Dr. Lawrence Hatter has been awarded a month-long research fellowship at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon in Vernon, Virginia. His fellowship is for the 2017-2018 academic year. Awards are available for research focused on the life and leadership of George Washington, and his place in the development of American civic life and culture.
Dr. Hatter’s research will focus on “Negotiating Independence: American Overseas Merchant Communities in the Age of Revolution.”
Dr. Hatter is the author of Citizens of Convenience: The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border (University of Virginia Press).