Select Awards & Fellowships

2016-19  Middlebury College Long-term Professional Development grant (for research into Martin Freeman [Middlebury College 1849] and the American Colonization Society).

2016    Lovett-Woodsun Research Fellowship

2016    Friends of Princeton University Library Grant

2015    One Middlebury Faculty grant & M2 Programming (panel/discussion on simultaneous interpretation at Middlebury College Institute for International Studies at Monterey, CA)

2001    Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, New-York Historical Society

1998-99  Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities

1998-99  Center for the Study of American Religion Fellowship, Princeton University

1998    Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship, The Boston Athenaeum

1998    Finalist, Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize, American Studies Assoc.

1998    Honorable Mention, Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award, Brown University

1996-97  Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellowship, Brown University

1991-92  Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellowship, Dartmouth College

1991    Mellon Resident Research Fellowship, APS Library, Philadelphia

1989    NEH Seminar Fellowship, Newberry Library, Chicago

1987-91  Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellowship, Brown University

William B. Hart, Professor Emeritus of History at Middlebury College, earned a PhD in American Civilization at Brown University.  In 1993, he joined Middlebury’s History Department, where he taught a broad range of American and Atlantic-World history courses until his retirement in June 2020.  During his tenure, Bill served on a number of committees, including the EAC, Faculty Council, Community Council, Appeals Council, and several others.  He also served as Faculty adviser to PALANA, AAA, and other student orgs, and served as Constituent Faculty Adviser to the Middlebury College Board of Advisers.  In 2019, Bill was named the first Director of the newly launched Black Studies Program major.  Bill has lectured and published widely on Black Americans and Native Americans during the Colonial and Early Republic eras.  In August 2020, the University of Massachusetts Press published his book, “For the Good of their Souls”: Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country.  Bill is currently writing a biography of Alexander Twilight, the first graduate of African descent from an American College – Middlebury College in 1823.