LONG-TERM FELLOWS 

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow  

Emily Whitted, PhD Candidate, University of Massachusetts Amherst 

Darned, Patched, and Mended: Repairing Textiles in Early America 

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellow 

Andrew Maginn, Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State University 

United States Recognition of Haitian Sovereignty: A Civil War Solution 

 

Alison McCann, PhD Candidate, The University of Miami 

Until Freedom Be Done: African American Place Making, 1790-1880 

 

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow 

Dhananjaya Premauden, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania 

The Speculation College: How Land and The Speculative Economy Built Early Nineteenth-Century Public Colleges in the United States (1780-1862) 

 

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellow 

Kelly Walters, PhD Candidate, New York University & Associate Professor, Parsons School of Design at The New School 

Black (Type) 

 

Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Dissertation Fellow in Women’s History 

Chloe Kauffman, PhD Candidate, University of Maryland 

“If women are curious, women like also to speak”: Unmarried Women, Sexual Knowledge, and Female Mentorship in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo Atlantic 

 

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellow 

MaDeja Leverett, PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins University 

(Re)claiming Innocence: Enslaved Girlhood and Growing Up in the Antebellum South 

 

SHORT-TERM FELLOWS 

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows 

Anna Apostolidis, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania 

Social Contracts: Consent in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania 

 

Torren L. Gatson, Associate Professor, Middle Tennessee State University & Associate Director, Center for Historic Preservation 

Desires in the Making: Black Craft, Labor, and Aspirations in Early Philadelphia 

 

Karen Weyler, Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 

States of Indenture: Unfree Stories of Early America 

 

Claire Wolnisty, Associate Professor, Austin College 

“Piratical Insurgents”: “Pirates” in US Antebellum Slavery Debates 

 

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows 

Katherine Burns, Early Career Researcher 

Beautiful Lessons: Recovering the Bustill Women and their Activist Networks 

 

Dexter Gabriel, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut, Storrs 

The British Emigration Scheme and African American Emigration to the Caribbean 

 

Taylor M. Garrison, PhD Candidate, William & Mary 

“And his Wife”: The Multiple Meanings of Slave Marriage in the United States, 1800-1865 

 

Janice Yu, Independent Researcher 

Conditions of Appearance: The Scopic Regime of Domestic Slavery 

 

Dr. Richard S. Newman Short-Term Fellowship 

Kathryn Angelica, Assistant Professor, Purdue University Fort Wayne 

“For the Relief of Misery and Sin”: Creating, Maintaining, and Defending African American Institutions for the Vulnerable 

 

Walter J. Miller Short-Term Fellow 

Susan Goodier, Independent Historian 

Dignity in Freedom: The Life and Advocacy of Louisa Jacobs 

 

Samuel Rhoads Short-Term Fellowship 

Christina Jones, Graduate Student, Howard University 

Enslaved Women’s Resistance through Food on Southern Antebellum Plantations 

 

Library Company of Philadelphia Fellowship in African American History 

Chantel White, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania 

Enslaved and Indentured Black Gardeners in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia 

 

Endowed Fellow in African American History 

Andrew Wildermuth, Research Associate, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg 

American Primordial: Origin and Originality in Liberia and Deutschamerika 

 

Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar Short-Term Fellow 

Angelica Williams, Graduate Student, University of South Carolina 

Liberty in Ink: Bondage and Freedom at the Press 

 

Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History 

Avonlea Bowthorpe, PhD Candidate, William & Mary 

Confidence and Coercion: Gender and Economic Agency in the British Atlantic, 1713-1800 

 

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

Heath Rojas, PhD Candidate, Columbia University 

Written in the Heart: Sentimental Deism in the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions 

 

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography 

Daniel Gomes de Carvalho, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of University of São Paulo 

The Age of Reason and Democratic Religion: Intellectual and Religious Debates in the Atlantic World 

 

McLean Contributionship Fellow  

Deb Puretz, Independent Artist 

Tropical Flora Reclassified: From the LCP Botanicals Collection to Today’s Gardens 

 

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

April Patrick, Associate Professor, Department of English, Rowan University 

Women and Wellness: A History in Periodicals 

 

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

Julia Bouwkamp, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania 

Bodies of Critique: Women, Writing, and the Politics of the Personal in the Early United States 

 

Library Company of Philadelphia Fellowship in Eighteenth-Century Studies 

Sophie Rizzieri, PhD Student, University of Notre Dame 

Provincial Lawyers and the Making and Breaking of the British Atlantic Empire 

 

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture  

Denae Patterson, visual anthropologist or independent artist-scholar 

The Social Life of the Hand: Iconographies of Labor and Respectability in 19th-Century American Visual Culture 

 

Anthony N.B. and Beatrice Garvan Fellow in American Material Culture 

Lara Langer Cohen, Professor, Swarthmore College 

Grief and the Making of Friendship in the Cassey and Dickerson Albums 

 

Innovation Fellowship for Independent Researchers 

Veronica Cianfrano, Independent Artist 

The Girls Are Waiting 

 

SHORT-TERM FELLOWS OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA AND THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA 

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows 

Gabriel Ben-Jacob, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University 

A New Covenant: Jewish Restoration and the Origins of American Zionism 

 

Sarah Chinn, Professor, Hunter College, CUNY 

The Odds and Ends of the Body: American Relics and their Afterlives 

 

Frank Cirillo, Independent Researcher 

The Long Shadow of Abolitionism 

 

Denicia Crutcher-Lyons, Independent Researcher 

The Printed Gaze: Print Culture and the Mass-Marketing of Manifest Destiny 

 

Craig Eliason, Professor, University of St. Thomas (MN) 

Lettering Communities: A Cultural History of Letterforms, 1800-1940 

 

Elizabeth Moore, MA English, Harvard University 

Haunted Infrastructures: Gothic Spaces and the Politics of Internal Improvement in Nineteenth-Century America 

 

Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Professor, Wellesley College 

At Home Abroad. American Women Artists in Late Nineteenth-Century Rome 

 

Ludwig Beethoven J. Noya, Postdoctoral Fellow, Villanova University 

Sabbath, Blue Laws, and the Strangers: Law, Labor, and the Ambiguities of Rest 

 

Barra Foundation International Research Fellow in American History and Culture 

Émilie Roffidal, Associate Professor, Toulouse University 

Arts & Society. Artists and art institutions in Philadelphia from 1770s to the 1810s 

 

Richardson Dilworth Fellow 

Max Jacobs, PhD Candidate, Rutgers University 

Moral Reformation and Racial Domination: Carceral Education in Philadelphia, 1820–1860 

 

Esther Ann McFarland Fellow 

Halima Haruna, PhD Candidate, Northeastern University 

Pioneering Advocates: African American Women and the Woman’s Relief Corps, 1870s – 1920s 

 

Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows 

Daniel Majerowicz, PhD Candidate, University of California, Riverside 

Negotiating the Commonwealth: Jurisdiction, Authority, and State-Building in Early Pennsylvania, 1681–1720 

 

James Parisot, Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley 

Mortgaging the Body: Capitalism, the Penitentiary, and the Decline of Debt Imprisonment 

 

SHORT-TERM FELLOWS OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA 

Balch Institute Fellow  

Fritz Kusch, PhD Candidate, University of Bremen 

The Defenders: The Popularist Attempt to Uphold Protectionism in the United States, 1880–1930 

 

Jennifer Manoukian, Lecturer, Rutgers University 

Longing for Home: Armenian Compatriotic Unions in Twentieth-Century America 

 

Albert M. Greenfield Short-Term Fellow in 20th-Century History 

Samantha Haddad Prophet, PhD Candidate, William & Mary 

Policing Paddies: Undocumented Irish Migration and the Jurisdictional Boundaries of American Policing Powers 

 

Indian Rights Association Fellow 

Sadie Mansfield, PhD Candidate, University of Birmingham 

Networked Negotiations: Languages of Power in and Beyond North America’s Western Borderlands, 1736–75