April G Shelford Author

April G. Shelford is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the American University, Washington D.C. She won the Selma Forkosch prize for best article published in the Journal of the History of Ideas in 2002. She is the recipient of fellowships at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. For two years she was visiting professor at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, which inspired the research for this project