The Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania
2023–24 Research Fellows
Library Company of Philadelphia Long-Term Fellows
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Samuel Davis, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Texas Christian University
Antislavery Conquest: Colonization, Removal, and Free-Soil Politics
Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Christopher Baldwin, Dept. of History, University of Toronto
An Empire of Plunder: Slavery and the Prize Economy in the British Caribbean, 1739–63
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
Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows
Anders Bright, PhD Candidate, Dept. of History, University of Pennsylvania
Luck’s Republic: Lotteries, Class, and Finance in Early America
Carolyn Zola, PhD Candidate, Dept. of History, Stanford University
Public Women: Urban Provisioners in Nineteenth Century America
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Allison Fulton, PhD Candidate, Dept. of English, University of California Davis
Disciplining Craft: The Gendered Making of Nineteenth-Century American Science
Mélena Laudig, PhD Candidate, Depts. of African American History and Religion, Princeton University
“Her Country’s Children”: African American Religion and Childhood in Slavery and Freedom
Library Company of Philadelphia Short-Term Fellows
Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows
Loryn Clauson, PhD Candidate, Dept. of History, University of Toledo
Hold My Purse Strings: Marriage, Gender and Capitalism in Antebellum America
Eva Landsberg, PhD Candidate, Dept. of History, Yale University
The Politics of Sugar in the 18th-Century British Atlantic
Dr. Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Assistant Teaching Professor & Coordinator of Public History, Dept. of History, Rutgers University
Surviving the New Nation: A Material History of Poverty in the United States
Dr. Angel-Luke O’Donnell, Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Quantitative Reasoning Education, Dept. of Liberal Arts, Kings College London
The History of Mortgages: The State, Industrial Capital, and Industrialisation in Pennsylvania, 1690–1816
Dr. 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
Dr. Julia Bernier, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Washington & Jefferson College
All on Board: Slavery and Shipping on the Brig Orleans
Dr. 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
Dr. 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, Dept. 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
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Fellow
Dr. Katie Sagal, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Cornell College
Transatlantic Specimens: Women and Marine Ecology of the Eighteenth Century
Davida T. Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History
Dr. Shana Klein, Associate Professor, School of Art, Kent State University
Spoiled Milk: The Politics of Race and Motherhood in Victorian American Art
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Grant E. Stanton, PhD Candidate, Dept. of History, University of Pennsylvania
The Language of Liberty: Massachusetts and the Problem of Antislavery in the American Revolution
William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography
Dr. Jordan Alexander Stein, Professor, Dept. of English, Fordham University
Haiti and Other Problems in the History of the Book
Anthony N.B. and Beatrice Garvan Fellow in American Material Culture
Emily J. Whitted, PhD Candidate, Dept. of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Darned, Patched and Mended: Repairing Textiles in Eighteenth-Century America
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Medicine, Science, and Society
Dr. Lisa Forman Cody, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, Claremont McKenna College
How Abortion Became an American Obsession
William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture
Dr. Alice Crossley, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Lincoln
Nineteenth-Century Valentines: Materiality, Affect and Identity
Short-Term Fellows Appointed Jointly by the Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Dr. Adam Lee Cilli, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Racial Policing and Criminal Justice Reform during the Great Migration
Dr. Al Coppola, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, John Jay College, CUNY
Enlightenment Visibilities
Dr. 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.
Dr. 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
Dr. 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
Dr. 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
Dr. 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
Dr. 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
Dr. 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
Dr. 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
Dr. 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
Dr. Eric Herschthal, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, University of Utah
Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows
Balch Institute Fellows
Dr. Sadie Jarrett, Career Development Fellow, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford
Colonisers on the Margins: The Welsh in Early America
Dr. 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, Dept. 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, Dept. of History, University of Tennessee – Knoxville
Given to This Land: Mapping Settler Colonialism in Kituwah, 1682–1810