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Johnson began her professional life as a contract archaeologist, working for ten years before returning to school. Leslie lectures widely, throughout the United States and Canada as well as in the UK, China and Australia. Currently, Leslie is working on creating several online exhibitions. Offsite, she curated and redesigned the English earthenware galleries at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto. She has curated exhibitions on English slipware and delftware as well as on objects and traditions relating to alcoholic beverages, tea and coffee. Currently, Grigsby is responsible for the Museum’s 22,000+ glass and ceramic objects and has worked intensively on displays in the 175 house rooms and the Ceramics & Glass Galleries and Study Area. Leslie’s catalogue of the English ceramics at the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee is available at the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture.
Next she researched and wrote extensively (see selected publications) on 17 th– and 18 th-century English earthenware and stoneware.
Leslie began her career as Assistant Curator of Ceramics and Glass at Colonial Williamsburg. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Library Company of Philadelphia, his work has been recognized by UD’s College of Arts and Sciences “Excellence in Scholarship Award” (2018), the American Antiquarian Society (elected member, 2007), the Society of Early Americanists Essay Prize (2007), and the Francis Alison Young Scholar Award (2002). Editor of the volumes Early American Cartographies (2011) and American Literary Geographies (2007), he has published over thirty essays on American literary, visual, and material culture in journals such as American Quarterly, American Art, and American Literary History. His first book, The Geographic Revolution in Early America (2006), won the Louis Gottschalk Book Prize in 18th-Century Studies his second, The Social Life of Maps in America (2017), won the Fred B. Martin Brückner is Professor in the English Department and former Co-Director of the Center for Material Culture Studies and the Delaware Public Humanities Institute at the University of Delaware.
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