Lee Wilson Bowden
Fields & Specialties
Colonial North America and the West Indies; Legal History; Slavery; Environmental HistoryEducation:
M.A. History, Fordham University (2010)
J.D. Fordham University School of Law (2006)
B.A. History, Loyola University in Maryland, summa cum laude (2001)
Honors and Awards
Harvard University and Cambridge University Joint Centre for History and Economics History Project Research Grant (2013-2014)
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship (2013-2014)
Folger Institute grant-in-aid recipient (Spring 2013)
University of Virginia Corcoran Department of History Summer Research Grant (2013)
University of Virginia Robert J. Huskey Travel Fellowship (2013)
Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies Paper Prize, Honorable Mention (2012)
University of Virginia Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Summer Research Fellow (2012)
University of Virginia Departmental Fellow (2010-present)
Fordham University Presidential Scholar (2009-2010)
Fordham University School of Law International Law Journal (2003-2004)
Fordham University School of Law Legal Writing Award (2003)
Phi Beta Kappa (2001)
Loyola College Whiteford Medal (2001)
Professional Activities
Presenter, "The Influences of That Climate": Law and Environmental Disasters in Colonial Jamaica,” Nineteenth Annual Omohundro Institute Conference, Baltimore, MD (June 2013)
Participant, Folger Institute Seminar “Law as Politics in England and the Empire, ca. 1600-1830,” (Spring 2013)
Presenter, “Seizing Slaves, Settling Empire: Escheat and Constitutional Conflict in Early Eighteenth-Century Jamaica,” Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Abington, PA (April 2012)
Associate Articles Editor, Essays in History (2012-2013)
