Chesapeake: New Evidence, New Perspectives” in Colonial Chesapeake: New Perspectives, Eds. Debra Meyers and Melanie Perreault, (Lexington Press, 2006).
"Lords of Creation": Household and Family Structure in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California Riverside, 2002.

Presentations

“The Demography of Female Autonomy and Dependence in Early North American Households,” Fourteenth Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, June 12-15, 2008.
“Marriage, Neolocality, and Parental Control in Early North American Families,” Social Science History Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 15-18, 2007.
“What can we learn from pre-modern American lists? Authority and Dependence in the Pre-Modern American Household: A Case Study of the 1775 Revolutionary Enumeration,” The Potential and Limitations of a List at the Center for Theoretical Study at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Charles University and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, November 8-9, 2007.
“Gender, Race, and Household Structure in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake.” Were Women Present at the Demographic Transition? University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, May 20-21, 2005.
“Women’s Economies in the Chesapeake: The Organization of Labor in a Plantation Society” Women’s Economies in Early America, The Program for Early American Economy and Society, October 1, 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“The Economics of Enslaved Children: A Demographic Analysis of Plantation Structure in the British Colony of Maryland in 1776.” Avignon Conference on Slavery and Unfree Labour: Children and Slavery, Avignon, France, May 20-22, 2004.
“Households and Families in the Chesapeake: New Methods.” The Western Association of Women Historians Annual Conference, Huntington Library, San Mateo California, 2000.
“A Demographic Model of the Planter-Household in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake.” Social Science History Association, Fort Worth, Texas, 1999.

Fellowships, Grants and Honors

Integrated Public-Use Manuscripts Summer Workshop, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2006.
Lord Baltimore Research Fellow, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland 2005-2006.
RSCAAP Research and Travel Grant (CSUDH), 2005.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Department of Women’s Studies, University of California, Riverside, 2000-2001.
Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant, Division of Graduate Studies, University of California, Riverside, 1998-1999.
Humanities Graduate Research Assistantship, Division of Graduate Studies, University of California, Riverside1997-1998.
Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Research Grant, Division of Graduate Studies, University of California, Riverside, 1997-1998.
Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant, Division of Graduate Studies, University of California, Riverside, 1997-1998.
Dissertation Block Grant, Department of History, University of California, Riverside, 1998.
Program Scholar, Inter-University Consortium for Social and Political Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1996.

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