Fullilove

At its most recent meeting, the Board of Trustees conferred tenure on Courtney Fullilove, associate professor of history, and Tushar Irani, associate professor of letters and philosophy. Additional tenure announcements may be made after the May meeting of the Board of Trustees. Brief descriptions of their areas of research and teaching appear below. Courtney Fullilove is a historian of 19th century U.S. social history. Her research interests in state building, agriculture, medicine and law are united by an engagement with the politics of development, particularly in the areas of sustainable development, biodiversity, intellectual property law and cultural heritage. Her book, The Profit…

Courtney Fullilove, assistant professor of history, spoke at a panel on "The Dust of Empire: Material Culture and the Circulation of Power’s Remains" during the American Studies Association Annual Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Nov. 15. The theme of the conference was “Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future.”

Courtney Fullilove, assistant professor of history, wrote an article titled "Dead Letters—By a Resurrectionist: Liberty and Surveillance in the Tombs of the U.S. Post Office," published in the January 2012 issue of Common-Place.org. In the article, Fullilove describes a history of the 19th century Division of Dead Letters. Until World War I, all undeliverable letters were processed through the central office in Washington. By law, unclaimed letters were burned, pulped, or otherwise destroyed. But Fullilove discovered this wasn't the case. "Here was a riddle," she writes. "In a non-existent box were four letters that should have been destroyed. Their presence was evidence…

Courtney Fullilove has joined the History Department as assistant professor. She specializes in research related to the study the development of technical knowledge in the fields of agriculture, medicine, and manufacturing in the 18th and 19th century United States. A graduate of Columbia University's Ph.D program in history, Fullilove was attracted to Wesleyan for many reasons, among them its historical significance and liberal arts idealism. She says that being a part of a place where "everyone is creative and engaged" is satisfying to her. "I'm a historian, so I like to think about the fact that Wesleyan was founded as…

Board of Trustees Confers Tenure on Fullilove, Irani

Fullilove Panelist at American Studies Association Meeting

Fullilove Writes about Tombs of the U.S. Post Office

Courtney Fullilove: Historian Specializing in 19th-Century United States