Daniel Primiani of Louisa Completes Comegys Bight Fellowship

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CHESTERTOWN, MD (10/23/2012)(readMedia)--  Washington College is pleased to announce that Daniel Primiani '13 of Louisa, VA has completed his work as a Comegys Bight Fellow. Presented by the College's C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, the Comegys Bight Fellowship Program offers stipends to support summer internships at some of the nation's leading historical and cultural institutions. These paid internships annually provide a handful of students with high-level research experience on topics related to American history pre-1900.

Over the summer, Primiani worked at the Virginia Historical Society on an recently-launched project, "Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names. He helped scholars sort through roughly eight million documents dating from the 17th through 19th centuries to find the names of slaves and their owners. This information will be made available in a searchable database on Vahistorical.org. Primiani presented his findings at a special program on campus on October 18th.

Primiani is majoring in History. His research paper, "The Slaves of the Revolution: An Exploration of the Effect of the Revolutionary War on Slaves in the State of Virginia," earned a top prize at a recent conference hosted by the history honor society Phi Alpha Theta. He graduated from St. Andrew's School.

Founded in 1782 under the patronage of George Washington, Washington College is a private, independent college of liberal arts and sciences located in colonial Chestertown on Maryland's Eastern Shore.