Charles Foy, assistant professor of history, has been awarded the Marie L. & William R. Harland Fellowship in Early Maritime History by the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island and a short term Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance at Yale University. While on leave during AY 2010-11 Dr. Foy will spend the Fall semester at the JCB Library and January 2011 at the Gilder Lehrman working on his book project “Prize Negroes in the Age of Sail.”