Program in Women’s History Fellowships
The Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Program in Women’s History awards fellowships that support advanced research in women’s history, broadly defined.
Applicants may submit proposals to conduct research based not only on the Library Company’s extensive collections but also on the printed and manuscript holdings of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
The following opportunities are available:
- Dissertation research fellowships support a semester of on-site research for graduate students working on a doctoral dissertation.
- Short-term research fellowships support four weeks of collections research. Applicants may be graduate students, PhD holders, or independent researchers.
For detailed information on application procedures, eligibility, stipends, and submission deadlines, visit the Library Company’s main fellowships program page.
Fellows of the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Program in Women’s History
2025–2026 Dissertation Fellow
Jennifer W. Reiss, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America
2025–2026 Short-Term Fellows
Chika Jenkins, PhD Candidate, Bard Graduate Center
Leaving a Mark: Confluence of Rhythms in the Pennsylvania Dutch Butter Print & Mold
Corey Loftus, PhD Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
The Gravid Imaginaire: Picturing Pregnancy Before the Ultrasound
2024–2025 Dissertation Fellow
Emma Chapman, PhD student, Department of History, University of California, Davis
Disappearing Connections: Absence, Kin, and Economy in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century New France and New England
2024–2025 Short-Term Fellow
Mariah Kupfner, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Public Heritage, School of Humanities, Penn State Harrisburg
Disappearing Connections: Absence, Kin, and Economy in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century New France and New England
2023–2024 Short-Term Fellow
Shana Klein, Associate Professor, School of Art, Kent State University
Spoiled Milk: The Politics of Race and Motherhood in Victorian American Art
2022–2023 Short-Term Fellow
Jennifer W. Reiss, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America
2021–2022 Short-Term Fellow
Short-Term awards paused for 2021–2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020–2021 Short-Term Fellow
Kim Nielsen, Professor, Department of History, University of Toledo
Dorothea Dix, Psychiatric Asylums, and the Institutionalization of Modern Insanity
2019–2020 Short-Term Fellow
Madelaine Schurch, PhD Candidate in English, University of York
Anne Hampton Brewster: Emigration, Belonging, and Geographical Imagination, 1850–1875 (fellowship declined due to COVID-19 pandemic)
2018–2019 Short-Term Fellow
Chiara Cillerai, Institute for Writing Studies, St. John’s University, New York, and Lisa Logan, Department of English, University of Central Florida
The Works of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson and the Elizabeth Fergusson Digital Archive
2017–2018 Short-Term Fellow
Charlene Boyer Lewis, Department of History, Kalamazoo College
The Traitor’s Wife: Peggy Shippen Arnold and Revolutionary America
2016–2017 Short-Term Fellow
Magdalena Zapędowska, PhD Candidate in English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Lydia Sigourney, Maria Gowen Brooks, and the Materiality of Antebellum Poetry
2015–2016 Short-Term Fellow
Jacqueline Beatty, PhD Candidate in History, George Mason University
In Dependence: Women’s Protection and Subordination as Power in Early America, 1750–1820
2014–2015 Short-Term Fellow
Julia Delacroix, Debby Ellis Writing Center, Southwestern University
The Storm That Shakes the World: Women’s Elegies in Revolutionary America