The Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania
2025–26 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
This Side Up
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