Lisa Szefel, Ph.D

2004: Doctorate of American History (PhD) in History at the University of Rochester.

Dissertation: The Creation of an American Poetic Community, 1890-1920.

1994: Master of Arts (MA) in History at University of Virginia.

1988: Bachelor of Arts (BA) in History at Mount Holyoke College.

Highest Honors

Selected Publications & Presentations

The Gospel of Beauty:  Poetry, Race, and Community in America, 1890-1920:  (currently under review) .

“Beauty and William Braithwaite: Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora. 2006

“Encouraging Verse:  William S. Braithwaite and the Poetics of Race,” New England Quarterly (Reprinted in Harlem Renaissance, Vol. 1: A Gale Critical Companion. Edited by J. Wltalec). 2001

“Cultural Conservative:  Peter Viereck's European History,” Mt. Holyoke College Symposium.  2006

“Poetry in the Progressive Era”  American Literary History Conference. 2005

“The Politics of Culture, ”1900-1950, American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2005

“Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Bard&rdquo, Popular Culture Association Annual Conference Germany.  2008

Honors and Awards

Dorot Research Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2008

NEH Summer Institute, W.E.B. Du Bois Center, Harvard University:African American Civil Rights Struggles in the Twentieth Century, July 2006

American Antiquarian Society: Readers and Their Books to 1800 and Beyond, June 2006

American Academy of Arts & Sciences: Visiting Scholar, September 2004-June 2005

Dexter Perkins Prize in Intellectual and Cultural History, U. of Rochester, May 2002

Curtis Peck Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, U. of Rochester,May 2002

Seven Society Graduate Fellowship for Superb Teaching, U. of Virginia, May 1998

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Research Fellowship (SDP), Berlin, Germany, October 1995-June 1996

German Historical Institute Archive Grant, Germany, June 1995

Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship , Germany, July-August 1995

University of Rochester Archive Research Grant, Summers 1999-2002

Anne Stewart Higham Prize in History (Mt. Holyoke), May 1988

Phi Beta Kappa Senior Honors Thesis Award, May 1988