The Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania

202526 Research Fellows

Long-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia 

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow 

Eva Landsberg, PhD Candidate, Yale University
The Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Roots of the American Revolution 

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows 

Casey Ellis Johnson, PhD Candidate, Indiana University-Bloomington
Borders as Both Barriers and Conduits: How Black Organizations Transcended the US-Canadian Divide

Justin P. Jones, PhD Candidate, Vanderbilt University
America’s Most-Wanted: Revolutionary Privateers and the Illegal Slave Trade in the Early Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow 

Emily Whitted, PhD Candidate, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Darned, Patched, and Mended: Repairing Textiles in Early America 

Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Dissertation Fellow in Women’s History 

Jennifer W. Reiss, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America 

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia 

Innovation Short-Term Fellowship 

James E. Britt, Jr., Independent Artist 
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Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows 

Justin P. Jones, PhD Candidate, Vanderbilt University
America’s Most-Wanted: Revolutionary Privateers and the Illegal Slave Trade in the Early Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

Arya Martinez, PhD Candidate, University of New Hampshire
The Turbulent Confederation: The Bank of North America and the Emergence of a New National Economy 

Justin Roberts, Professor, Dalhousie University
Roads and Rebels: Imperialism and the Environment in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire 

Agnès Trouillet, Associate Professor, Université Paris Nanterre
The Role of Forts in the Political History and Economy of 17th-Century Delaware Valley 

Walter J. Miller Short-Term Fellow 

Alison McCann, PhD Candidate, The University of Miami
Until Freedom Be Done: African American Place-making in Liberia, 1790-1880 

Dr. Richard S. Newman Short-Term Fellow 

Rachel E. Walker, Associate Professor, University of Hartford
Free Radicals: Fringe Thinkers and the Fight for Liberty in Nineteenth-Century America 

Samuel Rhoads Short-Term Fellow 

Simone Gulliver, PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania
‘Are Not the Black Berries Culled?’: Reading Interracial Encounters in New York City Trial Pamphlets, 1800-1820 

Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar Short-Term Fellow 

Ywone Edwards-Ingram, Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
Enslaved and Free Coachmen in Cities and Towns 

Endowed Fellow in African American History 

Jessica Leigh Hester, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
‘From the burying ground down town’: Grave Robbing, Racial Politics, and Freedom Work in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. 

Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History 

Chika Jenkins, PhD Candidate, Bard Graduate Center
Leaving a Mark: Confluence of Rhythms in the Pennsylvania Dutch Butter Print & Mold

Cory Loftus, PhD Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
The Gravid Imaginaire: Picturing Pregnancy Before the Ultrasound 

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography 

Robert O’Sullivan, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame
Mathew Carey: A Revolutionary Life 

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society 

Isabel Kalous, Senior Lecturer in American Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 
Non-Motherhood in American Literature and Culture, Nineteenth Century to the Present

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture 

Michael Gallen, Unaffiliated
Kensington: From Textiles to Tranq 

James N. Green Fellow in the History of the Book in America 

Kirsten Macfarlane, Associate Professor, University of Chicago
American Hebraism, 1640-1800 

Charles E. Rosenberg Fellow in the History of Health and Medicine               

Rachel E. Walker, Associate Professor, University of Hartford
Free Radicals: Fringe Thinkers and the Fight for Liberty in Nineteenth-Century America