Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Adam Lee Cilli, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Racial Policing and Criminal Justice Reform during the Great Migration

Al Coppola, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, John Jay College, CUNY
Enlightenment Visibilities

Leo J. Garofalo, Professor, Dept. 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, Dept. 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

Ali Printz, PhD Candidate, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
Appalachian Regionalism: Reimagining Modernism on the Periphery of American Art

Edú Trota Levati, PhD Candidate in History, Universidade de São Paulo
US-Brazil Relations in the First Quarter of the Nineteenth Century

Melissa Geisler Trafton, Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. 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, Dept. 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 (SHEAR) Fellows

Rachael Scarborough King, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Visualizing Transnational Quaker Networks

Moyra Williams Eaton, PhD Candidate, Dept. of History, Pennsylvania State University
Constructing a ‘Comfortable Harbour’: The United States Naval Asylum and the Systemization of Veterans’ Care in the Nineteenth Century

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

Richardson Dilworth Fellow in Law, Politics, and Reform

Geneva Smith, PhD Candidate, Dept. of History, Princeton University, and JD Candidate, Yale Law School
Slave Courts and Compensation in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic

Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows

Srimayee Basu McCall, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, University of California, Irvine
The Anti-Robinsonade: Slaves, Criminals and Servants in the Early Anglophone Atlantic

Zachary Brown, PhD Candidate, Dept. 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, Dept. of History, University of Utah
Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change