The Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania
2022–23 Research Fellows
Library Company of Philadelphia Long-Term Fellows
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Sharon Block, Professor, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Revisiting Rape, Remaking History
Dr. Chip Badley, Lecturer, Department of English, University of California, Davis
Kangaroos among the Beauty: Painting and Queer Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Dr. 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
Dr. April Logan, Associate Professor, Department of English, Salisbury University
Dark Comedy: Satire and Cultural Alienation in African American Literature
Program in Early American Economy and Society Postdoctoral Fellow
Camille Kaszubowski, PhD candidate, Department of History, University of Delaware
“Left in Distress”: Women on Their Own in Revolutionary Pennsylvania
Program in Early American Economy and Society Dissertation Fellow
Chris 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
Library Company of Philadelphia Short-Term Fellows
Program in Early American Economy and Society Short-Term Fellows
Dr. 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
Dr. 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
Dr. 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
Dr. 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 (ASECS) 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
The Davida T. 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
Dr. Courtney Wilder, Postdoctoral researcher
Early National American Textiles in a New Media Landscape: The Fisher Dye Books
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Dr. 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
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 Appointed Jointly by the Library Company of Philadelphia and 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
Dr. 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
Dr. 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
Dr. Christine Y. Ferdinand, Emeritus Fellow Librarian, Magdalen College
Biography of James Rivington (1724–1802)
Dr. 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 (SHEAR) Fellow
Emily Anne Yankowitz, PhD candidate, Department of History, Yale University
Documenting Citizens: How Early Americans Understood the Concept of Citizenship, 1776–1840
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Esther Ann McFarland Fellow
Carrie Hagen, Writer
The Vigilance Committee
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Richardson Dilworth Fellow in Law, Politics, and Reform
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
Historical Society of Pennsylvania 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, Associate 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
Historical Society of Pennsylvania 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
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Albert M. Greenfield Short-Term Fellow
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
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Indian Rights Association Fellow
Dr. Honor Sachs, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado Boulder
Freedom by a Judgment: The Legal History of an Afro-Indian Family
Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine Research Fellows, hosted in partnership with the Library Company of Philadelphia
Derek Baron, PhD Candidate, Department of Historical Musicology, New York University
The Biopolitics of Voice: Speech Sciences and the Articulation of Race in Nineteenth-Century America
Dr. Rachel Walker, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Philosophy, University of Hartford
Beauty and the Brain: The Science of the Mind in Early America