Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Building on our 18th-century origins as a community of readers and learners, the Library Company’s fellowships program supports advanced humanities research and fosters intellectual exchange. Since the program’s founding in 1987, more than 1,200 fellows have joined us in Philadelphia to engage in collections research that informs new scholarship in American history and culture in its Atlantic world context.
Listed below are all past fellows of the Library Company and our longtime fellowships program partner, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Pictured: 2022 dissertation fellows Halle-Mackenzie Ashby (Johns Hopkins University), Christopher Baldwin (University of Toronto), and Yiyun Huang (University of Tennessee – Knoxville), in the Cassatt House, the Library Company’s fellows’ residence.
2023–2024
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow
Christopher Baldwin, independent scholar, Toronto, Ontario
An Empire of Plunder: Slavery and the Prize Economy in the British Caribbean, 1739–63
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellow
Samuel Davis, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Texas Christian University
Antislavery Conquest: Colonization, Removal, and Free-Soil Politics
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows
Anders Bright, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Luck’s Republic: Lotteries, Class, and Finance in Early America
Carolyn Zola, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Stanford University
Public Women: Urban Provisioners in Nineteenth Century America
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellow
Charlette Caldwell, PhD Candidate and Provost Diversity Fellow, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
The Crucible of the Freedom Church: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Culture of Building in the United States, 1790s–1930s
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Allison Fulton, PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of California, Davis
Disciplining Craft: The Gendered Making of Nineteenth-Century American Science
Mélena Laudig, PhD Candidate, Departments of African American History and Religion, Princeton University
“Her Country’s Children”: African American Religion and Childhood in Slavery and Freedom
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Loryn Clauson, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Toledo
Hold My Purse Strings: Marriage, Gender and Capitalism in Antebellum America
Eva Landsberg, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Yale University
The Politics of Sugar in the 18th-Century British Atlantic
Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Assistant Teaching Professor & Coordinator of Public History, Department of History, Rutgers University
Surviving the New Nation: A Material History of Poverty in the United States
Angel-Luke O’Donnell, Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Quantitative Reasoning Education, Department of Liberal Arts, Kings College London
The History of Mortgages: The State, Industrial Capital, and Industrialisation in Pennsylvania, 1690–1816
Rachel Silberstein, independent scholar
“To the Greatest Extent the China Market can bear”: A Connective History of British Woolens in Qing China
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows
Julia Bernier, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Washington & Jefferson College
All on Board: Slavery and Shipping on the Brig Orleans
Michael Hines, Assistant Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education
“Admirably Fitted for a Teacher”: Peter Williams Cassey, the Phoenixonian Institute, and Transcontinental Black Activism in Education, 1862–1878
Ronald Angelo Johnson, Associate Professor and the Ralph and Bessie Mae Lynn Chair of History, Baylor University
Mutual Entanglements: Transracial Ties between Haitians and Revolutionary Americans
Janell B. Pryor, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Howard University, and Assistant Professor of Visual Culture, Bowie State University
“An Artist of Uncommon Ability”: David Bustill Bowser’s Artistic Production in Philadelphia, 1850–1900
Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History
Shana Klein, Associate Professor, School of Art, Kent State University
Spoiled Milk: The Politics of Race and Motherhood in Victorian American Art
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Jordan Alexander Stein, Professor, Department of English, Fordham University
Haiti and Other Problems in the History of the Book
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Grant E. Stanton, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
The Language of Liberty: Massachusetts and the Problem of Antislavery in the American Revolution
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Lisa Forman Cody, Associate Professor, Department of History, Claremont McKenna College
How Abortion Became an American Obsession
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Katie Sagal, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Cornell College
Transatlantic Specimens: Women and Marine Ecology of the Eighteenth Century
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture
Alice Crossley, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Lincoln
Nineteenth-Century Valentines: Materiality, Affect and Identity
Anthony N.B. and Beatrice Garvan Fellow in American Material Culture
Emily J. Whitted, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Darned, Patched and Mended: Repairing Textiles in Eighteenth-Century America
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Adam Lee Cilli, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Racial Policing and Criminal Justice Reform during the Great Migration
Al Coppola, Associate Professor, Department of English, John Jay College, CUNY
Enlightenment Visibilities
Leo J. Garofalo, Professor, Department of History, Connecticut College
Afro-Andeans in Cuzco and a Black Pacific: Afro-Peruvian Life in the Highlands and as Sailors & Shipbuilders on Spanish American & Transpacific Coasts
Taylor Hare, PhD Candidate, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University
Blindness and Book Making in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of N. B. Kneass Jr.
Susan Kern, Director and Associate Professor, Historic Preservation; School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; University of Maryland
History and the Age of Restoration: Reframing the American Past and Present
Jung-Hwa Kim, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The Design and Use of the Wanamaker’s Department Store Rooftop in Philadelphia, 1910 to the 1920s
Edú Trota Levati, PhD Candidate in History, Universidade de São Paulo
US-Brazil Relations in the First Quarter of the Nineteenth Century
Ali Printz, PhD Candidate, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
Appalachian Regionalism: Reimagining Modernism on the Periphery of American Art
Melissa Geisler Trafton, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts, College of the Holy Cross
Transformation of Scale and Habits: Animals on Printed Ephemera in the Age of Darwin
Michael Zakim, Professor, Department of History, Tel Aviv University
The Camera’s I
Barra Foundation International Research Fellow in American History and Culture
Christine Mertens, PhD Candidate, Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, Leiden University
Freedom, Race, and Mobility in Early America, 1780s–1830s
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Moyra Williams Eaton, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University
Constructing a ‘Comfortable Harbour’: The United States Naval Asylum and the Systemization of Veterans’ Care in the Nineteenth Century
Rachael Scarborough King, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Visualizing Transnational Quaker Networks
Richardson Dilworth Fellow
Geneva Smith, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University, and JD Candidate, Yale Law School
Slave Courts and Compensation in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic
Esther Ann McFarland Fellow
Jennifer Putzi, Professor, Department of English and Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Program, The College of William & Mary
Nineteenth-Century African American Women’s Diaries
Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows
Srimayee Basu McCall, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of California, Irvine
The Anti-Robinsonade: Slaves, Criminals and Servants in the Early Anglophone Atlantic
Zachary Brown, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Yale University
The Law of Nations and the Constitution in Early National America, 1787–1857
Bronwen Everill, Director, Centre of African Studies, and Fellow in History, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge
They Cry Liberty: Imperial Crisis and Revolution in the African Atlantic
Eric Herschthal, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Utah
Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellow
Michelle Lee, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University
Death Becomes Her: Asiatic Femininity and the Aesthetics of Disfigurement
Albert M. Greenfield Short-Term Fellow
Elizabeth Bennett, PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, UCLA
Bio/Political Ecologies and Legal Geographies of Surface Coal Mine Reclamation in Pennsylvania, 1945–2021
Indian Rights Association Fellow
Casey Price, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Given to This Land: Mapping Settler Colonialism in Kituwah, 1682–1810
2022–2023
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Chip Badley, Lecturer, Department of English, University of California, Davis
Kangaroos among the Beauty: Painting and Queer Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Sharon Block, Professor, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Revisiting Rape, Remaking History
Adam Thomas, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Western Carolina University
An Unparalleled Time: The 1831 Emancipation Wars in Historical Memory
NEH Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Fellow in African American History
April Logan, Associate Professor, Department of English, Salisbury University
Dark Comedy: Satire and Cultural Alienation in African American Literature
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow
Camille Kaszubowski, independent scholar, Newark, Delaware
“Left in Distress”: Women on Their Own in Revolutionary Pennsylvania
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow
Christopher Baldwin, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Toronto
An Empire of Plunder: Slavery and the Prize Economy in the British Caribbean, 1739–1763
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellow
Halle-Mackenzie Ashby, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
Bound by the Womb: Reproduction, Kinship and Freedom in Barbados
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Isabel Bradley, PhD Candidate, Department of Romance Studies, Duke University
Mapping Manioc: Grounded Relations in the Caribbean
Yiyun Huang, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Medicinal Tea: Global Cultural Transfer and a Vast Early America
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Michael Gagnon, Professor, Department of History, Georgia Gwinnett College
Augustin Smith Clayton and the House Select Committee Investigating the US Bank in 1832
Sophie Hess, PhD Candidate, American History, University of Maryland
Hollow Ground: Industry, Ecology, and Climate Change in the Floodplains of Early Maryland
James Craufurd Robertson, Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Mona
The Western Design and the Establishment of English Jamaica, 1654–1662
Francis Russo, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Utopian Dreams at the End of Early America: 1663–1860
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows
Kathryn Angelica, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Connecticut
A Nexus of 19th C Activism: The Lifelong Struggle of Eight Women Reformers
Wendy Raphael Roberts, Associate Professor, Department of English, University at Albany, SUNY
Phillis Wheatley Peters’ Poetic Worlds
Mikala Stokes, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University
Born of ‘Hardship, Trial, and Suffering:’ Black Men, Family, and Activism, 1820–1861
Ben Wright, Associate Professor, Department of History, The University of Texas at Dallas
Empires of Souls: The United States, Britain, and West African Colonization
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Eric Trautman-Mosher, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of New Hampshire
Purchasing Power: Indigenous Consumers, Political Economy, and Nation-Building in a Revolutionary Era, 1740s–1790s
Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History
Jennifer W. Reiss, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Jacob Myers, PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Noxious Foes: Figuring Vermin in the Natural Histories of the British Caribbean
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Kadin Henningsen, PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of Illinois
Biblionormativity and Trans* Capacity: Gender, Race, and the Material Book in Nineteenth Century America, 1840–1910
Anthony N.B. and Beatrice Garvan Fellow in American Material Culture
Courtney Wilder, independent scholar, Newark, New Jersey
Early National American Textiles in a New Media Landscape: The Fisher Dye Books
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Ben Bascom, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Ball State University
Eccentric Queers: Celebrity and Debility in Nineteenth-Century America
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture
Phillippa Pitts, PhD Candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Boston University
Pharmacoepic Dreams: Art in America’s “Medical Democracy,” 1800–1860
Program in Visual Culture Terra Foundation Fellows in American Popular Graphic Arts
Andrea Krupp, artist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coal Above Ground
Alexis Monroe, PhD Candidate, History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
The Crisis of the 1850s: Western American Land and Landscape, 1848–1861
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Chase Castle, PhD Candidate, Department of Music, University of Pennsylvania
The Gospel in Black and White: Race and Power in American Evangelical Hymnody, 1840–1900
Andrew Donnelly, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi
Confederate Sympathies: The Civil War, Reunion, and the History of Homosexuality, 1850–1915
Frances O’Shaughnessy, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Washington
Black Revolution on the Sea Islands: Empire, Property, and the Emancipation of Humanity
Maria Ryan, Assistant Professor, College of Music, Florida State University
Post Office Patronesses: Singing Race, Gender, and Class in Philadelphia
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Christine Y. Ferdinand, Emeritus Fellow Librarian, Magdalen College
Biography of James Rivington (1724–1802)
Marjorie Perlman Lorch, Professor of Neurolinguistics, Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck, University of London
Invisible Links Between Thought and Voice in the Long 19th Century
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellow
Emily Anne Yankowitz, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Yale University
Documenting Citizens: How Early Americans Understood the Concept of Citizenship, 1776–1840
Esther Ann McFarland Fellow
Carrie Hagen, writer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Vigilance Committee
Richardson Dilworth Fellow
Kat G. Poje, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Killing with Kindness: The History of the American Humane Movement and Animal Euthanasia, 19th–21st Centuries
Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows
Alexander Clayton, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Michigan
The Living Animal: Biopower and Empire in the Atlantic Menagerie, 1760–1890
Laura Earls, PhD Candidate, History of American Civilization Program, University of Delaware
Mundane Monstrosities: Gender, Reproduction, and Embodiment in the British Atlantic World, 1585–1815
Carolyn Eastman, Professor, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University
A Plague in New York City: How the City Confronted—and Survived—the Yellow Fever Epidemic in the Founding Era
Amanda Klug, PhD student, Department of History, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Memories of the Constitutional Convention, 1787–1861
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows
Sean A. Curtice, PhD Candidate, Music Theory and Musicology, Freiburg Hochschule für Musik
Phil. Trajetta and the American Conservatorio: Solfeggio and Partimento in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Lea C. Stephenson, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Delaware
“Wonderful Things”: Egyptomania, Empire, and the Senses, 1870–1922
Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History
Lauren Drapala, PhD Candidate, History of Decorative Arts, Material Culture and Design History, Bard Graduate Center
Recovering the Decorative in American Modernisms: The Wanamaker’s Art Gallery and the Promotion of Artist-Decorated Interiors in 1920s New York City
Indian Rights Association Fellow
Honor Sachs, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado Boulder
Freedom by a Judgment: The Legal History of an Afro-Indian Family
2021–2022
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Corinne Field, Associate Professor, Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality, University of Virginia
Grand Old Women: How Abolitionists and Feminists Transformed Aging in America
Eric D. Lamore, Professor, Department of English, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
“Unstable as [W]ater:” Early Black Atlantic Literature and Textual Fluidity
Laura Ping, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History, Pace University
Beyond Bloomers: Fashioning Change in Nineteenth-Century Dress
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows
Franklin Sammons, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Yazoo’s Settlement: Finance, Law, and Dispossession in the Southeastern Borderlands, 1789–1820
Hannah Knox Tucker, Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School
Masters of the Market: Ship Captaincy in the British Atlantic
Joseph Wallace, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University (fellowship deferred due to COVID–19 pandemic)
“The Architects of their Fortunes”: Financial Revolutions on Baltimore’s Market Street, 1760s–1840s
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows
Chad Holmes, PhD Candidate, Department of History, West Virginia University
Sheriffs, Capitalism, and Civil Society in the Early Republic
Cody Nager, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Graduate Center, CUNY
From Different Quarters: Regulating Migration and Naturalization in the Early American Republic, 1783–1815
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Jonah Estess, PhD Candidate, Department of History, American University
The Sense of Money: People, Politics, and the Making of Moral Coinage and Paper Money, 1775–1896
Paul Wolff Mitchell, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Anthropological Skull Collections, 1790–1860: Global History, Politics, and Afterlives of Cranial Race Science
Francis Johnson Innovation Fellows
Uchenna Ngwe, Royal Academy of Music / Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London
The African Diaspora in British Classical Music: Francis Johnson in Victorian London
Brent White, Director of Jazz Orchestra, Drexel University
The Double Consciousness of Johnson’s Compositions
Short-Term Fellows
Short-Term awards paused for 2021–2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020–2021
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Marisa Fuentes, Associate Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University
Refuse Bodies, Disposable Lives: A History of the Human and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Brooke Newman, Associate Professor, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University
Subjects of the Crown: Slavery, Emancipation, and the British Monarchy, 1660–1860
Jordan Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Widener University
The Invention of Rum
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellow
April Logan, Associate Professor, Department of English, Salisbury University
Staging Mother Tongues: Black Women Writers’ Politics of Performance, 1845–1900s
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows
Kristen Beales, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University
Spirited Exchanges: The Religion of the Marketplace in Early America
Ann Daly, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Brown University
Minting America: Money, Value, and the Federal State, 1784–1858
Carrie Glenn, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Niagara University
The Revolutionary Atlantic of Elizabeth Beauveau and Marie Rose Poumaroux: Commerce, Vulnerability, and the U.S. in the French Atlantic, 1780–1834
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellow
Umniya Najaer, PhD Candidate, Modern Thought & Literature, Stanford University
Knotted Maternity, Infanticide and the Infant’s Corpse: Imagining Enslaved Women’s Reproductive Lives
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellow
Emily Gowen, PhD Candidate, Department of English, Boston University
On the Margins: Steady Sellers and the Problem of Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Keith Pluymers, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Illinois State University
Water, Steam, and Philadelphia’s Eighteenth-Century Anthropocene
Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History
Kim Nielsen, Professor, Department of History, University of Toledo
Dorothea Dix, Psychiatric Asylums, and the Institutionalization of Modern Insanity
Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch / American Trust for the British Library / Library Company Fellow
Rachel Burke, PhD Candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
A Victorian Fugitive: Race, Spectacle, and Landscape in Henry ‘Box’ Brown’s “Mirror of Slavery”
Anthony N.B. and Beatrice Garvan Fellow in American Material Culture
Joseph Larnerd, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Drexel University
Undercut: Cut Glass in Working-Class Life during the Gilded Age
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Meg Roberts, PhD Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Domestic Caregiving in the American Revolution
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Holly Gruntner, PhD Candidate, Department of History, The College of William & Mary
“some people of skil and curiosity”: Knowledge and Early American Kitchen Gardens, 1650–1830
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows
Colin Anderson, PhD Candidate, Department of American Studies, George Washington University
The Racial and Spatial Politics of 19th-Century American Sheet Music and Song Sheets, 1840–1900
Amanda McGee, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Arkansas
Abolition’s Informal Gatekeepers: The Role of County Courts in the Making of Pennsylvania’s ‘Free’ Border
Cynthia Patterson, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of South Florida
Yours for God, The Race and the ‘Review’: Women Contributors to the A.M.E. Church Review 1884–1924
Tiffany Player, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Africana Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
‘What Are We Going to Do for Ourselves?’: African American Women and the Politics of Slavery from the Antebellum Era to the Great Depression
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Emily Casey, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Saint Mary’s College of Maryland
Hydrographic Vision: Imagining the Sea and British America, 1750–1800
Sean Griffin, independent scholar
The Root and the Branch: Working-Class Radicalism and Antislavery, 1790–1860
Grant Kleiser, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
Exchanging Empires: Free Ports, Reform, and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1750–1781
Teanu Reid, PhD Candidate, Department of History and African American Studies, Yale University
Hidden Economies and Finances in the Early Anglo-Atlantic World
Matteo Rossi, PhD Candidate, Global History of Empires, Università degli Studi di Torino
National Economy and Empire: Henry Carey and the Building of the Post-Colonial State
Agnès Trouillet, Associate Professor, Department of History, Paris VII Diderot
Penn’s Settlement Design—Spatial Units, Surveying, and Political Power in Colonial Pennsylvania
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Sophie Jones, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Liverpool
‘Useful and Ornamental’: The Socio-Cultural Importance of Early American Subscription Libraries
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture
Siobhan Angus, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of the History of Art, Yale University
Photography in Deep-Time: Materiality, Resource Extraction, and Climate Change
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Luis Arrioja, Professor, Department of History, El Colegio de Michoacán
Climate, Environmental Changes and Disasters in North and Central America (1750–1840) (fellowship declined due to COVID-19 pandemic)
Michael Baysa, PhD Candidate, Department of Religion, Princeton University
Boiling Puddings: Conflicts around Religious Print during the Revolutionary Period
Katie Bondy, PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Strange Blooms: Thinking Botanically in Nineteenth-Century America
Elizabeth Bouldin, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Florida Gulf Coast University
Children of the Light: Quaker Women Educators in the Age of Reason
Nicholas DiPucchio, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Saint Louis University
American Expansions: Imperial Frustrations and the Evolution of Manifest Destiny, 1775–1845
John Garcia, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Florida State University
Graphic Madness: The Illustrated Nineteenth-Century Diary of Charles A. Beach (fellowship declined due to COVID-19 pandemic)
Nikhil Goyal, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
Surplus Youth in Philadelphia: Market-Based School Reform and the Carceral Logics of the City
Catherine Holochwost, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, La Salle University
(De)Colonial Revival: Justice and Beauty in Germantown and Beyond (fellowship declined due to COVID-19 pandemic)
Alex Leslie, PhD Candidate, Department of English, Rutgers University
Reading Regions: Cultural Geography and American Literature, 1865–1925
Megan Piorko, Allington Postdoctoral Fellow, Science History Institute
Alchemy & Medicine in the New World: American Reception and Reinvention of Seventeenth-Century Texts
Jacinda Tran, PhD Candidate, American Studies, Yale University
Landscapes of Crisis and Care: Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement and Racialization in Philadelphia
Ami Yoon, PhD Candidate, Department of English, Columbia University
Casual Things: Poetry, Natural History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century America
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Celeste-Marie Bernier, Professor, English Literature, University of Edinburgh
Sacrifice is Survival: Black Families Fight for Freedom in the USA and Canada (1732–1936)
Matthew Roberts, Associate Professor, Department of History, Sheffield Hallam University
William Cobbett’s America: Emotion, Politics and Print Culture in the Atlantic World, 1792–1819
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Charlene Boyer Lewis, Professor, Department of History, Kalamazoo College
The Most Dangerous Loyalist Woman: Peggy Shippen Arnold and Revolutionary America
Cody Nager, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Graduate Center, City University of New York
From Different Quarters: Regulating Migration and Naturalization in the Early American Republic, 1783–1815
Richardson Dilworth Fellow
Heather Walser, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University
Consistent with the Public Good: Conceptualizations of Amnesty, Peace, and Federal Power
Esther Ann McFarland Fellow
Dwain Coleman, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Iowa
Black Civil War Veterans and the Fight for Community in the Midwest
Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows
Eric Becerra, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Parallel Powers: Nations and Borders in the Late Eighteenth-Century Southeastern Borderlands (fellowship declined due to COVID-19 pandemic)
Jamie Bolker, Assistant Professor, Department of English, MacMurray College
Lost and Found: Wayfinding in Early America
Kellen Heniford, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
Slavery is Slavery: Early American Mythmaking and the Invention of the Free State
J.T. Jamieson, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
A Mere Change of Location: Migration and Reform in Antebellum America
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Shannon Devlin, PhD Candidate, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen’s University, Belfast
Irish-American Sibling Migration Networks in the Long Nineteenth Century
Hong Deng Gao, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
Health and Social Activism in American Chinatowns, 1949–1999
Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History
Charlotte Rosen, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University
Carceral Crisis: The Challenge of Prison Overcrowding and the Rise of Mass Incarceration, 1970–2000
Indian Rights Association Fellow
Daniel Mandell, Professor, Department of History, Truman State University
Indigenous Sovereignty and Rights
2019–2020
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Michael D’Alessandro, Department of English, Duke University
Plagues, Players, Playhouses: A History of Philadelphia Theatre, 1793–1865
Marie Stango, Department of History, Idaho State University
Vine and Palm Tree: Afterlives of American Slavery in Liberia
Nathaniel Windon, Department of English, Loyola University Maryland
Superannuated: Race and the Making of Old Age in Nineteenth-Century America
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellow
Tara Bynum, Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies Department, Hampshire College
Reading Pleasures
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow
Julien Mauduit, Department of History, McMaster University
Money in North American Thought: The Democracy-Capitalism Relation (1770s–1840s)
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellow
Brandi Waters, PhD Candidate in History and African American History, Yale University
Debating ‘defects’: Slavery, Disability, and Legal Medicine in Late Colonial Caribbean Colombia
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows
Kyle Repella, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
Human Capital: Strategies of Slaving in the Greater Delaware Valley, 1620–1760
Nicole Schroeder, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Incurable Defects: Medical Practice, Subsidized Welfare, and the Disabled Body in Philadelphia, 1760–1840
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Jessie Vander Heide, PhD Candidate in History, Lehigh University
Schooling Intimacy: Lessons in Love, Romance, and Sexuality at American Female Academies, 1780–1870
Cory Young, PhD Candidate in History, Georgetown University
For Life or Otherwise: Abolition and Slavery in South Central Pennsylvania
Elisabeth Yang, PhD Candidate in Childhood Studies, Rutgers University
Producing Moral Agents: Infant Personhood in Medical and Educational Discourse, 1811–1920
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows
Faith Barrett, Department of English, Duquesne University
Let Music Rise from Every Tongue: Reading and Writing Poetry in Antebellum African American Communities
Bianca Dang, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
“This country is exceedingly fertile”: Women’s Landholding, Political Contestations, and Haitian and African American Visions of Rural Autonomy, 1818–1868
Shennette Garrett-Scott, Department of History, University of Mississippi
Domesticating Racial Capitalism: Freedwomen and Industrial Sewing Schools, 1863–1872
Susan Goodier, Department of History, SUNY Oneonta
The St. Thomas Sanitary Committee Fair of 1864 and Louisa Jacobs
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Patrick T. Barker, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Slavery and Its Shadow, Race, Labor, and Environment in the Transformation of the Southern Caribbean, 1776–1876
Lance Boos, PhD Candidate in History, Stony Brook University
Print and Performance: The Development of a British Atlantic Musical Marketplace in the Eighteenth Century
Andy Cabot, PhD Candidate in Anglophone Studies, Paris Diderot University
Slavery, Empires and Diplomacy: Britain, France and the United States, c.1794–c.1825
Whitney Martinko, Department of History, Villanova University
The Corporate Origins of Cultural Property in the Early United States
Laura Michel, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University – New Brunswick
Benevolent Republicans: Philanthropy, Identity, and Foreign Relations in the Early United States
Stephen Shapiro, Department of English, University of Warwick
Redefining Liberalism: Early National Transformations of Political Economy, Imperial Geography, and the Evangelical Front
Simon Sun, PhD Candidate in American Studies, Harvard University
Thomas Jefferson’s Hau Kiou Choaan: China and Early America (1497–1784)
Evelyn Strope, PhD Candidate in History, University of Cambridge
‘Voting’ Consumers and Cultures of Consumer Activism, 1775–1815
Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center / Library Company of Philadelphia Fellow in the History of Women and Medicine
Xiao Li, PhD Candidate in History, Southern Illinois University
Yamei Kin (1864–1934): A New Woman of China and America
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Diego Pirillo, Department of Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
The Atlantic Republic of Letters: Isaac Norris’s Library and Learned Culture in Early America
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Eric Lamore, Department of English, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Abigail Field Mott’s 1829 Abridged Edition of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative: A Critical Edition
Anthony N.B. and Beatrice Garvan Fellow in American Material Culture
Madeline Zehnder, PhD Candidate in English, University of Virginia
Pocket-Sized Nation: Cultures of Portability in America, 1790–1840
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Christopher Baldwin, PhD Candidate in History, University of Toronto
An Empire of Plunder: Slavery and the Prize Economy in the British Caribbean, 1739–1763
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Jessica Linker, Visiting Assistant Professor (History) at Haverford College and Visiting Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College (Emily Balch Seminar Program)
The Fruits of Their Labor: The Work of Early American Scientific Women, 1750–1860
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture
Rebecca Szantyr, PhD Candidate in the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University
Nicolino Calyo: A Wider View of American Art, 1833–1835
Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History
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)
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Abena Boakyewa-Ansah, PhD Candidate in History, Vanderbilt University
The Currency of Freedom: Black Women and the Making of Freedom During the American Civil War
Caroline Gillaspie, PhD Candidate in Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
‘Delicious Libations’: Representing the Nineteenth-Century Brazil-U.S. Coffee Trade
Freya Gowrley, History of Art Department, University of Edinburgh
Collage before Modernism: Art and Identity in Britain and North America, 1680–1912
Stephen Hausmann, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh
Inventing Indian Country: Race and Environment in the Black Hills, 1851–1981
Carolyn Levy, PhD Candidate in History and Women’s Studies, the Pennsylvania State University
Prisoners and Their Matrons: Incarceration and Reform in the United States
Jessica Linker, Visiting Assistant Professor (History) at Haverford College and Visiting Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College (Emily Balch Seminar Program)
The Fruits of Their Labor: The Work of Early American Scientific Women, 1750–1860
Paul Wolff Mitchell, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
American Golgotha: Objectivity, Abolition, and Ethical Ambivalence in Cranial Race Science, 1790–1860
Dina Murokh, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Southern California
“A Sort of Picture Gallery”: The Visual Culture of Antebellum America
Mitchell Oxford, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
The French Revolution and the Making of an American Catholicism (fellowship declined due to COVID-19 pandemic)
Alan Rauch, Department of English, UNC Charlotte
The Making of British Private Subscription Libraries
Olaf Recktenwald, Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Universidad Científica del Perú
The Pop-Up Diagram: Thomas Malton’s A Compleat Treatise on Perspective (fellowship declined due to COVID-19 pandemic)
Dorin Smith, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
Fictional Brains: Reflecting on the Neural Subject in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel
Claire Urbanski, PhD Candidate in Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Genocidal Intimacies: Grave Theft and Spiritual Afterlife in the Making of United States Settler Empire
Beth Uzwiak, Ethnologica
Between River, Rail and Row Home: Public Health and the Industrial Development of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers from 1840 to 1940
Charnan Williams, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The History of Slavery, Freedom, and Labor in California from Mexican Independence to the U.S. Civil War, 1821–1865
Christine Yao, Department of English Language and Literature, University College London
Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Adam Jortner, Department of History, Auburn University
The Patriot Torah: American Judaism and Religious Freedom in the Age of Revolution
Lauren Michalak, PhD Candidate in History, University of Maryland, College Park
“The Mobs All Cryd Peace with America”: The Gordon Riots and Revolution in England and America
Barra Foundation International Research Fellow in American History and Culture
Cameron Seglias, PhD Candidate in Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
The Published Self and the Emergence of an Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Public Sphere
Esther Ann McFarland Fellow
Jonathan Schroeder, Department of English, University of Warwick
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery
Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows
Michael Accinno, Department of Music, University of California, Riverside
Toward a History of Tactile Notation: Blindness, Music, and Print Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
Adam Laats, Department of Teaching, Binghamton University
The System: Joseph Lancaster and the Roots of America’s Public Schools, 1800–1838
Elise Leal, Department of History, Whitworth University
Reforming Manners, Redeeming Souls: Sunday Schools, Childhood, and the Formation of Nineteenth-Century American Religious Culture
Jennifer E. Morgan, Department of History, Emory University
American Concubines: Gender, Race, Law, and Power in the British American and U.S. South
Richardson Dilworth Fellow
Jess Libow, Department of English, Emory University
Political Movement: Ability, Sex, and Reform in the Nineteenth Century U.S
2018–2019
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Brooke Belisle, Department of Art, Stony Brook University
The Bigger Picture: A History and Theory of Expanded Views
Joyce Chaplin, Department of History, Harvard University
The Franklin Stove: Heat and Life in the Little Ice Age
Scott Heerman, Department of History, University of Miami
Carried Back: Black Kidnapping and State Formation in the Age of Emancipation
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellow
Jessica Millward, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Broken Black Bodies: African American Women and Domestic Violence in the Post-Civil War South
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows
Brett Goodin, Smithsonian Institution
Conflict, Commerce and Self-Discovery: American Sailors and the Asia-Pacific, 1784–1914
Niccolo Valmori, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Information, Risks and Opportunities: The Philadelphia Merchant Communities in the Age of Revolution, 1783–1815
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellow
Denise Burgher, PhD Candidate in English Literature, University of Delaware
Redeeming the Banished Spirit: Naming the Theological Praxis in Nineteenth-Century Black Women’s Writing
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows
Sean Gallagher, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
“Working the Master’s Revolution”: Enslaved Life and Labor in the Revolutionary South
Camille Kaszubowski, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
“Left in Distress”: Women on Their Own in Revolutionary Pennsylvania
Laura Michel, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Benevolent Republicans: Philanthropy, Identity, and Foreign Relations in the Early United States
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellow
Cynthia Smith, PhD Candidate in English, Miami University
Sentimental Sailors: Rescue and Conversion in Antebellum U.S. Literature
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows
Alisha Knight, Department of English, Washington College
Black Books Matter: African American Book Publishing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Arlisha Norwood, PhD Candidate in History, Howard University
“To Never Truck with No Man”: Single African American Women in the Post-Emancipation Era
Maria Ryan, PhD Candidate in Music, University of Pennsylvania
Hearing Power, Sounding Freedom: Black Practices of Listening, Music-Making, and Ear-Training in the British Colonial Caribbean, 1807–1860
Kay Wright Lewis, Department of History, Howard University
The Children of Africa Have Been Called
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Ann Daly, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
Hard Money: The Making of a Specie Currency, 1828–1846
Bruce Spadaccini, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
“To the best of your knowledge and ability”: North American Ship Captains, Commerce, and the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1763–1812
Hannah Knox Tucker, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Masters of the Market: Mercantile Ship Captaincy in the Colonial British Atlantic, 1607–1774
Laurie Wood, Department of History, Florida State University
Risks & Realities: Death and Credit in the French Tropics
Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center / Library Company of Philadelphia Fellow in the History of Women and Medicine
Jessica Dandona, Department of Liberal Arts, Minneapolis College of Art & Design
The Transparent Woman: Medical Visualities in Fin-de-Siècle Europe and the United States, 1890–1900
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Hannah Anderson, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
Lived Botany: Households, Ecological Adaptation and the Origins of Settler Colonialism in Early British North America
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Lindsay Van Tine, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
The Invention of Americana: New World Inscription and the Archive of Hemispheric Empire
Anthony N.B. and Beatrice Garvan Fellow in American Material Culture
Dawn Odell, Department of Art, Lewis & Clark College
Chinese Art in the Early United States
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Zach Bates, PhD Candidate in History, University of Calgary
Crown and Constitution: Scottish Colonial Administrators and the Theory and Practice of Empire in the Atlantic World, 1710–1768
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Tim Cassedy, Department of English, Southern Methodist University
Printing Madness: The Print Culture of Mental Illness from Phrenology to Inkblots
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture
Julia Grummitt, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
The Great National Work: Visualizing Territory and Race in 19th-Century North America
Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History
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
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Idolina Hernandez, PhD Candidate in History, Saint Louis University
Exiled Abroad: Refugees in the Making of Early America
Kelsey Malone, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Missouri
Sisterhood as Strategy: The Collaborations of American Women Artists in the Gilded Age
Christina Michelon, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Minnesota
Printcraft: Making with Mass Images in Nineteenth-Century America
Rachel Miller, PhD Candidate in American Culture, University of Michigan
Capital Entertainment: Stage Work and the Origins of the Creative Economy, 1830–1920
Clare Mullaney, PhD Candidate in English, University of Pennsylvania
American Imprints: Disability and the Material Text, 1858–1932
Diego Pirillo, Department of Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Renaissance Books in Early America: James Logan’s Italian Library
Jared Richman, Department of English, Colorado College
“A Free Speech”: Elocution, Disability, and Identity in Early America
Jaclyn Schultz, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Learning the Values of a Dollar: Childhood and Cultures of Economy in the US, 1825–1900
Samantha Sommers, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Los Angeles
Reading in Books: Theories of Reading from Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Bartholomew Sparrow, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Unequal at the Founding
Amanda Stuckey, English and Humanities Department, York College of Pennsylvania
Tactile Literacy: Cultures of Printing and Reprinting and Nineteenth-Century Embossed Text
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Kirsten Fischer, Department of History, University of Minnesota
American Infidel: Elihu Palmer’s Visionary Religion in the Early Republic
Nicole Mahoney, PhD Candidate in American History, University of Maryland, College Park
Liberty, Gentility, and Dangerous Liaisons: French Culture and Polite Society in Early National America, 1770–1825
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Naomi Billingsley, The John Rylands Research Institute
Benjamin West, Biblical Illustration, and the Macklin Bible
Russell Palmer, Francke Foundations, Halle
Cheap ‘n’ Cheerful Paper Covers: An Empirical Study of Paste Papers (Kleisterpapiere) held at the Library Company of Philadelphia
Esther Ann McFarland Fellow
Meagan Wierda, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
To Count and Be Counted: Quantifying Race During the Antebellum Era
Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows
Katherine Bondy, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Berkeley
Freedom Flora: Botanical Details in Nineteenth-Century American Friendship Albums
Amy Huang, PhD Candidate in Theatre Arts & Performance Studies, Brown University
Spectacular Secrecy: Privacy, Race and Nineteenth-Century Theatre
Eva McGraw, PhD Candidate in Art History, City University of New York
Xanthus Smith: Marine Painting and Nationhood
Christy Pottroff, Department of English, Merrimack College
Citizen Technologies: The U.S. Post Office and the Transformation of Early American Literature
Richardson Dilworth Fellow
Donald Johnson, Department of History, North Dakota State University
Thirteen Clocks: Popular Statecraft and the Coming of American Independence
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Sarah Bane, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Join the Club: Regional Print Clubs in the United States during the Interwar Period
Cory Wells, PhD Candidate in Transatlantic History, University of Texas in Arlington
Immigrant Nativists: Irish Protestants and Anti-Catholicism in the Atlantic World
Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History
Traci Parker, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights: Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement
2017–2018
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Matthew Kruer, Department of History, University of Oklahoma
The Time of Anarchy: Colonial Rebellions and the Wars of the Susquehannocks, 1675–1685
Michael A. Verney, Department of History, University of New Hampshire
“A Great and Rising Nation”: American Naval Exploration and the Forging of a Global Maritime Empire, 1815–1860
Nazera Sadiq Wright, Department of History, University of Kentucky
African American Women Writers and Research Libraries
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellows
Cheryl Hicks, Department of History, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Black Enchantress: Hannah Elias, Interracial Sex, Murder, and Civil Rights in Jim Crow New York
Nazera Sadiq Wright, Department of History, University of Kentucky
African American Women Writers and Research Libraries
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows
John Garcia, Division of Humanities, Boston University
The Early American Bookseller: A Network History
Anne Verplanck, American Studies, Penn State Harrisburg
The Business of Art: Transforming the Graphic Arts in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow
Carrie Glenn, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
The Revolutionary Atlantic of Elizabeth Beauveau and John Joseph Borie: Commerce, Vulnerability, and U.S. Connections with the French Atlantic, 1780–1820
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Sarah Naramore, PhD Candidate in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame
Correspondence Networks and the Construction of American Medicine
Jordan Wingate, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Los Angeles
The Transnational Origins of the American Self
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows
Lucien Holness, PhD Candidate in History, University of Maryland, College Park
Between North and South, East and West: The Antislavery Movement in Southwestern Pennsylvania
Lacey Hunter, Department of History, Drew University
Nineteenth Century African American Women Intellectuals and the American Jeremiad
Myrna Sheldon, Department of Classics and World Religions, Ohio University
The Ontology of a Mixed-Race Woman
Wendy Wilson Falls, Department of Africana Studies, Lafayette College
Indian Ocean Maritime Labor, Black Sailors, and American Merchants: The Port of Philadelphia
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Marcel Deperne, PhD Candidate in History, University of La Rochelle
Atlantic Networks in the Ohio River Valley: French Merchants from Pittsburgh (PA) to Henderson (KY) 1789–1848
Alexandra Garrett, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
The Forgotten Female Roots of America’s Economic Power: Feme Sole Entrepreneurs of the Early Republic, 1774–1828
Sean Harvey, Department of History, The College of William & Mary
Albert Gallatin, the Early Republic, and the Atlantic World
Kathleen Hilliard, Department of History, Iowa State University
Bonds Burst Asunder: The Revolutionary Politics of Getting By in Civil War and Emancipation, 1860–1867
Camille Kaszubowski, PhD Candidate in American History, University of Delaware
“Left in Distress”: Women on Their Own in Revolutionary Pennsylvania
Robert Richard, Department of History, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Panic and Power: The First Great Depression in North Carolina, 1815–1833
Amy Watson, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Patriot Empire: The Rise of Imperial Party Politics in the British Atlantic, 1716–1748
Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center / Library Company of Philadelphia Fellow in the History of Women and Medicine
Lindsey Grubbs, PhD Candidate in English, Emory University
Fictional Illnesses: The Poetics of Diagnosis in America, 1785–1890
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Heather Morrison, Department of History, SUNY New Paltz
Philadelphia and the Holy Roman Emperor’s Plant Collectors
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Steven Bullock, Humanities & Arts Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Weems’s Washington: A Biography of Parson Weems’s Life of George Washington
Anthony N.B. and Beatrice Garvan Fellow in American Material Culture
Steffi Dippold, Department of English, Kansas State University
Plain as in Primitive: The Figure of the Native in Early America
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Ross Nedervelt, PhD Candidate in History, Florida International University
The Border-seas of a New British Empire: The British Atlantic Islands in the Age of the American Revolution
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Rebecca Rosen, PhD Candidate in English, Princeton University
Making the Body Speak: Anatomy, Autopsy and Testimony in Early America, 1639–1790
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture
Allison Stagg, Department of American Art, Freie Universität Berlin
The Market for Caricature Prints in Philadelphia, 1790–1830
Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History
Charlene Boyer Lewis, Department of History, Kalamazoo College
The Traitor’s Wife: Peggy Shippen Arnold and Revolutionary America
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Jeffery Blankenship, Department of Art and Architecture, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Modern Landscapes: Landscape Architecture and Technological Innovation, 1760–1960
Lynn Brooks, Department of Theatre, Dance, & Film, Franklin and Marshall College
Black and Blanc on Stage in Antebellum Philadelphia (1820–1861)
Verdie Culbreath, PhD Candidate in English, Cornell University
Of Able Body and Sound Mind: Dissociative Affects and American Identities in Civil War Literature
Natalia Doan, PhD Candidate in Philosophy, University of Oxford
The 1860 Japanese Embassy and the Opening of American Civilization: “Female Diplomacy” and the Rupturing of American Hierarchies of Power
Erin Downey, Department of Art History, Swarthmore College
Visualizing Knowledge: Athanasius Kircher, Northern European Printmakers, and the Global Jesuit Book Industry
Matthew Gallman, Department of History, University of Florida
Loyal Dissenters, Angry Copperheads, and Violent Resisters
Monica Hahn, PhD Candidate in Art History, Tyler School of Art
Go-Between Portraits and the Imperial Imagination circa 1800
Rhys Jones, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Temporal Claustrophobia at the Continental Congress, 1773–1776
Sandro Jung, Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University
Towards a History of Transatlantic Literary Book Illustration, 1770–1820
Mark Kelley, PhD Candidate in Literature, University of California San Diego
Pirates of Sympathy: Oceanic Inheritances in Antebellum Domestic Fiction and Culture
Kathryn Gin Lum, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
The Heathen World and America’s Humanitarian Impulse
Scott Martin, Department of History, Bowling Green University
The Psychoactive Civil War: Alcohol and Drugs in the American Civil War and Its Aftermath
Laura Miller, Department of English and Philosophy, University of West Georgia
Reading British Science in Early American Libraries
Michele Navakas, Department of English, Miami University of Ohio
Coral in Early American Literature, Science, and Culture
Rose Roberto, PhD Candidate in Typography and Graphic Communication, University of Reading
Democratizing Knowledge: The Lippincott Editions of Chambers’ Encyclopaedia
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Peter Messer, Department of History, Mississippi State University
Feeling Nature: Epistemologies of Natural History in the Early American Republic
Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Department of History, Rutgers University New Brunswick
Illicit Mobility: Vagrancy, Poverty, and Movement in the Early American Republic
Barra Foundation International Research Fellow in American History and Culture
Valérie Capdeville, Department of Literature, Language, Humanities, and Social Science, University of Paris 13
The British Club in the Colonial Empire (1700–1850): Construction, Exportation and Growth of a Model of Urban Sociability
Esther Ann McFarland Fellow
Lewis Eliot, PhD Candidate in History, University of South Carolina
Abolitionism, Enslavement, and the Stateless Atlantic World, 1830–1868
Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows
Jean Franzino, Department of English, Beloit College
Dis-Union: Disability Cultures and the American Civil War
Helen Hunt, Department of English, Tennessee Technological University
Provoking Pleasure: Erotic Dominance and Submission in Early American Fiction
Zachary Isenhower, PhD Candidate in History, Louisiana State University
At the Edge of Humanity: American Indian Legal Identity and the Development of American Citizenship
Spencer Wigmore, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware
Albert Bierstadt and the Speculative Terrain of American Landscape Painting, 1863–1888
Richardson Dilworth Fellow
Shira Lurie, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Politics at the Poles: Liberty Poles and the Popular Struggle for the New Republic
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Samuel King, PhD Candidate in History, University of South Carolina
Exclusive Dining: Immigration and Restaurants during the Era of Chinese Exclusion, 1882–1943
Brianna Nofil, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
Gender, Community Policing, and Crime Control in Late Twentieth-Century America
Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History
Angela Stiefbold, PhD Candidate in History, University of Cincinnati
Rural Character and Rural Economy: Bucks County, PA, 1930–1990
2016–2017
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
William Coleman, Department of the History of Art, Washington University in St. Louis
Painting Houses: The Domestic Landscape of the Hudson River School
Jeffrey Thomas Perry, Department of Social Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University
Protectors of the Peace: Church Tribunals and the Making of American Religious and Civil Authority, 1780–1860
Joseph Rezek, Department of English, Boston University
Early Black Writing and the Politics of Print
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellows
Vanessa Holden, Department of History, Michigan State University
Forming Intimacies: Queer Kinship and Resistance in the Antebellum American Atlantic
Rashauna Johnson, Department of History, Dartmouth College
“A Looking Glass for the World”: Slavery, Immigration, and Overlapping Diasporas in the U.S. South
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows
Michael Blaakman, Department of History, Yale University
Speculation Nation: Land and Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic, 1776–1803
Mara Caden, Department of History, Yale University
Mint Conditions: The Politics and Geography of Money in Britain and its Empire, 1650–1750
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellows
Nakia Parker, PhD Candidate in History, University of Texas, Austin
Trails of Tears and Freedom: Slavery, Migration, and Emancipation in the Southwest Borderlands, 1830–1887
Crystal Webster, PhD Candidate in Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Fugitive Play, Discursive Resistance: The Politics of Black Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows
Jessica Blake, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
A Taste for Africa: Imperial Fantasy and Garment Commerce in Revolutionary-Era New Orleans
Amy Sopcak-Joseph, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
Converting Rags into Gold: “Godey’s Lady’s Book,” Female Consumers, and the Business of Periodical Publishing in the Nineteenth Century
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Nicole Dressler, PhD Candidate in History, Northern Illinois University
The “Vile Commodity”: Morality, Convict Servitude, and the Rise of Humanitarianism in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American World
William Fenton, PhD Candidate in English, Fordham University
Unpeaceable Kingdom: Fighting Quakers, Revolutionary Violence, and the Antebellum Novel
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows
Tara Bynum, Department of English, Rutgers University
Reading Pleasures
James Ford, Department of English, Occidental College
Disheveling the Origins: Impossible Canonicity and African Diasporic Writing
Damon Turner, PhD Candidate in History, Morgan State University
The Reinventing of an Abolitionist: The Transatlantic Study of the United States, Sierra Leone, England, and the Quest for an Omaginary Homeland in Africa through the Eyes of Paul Cuffe, 1776–1817
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Guadalupe Carrasco-Gonzalez, Department of History, University of Cadiz, Spain
Maritime Traffic between Philadelphia and Cadiz (Spain) and the U.S. Merchants in Cádiz during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Dan Du, PhD Candidate in History, University of Georgia
This World in a Teacup: Chinese-American Tea Trade, 1784–1860
Lindsay Keiter, Department of History, The College of William & Mary
Uniting Interests: The Economic Functions of Marriage in America, 1750–1860
Alicia Maggard, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
Steamboats on the Ohio River in the Nineteenth Century
Ernesto Mercado-Montero, PhD Candidate in History, University of Texas at Austin
Saltwater Empire: The Caribs and the Politics of Smuggling, Insurgency, and the Slave Trade in the Circum-Caribbean, 1763–1833
Scott Miller, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
A Merchant’s Republic: Independence, Depression, and the Development of American Capitalism, 1760–1807
Franklin Sammons, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
The Long Life of Yazoo: Land Speculation, Finance, and Dispossession in the Southeastern Borderlands, 1789–1840
Eric Sears, PhD Candidate in History, St. Louis University
The Political Economy of Crisis, 1848–1860: Money and Banking in the Atlantic Origins of America’s Panicked Decade
Liat Spiro, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Drawing Capital: Depiction, Machine Tools, and the Political Economy of Industrial Knowledge, 1824–1914
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Jordan Taylor, PhD Candidate in History, Indiana University
“On the Ocean of News”: North American Information Networks in the Age of Revolution
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Blevin Shelnutt, PhD Candidate in English, New York University
Print Capital: Broadway and the Making of Mass Culture
Anthony N.B. and Beatrice Garvan Fellow in American Material Culture
Jamie Brummitt, PhD Candidate in Religion, Duke University
Protestant Relics: Religion, Objects, and the Art of Mourning in the Early American Republic
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Sean Moore, Department of English, University of New Hampshire
Slavery and Abolition in the Making of the Library Company of Philadelphia
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Miriam Rich, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Monstrous Childbirth: Concepts of Defective Reproduction in American Medicine, 1830–1920
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture
Kathryn Desplanque, PhD Candidate in Art History, Duke University
Papermania: The Popular Printed Image, Mass Customization, and the Nineteenth-Century Consumer
Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History
Magdalena Zapędowska, PhD Candidate in English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Lydia Sigourney, Maria Gowen Brooks, and the Materiality of Antebellum Poetry
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Kristen Beales, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Religion and Commerce in Eighteenth-Century America
Cassandra Berman, PhD Candidate in History, Brandeis University
Motherhood and the Court of Public Opinion: Transgressive Maternity in America, 1768–1868
Andrea Blandford, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
Labor and the Visualization of Knowledge in American Geological Surveys, 1780–1860
Lucas Dietrich, Department of English, Lesley University
J.B. Lippincott Co., Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, and Early Mexican American Literature
Katherine Ibbett, Department of French, University College London
Liquid Empire: Building the French Mississippi
Hans Leaman, Department of History, Yale University
Whitefield among the Pennsylvania Pietists
Katherine Mintie, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of California, Berkeley
Rights and Reproductions? Commercial Photography and Copyright Law in the United States, 1884–1909
Rachel Monroy, Department of History, University of South Carolina
The Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson Digital Edition
Christoph Nitschke, PhD Candidate in History, University of Oxford
America in the World of Crisis: The Panic of 1873 and U.S. Foreign Relations
Johanna Seibert, PhD Candidate in American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Networks of Taste: The Early African Caribbean Press in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
René José Silva, PhD Candidate in History, Florida International University
The Aftermath of Revolution in Pennsylvania
Katherine Thompson, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, San Diego
“Dens of Iniquity”: George Lippard, Seduction, and Competing Visions of Masculine Brotherhood
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Sally Hadden, Department of History, Western Michigan University
The Earliest U.S. Supreme Court
Spencer Wells, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Heaven’s Exiles: Excommunicates and the Reformation of American Christianity, 1750–1830
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Esther Sahle, Department of History, University of Bremen
A Faith of Merchants: Quakers and Institutional Change in the Early Modern Atlantic
Hannah Young, PhD Candidate in History, University College London
The Johnstons: Family, Property, and the Atlantic World
Esther Ann McFarland Fellow
Jonathan Lande, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
Disciplining Freedom: Union Army Slave Rebels and Emancipation in the Civil War Courts-Martial
Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows
Michael Hattem, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
The Past is Prologue: The Origins of American History Culture, 1730–1800
Bethany Mowry, PhD Candidate in History, University of Oklahoma
Relative Distances: Men and Women on the Philadelphia Waterfront, 1770–1830
Marissa C. Rhodes, PhD Candidate in History, University at Buffalo
Body Work: Wet-Nurses and Politics of the Breast in the Revolutionary Atlantic
Amber Shaw, Department of English, Coe College
The Fabric of the Nation: Textiles, Nationhood, and Identity in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Richardson Dilworth Fellow
Mary Freeman, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
Letter Writing and Politics in the Campaign against Slavery in the United States, 1830–1870
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Muiris MacGiollabhuí, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Carrying the Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen, 1795–1830
Raluca-Nicoleta Rogoveanu, Department of Modern Languages and Communication Sciences, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania
Becoming Romanian-American: A Study of the First Romanian Ethnic Organizations in Philadelphia
Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History
Chris Babits, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Texas at Austin
To Cure a Sinful Nation: A Cultural and Intellectual History of Conversion Therapy in the United States from the Second World War to the Present Day
2015–2016
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Christopher J. Bonner, Department of History, University of Maryland
The Price of Citizenship: Black Protest, American Law, and the Shaping of Society, 1827–1868
Laura T. Igoe, Princeton University Art Museum
Art and Ecology in the Early Republic
Christopher N. Phillips, Department of English, Lafayette College
The Hymnal before the Notes: A History of Reading and Practice
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellow
Jessica Marie Johnson, Department of History, Michigan State University
Practicing Freedom: Intimacy, Kinship, and Property in Atlantic New Orleans, 1685–1810
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows
Sara T. Damiano, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
Gendering the Work of Debt Collection: Women, Law, and the Credit Economy in New England, 1730–1790
Lindsay Regele, Department of History, Miami University
Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industrialization
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellow
Michael Dickinson, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Surviving Slavery: Oppression and Social Rebirth in the Urban British Atlantic, 1680–1807
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Julia Dauer, PhD Candidate in English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Natural History and First Person Prose in Early America, 1783–1830
Sonia Hazard, PhD Candidate in Religious Studies, Duke University
The American Tract Society and the Materiality of Print in Antebellum America
Mellon Dissertation Fellows in Early American Literature and Material Texts, Jointly Sponsored by the Library Company and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Daniel Diez Couch, PhD Candidate in English, University of California at Los Angeles
The Imperfect Form: Literary Fragments and Politics in the Early Republic
Andrew Inchiosa, PhD Candidate in English, University of Chicago
Found among the Papers of the Early Republic
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows
Julia Bernier, PhD Candidate in Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
A Papered Freedom: Self-Purchase and Compensated Manumission in the Antebellum United States
Daina Ramey Berry, Department of African and African American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Ghost Values of the Domestic Cadaver Slave Trade
Dexter Gabriel, PhD Candidate in History, State University of New York, Stony Brook
A West Indian Jubilee in America
Holly Pinheiro, PhD Candidate in History, University of Iowa
Men of Color to Arms!: Race, Manhood, and Citizenship during the Civil War Era
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Jessica Blake, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
Caribbean Taste, Production, and Regionalism in Early Republic New Orleans
Patrick Callaway, PhD Candidate in History, University of Maine
Grain, Warfare, and the Reunification of the British Atlantic Economy, 1768–1815
Emilie Connolly, PhD Candidate in History, New York University
Indian Trust Funds and the Routes of American Capitalism, 1795–1865
Kim Gruenwald, Department of History, Kent University
Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters: Commerce, Networks, and Speculation from the Seven Years’ War through the Louisiana Purchase
Rachel Knecht, PhD Candidate in History Brown University
Quantifying the Economy in the Industrial Age
Katie Moore, PhD Candidate in History, Boston University
“A Just and Honest Valuation”: Money and Value in Colonial America, 1690–1750
Joshua Rothman, Department of History, University of Alabama
The Ledger and the Chain: The Men Who Made America’s Domestic Slave Trade into Big Business
Justin Simard, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
The Technocrats: Lawyers and Capitalism in Early National America, 1780–1870
Jackson Tait, PhD Candidate in History, Queens University
Assessing Risk and Reputation in Atlantic Maritime Enterprise: The Development of Marine Underwriting Methods and Standards, 1770–1900
Sarah Templier, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Between Merchants, Shopkeepers, Tailors, and Thieves: Circulating and Consuming Clothes, Textiles, and Fashion in French and British North America, 1730–1780
Erin Trahey, PhD Candidate in History, University of Cambridge
Women and the Making of Colonial Jamaica Economy and Society, 1740–1850
Shuichi Wanibuchi, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
A Colony by Design: Nature, Knowledge, and the Transformation of Landscape in the Delaware Valley, 1680–1780
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Allan Kulikoff, Department of History, University of Georgia
Many Masks of Benjamin Franklin
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Joseph Rezek, Department of English, Boston University
Early Black Writing and the Politics of Print
Anthony N.B. and Beatrice W.B. Garvan Fellow in American Material Culture
Isaac King, PhD Candidate in History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
The Witness in the Shadows: Authenticity and Authority in the Early National Portraiture of George Washington
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Alec Reichardt, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
War for the Interior: Imperial Conflict and the Formation of North American and Transatlantic Communications Infrastructure, 1735–1774
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Kathryn Falvo, PhD Candidate in History, Pennsylvania State University
Molding the Destiny of the Nation: Women in Nineteenth Century Dietetic Reform
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture
Ellen Handy, Department of Art, City College of New York, CUNY
Histories of Photography: An Introduction
Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History
Jacqueline Beatty, PhD Candidate in History, George Mason University
In Dependence: Women’s Protection and Subordination as Power in Early America, 1750–1820
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Jeffery Appelhans, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Catholic Persuasion: Power and Prestige in Early American Civil Life
Alex Black, Department of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
The Production of Freedom: Print and Performance in American Abolitionism
Todd Carmody, Program in History and Literature, Harvard University
Racial Handicap: Uplift and Rehabilitation in Postbellum America
Jessica Conrad, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
At the Bottom of the Bottle: Consumer Resistance, Racial Uplift, and Woman Suffrage in Temperance Literature
Ben Davidson, PhD Candidate in History, New York University
Freedom’s Generation: Coming of Age in the Era of Emancipation
Bradley Dixon, PhD Candidate in History, University of Texas at Austin
Republic of Indians: Indigenous Vassals, Subjects, and Citizens in Early America
Erica Fretwell, Department of English, State University of New York at Albany
The War of the Dots
George Gallwey, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Public Credit in the Development of American Political Economy, 1776–1845
Kathryn Lasdow, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
“Spirit of Improvement”: Construction, Conflict, & Community in Early-National Port Cities
Kevin Waite, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
The Slave South in the Far West: California, the Pacific, and Proslavery Visions of Empire, 1800–1865
Andrew Zonderman, PhD Candidate in History, Emory University
Embracing Empire: Eighteenth-Century German Migrants and the Development of the British Imperial System
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Carolyn Eastman, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University
The Strange Genius of Mr. O: Oratory and Transatlantic Celebrity in Early America
Robert Gamble, Department of History, University of Kansas
Governed by Numbers: Lotteries, Capitalism, and the American State, 1776–1929
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Nathalie Caron, Department of English, Université of Paris Sorbonne
“Freeing the Mind from the Shackles of Religion”: The Significance of the French Philosophes’ Philosophy for American Freethought
Justin Roberts, Department of History, Dalhousie University
A Swarm of People: The Barbadian Diaspora and the Expansion of the English Atlantic, 1640–1690
Richardson Dilworth Fellow
Jack Furniss, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
States of the Union: The Political Center in the Civil War North
Esther Ann McFarland Fellow
Alyssa Ribeiro, Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Women, University of California at Los Angeles
Making the City Brotherly: Black and Latino Community Activism in Philadelphia, 1960s to 1980s
Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows
Meredith Neuman, Department of English, Clark University
Coming to Terms with Early American Poetry
Justine Oliva, PhD Candidate in History, University of New Hampshire
Anne Lynch Botta and the Formation of America’s Professional Middle-Class
Johanna Ortner, PhD Candidate in African American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Whatever concerns them, as a race, concerns me:” The Life and Activism of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Catherine Tourangeau, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
An Ocean of Joiners: Voluntary Associations in the Anglo-American Atlantic, 1740–1800
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Duane Corpis, Department of History, New York University, Shanghai
Overseas Charity and German Protestantism: Global Networks, Local Norms, 16th–19th Centuries
Stephen O’Donnell, PhD Candidate in History, University of Strathclyde
The Transatlantic Slovak National Movement, 1890–1920
Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History
Marc-William Palen, Department of History, University of Exeter
Pax Economica: The Global Struggle for Free Trade and Peace, 1896–1946
2014–2015
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Randy M. Browne, Department of History, Xavier University
Surviving Slavery: Politics, Power, and Authority in the British Caribbean, 1807–1834
Benjamin Fagan, Department of English, University of Arkansas
The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation
Brian Luskey, Department of History, West Virginia University
Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight: The Cultural Economy of the American Civil War
Nicholas P. Wood, Department of History, University of Virginia
Considerations of Humanity and Expediency: The Slave Trades and African Colonization in the Early National Antislavery Movement
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellows
Kabria Baumgartner, Department of History, College of Wooster
In Pursuit of Knowledge: African American Women and Educational Activism in America’s Republic
Aston Gonzalez, Department of History, University of Michigan
Designing Humanity: African American Activist Art, 1830–1880
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows
Manuel Covo, Department of History, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Trade, Empire, and Revolutions in the Atlantic World Saint-Domingue, between the Metropole and the United States (1778–1804)
Brian Luskey, Department of History, West Virginia University
Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight: The Cultural Economy of the American Civil War
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellows
Emahunn Campbell, PhD Candidate in Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
The Imagination and Construction of the Black Criminal in American Literature, 1741–1910
Emily Owens, PhD Candidate in African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Fantasies of Consent: Black Women’s Sexual Labor in 19th c. New Orleans
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows
Benjamin Hicklin, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Michigan
‘Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be?’: Experiencing Credit and Debt in the English Atlantic, 1660–1750
Elizabeth Jones-Minsinger, PhD Candidate in History of American Civilization, University of Delaware
Women’s Consumption in Early America
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Jessica Linker, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
‘It is my wish to behold Ladies among my hearers’: Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720–1860
Rachel Walker, PhD Candidate in History, University of Maryland
A Beautiful Mind: Physiognomy and Female Intellect, 1750–1850
Mellon Dissertation Fellows in Early American Literature and Material Texts, Jointly Sponsored by the Library Company and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Kristina Garvin, PhD Candidate in History, Ohio State University
Past and Future States: The Cultural Work of the Serial in U.S. Literature, 1786–1815
Sonia Hazard, PhD Candidate in Religion, Duke University
Unruly Agencies: The American Tract Society, Religious Choice, and the Materiality of Print, 1825–1865
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows
Westenley Alcenat, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
Escape to Zion: Black Emigration and the Elusive Quest for Citizenship, 1816–1868
Frederick Knight, Department of History, Morehouse College
Black Elders in Early America
Tiffany Player, PhD Candidate in History, Washington University in St. Louis
Black Women and the Politics of Slavery from the Antebellum through the Great Depression
Selena Sanderfer, Department of History, Western Kentucky University
Tennessee’s Postwar Black Emigration Movements, 1868–1888
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Jonathan Barth, PhD Candidate in History, George Mason University
Money, Mercantilism and Empire in the Early English Atlantic, 1607–1697
Zachary Dorner, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
Expert Individuals and Networked Pharmaceuticals: The Making of Britain’s Global Empire in the Eighteenth Century
Jordan Smith, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
The Invention of Rum
David Thomson, PhD Candidate in History, University of Georgia
Bonds of War: Capital and Citizenship in the Civil War Era
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Shuichi Wanibuchi, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
A Colony by Design: Space, Nature, and the Transformation of Landscape in the Delaware Valley
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Jeffrey Makala, PhD Candidate in American Literature, University of South Carolina
Unmovable Type: Towards a History of Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century America
Anthony N.B. and Beatrice W.B. Garvan Fellow in American Material Culture
Maria Zytaruk, Department of English, University of Calgary
Non-Book Objects in the Library Company of Philadelphia (c. 1731–1850)
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Katlyn Carter, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
Practicing Representative Politics in the Revolutionary Atlantic World: Publicity, Accountability, and the Making of Representative Democracy
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Jessica Linker, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
‘It is my wish to behold Ladies among my hearers’: Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720–1860
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture
Dominque Zino, Adjunct Professor, Fordham University
Glimpses of Picturesque Time: Pictures, Progress, and the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition
Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History
Julia Delacroix, Debby Ellis Writing Center, Southwestern University
The Storm That Shakes the World: Women’s Elegies in Revolutionary America
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Thomas Doran, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Vulgar Ethology: A Prehistory of Animal Protection in American Natural History
Laura Edwards, Department of History, Duke University
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Women, Textiles, and National Development in the United States
John Ingram, PhD Candidate in Modern History, King’s College London
Civic Improvements in Philadelphia and London: Municipal Patriotism and Reform in Britain andAmerica, 1870–1925
Brenden Kennedy, PhD Candidate in American History, University of Florida
The Yazoo Land Sales: Slavery, Speculation, and Capitalism in the Early American Republic
Leila Mansouri, PhD Candidate in English Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Constituent Characters: American Land, American Literature, American Representation
Alan Noonan, Department of History, University College Cork
“No Irish Need Apply”: Molly Maguirism and Labor Unrest in Pennsylvania in the Late Nineteenth Century
Amy Sopcak-Joseph, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
The Lives and Times of Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1830–1877
John Suval, PhD Candidate in History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Rupture of American Democracy, 1830–1860
Hazel Wilkinson, PhD Candidate in English Language and Literature, University College Cork
Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, 1715–1805
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Mark Boonschoft, PhD Candidate in History, Ohio State University
Education, Civil Society, and State Formation from the Great Awakening to the Early Republic
Nora Slonimsky, PhD Candidate in History, CUNY
The Engine of Free Expression: The Political Development of Copyright in the Colonial British Atlantic and Early National United States
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Volker Depkat, Department of English and American Studies, University of Regensburg
The Visualization of Legitimacy in Founding Situations: A Transatlantic Approach to Political Visual Cultures
Brett Goodin, PhD Candidate in History, Australian National University
Victims of American Independence: A Collective Biography of Barbary Captives and American Nation-building, 1770–1840
Esther Ann McFarland Fellow
Nathan Jérémie-Brink, PhD Candidate in History, Loyola University Chicago
“Gratuitous Distribution”: Distributing African American Antislavery Texts, 1773–1845
Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows
Bronwen Everill, Department of History, King’s College London
African Trade and Ethical Consumption in the Atlantic World, 1760–1840
Alexander Mazzaferro, PhD Candidate in English, Rutgers University
Political Innovation and Atlantic Political Science
Susan Oliver, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
Transatlantic Periodicals and the Visual Image: Lithography and Photography, 1828–1860
Jordan Alexander Stein, Department of English, Fordham University
The Myth of the Woman Novel Reader
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Hidetaka Hirota, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University
An Anti-Alien Tradition: The History of American Nativism
Julia Lange, PhD Candidate in American Studies, University of Hamburg
Contested Histories: German-American Politics of Memory and the Holocaust
Kristina Poznan, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Becoming Immigrant Nation-Builders: The Development of Austria-Hungary’s National Projects in the United States, 1880–1920s
Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History
Victor Yang, PhD Candidate in Political Science, St. John’s College
Browning the Rainbow of AIDS Activism: Race and Political Representation in Philadelphia’s AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP)
2013–2014
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Peter Jaros, Department of English, Franklin and Marshall College
Incorporate Things: Persons and Corporations in Antebellum American Literature and Law
Britt Rusert, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Radical Empiricism: Fugitive Science and the Struggle for Emancipation in the Long Nineteenth Century
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows
Daniel Peart, Department of History, Queen Mary University of London
Democracy in Action? The Making of United States Tariff Policy, 1816–1861
Danielle Skeehan, Department of History, Northeastern University
Creole Domesticity: Women, Commerce, and Kinship in Early Atlantic Writing
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows
Nicholas Crawford, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Feeding Slavery: Scarcity, Subsistence, and the Political Economy of the British Caribbean, 1783–1833
Toni Pitock, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Commerce and Connection: Jewish Merchants, Philadelphia, and the Atlantic World, 1738–1822
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Arika Easley, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
The Indian Image in the Black Mind: The Representation of Native Americans in Antebellum African American Public Culture
Katie Hemphill, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Bawdy City: Commercial Sex in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore
Mellon Dissertation Fellows in Early American Literature and Material Texts, Jointly Sponsored by the Library Company and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
John Garcia, PhD Candidate in Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
Biography, Book History, and American Nationalism 1800–1855
Lindsay Van Tine, PhD Candidate in Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Translated Conquests: Spanish New World History in U.S. Literature, 1823–1854
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Short-Term Fellows in African American History
Katie Johnston, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
The Experience of Hot Climates: Health, Race and the Body in the British Atlantic World
Anna Lawrence, Department of History, Fairfield University
Jarena Lee’s Calling
Mary Maillard, independent scholar, Vancouver, British Columbia
Lulu and Genie: The Letters of Louisa Jacobs to Eugenie Webb, 1879–1911
Marie Stango, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Antislavery and Colonization: African American Women in Nineteenth Century West Africa
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Michael Blaakman, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Speculation Nation: Land Speculators and Land Mania in Post-Revolutionary America
Mara Caden, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Making Imperial Capitalism: The Politics of Manufacturing in the British Empire, 1696–1740
Tyson Reeder, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
Interests Soundly Calculated: Philadelphia and Baltimore Merchants in the Luso-Atlantic, 1760–1824
Katherine Smoak, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Circulating Counterfeits: Making Money and its Meanings in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Will Slauter, PhD Département d’Etudes des Pays Anglophones, Université Paris 8 – Saint Denis
Who Owns the News? Journalism and Intellectual Property in Historical Perspective
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Jeffrey Peachey, Book Conservator, New York City
In-boards Bindings and the Beginning of Industrialized Bookbinding in America and England, 1800–1850
Anthony N.B. and Beatrice W.B. Garvan Fellow in American Material Culture
Paul Otto, Professor of History, George Fox University
Beads of Power: Wampum and the Shaping of Early America
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Elizabeth Athens, PhD Candidate in History of Art, Yale University
“Substances in Themselves”: William Bartram’s Material Sources
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Kathyryn Segesser, PhD Candidate in History, University of Toronto
Disordered Eating in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century America and England
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture
Christopher Lukasik, Department of English, Purdue University
The Image in the Text
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Margaret Abruzzo, Department of History, University of Alabama
Good People & Bad Behavior: Changing Views of Sin, Evil, and Moral Responsibility
Alison Efford, Department of History, Marquette University
Suicide and the Immigrant Experience, 1880–1924
Christopher Florio, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
The Poor Always with You: Impoverishment in the United States, 1835–1868
Thomas Gillan, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Intellectual Labor in Early America: The Life of the Mind and the History of the Body
Lauren Klein, School of Media, Literature, and Communications, Georgia Institute of Technology
A Cultural History of Data Visualization, 1786–2013
Jeffrey Knight, Department of English, University of Washington
English Literary Collections and the Institution of the Library in Early America
Etta Madden, Department of English, Missouri State University
Recovering and Refining Anne Hampton Brewster’s Italian Experiences
Brett Mizelle, Department of History, California State Long Beach
Killing Animals in American History
Karen Racine, Department of History, University of Guelph
Joel Poinsett in South America 1810–1814
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Matthew Osborn, Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City
America’s First Batman: Popular Theatricality in the Dramatic Republic
Jonathan Sassi, Department of History, College of Staten Island, CUNY
The Campaign for Gradual Emancipation in New Jersey
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Nicholas Guyatt, Department of History, University of York
The Scale of Beings and the Prehistory of ‘Separate but Equal’
Austen Saunders, PhD Candidate in Literature, University of Cambridge
American Readers’ Manuscript Marks in the Collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia (c.1640–1830)
Esther Ann McFarland Fellow
Richard Bell, Department of History, University of Maryland
Slavery’s Black Market: A Microhistory
Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows
Jennifer Brady, Department of History and Literature, Harvard University
Sentimental Reading in the Antebellum United States
Laurel Daen, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Civic Capacity and the Constitution of Disability in the Early American Republic, 1770–1840
Andrew Heath, Department of History, University of Sheffield
Consolidating Philadelphia: The Reconstruction of an American Metropolis, 1837-77
Kacy Tillman, Department of Literature, University of Tampa
Damned Tories of the Penny Post: Female Loyalist Letter-Journals of the American Revolution
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Kristin Condotta, PhD Candidate in History, Tulane University
Professional “Negotiantes”: Irish Merchant Networks and Atlantic New Orleans, 1770–1820
Elisabeth Piller, PhD Candidate in History, University of Heidelberg
Re-Winning American Hearts and Minds – German Cultural Diplomacy and the United States, 1919 to 1932
Rachel Wise, PhD Candidate in English, University of Texas at Austin
Losing Appalachia: Rethinking Genre Through Local Color’s Out-of-Place Objects
Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History
Megan Black, PhD Candidate in American Studies, George Washington University
The Global Interior: Imagining Minerals in the Postwar Expansion of American Capitalism
2012–2013
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Michael Block, Department of History, University of Southern California
New England Merchants, the China Trade, and the Origins of California
Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Drawing the Lines: Aesthetics and Practice of Translation in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture
Philip Stern, Department of History, Duke University
Municipal Bonds: The Urban Corporation in the Early Modern British Empire
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow
Ariel Ron, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Developing the Country: Scientific Agriculture and the Roots of the Republican Party
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows
Corey Goettsch, PhD Candidate in History, Emory University
A Nation of Peter Funks: Fraud in Nineteenth-Century America
Hannah Farber, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
Early American Marine Insurance: Commerce, the Republic, and the Oceans
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Kameika S. Murphy, PhD Candidate in History, Clark University
Currents of Liberty: Revolutionary Ėmigrés and Their Contributions to Afro-Caribbean Civil Society, 1760–1838
Stephanie Elizabeth Tilden, PhD Candidate in English, Brown University
Paper Boats: Archives of Disorder in American Maritime Literature
Mellon Dissertation Fellows in Early American Literature and Material Texts, Jointly Sponsored by the Library Company and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Steven Smith, PhD Candidate in History, University of Missouri
A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1783–1830
Sarah Scheutze, PhD Candidate in English, University of Kentucky
More Than Death: Fear of Illness in American Literature, 1775–1876
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Short-Term Fellows in African American History
Marcus A. Allen, PhD Candidate in History, Morgan State University
Institutionalizing Black Capitalism: An Examination of the African American Depositors at the Savings Bank of Baltimore, 1850–1900
Christopher Bonner, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Making Citizenship Meaningful: Language, Power, and Belonging in African American Activism, 1827–1868
Abigail Cooper, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
“Until I reach My Home”: Inside the Refugee Camps of the American Civil War
Brooke N. Newman, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University
Island Masters: Gender, Race, and Power in the Eighteenth-Century British Caribbean
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Sara T. Damiano, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Gender and the Litigated Credit Economy in New England, 1730–1790
Benjamin Hicklin, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
“Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be”?: Experiencing Credit and Debt in the English Atlantic, 1660–1750
Andrew Kopec, PhD Candidate in English, Ohio State University
Attacking Panic: The Financial Work of American Literature, 1819–1857
Susan Stearns, Department of History, Mary Baldwin College
Streams of Interest: The Mississippi River and the Political Economy of the Early Republic, 1783–1803
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Nicole H. Gray, PhD Candidate in English, University of Texas at Austin
Spirited Media: Promiscuous Materialities of Antebellum Reform.
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Matthew Shaw, Curator of North American History, British Library
Read all About It!: The Invention of Newspapers in Britain and America, 1641–1865
Anthony N.B. and Beatrice W.B. Garvan Fellow in American Material Culture
Sarah Jones Weicksel, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago
The Fabric of War: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Zara Anishanslin, Department of History, City University of New York, College of Staten Island
Portrait of a Woman in a Silk Dress: Reframing the Landscape of Empire in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Claire Gherini, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
“Experiment and Good Sense Must Direct You”: Managing Health and Sickness in the Plantation Enlightenment, 1730–1800
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture
Allison Lange, PhD Candidate in History, Brandeis University
Pictures of Change: Transformative Images of Gender and Politics in the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1776–1920
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Kelly Arehart, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Give Up Your Dead: How Business, Technology, and Culture Separated Americans from Their Dearly-Departed, 1780–1930
Richard Bell, Department of History, University of Maryland
The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade
Peter Y. Choi, PhD Candidate in History, University of Notre Dame
Beyond the Great Itinerant: George Whitefield and Revivalism after the Revivals
Michelle Coghlan, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University
Culinary Designs: Food Writing and the Making of American Taste
William Coleman, PhD Candidate in History, University College London
Sung Down: Music and Political Culture in the United States from the Early Republic to the Civil War Era
Michael F. D’Alessandro, PhD Candidate in American Studies, Boston University
Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Audience in Popular American Literature and Theater, 1835–1870
D. Berton Emerson, Institute of Transdisciplinary Studies, Woodbury University
Local Rules: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Fictions
Nicole Frisone, PhD Candidate in History, University of Minnesota
False Prophecies: Morris Milgram and the Market for Privately Developed, Racially Integrated Housing, 1947–1968
Stephanie L. Gamble, PhD Candidate in History, The Johns Hopkins University
Capital Negotiations: Native Diplomats in the American Capital from George Washington to Andrew Jackson
Jonathan W. Hall, PhD Candidate in History, University of Montana
Rabid Republic: Dogs and Men in America, 1700–1920
Maeve Kane, PhD Candidate in History, Cornell University
They That Made the Men: Clothing, Sovereignty, and Women’s Work in Iroquoia, 1600–1850
Jessica C. Linker, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
“It is my wish to behold Ladies among my hearers”: Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720–1860
Mairin Odle, PhD Candidate in History, New York University
Stories Written on the Body: Cross-Cultural Markings in the North American Atlantic, 1600–1830
Maureen Connors Santelli, PhD Candidate in History, George Mason University
“The Greek Fire”: The Classical Tradition in America and the Greek War for Independence, 1720–1832
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Richard Godbeer, Department of History, University of Miami
The Life and Times of Elizabeth and Henry Drinker
Anne Lombard, Department of History, California State University San Marcos
Regulators and Legal Reform in Pennsylvania, 1763–1810
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Frances M. Clarke, Department of History, University of Sydney
Minors in the Military: A History of Child Soldiers in America from the Revolution to the Civil War
Zhang Tao, American Studies, Research Center, Sichuan International Studies University
Confucius in Early America’s Imagination of China
Esther Ann McFarland Fellow
Thomas Sheeler, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Negotiating Slavery on Mason and Dixon’s Line: Race, Section, and Union in Maryland and Pennsylvania before the Civil War
Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows
Shana Klein, PhD Candidate in Art History: University of New Mexico
The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in Nineteenth-Century American Still-Life Representation
Angel-Luke O’Donnell, PhD Candidate in History, University of Liverpool
Tangible Imaginations: Construction of American Identity in Philadelphia, 1764–1776
Sean Trainor, PhD Candidate in History and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University
The Culture and Economy of Men’s Grooming in the Nineteenth-Century U.S
Caroline Wigginton, Department of American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
Epistolary Neighborhoods: Intimacy, Women’s Writing, and Circulation in Eighteenth-Century North America
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Dominique Daniel, Kresge Library, Oakland University
Archiving Ethnic History: Ethnic Identities and the Shaping of the Balch Institute Collections
Konstantinos Karpozilos, University of Peloponnese, Greece
“The Great American Family”: “Americanization” and the Shaping of Modern Greece (1944–1959)
Mark Santow, University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth
Castles Made of Sand? Home Ownership in the Modern US
Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History
David Hochfelder, University at Albany, SUNY
Creating the Ownership Society: A Social History of Saving and Investing
2011–2012
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Edward Cahill, Department of English, Fordham University
Colonial Rising: Narratives of Upward Mobility in British America
Marcy Dinius, Department of English, University of Delaware
Radical African American Print Culture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Nancy Hagedorn, Department of History, State University of New York at Fredonia
On the Waterfrontier: Atlantic Port City Waterfronts as Zones of Cultural Interaction, 1700–1825
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows
Joseph Adelman, Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University
Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763–1789
Martin Ohman, Department of History, University of Virginia
Pursuits of Union: American Political Economy, Federal Politics, and Internal Divisions, 1783–1821
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows
Andrew Fagal, PhD Candidate in History, Binghamton University
To ‘Provide for the Common Defense’: The Political Economy of War in the Early American Republic, 1789–1818
Dael Norwood, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
Trading in Liberty: The Politics of the American China Trade, c.1784–1862
Edward Pompeian, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Spirited Enterprises: The United States, Venezuela, and the Independence of Latin America, 1790–1823
Danielle Skeehan, PhD Candidate in English, Northeastern University
Counterfeit Subjects: Credit, Commerce, and the Generation of Atlantic World Counterpublics
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Jennifer Heil, PhD Candidate in English, Emory University
The American Columbus: Chronology, Geography, and the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Thomas LeCarner, PhD Candidate in English, University of Colorado
The Empathic Response: Narratives of Forgiveness in American Law, Literature, and Culture
Mellon Dissertation Fellows in Early American Literature and Material Texts, Jointly Sponsored by the Library Company and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Mark Mattes, PhD Candidate in American Studies, University of Iowa
Material Letters: Media History and the Politics of Epistolary Practice, 1780–1845
Seth Perry, PhD Candidate in Divinity, University of Chicago
“A Valuable Book”: Bibles and Religious Authority in Early National America
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Short-Term Fellows in African American History
David Crosby, independent scholar, Jackson, Mississippi
An Annotated Critical Edition of Anthony Benezet’s Antislavery Writings
Aston Gonzalez, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Black Activist Art in Philadelphia, 1820–1860
Lori Leavell, PhD Candidate in English, Emory University
Imagining a Future South: David Walker’s Appeal and Antebellum American Literature
Anna Stewart, PhD Candidate in English, University of Texas at Austin
Lives Reconstructed: Slave Narratives and Freedmen’s Education
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Sarah Chesney, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, The College of William & Mary
The Flowering Web: Tracing William Hamilton’s Botanical Network in Late-Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Kristen Highland, PhD Candidate in English, New York University
“A Great Emporium”: The Book Store and the Cultural Geography of Antebellum New York City
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Cynthia Bouton, Department of History, Texas A&M University
Subsistence, Society, and Culture in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century and Age of Revolution
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Susan Brandt, PhD Candidate in History, Temple University
Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1740–1830
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture
Catherine Walsh, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware
Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Orality in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Hannah Farber, PhD Candidate in History, University of California at Berkeley
The Insurance Industry in the Early Republic
Frances Kolb, PhD Candidate in History, Vanderbilt University
Contesting Borderlands: Commerce and Settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1765–1800
Colleen Rafferty, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
“To Establish an Intercourse Between our Respective Houses”: Economic Networks in the Mid-Atlantic, 1735–1815
Steven Smith, PhD Candidate in History, University of Missouri
A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730–1830
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Tyler Boulware, Department of History, West Virginia University
Next to Kin: Native Americans and Friendship in Early America
Jacob Crane, PhD Candidate in English, Tufts University
Barbary(an) Invasions
Trenton Jones, PhD Candidate in History, The Johns Hopkins University
“Deprived of Their Liberty:” Prisoners of War and Revolutionary American Military Culture
Stephanie Koscak, PhD Candidate in History, Indiana University
Multiplying Pictures for the Public: Reproducing the English Monarchy, ca.1648–1780
Timothy Lombardo, PhD Candidate in History, Purdue University
The Development of Blue-Collar Conservatism in Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia
Lucia McMahon, Department of History, William Paterson University
Life Lessons: A Cultural History of Female Biography in Nineteenth-Century America
Erin Murphy, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Herbert Welsh and the Anti-Imperialist Investigations on “Atrocities” in the Philippines, 1899–1910
Heather Nathans, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of Maryland
Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage
Richard Newman, Department of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
All’s Fair: Race and Sanitary Reform in the Civil War Era
David Prior, Department of History, University of South Carolina
Paul Du Chaillu, the Exploration of Equatorial West Africa, and the Politics of Race in the Civil War-Era United States
Adam Shapiro, Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
William Paley and the Natural Theology Tradition in America
Nicholas Wood, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Questions of Humanity and Expediency: The Slave Trades and African Colonization in the Early American Republic
Mary Catherine Wood, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware
Benjamin West’s Nelson Memorial: Neoclassical Sculpture and the Atlantic World ca. 1812
Benjamin Wright, PhD Candidate in History, Rice University
Early American Clergy and the Transformation of Antislavery: From the Politics of Conversion to the Conversion to Politics, 1770–1830
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Paul Polgar, PhD Candidate in History, The City University of New York Graduate Center
To Be Free and Equal? Antislavery Reform in America, 1783–1833
Ashli White, Department of History, University of Miami
Object Lessons of the Revolutionary Atlantic
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Gesa Mackenthun, Department of American Studies, Rostock University
Mesoamerican Antiquities and the Transnational Birth of Archaeology
David Lambert, Department of History, University of Warwick
Mobility, Race and Power in the Caribbean, ca.1780–ca.1880
Esther Ann McFarland Fellow
James Gigantino, Department of History, University of Arkansas
Freedom and Slavery in the Garden of America: African Americans and Abolition in New Jersey, 1775–1861
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Daniel Amsterdam, Department of History, The Ohio State University
Building a Civil Welfare State: Businessmen’s Forgotten Campaign to Remake Industrial America
Alecia Barbour, PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology, SUNY Stony Brook
Music and Remembrance: Listening to US “Internment Camps,” 1939–1947
Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History
Vanda Krefft, independent scholar
Lone Master of the Movies: A Biography of William Fox, Founder of 20th Century Fox
2010–2011
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Hester Blum, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University
Arctic and Antarctic Circles: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration
David J. Silverman, Department of History, George Washington University
Firearms and the Transformation of Native America
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Adam Gordon, PhD Candidate in English, University of California at Los Angeles
Cultures of Criticism in Antebellum America
Spencer Snow, PhD Candidate in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Reading the Map: the Nationalization of Geographic Space, Reading Publics, and the Shaping of Nineteenth Century American Identity
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows
Katherine Arner, PhD Candidate, Institute for the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Making Yellow Fever American: Disease Knowledge and the Geopolitics of Disease in the Atlantic World, 1793–1822
Melissah Pawlikowski, PhD Candidate in History, Ohio State University
In the Land of Liberty: The Squatter Exodus into the Ohio Valley, 1760 to 1800
Mellon Dissertation Fellows in Early American Literature and Material Texts, Jointly Sponsored by the Library Company and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Katherine Gaudet, PhD Candidate in English, University of Chicago
Fear of Fiction: Novels and their Antagonists in Eighteenth-Century America
Alea Henle, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
Preserving the Past, Making History: Historical Societies and Editors in the Early Republic
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Short-Term Fellows in African American History
Ric N. Caric, Department of Government and Regional Analysis, Morehead State University
Occupied by Blackness: Early Blackface Minstrelsy in Philadelphia
James W. Cook, Jr., Department of History, University of Michigan
The Lost Black Generation: African American Performers and the Making of Global Mass Culture
Peter Reed, Department of English, University of Mississippi
Dancing on the Volcano: The Haitian Revolution and American Performance Cultures, 1790–1865
Terri Snyder, American Studies, California State University, Fullerton
Suicide, Slavery and the Rise of Abolitionism in North America
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Timothy Helwig, Department of English and Journalism, Western Illinois University
From Serialization to Publication: The Uncanny Migration of Nativism in the Late Writings of George Lippard
William Reese Company Fellows in American Bibliography
Kenneth Carpenter, Harvard University Library (retired)
Disseminating Economic Literature before 1850
Lindsay DiCuirci, PhD Candidate in English, Ohio State University
History’s Imprint: The Colonial Book and the Writing of American History, 1790–1855
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Molly O’Hagan Hardy, PhD Candidate in English, University of Texas at Austin
Imperial Authorship and Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Production
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Sari Altschuler, PhD Candidate in English, Graduate Center, City University of New York
National Physiology: A Medico-Literary Exploration of the American Body and Body Politic between 1789 and 1860
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture
Sarah Kate Gillespie, Department of Fine and Performing Arts, York College, City University of New York
“One Thing New Under the Sun”: The Cross-Currents of Art and Science in the American Daguerreotype, 1839–1850
Senior Research Associates
Richard Altenbaugh, College of Education, Slippery Rock University
Stumbling towards a State System of Public Education: Pennsylvania’s Common-School Reform
Lori Ginzberg, Department of History and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Women’s History and the Narrative of American Democracy
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Aaron Marrs, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
“Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation Revolution”
Simon Middleton, Department of History, University of Sheffield
Cultures of Credit in Eighteenth-Century America
Dael Norwood, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
Politicizing America’s Trade with Asia in the Early Republic
Caitlin Rosenthal, PhD Candidate in the History of American Civilization, Harvard University
Accounting for Control: Bookkeeping in Early Nineteenth-Century America
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Tim Cassedy, PhD Candidate in English, New York University
The Character of Communication, 1790–1810
Julia Chybowski, Music Department, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield and Philadelphia Musical Culture
Vivian Bruce Conger, Department of History, Ithaca College
The World of Deborah Read Franklin: A Transgenerational Exploration of Gender in Revolutionary and Early Republic Philadelphia
Julie Davidow, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
“Citizens in the Making”: Black Philadelphians and the Republican Party, 1865–1915
Nora Doyle, PhD Candidate in History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“A Higher Place on the Scale of Being”: Experience and Representation of the Maternal Body in America, 1750–1865
Katharine Gerbner, PhD Candidate in History of American Civilization, Harvard University
Christian Slavery: A Protestant Dilemma
Simon Gilhooley, PhD Candidate in Government, Cornell University
The Textuality of the Constitution and the Origins of Original Intent
Glenda Goodman, PhD Candidate in Historical Musicology, Harvard University
Songs Crossing the Atlantic: American Identity, Citizenship, and the Making of Musical Hybrids
Amy Hughes, Department of Theater, Brooklyn College
Sensation, Spectacle, and Reform in the Mid-Nineteenth Century American Theater
Dustin Kennedy, PhD Candidate in English, Pennsylvania State University
Nationalism and the Revolutionary Fiction of George Lippard
Julia Miller, Book Conservator, Ann Arbor, Michigan
A Descriptive Study of American Scaleboard Bindings from the Early Colonial Period through 1850
Dolores Pfeuffer-Scherer, PhD. Candidate in History, Temple University
The Franklin Women: Kinship, Gender Roles, and Public Culture in Philadelphia and Beyond, 1720–1900
Katie Pfohl, PhD Candidate in History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Abstraction’s Islamic Antecedents: American Modernism and Islamic Art, 1830–1930
Lloyd Pratt, Departments of English and African and African American Studies, Michigan State University
The Freedoms of a Stranger: African American Literature around 1845
Rusty Roberson, PhD. Candidate in History, University of Edinburgh
Scottish Imperialism in the Colonial American Borderlands
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Katherine Carté Engel, Department of History, Texas A&M University
Breaking Ties: International Protestantism in the Era of the American Revolution
Megan Walsh, PhD Candidate in English, Temple University
A Nation in Sight: Literature, Visual Technology, and Print Culture in the Early American Republic
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
John Richard Oldfield, Department of History, University of Southampton
International Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution, 1787–1815
David Worrall, Department of English, Nottingham Trent University
British Theatre in Colonial and New Republic America, with Particular Reference to British Military Theatricals and the Mischianza, Philadelphia, 1778
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Corey Davis, PhD Candidate in History, University of Illinois at Chicago
The Mind of the Merchant Class: The National Board of Trade and the Making of a National Political Economy in the Late Nineteenth Century
Anne Parsons, PhD Candidate in History, University of Illinois at Chicago
Our Brothers’ Keepers: Mental Asylums, Prisons, and the Institutionalization of Twentieth-Century America
2009–2010
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Billy Gordon Smith, Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University
Ship of Death: A Voyage that Changed the Atlantic World and Mapping Philadelphia during the Constitutional Era
Jordan Alexander Stein, Department of English, University of Colorado
The Historiography of Sexuality: Puritanism, Personhood, and the Rise of the Novel
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow
Martin Brückner, Department of English, University of Delaware
The Social Life of Maps in North America, 1750–1850
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellow
Lana Finley, PhD Candidate in English, University of California Los Angeles
Occult Americans; Discourse at the Margins of Nineteenth Century Literature
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows
Ariel Ron, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
Developing the Country: Scientific Agriculture and the Origins of Republican Economic Policy
Elena Schneider, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
The Limits of Loyalty: War, Trade, and British Occupation in Eighteenth-Century Havana
Mellon Dissertation Fellows in Early American Literature and Material Texts, Jointly Sponsored by the Library Company and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Joshua Ratner, PhD Candidate in English, University of Pennsylvania
American Paratexts
Marcia D. Nichols, PhD Candidate in English, University of South Carolina
Let them see how curiously they’re made: Constructing Female Sexuality in Anglo-Atlantic Midwifery Texts, 1690–1800
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Short-Term Fellows in African American History
Ronald Johnson, PhD Candidate in History, Purdue University
In Close Alliance; How the Early American Republic and Revolutionary Saint-Domingue Made Their Way in a Hostile Atlantic World
Alice Taylor, Department of History, University of Western Ontario
Selling Abolitionism: The Commercial, Material and Social World of the Boston Antislavery Fair, 1834–1858
Beverly Tomek, Department of History, Wharton County Junior College
Pennsylvania Hall: The Lynching of a Building
Andrew Diemer, PhD Candidate in History, Temple University
Black Nativism: African American Politics and Nationalism in Antebellum Baltimore and Philadelphia, 1817–1863
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Stephen Hague, PhD Candidate in History, Linacre College, Oxford
“A Modern-Built House … fit for a Gentleman’: Elites, Material culture and Social Strategy in the British North Atlantic World, 1680–1760
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Alison Klaum, PhD Candidate in English, University of Delaware
Pressing Flowers; Florigraphy and Botanical Representation in Late-Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Vincent Carretta, Department of English, University of Maryland
‘Genius in Bondage’: A Cultural Biography of Phillis Wheatley
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Timothy Verhoeven, Department of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne
Natural or unnatural? Popular Medicine, Anti-Catholicism and the Problem of Celibacy in Nineteenth-Century America
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture
Anne Verplanck
The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780–1880
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Ian Beamish, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Agricultural Knowledge, Daily Work, and Slavery in the Early Republic
D’Maris Coffman, Department of History, Newnham College, Cambridge
Debating the Excise Tax in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania
Teagan Schweitzer, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Foodways, 1750–1850: The Historical Archaeology of Cuisine
Jeffrey Sklansky, Department of History, Oregon State University
The Biddles and the Politics of Money and Banking in the Early 1800s
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Maria Bollettino, PhD Candidate in History, University of Texas at Austin
Slavery, War, and Empire: The Meaning of the Seven Years’ War for the African Atlantic World
Christian DuComb, PhD Candidate in Theatre, Speech, and Dance, Brown University
Cultures of Print and Performance in Early Philadelphia
Kyle Farley, Department of History, Yale University
History and Memory in Philadelphia
Cassandra Good, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
‘A Golden Mean’: Heterosocial Friendship and the Formation of Political Culture in America, 1770–1830
Michael Goode, PhD Candidate in History, University of Illinois at Chicago
In the Kingdom but Not of It: The Quaker Peace Testimony and Atlantic Pennsylvania, 1681–1720
Alea Henle, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
Preserving the Past, Making History: Historical Societies, Editors, and Collectors in the Early Republic
Laura Keim, Curator of Collections and Interpretation, Stenton
Beyond “the Faithful Colored Caretaker”: Creating a Deeper Understanding of Servants and Enslaved Peoples at Stenton
Sara Lampert, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Taking to the Stage in 19th Century America
Andrew Murphy, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University
Liberty, Tolderation, and Law: The Political Thought of William Penn
Jonathan Nash, PhD Candidate in History, State University of New York at Albany
An Incarcerated Republic, Prisoners, Reformers, and the Penitentiary in the Early United States
Kristin Schwain, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia
Consuming Art: The Protestant Patrons of Henry Ossawa Tanner’s Biblical Paintings
Matthew Spooner, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
To Abolish the Black Man: The American Idea of Colonization, 1776–1860
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Jane Calvert, Department of History, University of Kentucky
The Political Writings of John Dickinson
Matthew Hale, Department of History, Goucher College
The French Revolution and American National Identity
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Daniel Peart, PhD Candidate in History, University College, London
Popular Engagement with Politics in the United States During the Early 1820’s
Gregory Smithers, School of Divinity, History & Philosophy, University of Aberdeen
Orphans of Freedom: African American Children & ‘Colored Orphanages,’ 1830–1930’s
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Simone Cinotto, Department of History, University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo and Parma
A Place Called Home: Leonard Covello, Public Housing and Cultural Pluralism in Italian Harlem, 1935–1950
Dolores Janiewski, School of History, Philosophy, Politics & International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington
Philadelphia and the Construction of Reactionary Culture, 1878–1918
2008–2009
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Matthew P. Brown, Department of English, University of Iowa
The Novel and the Blank: Textual Instruments in the Age of Franklin
Albrecht Koschnik, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University
American Conceptions of Civic Culture and Civil Society, 1730–1850
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow
Gautham Rao, Department of History, University of Chicago
Visible Hands: Customhouses, Law, Capitalism, and the Mercantile State of the Early Republic
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows
Katherin W. Paul, PhD. Candidate in Economic and Social History, University of Edinburgh
Social Relationships and Credit Networks Among Craftsmen and Shopkeepers in Edinburgh, London, and Philadelphia, 1750–1800
Alice Wolfram, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Property, Inheritance, and the Urban Family Economy in Britain, 1680–1780
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Katherine Jorgensen Gray, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Youth in Philadelphia, 1750–1815
Kenneth Owen, PhD Candidate in History, University of Oxford
Radical Politics in Revolutionary Pennsylvania, 1774–1800
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Short-Term Fellows in African American History
Corey Brooks, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
Building an Antislavery House: Political Abolitionists and Congress, 1835–1861
Martyn J. Powell, Department of History, University of Wales Aberystwyth
The White Slave Trade: Print Culture and Irish Emigration to American in the Late 18th Century
Derrick R. Spires, PhD Candidate in English, Vanderbilt University
Reimagining a “Beautiful but Baneful Object”: Black Writers’ Theories of Citizenship and Nation in the Antebellum United States
Kaye Wise Whitehead, PhD Candidate in Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Washing Her Bowl: Using Diary Entries to Reconstruct the Life of a 19th-Century Free Black Woman
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Karen A. Weyler, Department of English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The Imprimatur of Citizenship: Print and Public Identity in British North America and the Early Republic
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Jennifer McGovern, PhD Candidate in English, The University of Iowa
Captive Audiences: (Re)Visions of Indian Captivity Narratives in the Literary Marketplace
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Laura Keenan Spero, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
“Stout, Bold, Cunning and the Greatest Travellers in America”: The Colonial Shawnee Diaspora
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Elizabeth Kelly Gray, Department of History, Towson University
Opium in Early America
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture
Christopher Hunter, PhD Candidate in English, University of Pennsylvania
A New and More Perfect Edition: The 19th-Century Creation of Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Joseph M. Adelman, PhD Candidate in History, The Johns Hopkins University
The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765–1776
Michael Block, PhD Candidate in History, University of Southern California
Northeastern Merchants, the China Trade, and the Origins of California
Philippe R. Girard, Department of History, McNeese State University
Haiti’s First Ambassador: Joseph Bunel and Haiti’s Diplomatic and Commercial Missions to Philadelphia, 1798–1804
David J. Hancock, Department of History, University of Michigan
Voices in the Taverns: Anglo America, 1607–1815
Peter Hohn, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
Opportunity, Enterprise, and Loss: The Moral Economy of the Early Jacksonian Era
Nicholas Osborne, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
Building a Country by Saving its Money: The Role of Savings Ideas and Institutions in the Antebellum United States
Colleen Rafferty, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
The Contest Over the Pennsylvania Backcountry, 1730–1830
Ariel Ron, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
Conceiving an Industrial Nation: Protectionism, Scientific Agriculture, and the Origins of the Republican Economic Program
Jessica Roney, PhD Candidate in History, The Johns Hopkins University
First Movers in Every Useful Undertaking: Voluntary Associations in Philadelphia, 1725–1775
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Lara Cohen, Department of English, Wayne State University
Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Seth Cotlar, Department of History, Willamette University
The Cultural History of Nostalgia in Modernizing America, 1776–1860
Joanna Frang, PhD Candidate in American History, Brandeis University
Becoming American on the Grand Tour, 1750–1830
Marcus Gallo, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
Imaginary Lines, Real Power: Surveyors and Patronage Networks Along the Mid-Atlantic Borderlands, 1740–1810
Anthony Galluzzo, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Los Angeles
Revolutionary Republic of Letters: Anglo-American Radical Literature in the 1790s
Kristina Huff, PhD Candidate in English, University of Delaware
Gratitude, Servitude, and Book-Bound Benevolence: Anti-Slavery Gift Books in the Antebellum United States
Spencer D. C. Keralis, PhD Candidate in English and American Literature, New York University
Children of Wrath: Violence and Youth in Young America, 1692–1865
Marcia D. Nichols, PhD Candidate in English, University of South Carolina
“Let them see how curiously they’re made”: Constructing Female Sexuality in Anglo-Atlantic Midwifery Texts, 1690–1800
Dawn E. Peterson, PhD Candidate in American Studies, New York University
Unusual Sympathies: Race, Family, and Servitude in Jacksonian Politics
Jodi Schorb, Department of English, University of Florida
Incomplete Sentences: The Role of Literacy in Pennsylvania Prison Reform, 1787–1850
Wolfgang Splitter, Center for United States Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
The Correspondence of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg, 1753–1787
T.J. Tomlin, PhD Candidate in History, University of Missouri
Popular Theology in Popular Print: Almanacs and American Religious Life, 1730–1820
Damon Yarnell, PhD Candidate in History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Behind the Line: Purchasing Agents, Inter-firm Control, and the Origin of Mass Production, 1880–1927
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Caitlin A. Fitz, PhD. Candidate in History, Yale University
Agents of American Revolutions: Latin American Rebels in Philadelphia, 1808–1826
Rodney Hessinger, Department of History, Hiram College
Sexual Scandal and Sectarian Conflict in the Second Great Awakening
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Holger Hoock, Department of Cultural History, University of Liverpool
A Social and Cultural Study of Violence and Terror in the War of American Independence
Ben Marsh, Department of History, University of Stirling
Sericulture in the Atlantic World, c. 1500–c. 1800
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Gregory Kupsky, PhD Candidate, Ohio State University
German America and National Socialism, 1933–1945
Alyssa Ribeiro, PhD Candidate, University of Pittsburgh
City of Brotherly Love? Intergroup Relations between Blacks and Latinos in Philadelphia, 1940s–1980s
Joan Fragaszy Troyano, PhD Candidate, George Washington University
Presenting and Representing Ethnicity in the 1970s
2007–2008
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Lucia McMahon, Department of History, William Paterson University
Merely as the Equals of Man: Education, Equality, and Difference in the Early American Republic
Peter Reed, Department of English, Florida State University
Captivating Performances: Staging Atlantic Underclasses 1777–1852
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows
Jonathan Chu, Department of History, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Where’s Mine? The Legal and Economic Impact of the American Revolution
Michelle Craig McDonald, Department of Atlantic History, Stockton College
Regional Reliance: Coffee, the Caribbean, and the Early American Economy, 1765–1825
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow
Jeffrey Kaja, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Economic Development and the Evolution of Transportation Systems in Early Pennsylvania, 1675–1800
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Will Mackintosh, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
A Restless Nation: Travel and Social Mobility in the United States, 1790–1865
Joseph Rezek, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Los Angeles
Tales from Elsewhere: The Transatlantic Circulation of Anglophone Fiction, 1800–1850
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Joseph Adelman, PhD Candidate in History, The Johns Hopkins University
The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765–1776
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Michael Winship, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin
A History of the Book in America: The Industrial Book, 1840–1880
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Matthew Garrett, PhD Candidate in English, Stanford University
Episodic Poetics in the Early Republic, 1787–1837
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Courtney Fullilove, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
“Chemical Compositions” in American Patent Practice, 1787–1862
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture
Dalila Scruggs, PhD Candidate in History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
The Love of Liberty Has Brought Us Here: The American Colonization Society and the Imaging of African-American Settlers in Liberia, West Africa
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Joanna Cohen, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
“Millions of Luxurious Citizens.” Consumption and Citizenship in New York and Philadelphia, 1815–1876
Joe Conway, PhD Candidate in English & American Literature/American Culture Studies, Washington University at St. Louis
The Hard Value of U.S. Fiction in an Age of Domestic Panic: 1837–1857
Max Edling, Department of History, Uppsala University
Financing the Mexican War
Michelle Mormul, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Philadelphia’s Linen Merchants, 1765 to 1815
Brian Phillips Murphy, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
The Politics Corporations Make: Interests, Institutions, and the Formation of States and Parties in New York, 1783–1850
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Edward Andrews, PhD Candidate in History, University of New Hampshire
Prodigal Sons: Indigenous Missionaries in the British Atlantic, 1640–1790
Marie Basile, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
Churches Revised: Ethnic Communities and the First Great Awakening in Philadelphia
Michael Les Benedict, Department of History, Ohio State University
“The Favored Hour”: Constitutional Politics in the Era of Reconstruction
Catherine Cangany, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Frontier Seaport: Detroit’s Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepot, 1750–1825
John Davies, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Class, Culture, and Color: The Impact of Black Saint Dominguans on Free African-American Communities in the Early Republic
Janet Dean, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Bryant University
Complex Marriage and Plain Talk: Free Love, Free Speech, and Sex Radicalism in the Nineteenth Century U.S
Jeannine De Lombard, Department of English, University of Toronto
Ebony Idols: Fugitive Slaves in Britain
Yvonne Fabella, PhD Candidate in History, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Jealous Creoles and “Priestesses of Venus”: Gender, Race and the Negotiation of Identity in Colonial Saint Domingue, 1763–1789
Shona Johnston, PhD Candidate in History, Georgetown University
The Catholic Anglo-Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century
Daniel Mandell, Department of History, Truman State University
“All Men Are Created Equal”: The Evolution of the Concept of Equality in America, 1790–1860
Justine Murison, Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
States of Mind: The Politics of Psychology in American Literature, 1780–1860
Andrew Newman, Assistant Professor of English, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Language, Literacy and Native Land: Encountering the Delawares
Sue Peabody, Department of History, Washington State University
Free Soil in the Atlantic World: Philadelphia Connections
Douglas Shadle, PhD Candidate in Musicology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Bringing Music to a Nation: Philadelphia’s Musical Fund Society and Its Patrons, 1820–1846
Smadar Shtuhl, PhD Candidate in History, Temple University
For the Love of One’s Country: The Construction of a Gendered Memory, 1860–1914
Todd Thompson, PhD Candidate in English, University of Illinois at Chicago
American Satire and Political Change from Franklin to Lincoln
Emily Westkaemper, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
Martha Washington Goes Shopping: Mass Culture’s Gendering of History, 1910–1950
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Nicole Eustace, Department of History, New York University
War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812
Sean Harvey, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
American Languages: Natives and Philology, Nation and Empire, 1783–1857
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Matthew Pethers, King’s College London
Revolutionary Politics and the American Theater, 1750–1800
Maurizio Valsania, Department of Philosophy, University of Torino
The Curse of History: Leaders’ Distrust of American History, 1783–1828
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Kimberly Sims, Department of History, American University
Blacks, Italians, and the Politics of New York City Crime, 1900–1945
Carisa A. Worden, PhD Candidate in American Studies, New York University
“One Vast Brothel”: Sexuality and Servitude from Chattel Slavery to the “Black Side of White Slavery”
Katherine L. Turner, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Cooking and Eating Among Working-Class Americans, 1880–1930
2006–2007
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
NEH Postdoctoral Fellows
Rosalind Beiler, Department of History, University of Central Florida
Communication Networks and the Dynamics of Migration, 1660–1730
Gregory E. O’Malley, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
Final Passages: The British Inter-Colonial Slave Trade in the Long Eighteenth Century
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows
Marina Moskowitz, Department of History, University of Glasgow
Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America
Simon Newman, Department of History, University of Glasgow
The Transformation of Working Life and Culture in the Anglo-American Atlantic World, 1600–1800
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows
Candice Harrison, PhD Candidate in History, Emory University
The Contest of Exchange: Place, Power, and Politics in Philadelphia’s Public Markets, 1770–1859
Jessica Lepler, PhD Candidate in History, Brandeis University
1837: The Anatomy of a Panic
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Jenna M. Gibbs, PhD Candidate in History, UCLA
Imagining Race, Rights, and Citizenship in Transatlantic Theatricality (1770s–1850s)
Eric C. Stoykovich, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Live Stock Nation: The Political Economy and Agricultural Improvement of Farm Animals in the Northern United States, 1794–1870
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Joshua Beatty, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Performances of Authority: A Cultural History of the Stamp Act Crisis
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Johanna Archbold, PhD Candidate in History, Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies, Trinity College, Dublin
The development of the monthly magazine in Ireland, Scotland and America, 1770–1830
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Daniel Hulsebosch, New York University School of Law
Writs to Rights: The Transformation of the Anglo-American Common Law in the Age of Revolution
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Tanya R. Sheehan, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Portrait Photography as Social Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
David Davidson, PhD Candidate in History, Northwestern University
Republic of Risk: The Intellectual Basis of Entrepreneurship in America, 1783–1800
Lesley Doig, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
The Unexpected Costs of Revolution: Prosperity and Conflict in American Merchant Families, 1770–1820
Emily Pawley, PhD Candidate in the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Accounting with Money and Materials in Early American Agriculture
Justin Roberts, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Eighteenth-Century Slave Plantation Labor in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Anne Baker, Department of English, North Carolina State University
A Cultural Biography of Susanna Rowson
Jacqueline Cahif, PhD Candidate in History, University of Glasgow
Prostitution in Early Philadelphia
Jasmine Nichole Cobb, PhD Candidate in Communication and Culture, Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania
Activist Movement Among African American Women
John Cross, Department of Art, Media, and Design, London Metropolitan University
American Furniture Makers and their Influence on Colonial Jamaica
Carol Faulkner, Department of History, SUNY Geneseo
Lucretia Mott and Radical Abolition in Philadelphia
Simon Finger, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
Epidemic Constitutions: Public Health and Political Culture in the Port of Philadelphia, 1740–1800
Sara Babcox First, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Mechanics of Renown; or, the Rise of a Celebrity Culture in Early America
Susanna W. Gold, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
The Performance of Memory: Art, War, and Nation at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition
Saadia Lawton, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Wisconsin
Contested Meanings: The Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century British-American Responses to the Kneeling Slave Image
Stephanie Gray Mayer, PhD Candidate in Art History, Boston University
The Art of The Gift: Sully, Mount, Huntington and the Antebellum Gift Book Industry
Katherine E. Paugh, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
“The Strongest Interest in Preventing this Diminution”: Rationalizing Reproduction in the British West Indies, 1760–1833
Yvette Piggush, PhD Candidate in English, University of Chicago
Governing Imagination: American Social Romanticism 1790–1840
Kimberly Sambol-Tosco, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
Relational Politics: Gender, the Household, and African-American Public Culture in the North, 1780–1860
Thomas Saxton, PhD Candidate in History, Lehigh University
Living in Two Worlds: The Durability of Transatlantic Family Ties in the Delaware Valley
Stephanie Schnorbus, PhD Candidate in History, University of Southern California
For Secular or Religious Use?: The Changing Nature and Purpose of Elementary Education – Pennsylvania, 1681–1834
Lynda K. Yankaskas, PhD Candidate in History, Brandeis University
Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731–1851
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Friederike Baer, Honors College, University of Georgia
The Trial of Frederick Eberle: Language, National Identity, and Patriotism in Pennsylvania’s German Community, 1780–1820
Peter C. Messer, Department of History, Mississippi State University
Revolution by Committee: Religion, the Law, and Public Ceremony in the Birth of American Politics
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Lucy Frank, Department of English, Warwick University
Suturing the Nation: The Politics of Mourning in Postbellum America (1861–1886)
Francois Weil, Director, Centre d’études nord-américaines, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales
Family Trees: A Cultural History of Genealogy in America
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Rae Bielakowski, PhD Candidate, Loyola University, Chicago
“The Mystical Body”: Negotiating Ethnicity and Race
Russell A. Kazal, University of Toronto at Scarborough
The Lost World of Pennsylvania Pluralism: Immigrants, Local Intellectuals, and the Regional Roots of Multiculturalism, 1880–1970
Cristina Stanciu, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1880–1924
2005–2006
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
NEH Postdoctoral Fellows
Sally E. Hadden, Department of History, Florida State University
Legal Cultures in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
Wayne Bodle, Department of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
The Fabricated Region: Making the Middle Colonies of British North America
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows
Rohit T. Aggarwala, Department of History, Columbia University
Seat of Empire: New York, Philadelphia, and the Emergence of an American Metropolis, 1776–1837
François Furstenberg, Department of History, University of Montreal
French Émigrés in Philadelphia: The French Atlantic World and the Political, Geographical, and Economic Development of the Early U.S. Republic, 1789–1803
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow
James Fichter, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
The American East Indies, 1773–1815
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
William J. Campbell, PhD Candidate in History, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
Convergence of Interests in a Post-War Era: Agents, Indians, Speculators and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix
Jessica Roney, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
“Promoting a Nearer Connection”: Forms of Friendship in Philadelphia, 1730–1780
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Benjamin Ponder, PhD Candidate in Communication Studies, Northwestern University
“Common Sense”: Thomas Paine’s Rhetorical Revolution
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Nicholas Wrightson, PhD Candidate in History, Oxford University
The Role of the British and American Book Trades in the Development of Transatlantic Networks of Intellectual Exchange, 1730–1765
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Konstantin Dierks, Department of History, Indiana University
The Cultural Reach of Letter Writing in Anglophone Print Culture of the Eighteenth Century
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Lisa M. Hermsen, College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology
Manic America: A Rhetorical and Cultural History
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Konstantin Dierks, Indiana University, Bloomington
The Service Economy of Letter Writing in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
Regina Grafe, Oxford University
Fiscal Re-Distribution in the Spanish Empire
Emma Hart, St. Andrews University
The Meanings of the Market: A Cultural History of Consumer Behavior in Early America, 1607–1776
Peter Maw, PhD Candidate in History, University of Manchester
The Organizing and Financing of Anglo-American trade from 1783 to 1825
Marina Moskowitz, University of Glasgow
Seed Money: The economies of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America
Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin
The Industrial Book, 1840–1880
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Chiara Cillerai, PhD Candidate in English, Rutgers University
Cosmopolitanism and National Identity in Early American Writings
Kenneth Cohen, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Cultural Business: The Making and Meaning of Leisure in Early America, 1750–1840
Sarah Crabtree, PhD Candidate in History, University of Minnesota
A Nation of God: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution
Caroline Frank, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
China as Object and Idea in the Making of an American Identity, 1680–1820
Eric Gardner, Department of English, Saginaw Valley State University
Early African American Fortune-Telling
David Head, PhD Candidate in History, State University of New York, Buffalo
Pirates, Privateers, and Peaceful Trade: Commercial Legitimacy in the Early American Republic, 1815–1830
Liz K. Hutter, PhD Candidate in English, University of Minnesota
Drowning: Cultural Currents of Submersion and Buoyancy in the Nineteenth Century
Shawn Kimmel, PhD Candidate in American Culture, University of Michigan
From “Medical Police” to Public Hygiene in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Jennifer Manion, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
Prison Reform and the Criminal Identity in Early Pennsylvania: 1776–1835
Angela Murphy, PhD Candidate in History, University of Houston
Abolition, Irish Freedom, and Immigrant Citizenship: American Slavery and the Rise and Fall of the American Associations for Irish Repeal
Katie Oxx, PhD Candidate in Religion, Claremont Graduate University
“Considerate Portions”: The Complex Religious Ecology of Early National Philadelphia, 1827–1844
Christopher Phillips, PhD Candidate in English, Stanford University
Cultural Uses of Epic in the United States, 1785–1876
Trisha Posey, PhD Candidate in History, University of Maryland
Poverty Encounters: Unitarians, the Poor and Poor Relief in Antebellum Boston and Philadelphia
Judith A. Ridner, Department of History, Muhlenberg College
Remembering Actions Most Cruel and Barbarous: Connecting Memories of Violence in Ireland and America
Kyle Roberts, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
Reading the Evangelical Subject: Periodicals, Memoirs, and the Shaping of Popular Religious Belief in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City
Marcia C. Robinson, Department of Religion, Syracuse University
Frances Watkins Harper: Black Abolitionist Among the Women of Maine, 1854–1856
Martha Elena Rojas, Department of English, University of Rhode Island
Diplomatic Letters: The Conduct and Culture of Foreign Affairs in the Early Republic
Jennifer E. Schaaf, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
Gender, Benevolent Devotionalism, and the Quest for Respectability Among Philadelphia Catholics, 1820–1870
Kirsten Sword, Department of History, Indiana University
Wives Not Slaves: Dependence, Authority, and Justice in Early America
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Peter Kastor, Department of History, Washington University, St. Louis
An Accurate Empire: Describing America, 1776–1840
Kirsten Wood, Department of History, Florida International University
At the Crossroads: Taverns and the Making of America, 1765–1865
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Kate Davies, Department of English, University of York
Women, Letters, and the Atlantic World, 1760–1840
Simon Newman, Department of History, University of Glasgow
The Transformation of Working Life and Culture in the British Atlantic World, 1600–1800
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Ikuko Asaka, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Transnational Formations of Race, Gender, and Identities among Black Canadian Emigrationists, 1830–1869
Kathleen DeHaan, Department of Communication, Charleston College
Letters of Transit: Immigrants Write Their Diasporas
Rodrigo Lazo, Department of English, University of California, Irvine
Latin American Writers in Philadelphia, 1810–1830
2004–2005
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows
Brian Luskey, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Countinghouse Clerks and Counter Jumpers: Young Men and Society in the American Northeast, 1790–1860
Sharon Ann Murphy, Department of History, University of Virginia
A Matter of Life and Death: Life Insurance and the Emergence of the Modern American Economy
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow
Amanda B. Moniz, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
‘Labours in the Cause of Humanity in Every Part of the Globe’: Transatlantic Philanthropic Collaboration and the Cosmopolitan Ideal, 1760–1815
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Richard J. Bell, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
The Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760–1830
Matthew Osborn, PhD Candidate in American History, University of California, Davis
The Anatomy of Intemperance: Alcohol and the Diseased Imagination in Philadelphia, 1784–1850
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Thomas Hallock, Department of Literature, Eckerd College
William Bartram’s Manuscripts: A Selection of Unpublished Writings with Critical Essays
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Kevin J. Hayes, Department of English, University of Central Oklahoma
Reconstructing the Library of Benjamin Franklin
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Kate Haulman, Department of History, University of Alabama
Political Modes: The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Deborah Levine, PhD Candidate in History of Science, Harvard University
Diet and Nutrition in America: Information Transmission and the Invention of an American Body
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Sean Adams, Department of History, University of Central Florida
Fires of the Early Republic: The Technology, Consumption, and Household Economies of Heat
Jonathan Eacott, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Fashioning Societies: Eastern Goods in the Making of the Eighteenth-Century World
Robert Grant, Department of English, University of Kent
The Anglo-American West: global contexts/global economies
Karla Kelling, PhD Candidate in History, University of Washington, Seattle
Common Women: Class and Labor in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Eleanor Hayes McConnell, PhD Candidate in American Studies, University of Iowa
Economic Citizenship in Revolutionary New Jersey, 1763–1820
Michael W. Tuck, Department of History, Northeastern Illinois University
The Rise and Fall of the Atlantic Beeswax Trade, ca.1455- ca.1900
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Kerry Dean Carso, Department of Art History, College of Saint Rose
Narratives and Nationalism: A Cultural and Architectural History of American Follies, Ruins, and Summerhouses
Michael S. Carter, PhD Candidate in History, University of Southern California
Mathew Carey and the Public Emergence of Catholicism in the United States, 1789–1839
David Faflik, PhD Candidate in Early American Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
To the Boardinghouse: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840–1860
Charles Foy, PhD Candidate in Early American History, Rutgers University
Ports of Slavery, Ports of Freedom: How Slaves Utilized Northern Seaports Maritime Industry to Escape and Create Trans-Atlantic Identities, 1700–1783
John Robert Harper, PhD Candidate in History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Revolution and Conquest: Politics, Violence, and Social Change in the Ohio Valley, 1774–1803
Susan A. Hoffman, PhD Candidate in History, Lehigh University
The Consuming Ties That Bind: Gender, Production, Reproduction, and the Family During the Consumer Revolution in Pennsylvania, 1750–1810
Marion Horan, PhD Candidate in History, State University of New York, Binghamton
Trafficking in Danger: Working Women, Prostitutes, White Slaves, and Reform Movements in the United States and England, 1875–1910
Sara E. Johnson, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Saint Domingue Migrant Communities: The Formation of an Inter-American Literary Canon
Bradley A. Jones, PhD Candidate in History, University of Glasgow
The Impact of the American Revolution on the Patriotic Political Culture of Loyalism throughout the British Atlantic World
Richard Judd, Department of History, University of Maine
The Untilled Garden: Scientists, Settlers, and the Natural History of America, 1730–1850
Julie Chun Kim, PhD Candidate in Literature, Duke University
Food and the Discovery of Difference: Eighteenth-Century Accounts of the New World
Nathan Kozuskanich, PhD Candidate in History, Ohio State University
‘For the Security and Protection of the Community’: The Frontier and the Makings of Pennsylvania Constitutionalism, 1750–1776
Christopher Looby, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Public Prints
David Luis-Brown, Department of English, Lafayette College
Blazing at Midnight: Slave Rebellion and Social Identity in U.S. and Cuban Culture, 1844–1861
Robert Parkinson, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Enemies of the State: The Revolutionary War and Race in the New American Nation
Jonathan D. Sassi, Department of History, City University of New York, Staten Island
African Travel Narratives and Their Readers in Early America
Kyle G. Volk, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago
Tyrannies of Majorities: Democracy, Moral Reform, and the Creation of American Constitutional Rights Culture, 1830–1870
Bryan Waterman, Department of English, New York University
The Friendly Club of New York City: Early United States Literature in the Republic of Intellect
Karen Fisher Younger, PhD Candidate in History, Pennsylvania State University
Women, Missions, and African Colonization
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
April Haynes, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Bodies of Knowledge: Women’s Activism and Ideas in the Popular Health Movement, 1820–1873
Richard Newman, Department of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
Black Founder: Richard Allen and the Early American Republic
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Vassiliki Karali, PhD Candidate in History, University of Edinburgh
Political Anglicanism in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World, ca. 1760–1790: A Focus on Virginia, New York, and Pennsylvania
Katherine Ellinghaus, Department of History, University of Melbourne
Whitewashing: Miscegenation, Assimilation, and Genocide in the United States and Australia
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Christian Keller, Department of History, Dickinson College
Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and the Creation of German America
Dayle DeLancey, PhD Candidate in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Manchester
Piercing the ‘Veil’: Vaccines Against Smallpox and Polio and the Philadelphia Negro’s Struggle for Agency in Public Health and Medicine: 1915–1965
2003–2004
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows
Richard Chew, Visiting Assistant Professor in History, Bucknell University
Interests at Odds with Empire: Currency, the Coastal Trade, and the Making of American Nationhood
Brian Schoen, University of Virginia
The Fragile Economic Fabric of Union: The Cotton South, Federal Union, and the Atlantic World Economy, 1787–1860
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows
Linzy Brekke, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
The Scourge of Fashion: Clothing and Cultural Anxiety in the Economy of the New Nation, 1783–1800
James Alexander Dun, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
Dangerous Neighbors: Slavery, Race, and St. Domingue in the Early American Republic, 1789–1800
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Cameron C. Nickels, Professor of English, James Madison University
Civil War Humor
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Melissa J. Homestead, Assistant Professor of English, University of Oklahoma
American Gift Books as a Venue for Authorial Professionalism in Antebellum America
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Benjamin L. Carp, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Cityscapes and Revolution: Political Mobilization and Urban Spaces in North America, 1740–1783
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Jim Downs, Jr., PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
Diagnosing Reconstruction: Contagion, Freedom, and the Medical Division of the Freedmen’s Bureau
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Richard Demirjian, PhD Candidate in American History, The University of Delaware
‘To All the Great Interests’: Political Economy and the Road to a Monroe Doctrine, 1783–1823
Kim Gruenwald, Assistant Professor of History, Kent State University
Claiming a Continental Empire: Philadelphia Merchants and the Trans-Appalachian Frontier
Sherry Johnson, Florida International University
Mercantilism Meets Mother Nature: Climate, Colonialism, and Economic Change in Cuba, 1763–1783
Christian Koot, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Delaware
In Pursuit of Profit: Persistent Dutch Influence in the Inter-Imperial Trade of New York and the Lesser Antilles, 1621–1689
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Richard J. Bell, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
The Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760–1830
Keith Tony Beutler, PhD Candidate in History, Washington University
The Death of the Parents: Loss of the United States Founding Generation and Historicized Epistemologies of Memory, 1790–1840
Matthew J. Clavin, PhD Candidate in History, American University
Men of Color, to Arms! Remembering Toussaint Louverture and Haitian Revolution in the American Civil War
Catharine Dann, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Building and Planting: The Social Landscape of Philadelphia 1681–1750
Sarah A. Gordon, PhD Candidate in Art History, Northwestern University
Human Bodies in Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion
Barbara Groseclose, Professor of History of Art, Ohio State University
Ottoman Elements in Colonial Art: The Visual Culture of Trade
Kali Nicole Gross, Assistant Professor of History, Ursinus College
Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910
Sally E. Hadden, Assistant Professor of History and Law, Florida State University
Legal Cultures in Early American Cities: Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston
Amy H. Henderson, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware
Furnishing the Republic Court: The Building and Decorating of Philadelphia Homes, 1790–1800
Martha S. Jones, Assistant Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan
“All Bound Up Together”: The Woman Question in African-American Public Culture, 1830–1900
Catherine E. Kelly, Associate Professor of History, University of Oklahoma
Visual Culture in the Early American Republic
Kenneth J. Miller, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
“Dangerous Guests”: Enemy Prisoners, Revolutionary Communities, and American National Identity, 1760–1800
Heather Shawn Nathans, Assistant Professor of Theatre, University of Maryland
Lifting the Veil of Black: Sentiment and Slavery on the American Stage, 1787–1861
Karen Nipps, Senior Rare Book Cataloger, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Lydia Bailey, Philadelphia Printer, 1808–1861
James A. Schafer, Jr., PhD Candidate in the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Waiting for Patients: Markets, Communities, and the Practice of General Medicine in Philadelphia, 1900–1940
Arwin D. Smallwood, Associate Professor of History and Director, African American Studies Program, Bradley University
African American Studies Program, Bradley University: The Tuscarora: A History of the Sixth Iroquois Nation
Beverly Tomek, PhD Candidate in History, University of Houston
Abolitionists and Colonizationists: Crosscurrents in Pennsylvania’s Anti-Slavery Movement
Leonard von Morzé, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Berkeley
The French Atlantic: Mobility, Servitude, and the Social Bond in the Early American Republic
Geoffrey David Zylstra, PhD Candidate in History, Case Western Reserve University
The Industrialization of Space in Philadelphia’s Early Suburbs
Maria Zytaruk, Department of English, University of Toronto
Trading Curiosities: Transatlantic Natural History Exchanges
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
David Murray, Professor of American Studies, University of Nottingham
Body and Soul: Native and African American Representations
Muriel Schmid, Theologian, Switzerland
History of Prison Reform in America: Special Emphasis on Eastern State Penitentiary
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Jennifer Reed Fry, PhD Candidate in History, Temple University
“Our girls can match ’em every time”: The Political Activities of African American Women in Philadelphia, 1918–1941
Melissa R. Klapper, Assistant Professor of History, Rowan University
Small Strangers: Immigrant Children in America, 1880–1925
2002–2003
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow
Jane T. Merritt, Assistant Professor of History, Old Dominion University
The Trouble with Tea: Consumption, Politics, and the Making of a Global Colonial Economy
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows
Michelle L. Craig, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
From Cultivation to Cup: Coffee Trade and Consumption in the British Atlantic Empire, 1765–1833
Stephen A. Mihm, PhD Candidate in History, New York University
Making Money: Bank Notes, Counterfeiting, and Confidence, 1789–1877
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Robb K. Haberman, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
The Development of Magazine Publishing in Antebellum America: 1800–1860
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Beth Barton Schweiger, Assistant Professor of History, University of Arkansas
Reading Slavery: Southerners and Their Books
Morgan Fellow in the History of the Book
Patrick Erben, PhD Candidate in English, Emory University
German-American Writing in Manuscript and Print
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Sarah E. Mitchell, PhD Candidate in History, University of Southampton
Changing Perceptions of the Conjoined Body: A Social and Cultural History
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Phyllis Whitman Hunter, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Geographics of Capitalism: Imagining ‘the Orient’ in Early America
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Carl Robert Keyes, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Advertising and the Commercial Community in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
Julia C. Ott, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Selling Confidence: Credit, Character, and the Origins of American Market Culture
Andrew Schocket, Assistant Professor of History, Bowling Green State University:
Consolidating Power: Inventing the Corporate Sphere in Philadelphia, 1780–1840
Brian Schoen, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Southern Freetraders vs. Pennsylvania Protectionists: The Print Battle for National Political Economic Policy, 1819–1846
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Corey Capers, PhD Candidate in History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
On the Streets and in the Vernacular: Popular Culture, Publicity, and Race-making in the American Early Republic
James Alexander Dun, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University: Dangerous Neighbors
Slavery, Race, and St. Domingue in the Early American Republic, 1791–1820
Peter S. Genovese, Jr., PhD Candidate in History, Bowling Green State University
Law, Labor, and Freedom: Working-Class Constructions of Free Labor in the Northeastern United States, 1780s–1880s
Teresa Goddu, Associate Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
Selling Antislavery: Antebellum Literature and the Culture of the Marketplace
Ann N. Greene, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
Horses as a Power Technology, 1810–1910
Jerome S. Handler, Senior Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Nancy A. Holst, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware
Architecture, Identity, and the Suburban Ideal in Germantown, 1830–1870
Jennifer Lawrence Janofsky, PhD Candidate in History, Temple University
‘There is no hope for the likes of me’: Eastern State Penitentiary, 1829–1893
Karl M. Kippola, PhD Candidate in Theatre, University of Maryland
Out of the Forrest and into the Booth: Performance of Masculinity on the American Stage, 1828 to 1865
Clare A. Lyons, Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland
Mapping an Atlantic Sexuality Culture
Douglas F. Mann, PhD Candidate in History, University of Georgia
Becoming Creole: Material Life and Society in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica
William S. McFeely, Writer/Historian, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
A Biography of Thomas Eakins
Donald J. McNutt, PhD Candidate in English, University of Arizona
Cities, Homes, and Other Ruins in American Literature, 1790–1860
David Morgan, Duesenberg Chair in Christianity and the Arts, Christ College, Valparaiso University
A History of the Religious Tract in Nineteenth-Century America
Susan Jennifer Pearson, PhD Candidate in History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
‘The Rights of the Defenseless’: Children, Animals, and the Rhetoric of Rights in American Reform, 1865–1930
Birte Britta Pfleger, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Irvine
The Creation of a Gendered Middle Ground in Penn’s Woods: Public Discourse, Community and Diversity in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania
Molly Rogers, School of Art and Design, Coventry University
The Zealy/Agassiz Daguerreotypes
Christine E. Sears, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Barbary Slaves: American Captives in Barbary, 1776–1830
Karen A. Sherry, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware
Exposing the ‘Natural’ Woman: Female Bodies in American Visual Culture, 1785–1830
Jennifer E. Snead, Lecturer in English, University of Pennsylvania
A ‘Strife of Words’: Transatlantic Eighteenth-Century Print Culture and the Publications of John Wesley
John Wood Sweet, Assistant Professor of History, Catholic University
The Natural History of Race in the Early Republic
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Luca Codignola, Professor of History, University of Genoa
The Roman Catholic Networks in the North Atlantic Area in an Age of Revolutions, 1756–1846
Sylvia Lyn Hilton, Professor of History, Complutense University
American Immigration to Spanish Louisiana and Floridas: Mobility and the Negotiation of Identity on Early Western Frontiers, 1776–1803
Carola Wessel, Research Fellow in History, Göttingen University
Bibliography and Edition of German-Language Broadsides Printed in North America, 1700–1830
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies
Stephanie Dyer, Lecturer in History, University of California, Davis
Markets in the Meadows: Shopping Centers and Suburban Sprawl in Metropolitan Philadelphia, 1922–1980
Margaret McAleer, Senior Archivist, Manuscript Division, The Library of Congress
Civil Stranger: The Irish in Philadelphia during the Early National Period
2001–2002
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow
Seth Rockman, Assistant Professor of History, Occidental College
Between Freedom and Slavery: Working for Wages in Early Baltimore and Philadelphia
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow
Shawn Kimmel, PhD Candidate in American Studies, University of Michigan
Political Economy in Philadelphia’s Pamphlet Literature of Philanthropy and Reform, 1825–1855
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Shirley Samuels, Professor of Humanities, University of Delaware
Facing the Nation: Cultural Iconography and the Civil War
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Peter Brownlee, PhD Candidate in American Studies, George Washington University
Vision and the Cultural Production of Market Revolution: Changing Formation of American Visual Culture, 1828–1855
Morgan Fellow in the History of the Book
Patrick Erben, PhD Candidate in English, Emory University
German-American Writing in Manuscript and Print
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Mark Schmeller, Lecturer in History, Rice University
Phrenology Surveys the Public Mind
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Jennifer Anderson-Lawrence, PhD Candidate in History, New York University
Mahogany as a Commodity in the Atlantic World Economy
Kenryu Hashikawa, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
City and Country in the Early Republic: Social and Economic Networks in the New York-Philadelphia Region
Brian Luskey, PhD Candidate in History, Emory University: Marginal Men
Clerks and the Social Boundaries of 19th-Century America
Sarah Hand Meacham, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
The Topography of Drink: Gender and the Creation of a Market for Alcohol in Early Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Thomas Augst, Assistant Professor of English, University of Minnesota
The Sobriety Test: Temperance, Manhood and Practice of Citizenship, 1820–1920
Kevin Berland, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University at Shenango
William Byrd’s Histories of the Dividing Line
Patricia Prandini Buckler, Associate Professor of English, Purdue University North Central
Antebellum Scrapbooks, Albums and Commonplace Books
Eric Burin, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Dakota
Reckoning with Slavery: American Colonization Society Manumissions
Jane E. Calvert, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago
Dissenters in Our Own Country: 18th-Century Quakerism and the Limits of American Political Legitimacy
James Carrott, PhD Candidate in History, University of Wisconsin at Madison
The “Paxton Boys” Unmask’d: Settlers, Native Americans, and Resistance on the Pennsylvania Frontier, 1730–1771
James W. Cook, Jr., Assistant Professor of History and American Culture, University of Michigan
Cracks in the White Republic: Race, Culture and Transgression in the U.S. North, 1780–1865
Francois Furstenberg, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Ideological Origins of American Nationalism, 1800–1848
Scott Gac, PhD Candidate in History, Queens College-City University of New York
The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America
Lori Ginzberg, Associate Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Sexual and Religious Transgression and 19th-Century Women’s Citizenship
Gabriele Gottlieb, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pittsburgh
“A Solemn Warning and Caution to Every One”: Capital Punishment in Early America, 1750–1800
Joshua Greenberg, PhD Candidate in History, American University
Advocating “The Man”: Masculinity and the Critique of the Market Revolution in New York, 1800–1840
Matthew Pratt Guterl, Assistant Professor of History, Washington State University
After Slavery: Emancipation in the Atlantic World, 1830–1880
Jennifer J. Harper, PhD Candidate in Art History, Yale University
Popular Imagery Intended to Promote Abolitionism
Thomas J. Humphrey, Assistant Professor of History, Cleveland State University, Cleveland State University
Forging Community: Cultures of Violence in the Pennsylvania Backcountry, 1753–1815
Benjamin H. Irvin, PhD Candidate in History, Brandeis University
Representative Men: Personal and National Identity in the Continental Congress
Daniel Kilbride, Assistant Professor of History, John Carroll University
The Grand Tour: Americans, European Travel, and the Formation of American Culture, 1760–1865
Michael Mackintosh, PhD Candidate in History, Temple
The Nature of Contact: Natives, Newcomers, and the Natural World in Pennsylvania, 1638–1765
Holly Mayer, Associate Professor of History, Duquesne University
Soldier to Citizen: Military Service and the Development of American Identity during the Revolution
John McCurdy, PhD Candidate in History, Washington University in St. Louis
The Rank of Men Called Bachelors: Manhood, Family and 18th-Century Anglo-American Cultural Change
Amrita Myers, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
Negotiating Freedom: Being Free, Black and Female in Charleston, South Carolina, 1790–1860
Carl Smith, Professor of History, Northwestern University
The Cultural History of Water in Urban America
Olivia Smith Storey, Associate Professor of Literary Studies, Colby-Sawyer College
Fly Away Home: Orality and Literature in Great Britain, the Caribbean and African America
Marrianne S. Wokeck, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis
Between Tradition and New Ways: The Role Pastors Modeled for German Settlers in Colonial German America
Aaron Wunsch, PhD Candidate in Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
Laurel Hill Cemetery
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Adrienne Hood, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto
Fashion and Memory
Silvia Sebastiani, PhD Candidate in History and Civilization, European University Institute
Race, Women and Progress in the Debate of the Scottish Enlightenment
2000–2001
Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow
Donna J. Rilling, Assistant Professor of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Industry, Environment, and Community in the Early 19th Century Greater Delaware Valley
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow
Katherine Carté, PhD Candidate in Early American History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Of Heaven and Earth: Economic Activity and Religion Among Backcountry Moravians, 1740–1800
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
McLean Contributionship Fellow
David R. Brigham, Curator of American Art, Worcester Art Museum
Peale’s Museum of Art and Science and its Precedents in 18th-Century Philadelphia
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Susan Branson, Assistant Professor of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas, Dallas
Mary Clarke Carr: First Female Editor of an American Women’s Magazine
Morgan Fellow in the History of the Book
Louise L. Stevenson, Professor of History and American Studies, Franklin and Marshall College
Women’s Literacy in the Early Republic and British and American Literature, 1750–1850
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Sean Patrick Adams, Assistant Professor of History, University of Central Florida: Old Dominion and Industrial Commonwealths
The Political Economy of Coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1810–1875
Brooke Hunter, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
The Threshold of Exchange: The Flour Industry of the Lower Delaware River Valley, 1750–1820
Elizabeth M. Nuxoll, Adjunct Assistant Professor of American History, Long Island University
A Biography of Robert Morris
Joseph T. Rainer, PhD Candidate in American Studies, The College of William & Mary
The Honorable Fraternity of Moving Merchants: Yankee Peddlers in the Old South, 1800–1860
Rohit Daniel Wadhwani, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
The Social, Economic, and Political Origins of Expanding Access to Financial Institutions in the 19th Century Northeast
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
David J. Anthony, Assistant Professor of English, Southern Illinois University
White Collar Gothic: Debtor Masculinity, Submission, and the U.S. Bank in Antebellum America
Radiclani Clytus, PhD Candidate in African-American Studies and American Studies, Yale University
Touring the Empire: Transatlantic Art and the Cultural Vision of 19th-Century Modernity
Steven Conn, Assistant Professor of History, Ohio State University
Encounters with History: Native Americans in the 19th-Century Imagination
James Delbourgo, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
Political Electricity: Experimentalism, Enthusiasm and Enlightenment in 18th Century British America
Ian Frederick Finseth, PhD Candidate in English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Science and Pastoralism in American and African American Antislavery Literature
Alicia María Gaméz, Fellow, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Making American Nature: Scientific Narratives of Order and Origin in Visual and Literary Conceptions of Race in the Early American Republic
Jacqueline Goldsby, Assistant Professor of English, Cornell University
A Spectacular Secret: The Cultural Logic of Lynching in American Life and Literature, 1882–1992
Christopher J. Lukasik, PhD Candidate in English, Johns Hopkins University
Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and The Body in American Literacy and Visual Culture, 1780–1850
Carla J. Mulford, Associate Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University
Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire
Simon P. Newman, Director, Andrew Hooke Centre for American Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Historical Bodies: Death and Dying in Early National Philadelphia
Elisa Tamarkin, Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
American Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion and National Culture, 1800–1865
Ashli White, PhD Candidate in American History, Columbia University
‘A Flood of Impure Lava’: Saint Dominguan Refugees in the United States, 1791–1820
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Alex Preda, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Bielefeld
The Market and the Steam Engine: How Natural Sciences Shaped Financial Markets in the 19th Century U.S. and Europe
Jane Lois Rendall, Co-Director, Centre for 18th Century Studies, University of York
The End of New Caledonia: Scottish Women and Enlightened Networks, 1795–1813
1999-2000
Short-Term Fellow of the Library Company of Philadelphia
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Augusta Rohrbach, Assistant Professor of English, Oberlin College
Material Contexts of Literary Realism from Abolition to the Harlem Renaissance
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Peter X. Accardo, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Byron’s American Editions Printed to the Year 1830, A Bibliography
Dee E. Andrews, Associate Professor of History, California State University, Hayward
Representing an Equal and Universal Liberty: The First Generation of American Antislavery
Erica Renée Armstrong, PhD Candidate in American History, Columbia University
The Transforming Identities of African American Women in Philadelphia, 1780–1850
Friederike Baer-Wallis, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
Imagining How They Lived: German-Americans in the Early American Republic, 1783–1820
Wendy Bellion, PhD Candidate in Art History, Northwestern University
Likeness and Deception in Art of the Early American Republic
Jeannine DeLombard, Assistant Professor of English, University of Puget Sound
The Juridical Metaphor in Antebellum Literary Abolitionism
Nathaniel Alexander Frank, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
Producing Men: Work, Manhood, and the Rise of Capitalism in the Early American Republic
Robert Anthony Garson, Director, David K. Bruce Centre for American Studies, Keele University
The Adoption of the U.S. Dollar and the Forging of a National Identity, 1776–1792
Kevin P. Gumienny, PhD Candidate in History, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Creating “A Thirst for Knowledge:” Natural Philosophy and Natural History in 18th-Century America
David J. Hancock, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
Wine and the Emerging Atlantic Economy, 1703–1807
Sam W. Haynes, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas, Arlington
Anti-British Sentiment and the Emergence of an American Post-Colonial Identity
Etta M. Madden, Assistant Professor of English, Southwest Missouri State University
Pictures of Health: Responses to Benjamin Rush’s Teachings on Temperance, 1800–1850
Jon S. Miller, PhD Candidate in American Literature, University of Iowa
Prohibition and Parties: Temperance in 19th-Century American Literature and Culture
Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago
Urban Social Experiences and Hotel Life in 19th-Century America
Laura Schiavo, PhD Candidate in American Studies, George Washington University
Stereographs, Perception, and American Middle-Class Identity, 1850–1882
Nina Catherine Stoyan-Rosenzweig, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Farmers and the Exploitation of Wildlife Resources: Overuse or Husbanding?
Kirsten Sword, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Wayward Wives, Runaway Slaves and the Limits of Patriarchal Authority in Early America
Stephen Whitman, Assistant Professor of History, Mount St. Mary’s College
Regions, Borders, and Race: Free People of Color in the Mid-Atlantic, 1750–1860
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Sarah Catherine Knott, PhD Candidate in History, Oxford University
The Culture of Sensibility in the Era of the American Revolution
Marco Sioli, Department of American History, University of Milan
Democratic Republican Societies of the 18th Century: The Western Pennsylvania Experience
1998-1999
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Jeanne Boydston, Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Remember the Ladies: Gender, Labor, and Political Culture in the Early American Republic
Stephanie M.H. Camp, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
Viragos: Slave Women’s Everyday Politics in the Old South
Alexandra M. Cornelius, PhD Candidate in History, Washington University
“A man’s a man for a‘ that”: The Black Response to the Rise of Scientific Racism
Carolyn Eastman, PhD Candidate in American History, Johns Hopkins University
Oratory, Print, and the Development of the AmericanPpublic, 1780–1830
Paul J. Erickson, PhD Candidate in American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Welcome to Sodom: The Cultural Work of the American City-Mysteries Novel, 1840–1860
Martha Hodes, Assistant Professor of History, New York University
Place and Race, Borders and Identities: Black and White Migrations in the Civil War Era
Theodore Kornweibel, Jr., Professor of Africana Studies, California State University, San Diego
The African American Railroad Heritage
Daniel L. Letwin, Assistant Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University
Black Political Thought and the Social Equality Question in Nineteenth-Century America
W.T. Lhamon, Jr., Professor of English, Florida State University
Jump Jim Crow
Trish Loughran, PhD Candidate in English, University of Chicago
Virtual Nation: Local and National Cultures in Print, 1776–1850
Louis P. Masur, Professor of History, City College of the City University of New York
The American Republic in 1831
Margaret O. Meredith, PhD Candidate in History of Science, University of California, San Diego
A Noble Commerce: American Interpretations of Fossil Bones in the Atlantic World, 1780–1815
Eric Slauter, PhD Candidate in American Literature, Stanford University
The State as a Work of Art: Politics and the Cultural Origins of the Constitution
Kariann Yokota, PhD Candidate in U.S. History, University of California, Los Angeles
From an Unstable Beginning: National Identity and the Practice of Everyday Life in Post-Colonial America
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Alice Fahs, Assistant Professor of American History, University of California, Irvine
Publishing the Civil War: Popular Literature and the Meanings of the Nation, 1861–1865
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Zhangcan Cheng, Associate Professor of Chinese, Nanjing University
American Image of China From 1784–1844: Media and Knowledge
Glenn Moore, Lecturer in American History, University of Melbourne
Useful Leisure Activities in Nineteenth-Century America
1997-1998
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Dorri R. Beam, PhD Candidate in American Literature, University of Virginia
Purple Protests: The Highly Wrought Tradition in 19th-Century Women’s Writing
Gary R. Dyer, Assistant Professor of English, Idaho State University
The Sexual Politics of Chivalry, 1790–1850
Jon-Paul Dyson, PhD Candidate in History, SUNY Buffalo
Learning About Nature: Children and Natural History in the 19th Century
Catherine M. Eagan, PhD Candidate in English, Boston College
The Racialization of the Irish on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Todd A. Estes, Assistant Professor of History, Oakland University
Humor, Politics and the Political Culture of the 1790s
Michelle Garfield, PhD Candidate in History, Duke University
The Politics of Knowledge: Black Women’s Literary Societies in the Antebellum North
Ruth Wallis Herndon, Assistant Professor of History, University of Toledo
Growing Up in Early America
Peter C. Mancall, Professor of History, University of Kansas
Two Richard Hakluyts and the Creation of English America
Michael Meranze, Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
The Fragility of Justice: Police, Political Economy, and Sympathy in the Early Republic
David Brett Mizelle, PhD Candidate in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Exhibition Animals and the Boundary Between Man and Beast in Early America
Adrienne Munich, Professor of English, Director of Women’s Studies, SUNY Stonybrook
God Bless Our Queen: Victoria in America
Samuel Otter, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
Representing Race
Ellen Sacco, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of California, Los Angeles
Spectacular Masculinities: The Museums of Peale, Baker and Bowen in the Early Republic
Dennis M. Shannon, Assistant Professor of History, Auburn University, Montgomery
Mathew Carey and the Political Culture of the Early Republic
Emily B. Todd, PhD Candidate in English, University of Minnesota
Sir Walter Scott and 19th-century American Publishing History
Shirley Teresa Wajda, Assistant Professor of History, Kent State University
The Popular Reception of Phrenology by Americans
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Philip Mark Katz, Lecturer in History, Princeton University
The French Diaries of General John Meredith Read, U.S. Consul-General, 1870–71
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Pere Gifra-Adroher, Assistant Professor of English, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Between History and Romance: Travel Writing on Spain in Antebellum American Culture
Christine Hucho, PhD Candidate, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
Foreign and Female: German Immigrant Women in 18th-Century Pennsylvania
1996-1997
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
David Brigham, Assistant Professor of Art and American Studies, Lebanon Valley College
Mark Catesby and the Subscribers to His Natural History of Carolina
Andrew Coopersmith, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Civil War Propaganda
Seth Cotlar, PhD Candidate in History, Northwestern University
In Paine’s Absence: The Europeanization of American Political Thought, 1787–1803
Pattie Cowell, Professor of English, Colorado State University
A Colonial Mid-Atlantic Writers’ Circle
Leslie J. Delauter, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Berkeley
American Gothic and Revolutions of Popular Culture before the Civil War
Sarah E. Fatherly, PhD Candidate in History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Women, Religion, and Commercial Culture in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
Kristen Foster, PhD Candidate in History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Struggle for a Virtuous Republic in Philadelphia, 1787–1837
Anthony A. Iaccarino, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Los Angeles
The Problem of Slavery in Early National Virginia, 1780–1832
Susan M. Ryan, PhD Candidate in English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Cultural Politics of Benevolence in Antebellum America
Helen Tangires, PhD Candidate in American Studies, George Washington University
Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Travel Grants
Thomas F. Bonnell, Associate Professor of English, Saint Mary’s College
Publishing the Classics of British Poetry, 1765–1810
Randall K. Burkett, Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University
Afro-American Publishers and Publishing, 1872–1961
Ann Fidler, PhD Candidate in Law and History, University of California, Berkeley
American Legal Self-Help Publications and Their English Origins
Mark Reinberger, Assistant Professor of Environmental Design, University of Georgia
The Architecture and Landscape of the Philadelphia Colonial Country House
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Warren McDougall, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh
The Scottish Book Trade to Philadelphia in the Eighteenth Century
Marcus M. G. Wood, Research Fellow, University of Manchester
American Abolition Publications in the Nineteenth Century
1995-1996
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Martin J. Burke, Fulbright Lecturer, University College, Galway
Protestants, Catholics, and the Construction of Religious Identities in America, 1700–1900
Donald Farren, independent scholar, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Books Published by Subscription in 18th-Century America
Wilma King, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University
Free Women of Color in North America, 1670–1870
Elizabeth Milroy, Assistant Professor of Art History, Wesleyan University
Art Exhibitions in Philadelphia, 1850–1875
Andrew R. Murphy, PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America
Richard Newman, PhD Candidate in History, SUNY Buffalo
The Transformation of American Abolition, 1790–1830s
Edward L. Schwarzschild, Honors Fellow, Sweet Briar College
American Writers Confront the Photograph: The Photographs of Robert Montgomery Bird
Stephen P. Rice, PhD Candidate in American Studies, Yale University
Incorporating the Machine into the Work Place, 1820–1885
Nancy F. Rosenberg, independent scholar, Brooklyn, New York
Quakers and the Origins of Public Education in Early 19th-Century Philadelphia
Paul Sternberger, PhD Candidate in Art History, Columbia University
Photography and Landscape in America, 1880–1900: Between the Amateur and Aesthete
Karin A. Wulf, Assistant Professor of History, American University
Milcah Martha Moore’s Book: The Commonplace Book of an 18th-Century American
McLean Contributionship Fellow
James Raven, Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Book Importation in Colonial Philadelphia
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Shane White, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Sydney
African-American Style from the 17th Century to the 1930s
Jussara Menezes Quadros, PhD Candidate in Literary Theory, State University of Campinas
Romantic Edition: Literature and the Art of the Book in the Romantic Period
1994-1995
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Christine Bell, PhD Candidate in Art History, Northwestern University
A Family Conflict: Visual Imagery of the “Homefront” in the American Civil War (1861–1866)
Ernest Freeberg, PhD Candidate in History, Emory University
The Education of Laura Bridgman, the First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language
Maurice Jackson, PhD Candidate in History, Georgetown University
Anthony Benezet and the Age of the Atlantic Revolution
Daniel P. Kilbride, PhD Candidate in History, University of Florida
Philadelphia and the Southern Elite: Class, Culture, and Kinship in Antebellum America
Michael D. Layton, PhD Candidate in Political Science, Duke University
The Origin of American Political Parties in the States, 1776–1787
Margaret H. McAleer, PhD Candidate in History, Georgetown University
Paupers, Criminals, and Gentlemen: Philadelphia’s Irish, 1785–1805
Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Professor of English, Florida State University
An Edition of the Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt
Richard E. Powell, Jr., PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
The Animate Creation: Artifacts and Domestic Life
Merril D. Smith, Instructor in History, Temple University
Between Generations: Mothers and Daughters and the Transmission of Culture in Early America
David M. Stewart, PhD Candidate in English, University of Chicago
Reading American Sensationalism: Print, Pleasure, and the Contexts of Popular Response, 1835–1870
Mark Valeri, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Lewis and Clark College
Concepts of Moral Discipline and the Transition to Capitalism in Early America
McLean Contributionship Fellow
George W. Boudreau, PhD Candidate in History, Indiana University.
The Surest Foundation of Happiness: Education and Society in Franklin’s Philadelphia
Travel Grants
John W. Pulis, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Adelphi University
Bridging Troubled Waters: African Americans, the Free Black Community, and Afro-Christianity in Jamaica
Alan Rudrum, Professor of English, Simon Fraser University
Books owned by Henry Vaughan
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Barra Foundation International Research Fellow in American History and Culture
James Walvin, Provost, Alcuin College, University of York
Slavery Systems in the Modern World
1993-1994
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Carol Colatrella, Assistant Professor of Literature, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Cities, Ships, and Jails: Reforming Reading and the Rhetoric of Melville’s Fiction
James W. Cook, Jr., PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
Victorian American Illusionism
Cheryl J. Fish, PhD Candidate in English and American Literature, City University of New York
Travelling Through: Gender, Race and Social Transformation in American Travel Narratives
Susan Lindsey Lively, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Going Home: Americans in Britain in the Eighteenth Century
Barbara Bowen Oberg, Editor and Director, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University
“Happily situated in my own house”: Franklin’s Final Years in Philadelphia
Christopher W. Phillips, Assistant Professor of History, Emporia State University
“Negroes and other slaves”: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790–1860
Patrick J. Rael, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
Black Thought in the North, 1827–1860
Vivien Sandlund, PhD Candidate in American History, Emory University
The Ideas and Strategies of the Gradual Emancipationists, 1800–1850
Thomas P. Slaughter, Professor of History, Rutgers University
Curious Gardeners: The Nature of John and William Bartram
Louise L. Stevenson, Associate Professor of History, Franklin and Marshall College
Women’s Intellectual Life in the United States
Virginia Stewart, PhD Candidate in History, Northwestern University
Reading the Provincial Mind: Dilemmas of American Political Identity, 1720–1776
Terence Whalen, Assistant Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago
Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Carol Sue Humphrey, Associate Professor of History, Oklahoma Baptist University
Development of the American Media, 1800–1825
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Barra Foundation International Research Fellow in American History and Culture
Sergei I. Zhuk, Professor of History, Dniepropetrovsk University, Ukraine
In Search for “New Canaan”: Ethos and Society in Colonial Pennsylvania
1992-1993
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Keith Arbour, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Benjamin Franklin’s Reputation and the Fashioning of the Young Republic, 1790–1845
Thane Bryant, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
Poverty and Poor Relief in Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1790–1840
Patricia Crain, PhD Candidate in English, Columbia University
Cultures of Reading in the American Renaissance
Cynthia Anne Kierner, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Reading and Southern Women, 1720–1820
Clare A. Lyons, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Changing Patterns of Sexuality in Philadelphia, 1750–1830
Jacquelyn C. Miller, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
The Body Politic: Disease and Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution
Dana D. Nelson, Assistant Professor of English, Louisiana State University
Naked Nature: Science, Masculinity and the Engendering of “Race” in 19th-Century America
Leslie Cheryl Patrick-Stamp, Assistant Professor of History, Bucknell University
Ideology and Punishment: The Crime of Being Black, Pennsylvania, 1639–1804
Robert F. Reid-Pharr, PhD Candidate in American Studies, Yale University
Conjuring Nation: Class, Gender and the Development of an African-American Nation Literature, 1827–1862
Everett C. Wilkie, Jr., head librarian, Connecticut Historical Society
European/American Emigration Literature through 1815: A Descriptive Bibliography
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Carol Nackenoff, Associate Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College
Political Discourse in Antebellum America
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Barra Foundation International Research Fellow in American History and Culture
Karen O’Brien, research fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge
History and Environmentalism in America, 1760–1800
1991
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Bonnie Barthold, Department of English, Western Washington University
“Africa” in American Discourse, 1808–1865
Martha Jane Brazy, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Duke University
The World a Slaveholder Made: Stephen Duncan and Plantation Society
Robert Dunne, PhD Candidate, Department of English, Lehigh University
Multi-Cultural Perspectives of the American Dream
Todd A. Estes, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Kentucky
Federalist Party Ideology in the Early 1790s
Michael Grossberg, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University
Motherhood on Trial: The d’Hauteville Custody Case and Social Change in Antebellum America
Jeffrey L. Pasley, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
Professional Politicians in the Early Republic, 1787–1856
John Wood Sweet, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
Eighteenth-Century Images of African-Americans and Indians
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Marcus Daniel, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
Ribaldry and Billingsgate: Popular Journalism and Political Culture in the Early Republic
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Barra Foundation International Research Fellow in American History and Culture
William A. Speck, Professor of Modern History, University of Leeds
Electoral Behavior in Colonial Pennsylvania
1990
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Zachariah Poulson Fellows
William B. Todd and Dr. Ann Bowden, Austin, Texas
A Descriptive and Historical Bibliography of Sir Walter Scott, 1792–1836
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Everett C. Wilkie, Jr., Connecticut Historical Society
A Bibliography of the Literature of Emigration to America to 1815
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Summer Research Fellows
Iver Bernstein, Department of History, Washington University
The Origins of the American Civil War
Joanna Cowden, Department of History, California State University, Chico
The Politics of Dissent: Northern Peace Democrats and the War against the Confederacy
Brian Greenberg, Department of History, University of Delaware
Workers’ Response to Industrialization in America
D.G. Hart, Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton College
A Social History of Philadelphia Presbyterianism
Jessica Kross, Department of History, University of South Carolina
To Live a Religious Life in the World: Rebecca Jones and her Circle
Peter C. Mancall, Department of History, University of Kansas
Alcohol and Empire: Indians, Colonists, and the Liquor Trade in British America
Paul Nierman, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Temple University
Samuel G. Dixon, Pennsylvania’s First State Health Commissioner
Angelita Reyes, Women’s Studies Program, University of Iowa
Paradigms of Unsung Women in African American and Caribbean Women’s Writing
Alan Taylor, Department of History, Boston University
William Cooper’s Town: Recreating Authority in Post-Revolutionary America
Mathew Ward, PhD Candidate, Department of History, The College of William & Mary
The Impact of the Seven Years’ War on the Virginia and Pennsylvania Frontier
John C. Wills, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
Retail Trade and the Consumer Revolution in Post-Revolutionary Philadelphia
Barra Foundation International Research Fellow in American History and Culture
Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, PhD Candidate, Paris VII, and Professeur Assistant, Groupe HEC
Science and American Ideology in the Early Republic
1989
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia
McLean Contributionship Fellows
Alfred Owen Aldridge, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois
The Reaction to China in the America of the Enlightenment
Elaine Forman Crane, Department of History, Fordham University
An edition of The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Summer Research Fellows
Cheryll Ann Cody, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Houston
Slaves and Freedmen in St. Ann’s Parish, Jamaica, 1758–1840
James M. Gallman, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Loyola College in Maryland
Irish Immigrants in Philadelphia and Liverpool
Carol F. Karlsen, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan
Women’s and Men’s Work among the Indians
Rebecca Larson, PhD Candidate, Department of History of American Civilization, Harvard University
Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women Traveling Ministers
Adam Norman Lynde, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Temple University
Professionalism of the British Army in North America, 1755–1830
Frederick L. McElroy, Assistant Professor, Department of Afro-American Studies, Indiana University
Eighteenth-Century Evangelical Anti-Slavery Literature
G. Roeber, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
The Culture of German America, 1727–1789
Nick Salvatore, Associate Professor, Cornell University
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations: “Amos Webber, Black Philadelphian”
Hugh R. Slotten, PhD Candidate, Department of History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey
Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture
Claire Lamont, Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, School of English Language and Literature
The Impact of Sir Walter Scott’s Novels in America
Reinhard Spindler, Department of History of the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
The Philadelphia-India Trade, 1784–1812
1988
Short-Term Fellow of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Zachariah Poulson Fellow
Whitman H. Ridgway, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland
Attitudes Toward the Bill of Rights, 1789–1791
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Summer Research Fellows
Nicola Beisel, PhD Candidate, Sociology, University of Michigan
Anti-Vice Societies in 19th Century Boston, New York, and Philadelphia
John K. Brown, PhD Candidate, History, University of Virginia
The Baldwin Locomotive Works and American Industrial Development, 1832–1954
Rosalind R. Burnam, PhD Candidate, History, University of California, Los Angeles
Philadelphia Publishers in the New Republic, 1790–1830
Bruce A. Dorsey, PhD Candidate, History, Brown University
Religious Benevolence and Popular Piety in Postrevolutionary Philadelphia, 1783–1844
Aaron Fogleman, PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan
German Naturalizations in Pennsylvania, 1765
Nian-Sheng Huang, PhD Candidate, History, Cornell University
Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture
Isabelle Lehuu, PhD Candidate, History, Cornell University
The New Readers in Antebellum America
Margot Melia, PhD Candidate, University of Western Australia
The Role of Free Black “Garrisonian” Women in Antislavery and Other Reforms in the Antebellum North, 1830–1865
James H. Merrell, Assistant Professor of History, Vassar College
The Cultural Brokers of Colonial Pennsylvania
Dennis Moore, PhD Candidate, English, University of North Carolina
The Unpublished Essays of Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
Jack D. Warren, PhD Candidate, History, Brown University
The Rise and Fall of Federalism in Pennsylvania: The Decline of Deference and the Origins of Democracy, 1785–1805
Jean Fagan Yellin, Professor of English, Pace University
The Life of Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897), Author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
1987
Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Summer Research Fellows
Elizabeth Rauh Bethel, Research Associate, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University
Afro-American Responses to the First Emancipation, 1780–1865
Hywel M. Davies, University Administrator, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
The Transatlantic World of Samuel Jones, Baptist Minister of Pennepek, Pennsylvania
Gail E. Farr, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
The Politics of Public Health Care: Philadelphia General Hospital, 1854–1930
Michael Hackenberg, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Graduate Library School
Early Philadelphia Subscription Publishing, 1820–1875
Judith A. Hunter, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Yale University
Nativism in Antebellum Philadelphia
Nancy G. Isenberg, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin
The Feminist and Religious Discourse of the Woman’s Rights Movement in America, 1848–1860
Judith K. Major, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Group in Architecture
The Role of “Imitation” in Andrew Jackson Downing’s Theory of Landscape Gardening
Sonya Michel, Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University
A History of Public Child Care in America, 1815–1945
Mary Panzer, PhD Candidate, Boston University, American and New England Studies Program, and Fellow, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
John Moran (1831–1902), Philadelphia Photographer
Janice G. Schimmelman, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Oakland University
Bibliography of American Imprints on Art through 1865
Thomas P. Slaughter, Associate Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University
Race Relations in Southeastern Pennsylvania from the Mid–18th Century through the Civil War
Dell Upton, Assistant Professor of Architectural History, University of California, Berkeley
The Commercialization of Anglo-American Architecture, 1750–1850