Fellows of the Library Company of Philadelphia

Building on our 18th-century origins as a community of readers and learners, the Library Company’s fellowships program supports advanced humanities research and fosters intellectual exchange. Since the program’s founding in 1987, more than 1,200 fellows have joined us in Philadelphia to engage in collections research that informs new scholarship in American history and culture in its Atlantic world context.

Listed below are all past fellows of the Library Company and our longtime fellowships program partner, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 

Long-Term Fellows

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Christopher Baldwin, independent scholar, Toronto, Ontario
An Empire of Plunder: Slavery and the Prize Economy in the British Caribbean, 1739–63

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellow

Samuel Davis, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Texas Christian University
Antislavery Conquest: Colonization, Removal, and Free-Soil Politics

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Anders Bright, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Luck’s Republic: Lotteries, Class, and Finance in Early America

Carolyn Zola, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Stanford University
Public Women: Urban Provisioners in Nineteenth Century America

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

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Allison Fulton, PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of California, Davis
Disciplining Craft: The Gendered Making of Nineteenth-Century American Science

Mélena Laudig, PhD Candidate, Departments of African American History and Religion, Princeton University
“Her Country’s Children”: African American Religion and Childhood in Slavery and Freedom

Short-Term Fellows

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Loryn Clauson, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Toledo
Hold My Purse Strings: Marriage, Gender and Capitalism in Antebellum America

Eva Landsberg, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Yale University
The Politics of Sugar in the 18th-Century British Atlantic

Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Assistant Teaching Professor & Coordinator of Public History, Department of History, Rutgers University
Surviving the New Nation: A Material History of Poverty in the United States

Angel-Luke O’Donnell, Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Quantitative Reasoning Education, Department of Liberal Arts, Kings College London
The History of Mortgages: The State, Industrial Capital, and Industrialisation in Pennsylvania, 1690–1816

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

Julia Bernier, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Washington & Jefferson College
All on Board: Slavery and Shipping on the Brig Orleans

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

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, Department 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

Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History

Shana Klein, Associate Professor, School of Art, Kent State University
Spoiled Milk: The Politics of Race and Motherhood in Victorian American Art

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Jordan Alexander Stein, Professor, Department of English, Fordham University
Haiti and Other Problems in the History of the Book

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Grant E. Stanton, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
The Language of Liberty: Massachusetts and the Problem of Antislavery in the American Revolution

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

Lisa Forman Cody, Associate Professor, Department of History, Claremont McKenna College
How Abortion Became an American Obsession

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Katie Sagal, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Cornell College
Transatlantic Specimens: Women and Marine Ecology of the Eighteenth Century

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture

Alice Crossley, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Lincoln
Nineteenth-Century Valentines: Materiality, Affect and Identity

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

Emily J. Whitted, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Darned, Patched and Mended: Repairing Textiles in Eighteenth-Century America

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

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

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

Leo J. Garofalo, Professor, Department 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, Department 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

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

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

Melissa Geisler Trafton, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department 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, Department 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 Fellows

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

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

Richardson Dilworth Fellow

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

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

Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows

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

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

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellow

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, Department 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, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Given to This Land: Mapping Settler Colonialism in Kituwah, 1682–1810

Long-Term Fellows

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

Chip Badley, Lecturer, Department of English, University of California, Davis
Kangaroos among the Beauty: Painting and Queer Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Sharon Block, Professor, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Revisiting Rape, Remaking History

Adam Thomas, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Western Carolina University
An Unparalleled Time: The 1831 Emancipation Wars in Historical Memory

NEH Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Fellow in African American History

April Logan, Associate Professor, Department of English, Salisbury University
Dark Comedy: Satire and Cultural Alienation in African American Literature

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Camille Kaszubowski, independent scholar, Newark, Delaware
“Left in Distress”: Women on Their Own in Revolutionary Pennsylvania

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow

Christopher Baldwin, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Toronto
An Empire of Plunder: Slavery and the Prize Economy in the British Caribbean, 1739–1763

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellow

Halle-Mackenzie Ashby, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
Bound by the Womb: Reproduction, Kinship and Freedom in Barbados

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Isabel Bradley, PhD Candidate, Department of Romance Studies, Duke University
Mapping Manioc: Grounded Relations in the Caribbean

Yiyun Huang, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Medicinal Tea: Global Cultural Transfer and a Vast Early America

Short-Term Fellows

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Michael Gagnon, Professor, Department of History, Georgia Gwinnett College
Augustin Smith Clayton and the House Select Committee Investigating the US Bank in 1832

Sophie Hess, PhD Candidate, American History, University of Maryland
Hollow Ground: Industry, Ecology, and Climate Change in the Floodplains of Early Maryland

James Craufurd Robertson, Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Mona
The Western Design and the Establishment of English Jamaica, 1654–1662

Francis Russo, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Utopian Dreams at the End of Early America: 1663–1860

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows

Kathryn Angelica, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Connecticut
A Nexus of 19th C Activism: The Lifelong Struggle of Eight Women Reformers

Wendy Raphael Roberts, Associate Professor, Department of English, University at Albany, SUNY
Phillis Wheatley Peters’ Poetic Worlds

Mikala Stokes, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University
Born of ‘Hardship, Trial, and Suffering:’ Black Men, Family, and Activism, 1820–1861

Ben Wright, Associate Professor, Department of History, The University of Texas at Dallas
Empires of Souls: The United States, Britain, and West African Colonization

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Eric Trautman-Mosher, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of New Hampshire
Purchasing Power: Indigenous Consumers, Political Economy, and Nation-Building in a Revolutionary Era, 1740s–1790s

Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History 

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

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Jacob Myers, PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Noxious Foes: Figuring Vermin in the Natural Histories of the British Caribbean

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Kadin Henningsen, PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of Illinois
Biblionormativity and Trans* Capacity: Gender, Race, and the Material Book in Nineteenth Century America, 1840–1910

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

Courtney Wilder, independent scholar, Newark, New Jersey
Early National American Textiles in a New Media Landscape: The Fisher Dye Books

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

Ben Bascom, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Ball State University
Eccentric Queers: Celebrity and Debility in Nineteenth-Century America

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture

Phillippa Pitts, PhD Candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Boston University
Pharmacoepic Dreams: Art in America’s “Medical Democracy,” 1800–1860

Program in Visual Culture Terra Foundation Fellows in American Popular Graphic Arts

Andrea Krupp, artist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coal Above Ground

Alexis Monroe, PhD Candidate, History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
The Crisis of the 1850s: Western American Land and Landscape, 1848–1861

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Chase Castle, PhD Candidate, Department of Music, University of Pennsylvania
The Gospel in Black and White: Race and Power in American Evangelical Hymnody, 1840–1900

Andrew Donnelly, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi
Confederate Sympathies: The Civil War, Reunion, and the History of Homosexuality, 1850–1915

Frances O’Shaughnessy, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Washington
Black Revolution on the Sea Islands: Empire, Property, and the Emancipation of Humanity

Maria Ryan, Assistant Professor, College of Music, Florida State University
Post Office Patronesses: Singing Race, Gender, and Class in Philadelphia

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Christine Y. Ferdinand, Emeritus Fellow Librarian, Magdalen College
Biography of James Rivington (1724–1802)

Marjorie Perlman Lorch, Professor of Neurolinguistics, Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck, University of London
Invisible Links Between Thought and Voice in the Long 19th Century

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellow

Emily Anne Yankowitz, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Yale University
Documenting Citizens: How Early Americans Understood the Concept of Citizenship, 1776–1840

Esther Ann McFarland Fellow

Carrie Hagen, writer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Vigilance Committee

Richardson Dilworth Fellow

Kat G. Poje, PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Killing with Kindness: The History of the American Humane Movement and Animal Euthanasia, 19th–21st Centuries

Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows

Alexander Clayton, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Michigan
The Living Animal: Biopower and Empire in the Atlantic Menagerie, 1760–1890

Laura Earls, PhD Candidate, History of American Civilization Program, University of Delaware
Mundane Monstrosities: Gender, Reproduction, and Embodiment in the British Atlantic World, 1585–1815

Carolyn Eastman, Professor, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University
A Plague in New York City: How the City Confronted—and Survived—the Yellow Fever Epidemic in the Founding Era

Amanda Klug, PhD student, Department of History, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Memories of the Constitutional Convention, 1787–1861

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows

Sean A. Curtice, PhD Candidate, Music Theory and Musicology, Freiburg Hochschule für Musik
Phil. Trajetta and the American Conservatorio: Solfeggio and Partimento in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Lea C. Stephenson, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Delaware
“Wonderful Things”: Egyptomania, Empire, and the Senses, 1870–1922

Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History

Lauren Drapala, PhD Candidate, History of Decorative Arts, Material Culture and Design History, Bard Graduate Center
Recovering the Decorative in American Modernisms: The Wanamaker’s Art Gallery and the Promotion of Artist-Decorated Interiors in 1920s New York City

Indian Rights Association Fellow

Honor Sachs, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado Boulder
Freedom by a Judgment: The Legal History of an Afro-Indian Family

Long-Term Fellows

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

Corinne Field, Associate Professor, Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality, University of Virginia
Grand Old Women: How Abolitionists and Feminists Transformed Aging in America

Eric D. Lamore, Professor, Department of English, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
“Unstable as [W]ater:” Early Black Atlantic Literature and Textual Fluidity

Laura Ping, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History, Pace University
Beyond Bloomers: Fashioning Change in Nineteenth-Century Dress

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Franklin Sammons, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Yazoo’s Settlement: Finance, Law, and Dispossession in the Southeastern Borderlands, 1789–1820

Hannah Knox Tucker, Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School
Masters of the Market: Ship Captaincy in the British Atlantic

Joseph Wallace, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University (fellowship deferred due to COVID–19 pandemic)
“The Architects of their Fortunes”: Financial Revolutions on Baltimore’s Market Street, 1760s–1840s

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Chad Holmes, PhD Candidate, Department of History, West Virginia University
Sheriffs, Capitalism, and Civil Society in the Early Republic

Cody Nager, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Graduate Center, CUNY
From Different Quarters: Regulating Migration and Naturalization in the Early American Republic, 1783–1815

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Jonah Estess, PhD Candidate, Department of History, American University
The Sense of Money: People, Politics, and the Making of Moral Coinage and Paper Money, 1775–1896

Paul Wolff Mitchell, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Anthropological Skull Collections, 1790–1860: Global History, Politics, and Afterlives of Cranial Race Science

Francis Johnson Innovation Fellows

Uchenna Ngwe, Royal Academy of Music / Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London
The African Diaspora in British Classical Music: Francis Johnson in Victorian London

Brent White, Director of Jazz Orchestra, Drexel University
The Double Consciousness of Johnson’s Compositions

Short-Term Fellows

Short-Term awards paused for 2021–2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Long-Term Fellows

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

Marisa Fuentes, Associate Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University
Refuse Bodies, Disposable Lives: A History of the Human and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Brooke Newman, Associate Professor, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University
Subjects of the Crown: Slavery, Emancipation, and the British Monarchy, 1660–1860

Jordan Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Widener University
The Invention of Rum

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellow

April Logan, Associate Professor, Department of English, Salisbury University
Staging Mother Tongues: Black Women Writers’ Politics of Performance, 1845–1900s

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Kristen Beales, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University
Spirited Exchanges: The Religion of the Marketplace in Early America

Ann Daly, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Brown University
Minting America: Money, Value, and the Federal State, 1784–1858

Carrie Glenn, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Niagara University
The Revolutionary Atlantic of Elizabeth Beauveau and Marie Rose Poumaroux: Commerce, Vulnerability, and the U.S. in the French Atlantic, 1780–1834

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellow

Umniya Najaer, PhD Candidate, Modern Thought & Literature, Stanford University
Knotted Maternity, Infanticide and the Infant’s Corpse: Imagining Enslaved Women’s Reproductive Lives

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellow

Emily Gowen, PhD Candidate, Department of English, Boston University
On the Margins: Steady Sellers and the Problem of Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America

Short-Term Fellows

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Keith Pluymers, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Illinois State University
Water, Steam, and Philadelphia’s Eighteenth-Century Anthropocene

Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History

Kim Nielsen, Professor, Department of History, University of Toledo
Dorothea Dix, Psychiatric Asylums, and the Institutionalization of Modern Insanity

Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch / American Trust for the British Library / Library Company Fellow

Rachel Burke, PhD Candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
A Victorian Fugitive: Race, Spectacle, and Landscape in Henry ‘Box’ Brown’s “Mirror of Slavery”

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

Joseph Larnerd, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Drexel University
Undercut: Cut Glass in Working-Class Life during the Gilded Age

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

Meg Roberts, PhD Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Domestic Caregiving in the American Revolution

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Holly Gruntner, PhD Candidate, Department of History, The College of William & Mary
some people of skil and curiosity”: Knowledge and Early American Kitchen Gardens, 1650–1830

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows

Colin Anderson, PhD Candidate, Department of American Studies, George Washington University
The Racial and Spatial Politics of 19th-Century American Sheet Music and Song Sheets, 1840–1900

Amanda McGee, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Arkansas
Abolition’s Informal Gatekeepers: The Role of County Courts in the Making of Pennsylvania’s ‘Free’ Border

Cynthia Patterson, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of South Florida
Yours for God, The Race and the ‘Review’: Women Contributors to the A.M.E. Church Review 1884–1924

Tiffany Player, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Africana Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
‘What Are We Going to Do for Ourselves?’: African American Women and the Politics of Slavery from the Antebellum Era to the Great Depression

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Emily Casey, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Saint Mary’s College of Maryland
Hydrographic Vision: Imagining the Sea and British America, 1750–1800

Sean Griffin, independent scholar
The Root and the Branch: Working-Class Radicalism and Antislavery, 1790–1860

Grant Kleiser, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
Exchanging Empires: Free Ports, Reform, and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1750–1781

Teanu Reid, PhD Candidate, Department of History and African American Studies, Yale University
Hidden Economies and Finances in the Early Anglo-Atlantic World

Matteo Rossi, PhD Candidate, Global History of Empires, Università degli Studi di Torino
National Economy and Empire: Henry Carey and the Building of the Post-Colonial State

Agnès Trouillet, Associate Professor, Department of History, Paris VII Diderot
Penn’s Settlement Design—Spatial Units, Surveying, and Political Power in Colonial Pennsylvania

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Sophie Jones, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Liverpool
‘Useful and Ornamental’: The Socio-Cultural Importance of Early American Subscription Libraries

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture

Siobhan Angus, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of the History of Art, Yale University
Photography in Deep-Time: Materiality, Resource Extraction, and Climate Change

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Luis Arrioja, Professor, Department of History, El Colegio de Michoacán
Climate, Environmental Changes and Disasters in North and Central America (1750–1840) (fellowship declined due to COVID-19 pandemic)

Michael Baysa, PhD Candidate, Department of Religion, Princeton University
Boiling Puddings: Conflicts around Religious Print during the Revolutionary Period

Katie Bondy, PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Strange Blooms: Thinking Botanically in Nineteenth-Century America

Elizabeth Bouldin, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Florida Gulf Coast University
Children of the Light: Quaker Women Educators in the Age of Reason

Nicholas DiPucchio, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Saint Louis University
American Expansions: Imperial Frustrations and the Evolution of Manifest Destiny, 1775–1845

John Garcia, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Florida State University
Graphic Madness: The Illustrated Nineteenth-Century Diary of Charles A. Beach (fellowship declined due to COVID-19 pandemic)

Nikhil Goyal, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
Surplus Youth in Philadelphia: Market-Based School Reform and the Carceral Logics of the City

Catherine Holochwost, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, La Salle University
(De)Colonial Revival: Justice and Beauty in Germantown and Beyond (fellowship declined due to COVID-19 pandemic)

Alex Leslie, PhD Candidate, Department of English, Rutgers University
Reading Regions: Cultural Geography and American Literature, 1865–1925

Megan Piorko, Allington Postdoctoral Fellow, Science History Institute
Alchemy & Medicine in the New World: American Reception and Reinvention of Seventeenth-Century Texts

Jacinda Tran, PhD Candidate, American Studies, Yale University
Landscapes of Crisis and Care: Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement and Racialization in Philadelphia

Ami Yoon, PhD Candidate, Department of English, Columbia University
Casual Things: Poetry, Natural History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century America

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Celeste-Marie Bernier, Professor, English Literature, University of Edinburgh
Sacrifice is Survival: Black Families Fight for Freedom in the USA and Canada (1732–1936)

Matthew Roberts, Associate Professor, Department of History, Sheffield Hallam University
William Cobbett’s America: Emotion, Politics and Print Culture in the Atlantic World, 1792–1819

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

Charlene Boyer Lewis, Professor, Department of History, Kalamazoo College
The Most Dangerous Loyalist Woman: Peggy Shippen Arnold and Revolutionary America

Cody Nager, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Graduate Center, City University of New York
From Different Quarters: Regulating Migration and Naturalization in the Early American Republic, 1783–1815

Richardson Dilworth Fellow

Heather Walser, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University
Consistent with the Public Good: Conceptualizations of Amnesty, Peace, and Federal Power

Esther Ann McFarland Fellow

Dwain Coleman, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Iowa
Black Civil War Veterans and the Fight for Community in the Midwest

Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows

Eric Becerra, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Parallel Powers: Nations and Borders in the Late Eighteenth-Century Southeastern Borderlands (fellowship declined due to COVID-19 pandemic)

Jamie Bolker, Assistant Professor, Department of English, MacMurray College
Lost and Found: Wayfinding in Early America

Kellen Heniford, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
Slavery is Slavery: Early American Mythmaking and the Invention of the Free State

J.T. Jamieson, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
A Mere Change of Location: Migration and Reform in Antebellum America

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Shannon Devlin, PhD Candidate, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen’s University, Belfast
Irish-American Sibling Migration Networks in the Long Nineteenth Century

Hong Deng Gao, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University
Health and Social Activism in American Chinatowns, 1949–1999

Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History

Charlotte Rosen, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University
Carceral Crisis: The Challenge of Prison Overcrowding and the Rise of Mass Incarceration, 1970–2000

Indian Rights Association Fellow

Daniel Mandell, Professor, Department of History, Truman State University
Indigenous Sovereignty and Rights

Long-Term Fellows

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

Michael D’Alessandro, Department of English, Duke University
Plagues, Players, Playhouses: A History of Philadelphia Theatre, 1793–1865

Marie Stango, Department of History, Idaho State University
Vine and Palm Tree: Afterlives of American Slavery in Liberia

Nathaniel Windon, Department of English, Loyola University Maryland
Superannuated: Race and the Making of Old Age in Nineteenth-Century America

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellow

Tara Bynum, Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies Department, Hampshire College
Reading Pleasures

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Julien Mauduit, Department of History, McMaster University
Money in North American Thought: The Democracy-Capitalism Relation (1770s–1840s)

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellow

Brandi Waters, PhD Candidate in History and African American History, Yale University
Debating ‘defects’: Slavery, Disability, and Legal Medicine in Late Colonial Caribbean Colombia

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Kyle Repella, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
Human Capital: Strategies of Slaving in the Greater Delaware Valley, 1620–1760

Nicole Schroeder, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Incurable Defects: Medical Practice, Subsidized Welfare, and the Disabled Body in Philadelphia, 1760–1840

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Jessie Vander Heide, PhD Candidate in History, Lehigh University
Schooling Intimacy: Lessons in Love, Romance, and Sexuality at American Female Academies, 1780–1870

Cory Young, PhD Candidate in History, Georgetown University
For Life or Otherwise: Abolition and Slavery in South Central Pennsylvania

Elisabeth Yang, PhD Candidate in Childhood Studies, Rutgers University
Producing Moral Agents: Infant Personhood in Medical and Educational Discourse, 1811–1920

Short-Term Fellows

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows

Faith Barrett, Department of English, Duquesne University
Let Music Rise from Every Tongue: Reading and Writing Poetry in Antebellum African American Communities

Bianca Dang, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
“This country is exceedingly fertile”: Women’s Landholding, Political Contestations, and Haitian and African American Visions of Rural Autonomy, 1818–1868

Shennette Garrett-Scott, Department of History, University of Mississippi
Domesticating Racial Capitalism: Freedwomen and Industrial Sewing Schools, 1863–1872

Susan Goodier, Department of History, SUNY Oneonta
The St. Thomas Sanitary Committee Fair of 1864 and Louisa Jacobs

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Patrick T. Barker, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Slavery and Its Shadow, Race, Labor, and Environment in the Transformation of the Southern Caribbean, 1776–1876

Lance Boos, PhD Candidate in History, Stony Brook University
Print and Performance: The Development of a British Atlantic Musical Marketplace in the Eighteenth Century

Andy Cabot, PhD Candidate in Anglophone Studies, Paris Diderot University
Slavery, Empires and Diplomacy: Britain, France and the United States, c.1794–c.1825

Whitney Martinko, Department of History, Villanova University
The Corporate Origins of Cultural Property in the Early United States

Laura Michel, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University – New Brunswick
Benevolent Republicans: Philanthropy, Identity, and Foreign Relations in the Early United States

Stephen Shapiro, Department of English, University of Warwick
Redefining Liberalism: Early National Transformations of Political Economy, Imperial Geography, and the Evangelical Front

Simon Sun, PhD Candidate in American Studies, Harvard University
Thomas Jefferson’s Hau Kiou Choaan: China and Early America (1497–1784)

Evelyn Strope, PhD Candidate in History, University of Cambridge
‘Voting’ Consumers and Cultures of Consumer Activism, 1775–1815

Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center / Library Company of Philadelphia Fellow in the History of Women and Medicine

Xiao Li, PhD Candidate in History, Southern Illinois University
Yamei Kin (1864–1934): A New Woman of China and America

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Diego Pirillo, Department of Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
The Atlantic Republic of Letters: Isaac Norris’s Library and Learned Culture in Early America

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Eric Lamore, Department of English, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Abigail Field Mott’s 1829 Abridged Edition of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative: A Critical Edition

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

Madeline Zehnder, PhD Candidate in English, University of Virginia
Pocket-Sized Nation: Cultures of Portability in America, 1790–1840

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Christopher Baldwin, PhD Candidate in History, University of Toronto
An Empire of Plunder: Slavery and the Prize Economy in the British Caribbean, 1739–1763

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

Jessica Linker, Visiting Assistant Professor (History) at Haverford College and Visiting Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College (Emily Balch Seminar Program)
The Fruits of Their Labor: The Work of Early American Scientific Women, 1750–1860

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture

Rebecca Szantyr, PhD Candidate in the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University
Nicolino Calyo: A Wider View of American Art, 1833–1835

Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History

Madelaine Schurch, PhD Candidate in English, University of York
Anne Hampton Brewster: Emigration, Belonging, and Geographical Imagination, 1850–1875 (fellowship declined due to COVID-19 pandemic)

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Abena Boakyewa-Ansah, PhD Candidate in History, Vanderbilt University
The Currency of Freedom: Black Women and the Making of Freedom During the American Civil War

Caroline Gillaspie, PhD Candidate in Art History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
‘Delicious Libations’: Representing the Nineteenth-Century Brazil-U.S. Coffee Trade

Freya Gowrley, History of Art Department, University of Edinburgh
Collage before Modernism: Art and Identity in Britain and North America, 1680–1912

Stephen Hausmann, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh
Inventing Indian Country: Race and Environment in the Black Hills, 1851–1981

Carolyn Levy, PhD Candidate in History and Women’s Studies, the Pennsylvania State University
Prisoners and Their Matrons: Incarceration and Reform in the United States

Jessica Linker, Visiting Assistant Professor (History) at Haverford College and Visiting Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College (Emily Balch Seminar Program)
The Fruits of Their Labor: The Work of Early American Scientific Women, 1750–1860

Paul Wolff Mitchell, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
American Golgotha: Objectivity, Abolition, and Ethical Ambivalence in Cranial Race Science, 1790–1860

Dina Murokh, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Southern California
A Sort of Picture Gallery”: The Visual Culture of Antebellum America

Mitchell Oxford, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
The French Revolution and the Making of an American Catholicism (fellowship declined due to COVID-19 pandemic)

Alan Rauch, Department of English, UNC Charlotte
The Making of British Private Subscription Libraries

Olaf Recktenwald, Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Universidad Científica del Perú
The Pop-Up Diagram: Thomas Malton’s A Compleat Treatise on Perspective (fellowship declined due to COVID-19 pandemic)

Dorin Smith, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
Fictional Brains: Reflecting on the Neural Subject in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel

Claire Urbanski, PhD Candidate in Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Genocidal Intimacies: Grave Theft and Spiritual Afterlife in the Making of United States Settler Empire

Beth Uzwiak, Ethnologica
Between River, Rail and Row Home: Public Health and the Industrial Development of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers from 1840 to 1940

Charnan Williams, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The History of Slavery, Freedom, and Labor in California from Mexican Independence to the U.S. Civil War, 1821–1865

Christine Yao, Department of English Language and Literature, University College London
Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

Adam Jortner, Department of History, Auburn University
The Patriot Torah: American Judaism and Religious Freedom in the Age of Revolution

Lauren Michalak, PhD Candidate in History, University of Maryland, College Park
“The Mobs All Cryd Peace with America”: The Gordon Riots and Revolution in England and America

Barra Foundation International Research Fellow in American History and Culture

Cameron Seglias, PhD Candidate in Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
The Published Self and the Emergence of an Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Public Sphere

Esther Ann McFarland Fellow

Jonathan Schroeder, Department of English, University of Warwick
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery

Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows

Michael Accinno, Department of Music, University of California, Riverside
Toward a History of Tactile Notation: Blindness, Music, and Print Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century

Adam Laats, Department of Teaching, Binghamton University
The System: Joseph Lancaster and the Roots of America’s Public Schools, 1800–1838

Elise Leal, Department of History, Whitworth University
Reforming Manners, Redeeming Souls: Sunday Schools, Childhood, and the Formation of Nineteenth-Century American Religious Culture

Jennifer E. Morgan, Department of History, Emory University
American Concubines: Gender, Race, Law, and Power in the British American and U.S. South

Richardson Dilworth Fellow

Jess Libow, Department of English, Emory University
Political Movement: Ability, Sex, and Reform in the Nineteenth Century U.S

Long-Term Fellows

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

Brooke Belisle, Department of Art, Stony Brook University
The Bigger Picture: A History and Theory of Expanded Views

Joyce Chaplin, Department of History, Harvard University
The Franklin Stove: Heat and Life in the Little Ice Age

Scott Heerman, Department of History, University of Miami
Carried Back: Black Kidnapping and State Formation in the Age of Emancipation

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellow

Jessica Millward, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Broken Black Bodies: African American Women and Domestic Violence in the Post-Civil War South

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Brett Goodin, Smithsonian Institution
Conflict, Commerce and Self-Discovery: American Sailors and the Asia-Pacific, 1784–1914

Niccolo Valmori, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Information, Risks and Opportunities: The Philadelphia Merchant Communities in the Age of Revolution, 1783–1815

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellow

Denise Burgher, PhD Candidate in English Literature, University of Delaware
Redeeming the Banished Spirit: Naming the Theological Praxis in Nineteenth-Century Black Women’s Writing

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Sean Gallagher, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
“Working the Master’s Revolution”: Enslaved Life and Labor in the Revolutionary South

Camille Kaszubowski, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
“Left in Distress”: Women on Their Own in Revolutionary Pennsylvania

Laura Michel, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Benevolent Republicans: Philanthropy, Identity, and Foreign Relations in the Early United States

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellow

Cynthia Smith, PhD Candidate in English, Miami University
Sentimental Sailors: Rescue and Conversion in Antebellum U.S. Literature

Short-Term Fellows

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows

Alisha Knight, Department of English, Washington College
Black Books Matter: African American Book Publishing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Arlisha Norwood, PhD Candidate in History, Howard University
“To Never Truck with No Man”: Single African American Women in the Post-Emancipation Era

Maria Ryan, PhD Candidate in Music, University of Pennsylvania
Hearing Power, Sounding Freedom: Black Practices of Listening, Music-Making, and Ear-Training in the British Colonial Caribbean, 1807–1860

Kay Wright Lewis, Department of History, Howard University
The Children of Africa Have Been Called

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Ann Daly, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
Hard Money: The Making of a Specie Currency, 1828–1846

Bruce Spadaccini, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
“To the best of your knowledge and ability”: North American Ship Captains, Commerce, and the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1763–1812

Hannah Knox Tucker, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Masters of the Market: Mercantile Ship Captaincy in the Colonial British Atlantic, 1607–1774

Laurie Wood, Department of History, Florida State University
Risks & Realities: Death and Credit in the French Tropics

Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center / Library Company of Philadelphia Fellow in the History of Women and Medicine

Jessica Dandona, Department of Liberal Arts, Minneapolis College of Art & Design
The Transparent Woman: Medical Visualities in Fin-de-Siècle Europe and the United States, 1890–1900

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Hannah Anderson, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
Lived Botany: Households, Ecological Adaptation and the Origins of Settler Colonialism in Early British North America

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Lindsay Van Tine, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
The Invention of Americana: New World Inscription and the Archive of Hemispheric Empire

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

Dawn Odell, Department of Art, Lewis & Clark College
Chinese Art in the Early United States

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Zach Bates, PhD Candidate in History, University of Calgary
Crown and Constitution: Scottish Colonial Administrators and the Theory and Practice of Empire in the Atlantic World, 1710–1768

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

Tim Cassedy, Department of English, Southern Methodist University
Printing Madness: The Print Culture of Mental Illness from Phrenology to Inkblots

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture

Julia Grummitt, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
The Great National Work: Visualizing Territory and Race in 19th-Century North America

Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History

Chiara Cillerai, Institute for Writing Studies, St. John’s University, New York, and Lisa Logan, Department of English, University of Central Florida
The Works of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson and the Elizabeth Fergusson Digital Archive

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Idolina Hernandez, PhD Candidate in History, Saint Louis University
Exiled Abroad: Refugees in the Making of Early America

Kelsey Malone, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Missouri
Sisterhood as Strategy: The Collaborations of American Women Artists in the Gilded Age

Christina Michelon, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Minnesota
Printcraft: Making with Mass Images in Nineteenth-Century America

Rachel Miller, PhD Candidate in American Culture, University of Michigan
Capital Entertainment: Stage Work and the Origins of the Creative Economy, 1830–1920

Clare Mullaney, PhD Candidate in English, University of Pennsylvania
American Imprints: Disability and the Material Text, 1858–1932

Diego Pirillo, Department of Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Renaissance Books in Early America: James Logan’s Italian Library

Jared Richman, Department of English, Colorado College
“A Free Speech”: Elocution, Disability, and Identity in Early America

Jaclyn Schultz, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Learning the Values of a Dollar: Childhood and Cultures of Economy in the US, 1825–1900

Samantha Sommers, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Los Angeles
Reading in Books: Theories of Reading from Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Bartholomew Sparrow, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Unequal at the Founding

Amanda Stuckey, English and Humanities Department, York College of Pennsylvania
Tactile Literacy: Cultures of Printing and Reprinting and Nineteenth-Century Embossed Text

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

Kirsten Fischer, Department of History, University of Minnesota
American Infidel: Elihu Palmer’s Visionary Religion in the Early Republic

Nicole Mahoney, PhD Candidate in American History, University of Maryland, College Park
Liberty, Gentility, and Dangerous Liaisons: French Culture and Polite Society in Early National America, 1770–1825

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Naomi Billingsley, The John Rylands Research Institute
Benjamin West, Biblical Illustration, and the Macklin Bible

Russell Palmer, Francke Foundations, Halle
Cheap ‘n’ Cheerful Paper Covers: An Empirical Study of Paste Papers (Kleisterpapiere) held at the Library Company of Philadelphia

Esther Ann McFarland Fellow

Meagan Wierda, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
To Count and Be Counted: Quantifying Race During the Antebellum Era

Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows

Katherine Bondy, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Berkeley
Freedom Flora: Botanical Details in Nineteenth-Century American Friendship Albums

Amy Huang, PhD Candidate in Theatre Arts & Performance Studies, Brown University
Spectacular Secrecy: Privacy, Race and Nineteenth-Century Theatre

Eva McGraw, PhD Candidate in Art History, City University of New York
Xanthus Smith: Marine Painting and Nationhood

Christy Pottroff, Department of English, Merrimack College
Citizen Technologies: The U.S. Post Office and the Transformation of Early American Literature

Richardson Dilworth Fellow

Donald Johnson, Department of History, North Dakota State University
Thirteen Clocks: Popular Statecraft and the Coming of American Independence

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Sarah BanePhD Candidate in Art History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Join the Club: Regional Print Clubs in the United States during the Interwar Period

Cory Wells, PhD Candidate in Transatlantic History, University of Texas in Arlington
Immigrant Nativists: Irish Protestants and Anti-Catholicism in the Atlantic World

Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History

Traci Parker, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights: Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement

Long-Term Fellows

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

Matthew Kruer, Department of History, University of Oklahoma
The Time of Anarchy: Colonial Rebellions and the Wars of the Susquehannocks, 1675–1685

Michael A. Verney, Department of History, University of New Hampshire
“A Great and Rising Nation”: American Naval Exploration and the Forging of a Global Maritime Empire, 1815–1860

Nazera Sadiq Wright, Department of History, University of Kentucky
African American Women Writers and Research Libraries

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellows

Cheryl Hicks, Department of History, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Black Enchantress: Hannah Elias, Interracial Sex, Murder, and Civil Rights in Jim Crow New York

Nazera Sadiq Wright, Department of History, University of Kentucky
African American Women Writers and Research Libraries

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

John Garcia, Division of Humanities, Boston University
The Early American Bookseller: A Network History

Anne Verplanck, American Studies, Penn State Harrisburg
The Business of Art: Transforming the Graphic Arts in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow

Carrie Glenn, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
The Revolutionary Atlantic of Elizabeth Beauveau and John Joseph Borie: Commerce, Vulnerability, and U.S. Connections with the French Atlantic, 1780–1820

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Sarah Naramore, PhD Candidate in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame
Correspondence Networks and the Construction of American Medicine

Jordan Wingate, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Los Angeles
The Transnational Origins of the American Self

Short-Term Fellows

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows

Lucien Holness, PhD Candidate in History, University of Maryland, College Park
Between North and South, East and West: The Antislavery Movement in Southwestern Pennsylvania

Lacey Hunter, Department of History, Drew University
Nineteenth Century African American Women Intellectuals and the American Jeremiad

Myrna Sheldon, Department of Classics and World Religions, Ohio University
The Ontology of a Mixed-Race Woman

Wendy Wilson Falls, Department of Africana Studies, Lafayette College
Indian Ocean Maritime Labor, Black Sailors, and American Merchants: The Port of Philadelphia

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Marcel Deperne, PhD Candidate in History, University of La Rochelle
Atlantic Networks in the Ohio River Valley: French Merchants from Pittsburgh (PA) to Henderson (KY) 1789–1848

Alexandra Garrett, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
The Forgotten Female Roots of America’s Economic Power: Feme Sole Entrepreneurs of the Early Republic, 1774–1828

Sean Harvey, Department of History, The College of William & Mary
Albert Gallatin, the Early Republic, and the Atlantic World

Kathleen Hilliard, Department of History, Iowa State University
Bonds Burst Asunder: The Revolutionary Politics of Getting By in Civil War and Emancipation, 1860–1867

Camille Kaszubowski, PhD Candidate in American History, University of Delaware
“Left in Distress”: Women on Their Own in Revolutionary Pennsylvania

Robert Richard, Department of History, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Panic and Power: The First Great Depression in North Carolina, 1815–1833

Amy Watson, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Patriot Empire: The Rise of Imperial Party Politics in the British Atlantic, 1716–1748

Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center / Library Company of Philadelphia Fellow in the History of Women and Medicine

Lindsey Grubbs, PhD Candidate in English, Emory University
Fictional Illnesses: The Poetics of Diagnosis in America, 1785–1890

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Heather Morrison, Department of History, SUNY New Paltz
Philadelphia and the Holy Roman Emperor’s Plant Collectors

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Steven Bullock, Humanities & Arts Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Weems’s Washington: A Biography of Parson Weems’s Life of George Washington

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

Steffi Dippold, Department of English, Kansas State University
Plain as in Primitive: The Figure of the Native in Early America

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Ross Nedervelt, PhD Candidate in History, Florida International University
The Border-seas of a New British Empire: The British Atlantic Islands in the Age of the American Revolution

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

Rebecca Rosen, PhD Candidate in English, Princeton University
Making the Body Speak: Anatomy, Autopsy and Testimony in Early America, 1639–1790

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture

Allison Stagg, Department of American Art, Freie Universität Berlin
The Market for Caricature Prints in Philadelphia, 1790–1830

Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History

Charlene Boyer Lewis, Department of History, Kalamazoo College
The Traitor’s Wife: Peggy Shippen Arnold and Revolutionary America

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Jeffery Blankenship, Department of Art and Architecture, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Modern Landscapes: Landscape Architecture and Technological Innovation, 1760–1960

Lynn Brooks, Department of Theatre, Dance, & Film, Franklin and Marshall College
Black and Blanc on Stage in Antebellum Philadelphia (1820–1861)

Verdie Culbreath, PhD Candidate in English, Cornell University
Of Able Body and Sound Mind: Dissociative Affects and American Identities in Civil War Literature

Natalia Doan, PhD Candidate in Philosophy, University of Oxford
The 1860 Japanese Embassy and the Opening of American Civilization: “Female Diplomacy” and the Rupturing of American Hierarchies of Power

Erin Downey, Department of Art History, Swarthmore College
Visualizing Knowledge: Athanasius Kircher, Northern European Printmakers, and the Global Jesuit Book Industry

Matthew Gallman, Department of History, University of Florida
Loyal Dissenters, Angry Copperheads, and Violent Resisters

Monica Hahn, PhD Candidate in Art History, Tyler School of Art
Go-Between Portraits and the Imperial Imagination circa 1800

Rhys Jones, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Temporal Claustrophobia at the Continental Congress, 1773–1776

Sandro Jung, Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University
Towards a History of Transatlantic Literary Book Illustration, 1770–1820

Mark Kelley, PhD Candidate in Literature, University of California San Diego
Pirates of Sympathy: Oceanic Inheritances in Antebellum Domestic Fiction and Culture

Kathryn Gin Lum, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
The Heathen World and America’s Humanitarian Impulse

Scott Martin, Department of History, Bowling Green University
The Psychoactive Civil War: Alcohol and Drugs in the American Civil War and Its Aftermath

Laura Miller, Department of English and Philosophy, University of West Georgia
Reading British Science in Early American Libraries

Michele Navakas, Department of English, Miami University of Ohio
Coral in Early American Literature, Science, and Culture

Rose Roberto, PhD Candidate in Typography and Graphic Communication, University of Reading
Democratizing Knowledge: The Lippincott Editions of Chambers’ Encyclopaedia

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

Peter Messer, Department of History, Mississippi State University
Feeling Nature: Epistemologies of Natural History in the Early American Republic

Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Department of History, Rutgers University New Brunswick
Illicit Mobility: Vagrancy, Poverty, and Movement in the Early American Republic

Barra Foundation International Research Fellow in American History and Culture

Valérie Capdeville, Department of Literature, Language, Humanities, and Social Science, University of Paris 13
The British Club in the Colonial Empire (1700–1850): Construction, Exportation and Growth of a Model of Urban Sociability

Esther Ann McFarland Fellow

Lewis Eliot, PhD Candidate in History, University of South Carolina
Abolitionism, Enslavement, and the Stateless Atlantic World, 1830–1868

Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows

Jean Franzino, Department of English, Beloit College
Dis-Union: Disability Cultures and the American Civil War

Helen Hunt, Department of English, Tennessee Technological University
Provoking Pleasure: Erotic Dominance and Submission in Early American Fiction

Zachary Isenhower, PhD Candidate in History, Louisiana State University
At the Edge of Humanity: American Indian Legal Identity and the Development of American Citizenship

Spencer Wigmore, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware
Albert Bierstadt and the Speculative Terrain of American Landscape Painting, 1863–1888

Richardson Dilworth Fellow

Shira Lurie, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Politics at the Poles: Liberty Poles and the Popular Struggle for the New Republic

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Samuel King, PhD Candidate in History, University of South Carolina
Exclusive Dining: Immigration and Restaurants during the Era of Chinese Exclusion, 1882–1943

Brianna Nofil, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
Gender, Community Policing, and Crime Control in Late Twentieth-Century America

Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History

Angela Stiefbold, PhD Candidate in History, University of Cincinnati
Rural Character and Rural Economy: Bucks County, PA, 1930–1990

Long-Term Fellows

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

William Coleman, Department of the History of Art, Washington University in St. Louis
Painting Houses: The Domestic Landscape of the Hudson River School

Jeffrey Thomas Perry, Department of Social Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University
Protectors of the Peace: Church Tribunals and the Making of American Religious and Civil Authority, 1780–1860

Joseph Rezek, Department of English, Boston University
Early Black Writing and the Politics of Print

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellows

Vanessa Holden, Department of History, Michigan State University
Forming Intimacies: Queer Kinship and Resistance in the Antebellum American Atlantic

Rashauna Johnson, Department of History, Dartmouth College
“A Looking Glass for the World”: Slavery, Immigration, and Overlapping Diasporas in the U.S. South

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Michael Blaakman, Department of History, Yale University
Speculation Nation: Land and Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic, 1776–1803

Mara Caden, Department of History, Yale University
Mint Conditions: The Politics and Geography of Money in Britain and its Empire, 1650–1750

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellows

Nakia Parker, PhD Candidate in History, University of Texas, Austin
Trails of Tears and Freedom: Slavery, Migration, and Emancipation in the Southwest Borderlands, 1830–1887

Crystal Webster, PhD Candidate in Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Fugitive Play, Discursive Resistance: The Politics of Black Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Jessica Blake, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
A Taste for Africa: Imperial Fantasy and Garment Commerce in Revolutionary-Era New Orleans

Amy Sopcak-Joseph, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
Converting Rags into Gold: “Godey’s Lady’s Book,” Female Consumers, and the Business of Periodical Publishing in the Nineteenth Century

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Nicole Dressler, PhD Candidate in History, Northern Illinois University
The “Vile Commodity”: Morality, Convict Servitude, and the Rise of Humanitarianism in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American World

William Fenton, PhD Candidate in English, Fordham University
Unpeaceable Kingdom: Fighting Quakers, Revolutionary Violence, and the Antebellum Novel

Short-Term Fellows

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows

Tara Bynum, Department of English, Rutgers University
Reading Pleasures

James Ford, Department of English, Occidental College
Disheveling the Origins: Impossible Canonicity and African Diasporic Writing

Damon Turner, PhD Candidate in History, Morgan State University
The Reinventing of an Abolitionist: The Transatlantic Study of the United States, Sierra Leone, England, and the Quest for an Omaginary Homeland in Africa through the Eyes of Paul Cuffe, 1776–1817

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Guadalupe Carrasco-Gonzalez, Department of History, University of Cadiz, Spain
Maritime Traffic between Philadelphia and Cadiz (Spain) and the U.S. Merchants in Cádiz during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Dan Du, PhD Candidate in History, University of Georgia
This World in a Teacup: Chinese-American Tea Trade, 1784–1860

Lindsay Keiter, Department of History, The College of William & Mary
Uniting Interests: The Economic Functions of Marriage in America, 1750–1860

Alicia Maggard, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
Steamboats on the Ohio River in the Nineteenth Century

Ernesto Mercado-Montero, PhD Candidate in History, University of Texas at Austin
Saltwater Empire: The Caribs and the Politics of Smuggling, Insurgency, and the Slave Trade in the Circum-Caribbean, 1763–1833

Scott Miller, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
A Merchant’s Republic: Independence, Depression, and the Development of American Capitalism, 1760–1807

Franklin Sammons, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
The Long Life of Yazoo: Land Speculation, Finance, and Dispossession in the Southeastern Borderlands, 1789–1840

Eric Sears, PhD Candidate in History, St. Louis University
The Political Economy of Crisis, 1848–1860: Money and Banking in the Atlantic Origins of America’s Panicked Decade

Liat Spiro, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Drawing Capital: Depiction, Machine Tools, and the Political Economy of Industrial Knowledge, 1824–1914

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Jordan Taylor, PhD Candidate in History, Indiana University
“On the Ocean of News”: North American Information Networks in the Age of Revolution

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Blevin Shelnutt, PhD Candidate in English, New York University
Print Capital: Broadway and the Making of Mass Culture

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

Jamie Brummitt, PhD Candidate in Religion, Duke University
Protestant Relics: Religion, Objects, and the Art of Mourning in the Early American Republic

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Sean Moore, Department of English, University of New Hampshire
Slavery and Abolition in the Making of the Library Company of Philadelphia

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

Miriam Rich, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Monstrous Childbirth: Concepts of Defective Reproduction in American Medicine, 1830–1920

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture

Kathryn Desplanque, PhD Candidate in Art History, Duke University
Papermania: The Popular Printed Image, Mass Customization, and the Nineteenth-Century Consumer

Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History

Magdalena Zapędowska, PhD Candidate in English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Lydia Sigourney, Maria Gowen Brooks, and the Materiality of Antebellum Poetry

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Kristen Beales, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Religion and Commerce in Eighteenth-Century America

Cassandra Berman, PhD Candidate in History, Brandeis University
Motherhood and the Court of Public Opinion: Transgressive Maternity in America, 1768–1868

Andrea Blandford, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
Labor and the Visualization of Knowledge in American Geological Surveys, 1780–1860

Lucas Dietrich, Department of English, Lesley University
J.B. Lippincott Co., Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, and Early Mexican American Literature

Katherine Ibbett, Department of French, University College London
Liquid Empire: Building the French Mississippi

Hans Leaman, Department of History, Yale University
Whitefield among the Pennsylvania Pietists

Katherine Mintie, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of California, Berkeley
Rights and Reproductions? Commercial Photography and Copyright Law in the United States, 1884–1909

Rachel Monroy, Department of History, University of South Carolina
The Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson Digital Edition

Christoph Nitschke, PhD Candidate in History, University of Oxford
America in the World of Crisis: The Panic of 1873 and U.S. Foreign Relations

Johanna Seibert, PhD Candidate in American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Networks of Taste: The Early African Caribbean Press in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

René José Silva, PhD Candidate in History, Florida International University
The Aftermath of Revolution in Pennsylvania

Katherine Thompson, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, San Diego
“Dens of Iniquity”: George Lippard, Seduction, and Competing Visions of Masculine Brotherhood

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

Sally Hadden, Department of History, Western Michigan University
The Earliest U.S. Supreme Court

Spencer Wells, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Heaven’s Exiles: Excommunicates and the Reformation of American Christianity, 1750–1830

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Esther Sahle, Department of History, University of Bremen
A Faith of Merchants: Quakers and Institutional Change in the Early Modern Atlantic

Hannah Young, PhD Candidate in History, University College London
The Johnstons: Family, Property, and the Atlantic World

Esther Ann McFarland Fellow

Jonathan Lande, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
Disciplining Freedom: Union Army Slave Rebels and Emancipation in the Civil War Courts-Martial

Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows

Michael Hattem, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
The Past is Prologue: The Origins of American History Culture, 1730–1800

Bethany Mowry, PhD Candidate in History, University of Oklahoma
Relative Distances: Men and Women on the Philadelphia Waterfront, 1770–1830

Marissa C. Rhodes, PhD Candidate in History, University at Buffalo
Body Work: Wet-Nurses and Politics of the Breast in the Revolutionary Atlantic

Amber Shaw, Department of English, Coe College
The Fabric of the Nation: Textiles, Nationhood, and Identity in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Richardson Dilworth Fellow

Mary Freeman, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
Letter Writing and Politics in the Campaign against Slavery in the United States, 1830–1870

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Muiris MacGiollabhuí, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Carrying the Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen, 1795–1830

Raluca-Nicoleta Rogoveanu, Department of Modern Languages and Communication Sciences, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania
Becoming Romanian-American: A Study of the First Romanian Ethnic Organizations in Philadelphia

Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History

Chris Babits, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Texas at Austin
To Cure a Sinful Nation: A Cultural and Intellectual History of Conversion Therapy in the United States from the Second World War to the Present Day

Long-Term Fellows

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

Christopher J. Bonner, Department of History, University of Maryland
The Price of Citizenship: Black Protest, American Law, and the Shaping of Society, 1827–1868

Laura T. Igoe, Princeton University Art Museum
Art and Ecology in the Early Republic

Christopher N. Phillips, Department of English, Lafayette College
The Hymnal before the Notes: A History of Reading and Practice

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellow

Jessica Marie Johnson, Department of History, Michigan State University
Practicing Freedom: Intimacy, Kinship, and Property in Atlantic New Orleans, 1685–1810

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Sara T. Damiano, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
Gendering the Work of Debt Collection: Women, Law, and the Credit Economy in New England, 1730–1790

Lindsay Regele, Department of History, Miami University
Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industrialization

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellow

Michael Dickinson, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Surviving Slavery: Oppression and Social Rebirth in the Urban British Atlantic, 1680–1807

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Julia Dauer, PhD Candidate in English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Natural History and First Person Prose in Early America, 1783–1830

Sonia Hazard, PhD Candidate in Religious Studies, Duke University
The American Tract Society and the Materiality of Print in Antebellum America

Mellon Dissertation Fellows in Early American Literature and Material Texts, Jointly Sponsored by the Library Company and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies

Daniel Diez Couch, PhD Candidate in English, University of California at Los Angeles
The Imperfect Form: Literary Fragments and Politics in the Early Republic

Andrew Inchiosa, PhD Candidate in English, University of Chicago
Found among the Papers of the Early Republic

Short-Term Fellows

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows

Julia Bernier, PhD Candidate in Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
A Papered Freedom: Self-Purchase and Compensated Manumission in the Antebellum United States

Daina Ramey Berry, Department of African and African American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Ghost Values of the Domestic Cadaver Slave Trade

Dexter Gabriel, PhD Candidate in History, State University of New York, Stony Brook
A West Indian Jubilee in America

Holly Pinheiro, PhD Candidate in History, University of Iowa
Men of Color to Arms!: Race, Manhood, and Citizenship during the Civil War Era

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Jessica Blake, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
Caribbean Taste, Production, and Regionalism in Early Republic New Orleans

Patrick Callaway, PhD Candidate in History, University of Maine
Grain, Warfare, and the Reunification of the British Atlantic Economy, 1768–1815

Emilie Connolly, PhD Candidate in History, New York University
Indian Trust Funds and the Routes of American Capitalism, 1795–1865

Kim Gruenwald, Department of History, Kent University
Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters: Commerce, Networks, and Speculation from the Seven Years’ War through the Louisiana Purchase

Rachel Knecht, PhD Candidate in History Brown University
Quantifying the Economy in the Industrial Age

Katie Moore, PhD Candidate in History, Boston University
A Just and Honest Valuation”: Money and Value in Colonial America, 1690–1750

Joshua Rothman, Department of History, University of Alabama
The Ledger and the Chain: The Men Who Made America’s Domestic Slave Trade into Big Business

Justin Simard, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
The Technocrats: Lawyers and Capitalism in Early National America, 1780–1870

Jackson Tait, PhD Candidate in History, Queens University
Assessing Risk and Reputation in Atlantic Maritime Enterprise: The Development of Marine Underwriting Methods and Standards, 1770–1900

Sarah Templier, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Between Merchants, Shopkeepers, Tailors, and Thieves: Circulating and Consuming Clothes, Textiles, and Fashion in French and British North America, 1730–1780

Erin Trahey, PhD Candidate in History, University of Cambridge
Women and the Making of Colonial Jamaica Economy and Society, 1740–1850

Shuichi Wanibuchi, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
A Colony by Design: Nature, Knowledge, and the Transformation of Landscape in the Delaware Valley, 1680–1780

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Allan Kulikoff, Department of History, University of Georgia
Many Masks of Benjamin Franklin

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Joseph Rezek, Department of English, Boston University
Early Black Writing and the Politics of Print

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

Isaac King, PhD Candidate in History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
The Witness in the Shadows: Authenticity and Authority in the Early National Portraiture of George Washington

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Alec Reichardt, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
War for the Interior: Imperial Conflict and the Formation of North American and Transatlantic Communications Infrastructure, 1735–1774

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

Kathryn Falvo, PhD Candidate in History, Pennsylvania State University
Molding the Destiny of the Nation: Women in Nineteenth Century Dietetic Reform

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture

Ellen Handy, Department of Art, City College of New York, CUNY
Histories of Photography: An Introduction

Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History

Jacqueline Beatty, PhD Candidate in History, George Mason University
In Dependence: Women’s Protection and Subordination as Power in Early America, 1750–1820

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Jeffery Appelhans, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Catholic Persuasion: Power and Prestige in Early American Civil Life

Alex Black, Department of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
The Production of Freedom: Print and Performance in American Abolitionism

Todd Carmody, Program in History and Literature, Harvard University
Racial Handicap: Uplift and Rehabilitation in Postbellum America

Jessica Conrad, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
At the Bottom of the Bottle: Consumer Resistance, Racial Uplift, and Woman Suffrage in Temperance Literature

Ben Davidson, PhD Candidate in History, New York University
Freedom’s Generation: Coming of Age in the Era of Emancipation

Bradley Dixon, PhD Candidate in History, University of Texas at Austin
Republic of Indians: Indigenous Vassals, Subjects, and Citizens in Early America

Erica Fretwell, Department of English, State University of New York at Albany
The War of the Dots

George Gallwey, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Public Credit in the Development of American Political Economy, 1776–1845

Kathryn Lasdow, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
“Spirit of Improvement”: Construction, Conflict, & Community in Early-National Port Cities

Kevin Waite, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
The Slave South in the Far West: California, the Pacific, and Proslavery Visions of Empire, 1800–1865

Andrew Zonderman, PhD Candidate in History, Emory University
Embracing Empire: Eighteenth-Century German Migrants and the Development of the British Imperial System

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

Carolyn Eastman, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University
The Strange Genius of Mr. O: Oratory and Transatlantic Celebrity in Early America

Robert Gamble, Department of History, University of Kansas
Governed by Numbers: Lotteries, Capitalism, and the American State, 1776–1929

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Nathalie Caron, Department of English, Université of Paris Sorbonne
“Freeing the Mind from the Shackles of Religion”: The Significance of the French Philosophes’ Philosophy for American Freethought

Justin Roberts, Department of History, Dalhousie University
A Swarm of People: The Barbadian Diaspora and the Expansion of the English Atlantic, 1640–1690

Richardson Dilworth Fellow

Jack Furniss, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
States of the Union: The Political Center in the Civil War North

Esther Ann McFarland Fellow

Alyssa Ribeiro, Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Women, University of California at Los Angeles
Making the City Brotherly: Black and Latino Community Activism in Philadelphia, 1960s to 1980s

Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows

Meredith Neuman, Department of English, Clark University
Coming to Terms with Early American Poetry

Justine Oliva, PhD Candidate in History, University of New Hampshire
Anne Lynch Botta and the Formation of America’s Professional Middle-Class

Johanna Ortner, PhD Candidate in African American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Whatever concerns them, as a race, concerns me:” The Life and Activism of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Catherine Tourangeau, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
An Ocean of Joiners: Voluntary Associations in the Anglo-American Atlantic, 1740–1800

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Duane Corpis, Department of History, New York University, Shanghai
Overseas Charity and German Protestantism: Global Networks, Local Norms, 16th–19th Centuries

Stephen O’Donnell, PhD Candidate in History, University of Strathclyde
The Transatlantic Slovak National Movement, 1890–1920

Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History

Marc-William Palen, Department of History, University of Exeter
Pax Economica: The Global Struggle for Free Trade and Peace, 1896–1946

Long-Term Fellows

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

Randy M. Browne, Department of History, Xavier University
Surviving Slavery: Politics, Power, and Authority in the British Caribbean, 1807–1834

Benjamin Fagan, Department of English, University of Arkansas
The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation

Brian Luskey, Department of History, West Virginia University
Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight: The Cultural Economy of the American Civil War

Nicholas P. Wood, Department of History, University of Virginia
Considerations of Humanity and Expediency: The Slave Trades and African Colonization in the Early National Antislavery Movement

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellows

Kabria Baumgartner, Department of History, College of Wooster
In Pursuit of Knowledge: African American Women and Educational Activism in America’s Republic

Aston Gonzalez, Department of History, University of Michigan
Designing Humanity: African American Activist Art, 1830–1880

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Manuel Covo, Department of History, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Trade, Empire, and Revolutions in the Atlantic World Saint-Domingue, between the Metropole and the United States (1778–1804)

Brian Luskey, Department of History, West Virginia University
Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight: The Cultural Economy of the American Civil War

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellows

Emahunn Campbell, PhD Candidate in Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
The Imagination and Construction of the Black Criminal in American Literature, 1741–1910

Emily Owens, PhD Candidate in African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Fantasies of Consent: Black Women’s Sexual Labor in 19th c. New Orleans

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Benjamin Hicklin, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Michigan
‘Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be?’: Experiencing Credit and Debt in the English Atlantic, 1660–1750

Elizabeth Jones-Minsinger, PhD Candidate in History of American Civilization, University of Delaware
Women’s Consumption in Early America

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Jessica Linker, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
‘It is my wish to behold Ladies among my hearers’: Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720–1860

Rachel Walker, PhD Candidate in History, University of Maryland
A Beautiful Mind: Physiognomy and Female Intellect, 1750–1850

Mellon Dissertation Fellows in Early American Literature and Material Texts, Jointly Sponsored by the Library Company and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies

Kristina Garvin, PhD Candidate in History, Ohio State University
Past and Future States: The Cultural Work of the Serial in U.S. Literature, 1786–1815

Sonia Hazard, PhD Candidate in Religion, Duke University
Unruly Agencies: The American Tract Society, Religious Choice, and the Materiality of Print, 1825–1865

Short-Term Fellows

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows

Westenley Alcenat, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
Escape to Zion: Black Emigration and the Elusive Quest for Citizenship, 1816–1868

Frederick Knight, Department of History, Morehouse College
Black Elders in Early America

Tiffany Player, PhD Candidate in History, Washington University in St. Louis
Black Women and the Politics of Slavery from the Antebellum through the Great Depression

Selena Sanderfer, Department of History, Western Kentucky University
Tennessee’s Postwar Black Emigration Movements, 1868–1888

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Jonathan Barth, PhD Candidate in History, George Mason University
Money, Mercantilism and Empire in the Early English Atlantic, 1607–1697

Zachary Dorner, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
Expert Individuals and Networked Pharmaceuticals: The Making of Britain’s Global Empire in the Eighteenth Century

Jordan Smith, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
The Invention of Rum

David Thomson, PhD Candidate in History, University of Georgia
Bonds of War: Capital and Citizenship in the Civil War Era

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Shuichi Wanibuchi, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
A Colony by Design: Space, Nature, and the Transformation of Landscape in the Delaware Valley

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Jeffrey Makala, PhD Candidate in American Literature, University of South Carolina
Unmovable Type: Towards a History of Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century America

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

Maria Zytaruk, Department of English, University of Calgary
Non-Book Objects in the Library Company of Philadelphia (c. 1731–1850)

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Katlyn Carter, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
Practicing Representative Politics in the Revolutionary Atlantic World: Publicity, Accountability, and the Making of Representative Democracy

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

Jessica Linker, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
‘It is my wish to behold Ladies among my hearers’: Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720–1860

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture

Dominque Zino, Adjunct Professor, Fordham University
Glimpses of Picturesque Time: Pictures, Progress, and the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition

Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History

Julia Delacroix, Debby Ellis Writing Center, Southwestern University
The Storm That Shakes the World: Women’s Elegies in Revolutionary America

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Thomas Doran, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Vulgar Ethology: A Prehistory of Animal Protection in American Natural History

Laura Edwards, Department of History, Duke University
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Women, Textiles, and National Development in the United States

John Ingram, PhD Candidate in Modern History, King’s College London
Civic Improvements in Philadelphia and London: Municipal Patriotism and Reform in Britain andAmerica, 1870–1925

Brenden Kennedy, PhD Candidate in American History, University of Florida
The Yazoo Land Sales: Slavery, Speculation, and Capitalism in the Early American Republic

Leila Mansouri, PhD Candidate in English Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Constituent Characters: American Land, American Literature, American Representation

Alan Noonan, Department of History, University College Cork
“No Irish Need Apply”: Molly Maguirism and Labor Unrest in Pennsylvania in the Late Nineteenth Century

Amy Sopcak-Joseph, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
The Lives and Times of Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1830–1877

John Suval, PhD Candidate in History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Rupture of American Democracy, 1830–1860

Hazel Wilkinson, PhD Candidate in English Language and Literature, University College Cork
Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, 1715–1805

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

Mark Boonschoft, PhD Candidate in History, Ohio State University
Education, Civil Society, and State Formation from the Great Awakening to the Early Republic

Nora Slonimsky, PhD Candidate in History, CUNY
The Engine of Free Expression: The Political Development of Copyright in the Colonial British Atlantic and Early National United States

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Volker Depkat, Department of English and American Studies, University of Regensburg
The Visualization of Legitimacy in Founding Situations: A Transatlantic Approach to Political Visual Cultures

Brett Goodin, PhD Candidate in History, Australian National University
Victims of American Independence: A Collective Biography of Barbary Captives and American Nation-building, 1770–1840

Esther Ann McFarland Fellow

Nathan Jérémie-Brink, PhD Candidate in History, Loyola University Chicago
“Gratuitous Distribution”: Distributing African American Antislavery Texts, 1773–1845

Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows

Bronwen Everill, Department of History, King’s College London
African Trade and Ethical Consumption in the Atlantic World, 1760–1840

Alexander Mazzaferro, PhD Candidate in English, Rutgers University
Political Innovation and Atlantic Political Science

Susan Oliver, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
Transatlantic Periodicals and the Visual Image: Lithography and Photography, 1828–1860

Jordan Alexander Stein, Department of English, Fordham University
The Myth of the Woman Novel Reader

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Hidetaka Hirota, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University
An Anti-Alien Tradition: The History of American Nativism

Julia Lange, PhD Candidate in American Studies, University of Hamburg
Contested Histories: German-American Politics of Memory and the Holocaust

Kristina Poznan, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Becoming Immigrant Nation-Builders: The Development of Austria-Hungary’s National Projects in the United States, 1880–1920s

Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History

Victor Yang, PhD Candidate in Political Science, St. John’s College
Browning the Rainbow of AIDS Activism: Race and Political Representation in Philadelphia’s AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP)

Long-Term Fellows

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

Peter Jaros, Department of English, Franklin and Marshall College
Incorporate Things: Persons and Corporations in Antebellum American Literature and Law

Britt Rusert, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Radical Empiricism: Fugitive Science and the Struggle for Emancipation in the Long Nineteenth Century

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Daniel Peart, Department of History, Queen Mary University of London
Democracy in Action? The Making of United States Tariff Policy, 1816–1861

Danielle Skeehan, Department of History, Northeastern University
Creole Domesticity: Women, Commerce, and Kinship in Early Atlantic Writing

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Nicholas Crawford, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Feeding Slavery: Scarcity, Subsistence, and the Political Economy of the British Caribbean, 1783–1833

Toni Pitock, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Commerce and Connection: Jewish Merchants, Philadelphia, and the Atlantic World, 1738–1822

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Arika Easley, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
The Indian Image in the Black Mind: The Representation of Native Americans in Antebellum African American Public Culture

Katie Hemphill, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Bawdy City: Commercial Sex in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore

Mellon Dissertation Fellows in Early American Literature and Material Texts, Jointly Sponsored by the Library Company and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies

John Garcia, PhD Candidate in Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
Biography, Book History, and American Nationalism 1800–1855

Lindsay Van Tine, PhD Candidate in Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Translated Conquests: Spanish New World History in U.S. Literature, 1823–1854

Short-Term Fellows

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Short-Term Fellows in African American History

Katie Johnston, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
The Experience of Hot Climates: Health, Race and the Body in the British Atlantic World

Anna Lawrence, Department of History, Fairfield University
Jarena Lee’s Calling

Mary Maillard, independent scholar, Vancouver, British Columbia
Lulu and Genie: The Letters of Louisa Jacobs to Eugenie Webb, 1879–1911

Marie Stango, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Antislavery and Colonization: African American Women in Nineteenth Century West Africa

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Michael Blaakman, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Speculation Nation: Land Speculators and Land Mania in Post-Revolutionary America

Mara Caden, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Making Imperial Capitalism: The Politics of Manufacturing in the British Empire, 1696–1740

Tyson Reeder, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
Interests Soundly Calculated: Philadelphia and Baltimore Merchants in the Luso-Atlantic, 1760–1824

Katherine Smoak, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Circulating Counterfeits: Making Money and its Meanings in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Will Slauter, PhD Département d’Etudes des Pays Anglophones, Université Paris 8 – Saint Denis
Who Owns the News? Journalism and Intellectual Property in Historical Perspective

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Jeffrey Peachey, Book Conservator, New York City
In-boards Bindings and the Beginning of Industrialized Bookbinding in America and England, 1800–1850

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

Paul Otto, Professor of History, George Fox University
Beads of Power: Wampum and the Shaping of Early America

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Elizabeth Athens, PhD Candidate in History of Art, Yale University
“Substances in Themselves”: William Bartram’s Material Sources

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

Kathyryn Segesser, PhD Candidate in History, University of Toronto
Disordered Eating in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century America and England

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture

Christopher Lukasik, Department of English, Purdue University
The Image in the Text

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Margaret Abruzzo, Department of History, University of Alabama
Good People & Bad Behavior: Changing Views of Sin, Evil, and Moral Responsibility

Alison Efford, Department of History, Marquette University
Suicide and the Immigrant Experience, 1880–1924

Christopher Florio, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
The Poor Always with You: Impoverishment in the United States, 1835–1868

Thomas Gillan, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Intellectual Labor in Early America: The Life of the Mind and the History of the Body

Lauren Klein, School of Media, Literature, and Communications, Georgia Institute of Technology
A Cultural History of Data Visualization, 1786–2013

Jeffrey Knight, Department of English, University of Washington
English Literary Collections and the Institution of the Library in Early America

Etta Madden, Department of English, Missouri State University
Recovering and Refining Anne Hampton Brewster’s Italian Experiences

Brett Mizelle, Department of History, California State Long Beach
Killing Animals in American History

Karen Racine, Department of History, University of Guelph
Joel Poinsett in South America 1810–1814

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

Matthew Osborn, Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City
America’s First Batman: Popular Theatricality in the Dramatic Republic

Jonathan Sassi, Department of History, College of Staten Island, CUNY
The Campaign for Gradual Emancipation in New Jersey

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Nicholas Guyatt, Department of History, University of York
The Scale of Beings and the Prehistory of ‘Separate but Equal’

Austen Saunders, PhD Candidate in Literature, University of Cambridge
American Readers’ Manuscript Marks in the Collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia (c.1640–1830)

Esther Ann McFarland Fellow

Richard Bell, Department of History, University of Maryland
Slavery’s Black Market: A Microhistory

Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows

Jennifer Brady, Department of History and Literature, Harvard University
Sentimental Reading in the Antebellum United States

Laurel Daen, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Civic Capacity and the Constitution of Disability in the Early American Republic, 1770–1840

Andrew Heath, Department of History, University of Sheffield
Consolidating Philadelphia: The Reconstruction of an American Metropolis, 1837-77

Kacy Tillman, Department of Literature, University of Tampa
Damned Tories of the Penny Post: Female Loyalist Letter-Journals of the American Revolution

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Kristin Condotta, PhD Candidate in History, Tulane University
Professional “Negotiantes”: Irish Merchant Networks and Atlantic New Orleans, 1770–1820

Elisabeth Piller, PhD Candidate in History, University of Heidelberg
Re-Winning American Hearts and Minds – German Cultural Diplomacy and the United States, 1919 to 1932

Rachel Wise, PhD Candidate in English, University of Texas at Austin
Losing Appalachia: Rethinking Genre Through Local Color’s Out-of-Place Objects

Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History

Megan Black, PhD Candidate in American Studies, George Washington University
The Global Interior: Imagining Minerals in the Postwar Expansion of American Capitalism

Long-Term Fellows

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

Michael Block, Department of History, University of Southern California
New England Merchants, the China Trade, and the Origins of California

Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Drawing the Lines: Aesthetics and Practice of Translation in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture

Philip Stern, Department of History, Duke University
Municipal Bonds: The Urban Corporation in the Early Modern British Empire

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Ariel Ron, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Developing the Country: Scientific Agriculture and the Roots of the Republican Party

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Corey Goettsch, PhD Candidate in History, Emory University
A Nation of Peter Funks: Fraud in Nineteenth-Century America

Hannah Farber, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
Early American Marine Insurance: Commerce, the Republic, and the Oceans

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Kameika S. Murphy, PhD Candidate in History, Clark University
Currents of Liberty: Revolutionary Ėmigrés and Their Contributions to Afro-Caribbean Civil Society, 1760–1838

Stephanie Elizabeth Tilden, PhD Candidate in English, Brown University
Paper Boats: Archives of Disorder in American Maritime Literature

Mellon Dissertation Fellows in Early American Literature and Material Texts, Jointly Sponsored by the Library Company and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies

Steven Smith, PhD Candidate in History, University of Missouri
A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1783–1830

Sarah Scheutze, PhD Candidate in English, University of Kentucky
More Than Death: Fear of Illness in American Literature, 1775–1876

Short-Term Fellows

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Short-Term Fellows in African American History

Marcus A. Allen, PhD Candidate in History, Morgan State University
Institutionalizing Black Capitalism: An Examination of the African American Depositors at the Savings Bank of Baltimore, 1850–1900

Christopher Bonner, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Making Citizenship Meaningful: Language, Power, and Belonging in African American Activism, 1827–1868

Abigail Cooper, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
“Until I reach My Home”: Inside the Refugee Camps of the American Civil War

Brooke N. Newman, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University
Island Masters: Gender, Race, and Power in the Eighteenth-Century British Caribbean

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Sara T. Damiano, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Gender and the Litigated Credit Economy in New England, 1730–1790

Benjamin Hicklin, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
“Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be”?: Experiencing Credit and Debt in the English Atlantic, 1660–1750

Andrew Kopec, PhD Candidate in English, Ohio State University
Attacking Panic: The Financial Work of American Literature, 1819–1857

Susan Stearns, Department of History, Mary Baldwin College
Streams of Interest: The Mississippi River and the Political Economy of the Early Republic, 1783–1803

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Nicole H. Gray, PhD Candidate in English, University of Texas at Austin
Spirited Media: Promiscuous Materialities of Antebellum Reform.

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Matthew Shaw, Curator of North American History, British Library
Read all About It!: The Invention of Newspapers in Britain and America, 1641–1865

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

Sarah Jones Weicksel, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago
The Fabric of War: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Zara Anishanslin, Department of History, City University of New York, College of Staten Island
Portrait of a Woman in a Silk Dress: Reframing the Landscape of Empire in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World

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

Claire Gherini, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
“Experiment and Good Sense Must Direct You”: Managing Health and Sickness in the Plantation Enlightenment, 1730–1800

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture

Allison Lange, PhD Candidate in History, Brandeis University
Pictures of Change: Transformative Images of Gender and Politics in the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1776–1920

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Kelly Arehart, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Give Up Your Dead: How Business, Technology, and Culture Separated Americans from Their Dearly-Departed, 1780–1930

Richard Bell, Department of History, University of Maryland
The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade

Peter Y. Choi, PhD Candidate in History, University of Notre Dame
Beyond the Great Itinerant: George Whitefield and Revivalism after the Revivals

Michelle Coghlan, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University
Culinary Designs: Food Writing and the Making of American Taste

William Coleman, PhD Candidate in History, University College London
Sung Down: Music and Political Culture in the United States from the Early Republic to the Civil War Era

Michael F. D’Alessandro, PhD Candidate in American Studies, Boston University
Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Audience in Popular American Literature and Theater, 1835–1870

D. Berton Emerson, Institute of Transdisciplinary Studies, Woodbury University
Local Rules: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Fictions

Nicole Frisone, PhD Candidate in History, University of Minnesota
False Prophecies: Morris Milgram and the Market for Privately Developed, Racially Integrated Housing, 1947–1968

Stephanie L. Gamble, PhD Candidate in History, The Johns Hopkins University
Capital Negotiations: Native Diplomats in the American Capital from George Washington to Andrew Jackson

Jonathan W. Hall, PhD Candidate in History, University of Montana
Rabid Republic: Dogs and Men in America, 1700–1920

Maeve Kane, PhD Candidate in History, Cornell University
They That Made the Men: Clothing, Sovereignty, and Women’s Work in Iroquoia, 1600–1850

Jessica C. Linker, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
“It is my wish to behold Ladies among my hearers”: Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720–1860

Mairin Odle, PhD Candidate in History, New York University
Stories Written on the Body: Cross-Cultural Markings in the North American Atlantic, 1600–1830

Maureen Connors Santelli, PhD Candidate in History, George Mason University
“The Greek Fire”: The Classical Tradition in America and the Greek War for Independence, 1720–1832

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

Richard Godbeer, Department of History, University of Miami
The Life and Times of Elizabeth and Henry Drinker

Anne Lombard, Department of History, California State University San Marcos
Regulators and Legal Reform in Pennsylvania, 1763–1810

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Frances M. Clarke, Department of History, University of Sydney
Minors in the Military: A History of Child Soldiers in America from the Revolution to the Civil War

Zhang Tao, American Studies, Research Center, Sichuan International Studies University
Confucius in Early America’s Imagination of China

Esther Ann McFarland Fellow

Thomas Sheeler, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Negotiating Slavery on Mason and Dixon’s Line: Race, Section, and Union in Maryland and Pennsylvania before the Civil War

Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows

Shana Klein, PhD Candidate in Art History: University of New Mexico
The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in Nineteenth-Century American Still-Life Representation

Angel-Luke O’Donnell, PhD Candidate in History, University of Liverpool
Tangible Imaginations: Construction of American Identity in Philadelphia, 1764–1776

Sean Trainor, PhD Candidate in History and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University
The Culture and Economy of Men’s Grooming in the Nineteenth-Century U.S

Caroline Wigginton, Department of American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
Epistolary Neighborhoods: Intimacy, Women’s Writing, and Circulation in Eighteenth-Century North America

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Dominique Daniel, Kresge Library, Oakland University
Archiving Ethnic History: Ethnic Identities and the Shaping of the Balch Institute Collections

Konstantinos Karpozilos, University of Peloponnese, Greece
“The Great American Family”: “Americanization” and the Shaping of Modern Greece (1944–1959)

Mark Santow, University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth
Castles Made of Sand? Home Ownership in the Modern US

Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History

David Hochfelder, University at Albany, SUNY
Creating the Ownership Society: A Social History of Saving and Investing

Long-Term Fellows

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

Edward Cahill, Department of English, Fordham University
Colonial Rising: Narratives of Upward Mobility in British America

Marcy Dinius, Department of English, University of Delaware
Radical African American Print Culture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Nancy Hagedorn, Department of History, State University of New York at Fredonia
On the Waterfrontier: Atlantic Port City Waterfronts as Zones of Cultural Interaction, 1700–1825

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Joseph Adelman, Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University
Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763–1789

Martin Ohman, Department of History, University of Virginia
Pursuits of Union: American Political Economy, Federal Politics, and Internal Divisions, 1783–1821

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Andrew Fagal, PhD Candidate in History, Binghamton University
To ‘Provide for the Common Defense’: The Political Economy of War in the Early American Republic, 1789–1818

Dael Norwood, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
Trading in Liberty: The Politics of the American China Trade, c.1784–1862

Edward Pompeian, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Spirited Enterprises: The United States, Venezuela, and the Independence of Latin America, 1790–1823

Danielle Skeehan, PhD Candidate in English, Northeastern University
Counterfeit Subjects: Credit, Commerce, and the Generation of Atlantic World Counterpublics

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Jennifer Heil, PhD Candidate in English, Emory University
The American Columbus: Chronology, Geography, and the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Thomas LeCarner, PhD Candidate in English, University of Colorado
The Empathic Response: Narratives of Forgiveness in American Law, Literature, and Culture

Mellon Dissertation Fellows in Early American Literature and Material Texts, Jointly Sponsored by the Library Company and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies

Mark Mattes, PhD Candidate in American Studies, University of Iowa
Material Letters: Media History and the Politics of Epistolary Practice, 1780–1845

Seth Perry, PhD Candidate in Divinity, University of Chicago
“A Valuable Book”: Bibles and Religious Authority in Early National America

Short-Term Fellows

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Short-Term Fellows in African American History

David Crosby, independent scholar, Jackson, Mississippi
An Annotated Critical Edition of Anthony Benezet’s Antislavery Writings

Aston Gonzales, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Black Activist Art in Philadelphia, 1820–1860

Lori Leavell, PhD Candidate in English, Emory University
Imagining a Future South: David Walker’s Appeal and Antebellum American Literature

Anna Stewart, PhD Candidate in English, University of Texas at Austin
Lives Reconstructed: Slave Narratives and Freedmen’s Education

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Sarah Chesney, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, The College of William & Mary
The Flowering Web: Tracing William Hamilton’s Botanical Network in Late-Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Kristen Highland, PhD Candidate in English, New York University
“A Great Emporium”: The Book Store and the Cultural Geography of Antebellum New York City

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Cynthia Bouton, Department of History, Texas A&M University
Subsistence, Society, and Culture in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century and Age of Revolution

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

Susan Brandt, PhD Candidate in History, Temple University
Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1740–1830

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture

Catherine Walsh, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware
Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Orality in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Hannah Farber, PhD Candidate in History, University of California at Berkeley
The Insurance Industry in the Early Republic

Frances Kolb, PhD Candidate in History, Vanderbilt University
Contesting Borderlands: Commerce and Settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1765–1800

Colleen Rafferty, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
“To Establish an Intercourse Between our Respective Houses”: Economic Networks in the Mid-Atlantic, 1735–1815

Steven Smith, PhD Candidate in History, University of Missouri
A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730–1830

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Tyler Boulware, Department of History, West Virginia University
Next to Kin: Native Americans and Friendship in Early America

Jacob Crane, PhD Candidate in English, Tufts University
Barbary(an) Invasions

Trenton Jones, PhD Candidate in History, The Johns Hopkins University
“Deprived of Their Liberty:” Prisoners of War and Revolutionary American Military Culture

Stephanie Koscak, PhD Candidate in History, Indiana University
Multiplying Pictures for the Public: Reproducing the English Monarchy, ca.1648–1780

Timothy Lombardo, PhD Candidate in History, Purdue University
The Development of Blue-Collar Conservatism in Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia

Lucia McMahon, Department of History, William Paterson University
Life Lessons: A Cultural History of Female Biography in Nineteenth-Century America

Erin Murphy, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Herbert Welsh and the Anti-Imperialist Investigations on “Atrocities” in the Philippines, 1899–1910

Heather Nathans, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of Maryland
Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage

Richard Newman, Department of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
All’s Fair: Race and Sanitary Reform in the Civil War Era

David Prior, Department of History, University of South Carolina
Paul Du Chaillu, the Exploration of Equatorial West Africa, and the Politics of Race in the Civil War-Era United States

Adam Shapiro, Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
William Paley and the Natural Theology Tradition in America

Nicholas Wood, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Questions of Humanity and Expediency: The Slave Trades and African Colonization in the Early American Republic

Mary Catherine Wood, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware
Benjamin West’s Nelson Memorial: Neoclassical Sculpture and the Atlantic World ca. 1812

Benjamin Wright, PhD Candidate in History, Rice University
Early American Clergy and the Transformation of Antislavery: From the Politics of Conversion to the Conversion to Politics, 1770–1830

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

Paul Polgar, PhD Candidate in History, The City University of New York Graduate Center
To Be Free and Equal? Antislavery Reform in America, 1783–1833

Ashli White, Department of History, University of Miami
Object Lessons of the Revolutionary Atlantic

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Gesa Mackenthun, Department of American Studies, Rostock University
Mesoamerican Antiquities and the Transnational Birth of Archaeology

David Lambert, Department of History, University of Warwick
Mobility, Race and Power in the Caribbean, ca.1780–ca.1880

Esther Ann McFarland Fellow

James Gigantino, Department of History, University of Arkansas
Freedom and Slavery in the Garden of America: African Americans and Abolition in New Jersey, 1775–1861

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Daniel Amsterdam, Department of History, The Ohio State University
Building a Civil Welfare State: Businessmen’s Forgotten Campaign to Remake Industrial America

Alecia Barbour, PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology, SUNY Stony Brook
Music and Remembrance: Listening to US “Internment Camps,” 1939–1947

Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History

Vanda Krefft, independent scholar
Lone Master of the Movies: A Biography of William Fox, Founder of 20th Century Fox

Long-Term Fellows

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

Hester Blum, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University
Arctic and Antarctic Circles: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration

David J. Silverman, Department of History, George Washington University
Firearms and the Transformation of Native America

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Adam Gordon, PhD Candidate in English, University of California at Los Angeles
Cultures of Criticism in Antebellum America

Spencer Snow, PhD Candidate in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Reading the Map: the Nationalization of Geographic Space, Reading Publics, and the Shaping of Nineteenth Century American Identity

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Katherine Arner, PhD Candidate, Institute for the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Making Yellow Fever American: Disease Knowledge and the Geopolitics of Disease in the Atlantic World, 1793–1822

Melissah Pawlikowski, PhD Candidate in History, Ohio State University
In the Land of Liberty: The Squatter Exodus into the Ohio Valley, 1760 to 1800

Mellon Dissertation Fellows in Early American Literature and Material Texts, Jointly Sponsored by the Library Company and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies

Katherine Gaudet, PhD Candidate in English, University of Chicago
Fear of Fiction: Novels and their Antagonists in Eighteenth-Century America

Alea Henle, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
Preserving the Past, Making History: Historical Societies and Editors in the Early Republic

Short-Term Fellows

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Short-Term Fellows in African American History

Ric N. Caric, Department of Government and Regional Analysis, Morehead State University
Occupied by Blackness: Early Blackface Minstrelsy in Philadelphia

James W. Cook, Jr., Department of History, University of Michigan
The Lost Black Generation: African American Performers and the Making of Global Mass Culture

Peter Reed, Department of English, University of Mississippi
Dancing on the Volcano: The Haitian Revolution and American Performance Cultures, 1790–1865

Terri Snyder, American Studies, California State University, Fullerton
Suicide, Slavery and the Rise of Abolitionism in North America

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Timothy Helwig, Department of English and Journalism, Western Illinois University
From Serialization to Publication: The Uncanny Migration of Nativism in the Late Writings of George Lippard

William Reese Company Fellows in American Bibliography

Kenneth Carpenter, Harvard University Library (retired)
Disseminating Economic Literature before 1850

Lindsay DiCuirci, PhD Candidate in English, Ohio State University
History’s Imprint: The Colonial Book and the Writing of American History, 1790–1855

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Molly O’Hagan Hardy, PhD Candidate in English, University of Texas at Austin
Imperial Authorship and Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Production

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

Sari Altschuler, PhD Candidate in English, Graduate Center, City University of New York
National Physiology: A Medico-Literary Exploration of the American Body and Body Politic between 1789 and 1860

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture

Sarah Kate Gillespie, Department of Fine and Performing Arts, York College, City University of New York
“One Thing New Under the Sun”: The Cross-Currents of Art and Science in the American Daguerreotype, 1839–1850

Senior Research Associates

Richard Altenbaugh, College of Education, Slippery Rock University
Stumbling towards a State System of Public Education: Pennsylvania’s Common-School Reform

Lori Ginzberg, Department of History and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Women’s History and the Narrative of American Democracy

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Aaron Marrs, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
“Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation Revolution”

Simon Middleton, Department of History, University of Sheffield
Cultures of Credit in Eighteenth-Century America

Dael Norwood, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
Politicizing America’s Trade with Asia in the Early Republic

Caitlin Rosenthal, PhD Candidate in the History of American Civilization, Harvard University
Accounting for Control: Bookkeeping in Early Nineteenth-Century America

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Tim Cassedy, PhD Candidate in English, New York University
The Character of Communication, 1790–1810

Julia Chybowski, Music Department, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield and Philadelphia Musical Culture

Vivian Bruce Conger, Department of History, Ithaca College
The World of Deborah Read Franklin: A Transgenerational Exploration of Gender in Revolutionary and Early Republic Philadelphia

Julie Davidow, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
“Citizens in the Making”: Black Philadelphians and the Republican Party, 1865–1915

Nora Doyle, PhD Candidate in History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“A Higher Place on the Scale of Being”: Experience and Representation of the Maternal Body in America, 1750–1865

Katharine Gerbner, PhD Candidate in History of American Civilization, Harvard University
Christian Slavery: A Protestant Dilemma

Simon Gilhooley, PhD Candidate in Government, Cornell University
The Textuality of the Constitution and the Origins of Original Intent

Glenda Goodman, PhD Candidate in Historical Musicology, Harvard University
Songs Crossing the Atlantic: American Identity, Citizenship, and the Making of Musical Hybrids

Amy Hughes, Department of Theater, Brooklyn College
Sensation, Spectacle, and Reform in the Mid-Nineteenth Century American Theater

Dustin Kennedy, PhD Candidate in English, Pennsylvania State University
Nationalism and the Revolutionary Fiction of George Lippard

Julia Miller, Book Conservator, Ann Arbor, Michigan
A Descriptive Study of American Scaleboard Bindings from the Early Colonial Period through 1850

Dolores Pfeuffer-Scherer, PhD. Candidate in History, Temple University
The Franklin Women: Kinship, Gender Roles, and Public Culture in Philadelphia and Beyond, 1720–1900

Katie Pfohl, PhD Candidate in History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Abstraction’s Islamic Antecedents: American Modernism and Islamic Art, 1830–1930

Lloyd Pratt, Departments of English and African and African American Studies, Michigan State University
The Freedoms of a Stranger: African American Literature around 1845

Rusty Roberson, PhD. Candidate in History, University of Edinburgh
Scottish Imperialism in the Colonial American Borderlands

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

Katherine Carté Engel, Department of History, Texas A&M University
Breaking Ties: International Protestantism in the Era of the American Revolution

Megan Walsh, PhD Candidate in English, Temple University
A Nation in Sight: Literature, Visual Technology, and Print Culture in the Early American Republic

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

John Richard Oldfield, Department of History, University of Southampton
International Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution, 1787–1815

David Worrall, Department of English, Nottingham Trent University
British Theatre in Colonial and New Republic America, with Particular Reference to British Military Theatricals and the Mischianza, Philadelphia, 1778

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Corey Davis, PhD Candidate in History, University of Illinois at Chicago
The Mind of the Merchant Class: The National Board of Trade and the Making of a National Political Economy in the Late Nineteenth Century

Anne Parsons, PhD Candidate in History, University of Illinois at Chicago
Our Brothers’ Keepers: Mental Asylums, Prisons, and the Institutionalization of Twentieth-Century America

Long-Term Fellows

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

Billy Gordon Smith, Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University
Ship of Death: A Voyage that Changed the Atlantic World and Mapping Philadelphia during the Constitutional Era

Jordan Alexander Stein, Department of English, University of Colorado
The Historiography of Sexuality: Puritanism, Personhood, and the Rise of the Novel

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Martin Brückner, Department of English, University of Delaware
The Social Life of Maps in North America, 1750–1850

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellow

Lana Finley, PhD Candidate in English, University of California Los Angeles
Occult Americans; Discourse at the Margins of Nineteenth Century Literature

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Ariel Ron, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
Developing the Country: Scientific Agriculture and the Origins of Republican Economic Policy

Elena Schneider, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
The Limits of Loyalty: War, Trade, and British Occupation in Eighteenth-Century Havana

Mellon Dissertation Fellows in Early American Literature and Material Texts, Jointly Sponsored by the Library Company and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies

Joshua Ratner, PhD Candidate in English, University of Pennsylvania
American Paratexts

Marcia D. Nichols, PhD Candidate in English, University of South Carolina
Let them see how curiously they’re made: Constructing Female Sexuality in Anglo-Atlantic Midwifery Texts, 1690–1800

Short-Term Fellows

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Short-Term Fellows in African American History

Ronald Johnson, PhD Candidate in History, Purdue University
In Close Alliance; How the Early American Republic and Revolutionary Saint-Domingue Made Their Way in a Hostile Atlantic World

Alice Taylor, Department of History, University of Western Ontario
Selling Abolitionism: The Commercial, Material and Social World of the Boston Antislavery Fair, 1834–1858

Beverly Tomek, Department of History, Wharton County Junior College
Pennsylvania Hall: The Lynching of a Building

Andrew Diemer, PhD Candidate in History, Temple University
Black Nativism: African American Politics and Nationalism in Antebellum Baltimore and Philadelphia, 1817–1863

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Stephen Hague, PhD Candidate in History, Linacre College, Oxford
“A Modern-Built House … fit for a Gentleman’: Elites, Material culture and Social Strategy in the British North Atlantic World, 1680–1760

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Alison Klaum, PhD Candidate in English, University of Delaware
Pressing Flowers; Florigraphy and Botanical Representation in Late-Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Vincent Carretta, Department of English, University of Maryland
‘Genius in Bondage’: A Cultural Biography of Phillis Wheatley

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

Timothy Verhoeven, Department of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne
Natural or unnatural? Popular Medicine, Anti-Catholicism and the Problem of Celibacy in Nineteenth-Century America

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture

Anne Verplanck
The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780–1880

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Ian Beamish, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Agricultural Knowledge, Daily Work, and Slavery in the Early Republic

D’Maris Coffman, Department of History, Newnham College, Cambridge
Debating the Excise Tax in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania

Teagan Schweitzer, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Foodways, 1750–1850: The Historical Archaeology of Cuisine

Jeffrey Sklansky, Department of History, Oregon State University
The Biddles and the Politics of Money and Banking in the Early 1800s

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Maria Bollettino, PhD Candidate in History, University of Texas at Austin
Slavery, War, and Empire: The Meaning of the Seven Years’ War for the African Atlantic World

Christian DuComb, PhD Candidate in Theatre, Speech, and Dance, Brown University
Cultures of Print and Performance in Early Philadelphia

Kyle Farley, Department of History, Yale University
History and Memory in Philadelphia

Cassandra Good, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
‘A Golden Mean’: Heterosocial Friendship and the Formation of Political Culture in America, 1770–1830

Michael Goode, PhD Candidate in History, University of Illinois at Chicago
In the Kingdom but Not of It: The Quaker Peace Testimony and Atlantic Pennsylvania, 1681–1720

Alea Henle, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
Preserving the Past, Making History: Historical Societies, Editors, and Collectors in the Early Republic

Laura Keim, Curator of Collections and Interpretation, Stenton
Beyond “the Faithful Colored Caretaker”: Creating a Deeper Understanding of Servants and Enslaved Peoples at Stenton

Sara Lampert, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Taking to the Stage in 19th Century America

Andrew Murphy, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University
Liberty, Tolderation, and Law: The Political Thought of William Penn

Jonathan Nash, PhD Candidate in History, State University of New York at Albany
An Incarcerated Republic, Prisoners, Reformers, and the Penitentiary in the Early United States

Kristin Schwain, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia
Consuming Art: The Protestant Patrons of Henry Ossawa Tanner’s Biblical Paintings

Matthew Spooner, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
To Abolish the Black Man: The American Idea of Colonization, 1776–1860

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

Jane Calvert, Department of History, University of Kentucky
The Political Writings of John Dickinson

Matthew Hale, Department of History, Goucher College
The French Revolution and American National Identity

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Daniel Peart, PhD Candidate in History, University College, London
Popular Engagement with Politics in the United States During the Early 1820’s

Gregory Smithers, School of Divinity, History & Philosophy, University of Aberdeen
Orphans of Freedom: African American Children & ‘Colored Orphanages,’ 1830–1930’s

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Simone Cinotto, Department of History, University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo and Parma
A Place Called Home: Leonard Covello, Public Housing and Cultural Pluralism in Italian Harlem, 1935–1950

Dolores Janiewski, School of History, Philosophy, Politics & International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington
Philadelphia and the Construction of Reactionary Culture, 1878–1918

Long-Term Fellows

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

Matthew P. Brown, Department of English, University of Iowa
The Novel and the Blank: Textual Instruments in the Age of Franklin

Albrecht Koschnik, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University
American Conceptions of Civic Culture and Civil Society, 1730–1850

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Gautham Rao, Department of History, University of Chicago
Visible Hands: Customhouses, Law, Capitalism, and the Mercantile State of the Early Republic

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Katherin W. Paul, PhD. Candidate in Economic and Social History, University of Edinburgh
Social Relationships and Credit Networks Among Craftsmen and Shopkeepers in Edinburgh, London, and Philadelphia, 1750–1800

Alice Wolfram, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Property, Inheritance, and the Urban Family Economy in Britain, 1680–1780

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Katherine Jorgensen Gray, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Youth in Philadelphia, 1750–1815

Kenneth Owen, PhD Candidate in History, University of Oxford
Radical Politics in Revolutionary Pennsylvania, 1774–1800

Short-Term Fellows

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Short-Term Fellows in African American History

Corey Brooks, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
Building an Antislavery House: Political Abolitionists and Congress, 1835–1861

Martyn J. Powell, Department of History, University of Wales Aberystwyth
The White Slave Trade: Print Culture and Irish Emigration to American in the Late 18th Century

Derrick R. Spires, PhD Candidate in English, Vanderbilt University
Reimagining a “Beautiful but Baneful Object”: Black Writers’ Theories of Citizenship and Nation in the Antebellum United States

Kaye Wise Whitehead, PhD Candidate in Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Washing Her Bowl: Using Diary Entries to Reconstruct the Life of a 19th-Century Free Black Woman

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Karen A. Weyler, Department of English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The Imprimatur of Citizenship: Print and Public Identity in British North America and the Early Republic

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Jennifer McGovern, PhD Candidate in English, The University of Iowa
Captive Audiences: (Re)Visions of Indian Captivity Narratives in the Literary Marketplace

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Laura Keenan Spero, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
“Stout, Bold, Cunning and the Greatest Travellers in America”: The Colonial Shawnee Diaspora

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

Elizabeth Kelly Gray, Department of History, Towson University
Opium in Early America

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture

Christopher Hunter, PhD Candidate in English, University of Pennsylvania
A New and More Perfect Edition: The 19th-Century Creation of Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Joseph M. Adelman, PhD Candidate in History, The Johns Hopkins University
The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765–1776

Michael Block, PhD Candidate in History, University of Southern California
Northeastern Merchants, the China Trade, and the Origins of California

Philippe R. Girard, Department of History, McNeese State University
Haiti’s First Ambassador: Joseph Bunel and Haiti’s Diplomatic and Commercial Missions to Philadelphia, 1798–1804

David J. Hancock, Department of History, University of Michigan
Voices in the Taverns: Anglo America, 1607–1815

Peter Hohn, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
Opportunity, Enterprise, and Loss: The Moral Economy of the Early Jacksonian Era

Nicholas Osborne, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
Building a Country by Saving its Money: The Role of Savings Ideas and Institutions in the Antebellum United States

Colleen Rafferty, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
The Contest Over the Pennsylvania Backcountry, 1730–1830

Ariel Ron, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
Conceiving an Industrial Nation: Protectionism, Scientific Agriculture, and the Origins of the Republican Economic Program

Jessica Roney, PhD Candidate in History, The Johns Hopkins University
First Movers in Every Useful Undertaking: Voluntary Associations in Philadelphia, 1725–1775

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Lara Cohen, Department of English, Wayne State University
Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Seth Cotlar, Department of History, Willamette University
The Cultural History of Nostalgia in Modernizing America, 1776–1860

Joanna Frang, PhD Candidate in American History, Brandeis University
Becoming American on the Grand Tour, 1750–1830

Marcus Gallo, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
Imaginary Lines, Real Power: Surveyors and Patronage Networks Along the Mid-Atlantic Borderlands, 1740–1810

Anthony Galluzzo, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Los Angeles
Revolutionary Republic of Letters: Anglo-American Radical Literature in the 1790s

Kristina Huff, PhD Candidate in English, University of Delaware
Gratitude, Servitude, and Book-Bound Benevolence: Anti-Slavery Gift Books in the Antebellum United States

Spencer D. C. Keralis, PhD Candidate in English and American Literature, New York University
Children of Wrath: Violence and Youth in Young America, 1692–1865

Marcia D. Nichols, PhD Candidate in English, University of South Carolina
Let them see how curiously they’re made”: Constructing Female Sexuality in Anglo-Atlantic Midwifery Texts, 1690–1800

Dawn E. Peterson, PhD Candidate in American Studies, New York University
Unusual Sympathies: Race, Family, and Servitude in Jacksonian Politics

Jodi Schorb, Department of English, University of Florida
Incomplete Sentences: The Role of Literacy in Pennsylvania Prison Reform, 1787–1850

Wolfgang Splitter, Center for United States Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
The Correspondence of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg, 1753–1787

T.J. Tomlin, PhD Candidate in History, University of Missouri
Popular Theology in Popular Print: Almanacs and American Religious Life, 1730–1820

Damon Yarnell, PhD Candidate in History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Behind the Line: Purchasing Agents, Inter-firm Control, and the Origin of Mass Production, 1880–1927

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

Caitlin A. Fitz, PhD. Candidate in History, Yale University
Agents of American Revolutions: Latin American Rebels in Philadelphia, 1808–1826

Rodney Hessinger, Department of History, Hiram College
Sexual Scandal and Sectarian Conflict in the Second Great Awakening

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Holger Hoock, Department of Cultural History, University of Liverpool
A Social and Cultural Study of Violence and Terror in the War of American Independence

Ben Marsh, Department of History, University of Stirling
Sericulture in the Atlantic World, c. 1500–c. 1800

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Gregory Kupsky, PhD Candidate, Ohio State University
German America and National Socialism, 19331945

Alyssa Ribeiro, PhD Candidate, University of Pittsburgh
City of Brotherly Love? Intergroup Relations between Blacks and Latinos in Philadelphia, 1940s1980s

Joan Fragaszy Troyano, PhD Candidate, George Washington University
Presenting and Representing Ethnicity in the 1970s

Long-Term Fellows

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

Lucia McMahon, Department of History, William Paterson University
Merely as the Equals of Man: Education, Equality, and Difference in the Early American Republic

Peter Reed, Department of English, Florida State University
Captivating Performances: Staging Atlantic Underclasses 1777–1852

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Jonathan Chu, Department of History, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Where’s Mine? The Legal and Economic Impact of the American Revolution

Michelle Craig McDonald, Department of Atlantic History, Stockton College
Regional Reliance: Coffee, the Caribbean, and the Early American Economy, 1765–1825

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow

Jeffrey Kaja, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Economic Development and the Evolution of Transportation Systems in Early Pennsylvania, 1675–1800

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Will Mackintosh, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
A Restless Nation: Travel and Social Mobility in the United States, 1790–1865

Joseph Rezek, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Los Angeles
Tales from Elsewhere: The Transatlantic Circulation of Anglophone Fiction, 1800–1850

Short-Term Fellows

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Joseph Adelman, PhD Candidate in History, The Johns Hopkins University
The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765–1776

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Michael Winship, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin
A History of the Book in America: The Industrial Book, 1840–1880

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Matthew Garrett, PhD Candidate in English, Stanford University
Episodic Poetics in the Early Republic, 1787–1837

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

Courtney Fullilove, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
“Chemical Compositions” in American Patent Practice, 1787–1862

William H. Helfand Fellow in American Visual Culture

Dalila Scruggs, PhD Candidate in History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
The Love of Liberty Has Brought Us Here: The American Colonization Society and the Imaging of African-American Settlers in Liberia, West Africa

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Joanna Cohen, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
“Millions of Luxurious Citizens.” Consumption and Citizenship in New York and Philadelphia, 1815–1876

Joe Conway, PhD Candidate in English & American Literature/American Culture Studies, Washington University at St. Louis
The Hard Value of U.S. Fiction in an Age of Domestic Panic: 1837–1857

Max Edling, Department of History, Uppsala University
Financing the Mexican War

Michelle Mormul, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Philadelphia’s Linen Merchants, 1765 to 1815

Brian Phillips Murphy, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
The Politics Corporations Make: Interests, Institutions, and the Formation of States and Parties in New York, 1783–1850

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Edward Andrews, PhD Candidate in History, University of New Hampshire
Prodigal Sons: Indigenous Missionaries in the British Atlantic, 1640–1790

Marie Basile, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
Churches Revised: Ethnic Communities and the First Great Awakening in Philadelphia

Michael Les Benedict, Department of History, Ohio State University
“The Favored Hour”: Constitutional Politics in the Era of Reconstruction

Catherine Cangany, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Frontier Seaport: Detroit’s Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepot, 1750–1825

John Davies, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Class, Culture, and Color: The Impact of Black Saint Dominguans on Free African-American Communities in the Early Republic

Janet Dean, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Bryant University
Complex Marriage and Plain Talk: Free Love, Free Speech, and Sex Radicalism in the Nineteenth Century U.S

Jeannine De Lombard, Department of English, University of Toronto
Ebony Idols: Fugitive Slaves in Britain

Yvonne Fabella, PhD Candidate in History, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Jealous Creoles and “Priestesses of Venus”: Gender, Race and the Negotiation of Identity in Colonial Saint Domingue, 1763–1789

Shona Johnston, PhD Candidate in History, Georgetown University
The Catholic Anglo-Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century

Daniel Mandell, Department of History, Truman State University
“All Men Are Created Equal”: The Evolution of the Concept of Equality in America, 1790–1860

Justine Murison, Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
States of Mind: The Politics of Psychology in American Literature, 1780–1860

Andrew Newman, Assistant Professor of English, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Language, Literacy and Native Land: Encountering the Delawares

Sue Peabody, Department of History, Washington State University
Free Soil in the Atlantic World: Philadelphia Connections

Douglas Shadle, PhD Candidate in Musicology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Bringing Music to a Nation: Philadelphia’s Musical Fund Society and Its Patrons, 1820–1846

Smadar Shtuhl, PhD Candidate in History, Temple University
For the Love of One’s Country: The Construction of a Gendered Memory, 1860–1914

Todd Thompson, PhD Candidate in English, University of Illinois at Chicago
American Satire and Political Change from Franklin to Lincoln

Emily Westkaemper, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
Martha Washington Goes Shopping: Mass Culture’s Gendering of History, 1910–1950

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

Nicole Eustace, Department of History, New York University
War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812

Sean Harvey, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
American Languages: Natives and Philology, Nation and Empire, 1783–1857

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Matthew Pethers, King’s College London
Revolutionary Politics and the American Theater, 1750–1800

Maurizio Valsania, Department of Philosophy, University of Torino
The Curse of History: Leaders’ Distrust of American History, 1783–1828

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Kimberly Sims, Department of History, American University
Blacks, Italians, and the Politics of New York City Crime, 1900–1945

Carisa A. Worden, PhD Candidate in American Studies, New York University
“One Vast Brothel”: Sexuality and Servitude from Chattel Slavery to the “Black Side of White Slavery”

Katherine L. Turner, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Cooking and Eating Among Working-Class Americans, 1880–1930

NEH Postdoctoral Fellows

Rosalind Beiler, Department of History, University of Central Florida
Communication Networks and the Dynamics of Migration, 1660–1730

Gregory E. O’Malley, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
Final Passages: The British Inter-Colonial Slave Trade in the Long Eighteenth Century

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Marina Moskowitz, Department of History, University of Glasgow
Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America

Simon Newman, Department of History, University of Glasgow
The Transformation of Working Life and Culture in the Anglo-American Atlantic World, 1600–1800

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Candice Harrison, PhD Candidate in History, Emory University
The Contest of Exchange: Place, Power, and Politics in Philadelphia’s Public Markets, 1770–1859

Jessica Lepler, PhD Candidate in History, Brandeis University
1837: The Anatomy of a Panic

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Jenna M. Gibbs, PhD Candidate in History, UCLA
Imagining Race, Rights, and Citizenship in Transatlantic Theatricality (1770s–1850s)

Eric C. Stoykovich, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Live Stock Nation: The Political Economy and Agricultural Improvement of Farm Animals in the Northern United States, 1794–1870

Short-Term Fellows

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Joshua Beatty, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Performances of Authority: A Cultural History of the Stamp Act Crisis

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Johanna Archbold, PhD Candidate in History, Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies, Trinity College, Dublin
The development of the monthly magazine in Ireland, Scotland and America, 1770–1830

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Daniel Hulsebosch, New York University School of Law
Writs to Rights: The Transformation of the Anglo-American Common Law in the Age of Revolution

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

Tanya R. Sheehan, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Portrait Photography as Social Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

David Davidson, PhD Candidate in History, Northwestern University
Republic of Risk: The Intellectual Basis of Entrepreneurship in America, 1783–1800

Lesley Doig, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
The Unexpected Costs of Revolution: Prosperity and Conflict in American Merchant Families, 1770–1820

Emily Pawley, PhD Candidate in the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Accounting with Money and Materials in Early American Agriculture

Justin Roberts, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Eighteenth-Century Slave Plantation Labor in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Anne Baker, Department of English, North Carolina State University
A Cultural Biography of Susanna Rowson

Jacqueline Cahif, PhD Candidate in History, University of Glasgow
Prostitution in Early Philadelphia

Jasmine Nichole Cobb, PhD Candidate in Communication and Culture, Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania
Activist Movement Among African American Women

John Cross, Department of Art, Media, and Design, London Metropolitan University
American Furniture Makers and their Influence on Colonial Jamaica

Carol Faulkner, Department of History, SUNY Geneseo
Lucretia Mott and Radical Abolition in Philadelphia

Simon Finger, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
Epidemic Constitutions: Public Health and Political Culture in the Port of Philadelphia, 1740–1800

Sara Babcox First, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Mechanics of Renown; or, the Rise of a Celebrity Culture in Early America

Susanna W. Gold, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
The Performance of Memory: Art, War, and Nation at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition

Saadia Lawton, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Wisconsin
Contested Meanings: The Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century British-American Responses to the Kneeling Slave Image

Stephanie Gray Mayer, PhD Candidate in Art History, Boston University
The Art of The Gift: Sully, Mount, Huntington and the Antebellum Gift Book Industry

Katherine E. Paugh, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
“The Strongest Interest in Preventing this Diminution”: Rationalizing Reproduction in the British West Indies, 1760–1833

Yvette Piggush, PhD Candidate in English, University of Chicago
Governing Imagination: American Social Romanticism 1790–1840

Kimberly Sambol-Tosco, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
Relational Politics: Gender, the Household, and African-American Public Culture in the North, 1780–1860

Thomas Saxton, PhD Candidate in History, Lehigh University
Living in Two Worlds: The Durability of Transatlantic Family Ties in the Delaware Valley

Stephanie Schnorbus, PhD Candidate in History, University of Southern California
For Secular or Religious Use?: The Changing Nature and Purpose of Elementary Education – Pennsylvania, 1681–1834

Lynda K. Yankaskas, PhD Candidate in History, Brandeis University
Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731–1851

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

Friederike Baer, Honors College, University of Georgia
The Trial of Frederick Eberle: Language, National Identity, and Patriotism in Pennsylvania’s German Community, 1780–1820

Peter C. Messer, Department of History, Mississippi State University
Revolution by Committee: Religion, the Law, and Public Ceremony in the Birth of American Politics

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Lucy Frank, Department of English, Warwick University
Suturing the Nation: The Politics of Mourning in Postbellum America (1861–1886)

Francois Weil, Director, Centre d’études nord-américaines, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales
Family Trees: A Cultural History of Genealogy in America

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Rae Bielakowski, PhD Candidate, Loyola University, Chicago
“The Mystical Body”: Negotiating Ethnicity and Race

Russell A. Kazal, University of Toronto at Scarborough
The Lost World of Pennsylvania Pluralism: Immigrants, Local Intellectuals, and the Regional Roots of Multiculturalism, 1880–1970

Cristina Stanciu, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1880–1924

NEH Postdoctoral Fellows

Sally E. Hadden, Department of History, Florida State University
Legal Cultures in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia

Wayne Bodle, Department of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
The Fabricated Region: Making the Middle Colonies of British North America

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Rohit T. Aggarwala, Department of History, Columbia University
Seat of Empire: New York, Philadelphia, and the Emergence of an American Metropolis, 1776–1837

François Furstenberg, Department of History, University of Montreal
French Émigrés in Philadelphia: The French Atlantic World and the Political, Geographical, and Economic Development of the Early U.S. Republic, 1789–1803

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow

James Fichter, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
The American East Indies, 1773–1815

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows

William J. Campbell, PhD Candidate in History, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
Convergence of Interests in a Post-War Era: Agents, Indians, Speculators and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix

Jessica Roney, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
“Promoting a Nearer Connection”: Forms of Friendship in Philadelphia, 1730–1780

Short-Term Fellows

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Benjamin Ponder, PhD Candidate in Communication Studies, Northwestern University
“Common Sense”: Thomas Paine’s Rhetorical Revolution

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Nicholas Wrightson, PhD Candidate in History, Oxford University
The Role of the British and American Book Trades in the Development of Transatlantic Networks of Intellectual Exchange, 1730–1765

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Konstantin Dierks, Department of History, Indiana University
The Cultural Reach of Letter Writing in Anglophone Print Culture of the Eighteenth Century

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

Lisa M. Hermsen, College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology
Manic America: A Rhetorical and Cultural History

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Konstantin Dierks, Indiana University, Bloomington
The Service Economy of Letter Writing in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia

Regina Grafe, Oxford University
Fiscal Re-Distribution in the Spanish Empire

Emma Hart, St. Andrews University
The Meanings of the Market: A Cultural History of Consumer Behavior in Early America, 1607–1776

Peter Maw, PhD Candidate in History, University of Manchester
The Organizing and Financing of Anglo-American trade from 1783 to 1825

Marina Moskowitz, University of Glasgow
Seed Money: The economies of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America

Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin
The Industrial Book, 1840–1880

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Chiara Cillerai, PhD Candidate in English, Rutgers University
Cosmopolitanism and National Identity in Early American Writings

Kenneth Cohen, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Cultural Business: The Making and Meaning of Leisure in Early America, 1750–1840

Sarah Crabtree, PhD Candidate in History, University of Minnesota
A Nation of God: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution

Caroline Frank, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
China as Object and Idea in the Making of an American Identity, 1680–1820

Eric Gardner, Department of English, Saginaw Valley State University
Early African American Fortune-Telling

David Head, PhD Candidate in History, State University of New York, Buffalo
Pirates, Privateers, and Peaceful Trade: Commercial Legitimacy in the Early American Republic, 1815–1830

Liz K. Hutter, PhD Candidate in English, University of Minnesota
Drowning: Cultural Currents of Submersion and Buoyancy in the Nineteenth Century

Shawn Kimmel, PhD Candidate in American Culture, University of Michigan
From “Medical Police” to Public Hygiene in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia

Jennifer Manion, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
Prison Reform and the Criminal Identity in Early Pennsylvania: 1776–1835

Angela Murphy, PhD Candidate in History, University of Houston
Abolition, Irish Freedom, and Immigrant Citizenship: American Slavery and the Rise and Fall of the American Associations for Irish Repeal

Katie Oxx, PhD Candidate in Religion, Claremont Graduate University
Considerate Portions”: The Complex Religious Ecology of Early National Philadelphia, 1827–1844

Christopher Phillips, PhD Candidate in English, Stanford University
Cultural Uses of Epic in the United States, 1785–1876

Trisha Posey, PhD Candidate in History, University of Maryland
Poverty Encounters: Unitarians, the Poor and Poor Relief in Antebellum Boston and Philadelphia

Judith A. Ridner, Department of History, Muhlenberg College
Remembering Actions Most Cruel and Barbarous: Connecting Memories of Violence in Ireland and America

Kyle Roberts, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
Reading the Evangelical Subject: Periodicals, Memoirs, and the Shaping of Popular Religious Belief in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City

Marcia C. Robinson, Department of Religion, Syracuse University
Frances Watkins Harper: Black Abolitionist Among the Women of Maine, 1854–1856

Martha Elena Rojas, Department of English, University of Rhode Island
Diplomatic Letters: The Conduct and Culture of Foreign Affairs in the Early Republic

Jennifer E. Schaaf, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
Gender, Benevolent Devotionalism, and the Quest for Respectability Among Philadelphia Catholics, 1820–1870

Kirsten Sword, Department of History, Indiana University
Wives Not Slaves: Dependence, Authority, and Justice in Early America

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

Peter Kastor, Department of History, Washington University, St. Louis
An Accurate Empire: Describing America, 1776–1840

Kirsten Wood, Department of History, Florida International University
At the Crossroads: Taverns and the Making of America, 1765–1865

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Kate Davies, Department of English, University of York
Women, Letters, and the Atlantic World, 1760–1840

Simon Newman, Department of History, University of Glasgow
The Transformation of Working Life and Culture in the British Atlantic World, 1600–1800

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Ikuko Asaka, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Transnational Formations of Race, Gender, and Identities among Black Canadian Emigrationists, 1830–1869

Kathleen DeHaan, Department of Communication, Charleston College
Letters of Transit: Immigrants Write Their Diasporas

Rodrigo Lazo, Department of English, University of California, Irvine
Latin American Writers in Philadelphia, 1810–1830

Long-Term Fellows

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Brian Luskey, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Countinghouse Clerks and Counter Jumpers: Young Men and Society in the American Northeast, 1790–1860

Sharon Ann Murphy, Department of History, University of Virginia
A Matter of Life and Death: Life Insurance and the Emergence of the Modern American Economy

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow

Amanda B. Moniz, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
‘Labours in the Cause of Humanity in Every Part of the Globe’: Transatlantic Philanthropic Collaboration and the Cosmopolitan Ideal, 1760–1815

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows

Richard J. Bell, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
The Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760–1830

Matthew Osborn, PhD Candidate in American History, University of California, Davis
The Anatomy of Intemperance: Alcohol and the Diseased Imagination in Philadelphia, 1784–1850

Short-Term Fellows

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Thomas Hallock, Department of Literature, Eckerd College
William Bartram’s Manuscripts: A Selection of Unpublished Writings with Critical Essays

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Kevin J. Hayes, Department of English, University of Central Oklahoma
Reconstructing the Library of Benjamin Franklin

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Kate Haulman, Department of History, University of Alabama
Political Modes: The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America

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

Deborah Levine, PhD Candidate in History of Science, Harvard University
Diet and Nutrition in America: Information Transmission and the Invention of an American Body

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Sean Adams, Department of History, University of Central Florida
Fires of the Early Republic: The Technology, Consumption, and Household Economies of Heat

Jonathan Eacott, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Fashioning Societies: Eastern Goods in the Making of the Eighteenth-Century World

Robert Grant, Department of English, University of Kent
The Anglo-American West: global contexts/global economies

Karla Kelling, PhD Candidate in History, University of Washington, Seattle
Common Women: Class and Labor in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia

Eleanor Hayes McConnell, PhD Candidate in American Studies, University of Iowa
Economic Citizenship in Revolutionary New Jersey, 1763–1820

Michael W. Tuck, Department of History, Northeastern Illinois University
The Rise and Fall of the Atlantic Beeswax Trade, ca.1455- ca.1900

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Kerry Dean Carso, Department of Art History, College of Saint Rose
Narratives and Nationalism: A Cultural and Architectural History of American Follies, Ruins, and Summerhouses

Michael S. Carter, PhD Candidate in History, University of Southern California
Mathew Carey and the Public Emergence of Catholicism in the United States, 1789–1839

David Faflik, PhD Candidate in Early American Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
To the Boardinghouse: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840–1860

Charles Foy, PhD Candidate in Early American History, Rutgers University
Ports of Slavery, Ports of Freedom: How Slaves Utilized Northern Seaports Maritime Industry to Escape and Create Trans-Atlantic Identities, 1700–1783

John Robert Harper, PhD Candidate in History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Revolution and Conquest: Politics, Violence, and Social Change in the Ohio Valley, 1774–1803

Susan A. Hoffman, PhD Candidate in History, Lehigh University
The Consuming Ties That Bind: Gender, Production, Reproduction, and the Family During the Consumer Revolution in Pennsylvania, 1750–1810

Marion Horan, PhD Candidate in History, State University of New York, Binghamton
Trafficking in Danger: Working Women, Prostitutes, White Slaves, and Reform Movements in the United States and England, 1875–1910

Sara E. Johnson, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Saint Domingue Migrant Communities: The Formation of an Inter-American Literary Canon

Bradley A. Jones, PhD Candidate in History, University of Glasgow
The Impact of the American Revolution on the Patriotic Political Culture of Loyalism throughout the British Atlantic World

Richard Judd, Department of History, University of Maine
The Untilled Garden: Scientists, Settlers, and the Natural History of America, 1730–1850

Julie Chun Kim, PhD Candidate in Literature, Duke University
Food and the Discovery of Difference: Eighteenth-Century Accounts of the New World

Nathan Kozuskanich, PhD Candidate in History, Ohio State University
‘For the Security and Protection of the Community’: The Frontier and the Makings of Pennsylvania Constitutionalism, 1750–1776

Christopher Looby, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Public Prints

David Luis-Brown, Department of English, Lafayette College
Blazing at Midnight: Slave Rebellion and Social Identity in U.S. and Cuban Culture, 1844–1861

Robert Parkinson, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Enemies of the State: The Revolutionary War and Race in the New American Nation

Jonathan D. Sassi, Department of History, City University of New York, Staten Island
African Travel Narratives and Their Readers in Early America

Kyle G. Volk, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago
Tyrannies of Majorities: Democracy, Moral Reform, and the Creation of American Constitutional Rights Culture, 1830–1870

Bryan Waterman, Department of English, New York University
The Friendly Club of New York City: Early United States Literature in the Republic of Intellect

Karen Fisher Younger, PhD Candidate in History, Pennsylvania State University
Women, Missions, and African Colonization

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

April Haynes, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Bodies of Knowledge: Women’s Activism and Ideas in the Popular Health Movement, 1820–1873

Richard Newman, Department of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
Black Founder: Richard Allen and the Early American Republic

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Vassiliki Karali, PhD Candidate in History, University of Edinburgh
Political Anglicanism in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World, ca. 1760–1790: A Focus on Virginia, New York, and Pennsylvania

Katherine Ellinghaus, Department of History, University of Melbourne
Whitewashing: Miscegenation, Assimilation, and Genocide in the United States and Australia

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Christian Keller, Department of History, Dickinson College
Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and the Creation of German America

Dayle DeLancey, PhD Candidate in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Manchester
Piercing the ‘Veil’: Vaccines Against Smallpox and Polio and the Philadelphia Negro’s Struggle for Agency in Public Health and Medicine: 1915–1965

Long-Term Fellows

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellows

Richard Chew, Visiting Assistant Professor in History, Bucknell University
Interests at Odds with Empire: Currency, the Coastal Trade, and the Making of American Nationhood

Brian Schoen, University of Virginia
The Fragile Economic Fabric of Union: The Cotton South, Federal Union, and the Atlantic World Economy, 1787–1860

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Linzy Brekke, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
The Scourge of Fashion: Clothing and Cultural Anxiety in the Economy of the New Nation, 1783–1800

James Alexander Dun, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
Dangerous Neighbors: Slavery, Race, and St. Domingue in the Early American Republic, 1789–1800

Short-Term Fellows

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Cameron C. Nickels, Professor of English, James Madison University
Civil War Humor

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Melissa J. Homestead, Assistant Professor of English, University of Oklahoma
American Gift Books as a Venue for Authorial Professionalism in Antebellum America

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Benjamin L. Carp, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Cityscapes and Revolution: Political Mobilization and Urban Spaces in North America, 1740–1783

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

Jim Downs, Jr., PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
Diagnosing Reconstruction: Contagion, Freedom, and the Medical Division of the Freedmen’s Bureau

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Richard Demirjian, PhD Candidate in American History, The University of Delaware
‘To All the Great Interests’: Political Economy and the Road to a Monroe Doctrine, 1783–1823

Kim Gruenwald, Assistant Professor of History, Kent State University
Claiming a Continental Empire: Philadelphia Merchants and the Trans-Appalachian Frontier

Sherry Johnson, Florida International University
Mercantilism Meets Mother Nature: Climate, Colonialism, and Economic Change in Cuba, 1763–1783

Christian Koot, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Delaware
In Pursuit of Profit: Persistent Dutch Influence in the Inter-Imperial Trade of New York and the Lesser Antilles, 1621–1689

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Richard J. Bell, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
The Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760–1830

Keith Tony Beutler, PhD Candidate in History, Washington University
The Death of the Parents: Loss of the United States Founding Generation and Historicized Epistemologies of Memory, 1790–1840

Matthew J. Clavin, PhD Candidate in History, American University
Men of Color, to Arms! Remembering Toussaint Louverture and Haitian Revolution in the American Civil War

Catharine Dann, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William & Mary
Building and Planting: The Social Landscape of Philadelphia 1681–1750

Sarah A. Gordon, PhD Candidate in Art History, Northwestern University
Human Bodies in Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion

Barbara Groseclose, Professor of History of Art, Ohio State University
Ottoman Elements in Colonial Art: The Visual Culture of Trade

Kali Nicole Gross, Assistant Professor of History, Ursinus College
Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910

Sally E. Hadden, Assistant Professor of History and Law, Florida State University
 Legal Cultures in Early American Cities: Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston

Amy H. Henderson, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware
Furnishing the Republic Court: The Building and Decorating of Philadelphia Homes, 1790–1800

Martha S. Jones, Assistant Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan
“All Bound Up Together”: The Woman Question in African-American Public Culture, 1830–1900

Catherine E. Kelly, Associate Professor of History, University of Oklahoma
Visual Culture in the Early American Republic

Kenneth J. Miller, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis
“Dangerous Guests”: Enemy Prisoners, Revolutionary Communities, and American National Identity, 1760–1800

Heather Shawn Nathans, Assistant Professor of Theatre, University of Maryland
Lifting the Veil of Black: Sentiment and Slavery on the American Stage, 1787–1861

Karen Nipps, Senior Rare Book Cataloger, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Lydia Bailey, Philadelphia Printer, 1808–1861

James A. Schafer, Jr., PhD Candidate in the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Waiting for Patients: Markets, Communities, and the Practice of General Medicine in Philadelphia, 1900–1940

Arwin D. Smallwood, Associate Professor of History and Director, African American Studies Program, Bradley University
African American Studies Program, Bradley University: The Tuscarora: A History of the Sixth Iroquois Nation

Beverly Tomek, PhD Candidate in History, University of Houston
Abolitionists and Colonizationists: Crosscurrents in Pennsylvania’s Anti-Slavery Movement

Leonard von Morzé, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Berkeley
The French Atlantic: Mobility, Servitude, and the Social Bond in the Early American Republic

Geoffrey David Zylstra, PhD Candidate in History, Case Western Reserve University
The Industrialization of Space in Philadelphia’s Early Suburbs

Maria Zytaruk, Department of English, University of Toronto
Trading Curiosities: Transatlantic Natural History Exchanges

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

David Murray, Professor of American Studies, University of Nottingham
Body and Soul: Native and African American Representations

Muriel Schmid, Theologian, Switzerland
History of Prison Reform in America: Special Emphasis on Eastern State Penitentiary

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Jennifer Reed Fry, PhD Candidate in History, Temple University
“Our girls can match ’em every time”: The Political Activities of African American Women in Philadelphia, 1918–1941

Melissa R. Klapper, Assistant Professor of History, Rowan University
Small Strangers: Immigrant Children in America, 1880–1925

Long-Term Fellows

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Jane T. Merritt, Assistant Professor of History, Old Dominion University
The Trouble with Tea: Consumption, Politics, and the Making of a Global Colonial Economy

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellows

Michelle L. Craig, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
From Cultivation to Cup: Coffee Trade and Consumption in the British Atlantic Empire, 1765–1833

Stephen A. Mihm, PhD Candidate in History, New York University
Making Money: Bank Notes, Counterfeiting, and Confidence, 1789–1877

Short-Term Fellows

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Robb K. Haberman, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
The Development of Magazine Publishing in Antebellum America: 1800–1860

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Beth Barton Schweiger, Assistant Professor of History, University of Arkansas
Reading Slavery: Southerners and Their Books

Morgan Fellow in the History of the Book

Patrick Erben, PhD Candidate in English, Emory University
German-American Writing in Manuscript and Print

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

Sarah E. Mitchell, PhD Candidate in History, University of Southampton
Changing Perceptions of the Conjoined Body: A Social and Cultural History

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

Phyllis Whitman Hunter, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Geographics of Capitalism: Imagining ‘the Orient’ in Early America

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Carl Robert Keyes, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Advertising and the Commercial Community in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia

Julia C. Ott, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Selling Confidence: Credit, Character, and the Origins of American Market Culture

Andrew Schocket, Assistant Professor of History, Bowling Green State University:
Consolidating Power: Inventing the Corporate Sphere in Philadelphia, 1780–1840

Brian Schoen, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Southern Freetraders vs. Pennsylvania Protectionists: The Print Battle for National Political Economic Policy, 1819–1846

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Corey Capers, PhD Candidate in History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
On the Streets and in the Vernacular: Popular Culture, Publicity, and Race-making in the American Early Republic

James Alexander Dun, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University: Dangerous Neighbors
Slavery, Race, and St. Domingue in the Early American Republic, 1791–1820

Peter S. Genovese, Jr., PhD Candidate in History, Bowling Green State University
Law, Labor, and Freedom: Working-Class Constructions of Free Labor in the Northeastern United States, 1780s–1880s

Teresa Goddu, Associate Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
Selling Antislavery: Antebellum Literature and the Culture of the Marketplace

Ann N. Greene, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
Horses as a Power Technology, 1810–1910

Jerome S. Handler, Senior Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record

Nancy A. Holst, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware
Architecture, Identity, and the Suburban Ideal in Germantown, 1830–1870

Jennifer Lawrence Janofsky, PhD Candidate in History, Temple University
‘There is no hope for the likes of me’: Eastern State Penitentiary, 1829–1893

Karl M. Kippola, PhD Candidate in Theatre, University of Maryland
Out of the Forrest and into the Booth: Performance of Masculinity on the American Stage, 1828 to 1865

Clare A. Lyons, Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland
Mapping an Atlantic Sexuality Culture

Douglas F. Mann, PhD Candidate in History, University of Georgia
Becoming Creole: Material Life and Society in Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica

William S. McFeely, Writer/Historian, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
A Biography of Thomas Eakins

Donald J. McNutt, PhD Candidate in English, University of Arizona
Cities, Homes, and Other Ruins in American Literature, 1790–1860

David Morgan, Duesenberg Chair in Christianity and the Arts, Christ College, Valparaiso University
A History of the Religious Tract in Nineteenth-Century America

Susan Jennifer Pearson, PhD Candidate in History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
‘The Rights of the Defenseless’: Children, Animals, and the Rhetoric of Rights in American Reform, 1865–1930

Birte Britta Pfleger, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Irvine
The Creation of a Gendered Middle Ground in Penn’s Woods: Public Discourse, Community and Diversity in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania

Molly Rogers, School of Art and Design, Coventry University
The Zealy/Agassiz Daguerreotypes

Christine E. Sears, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Barbary Slaves: American Captives in Barbary, 1776–1830

Karen A. Sherry, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware
Exposing the ‘Natural’ Woman: Female Bodies in American Visual Culture, 1785–1830

Jennifer E. Snead, Lecturer in English, University of Pennsylvania
A ‘Strife of Words’: Transatlantic Eighteenth-Century Print Culture and the Publications of John Wesley

John Wood Sweet, Assistant Professor of History, Catholic University
The Natural History of Race in the Early Republic

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Luca Codignola, Professor of History, University of Genoa
The Roman Catholic Networks in the North Atlantic Area in an Age of Revolutions, 1756–1846

Sylvia Lyn Hilton, Professor of History, Complutense University
American Immigration to Spanish Louisiana and Floridas: Mobility and the Negotiation of Identity on Early Western Frontiers, 1776–1803

Carola Wessel, Research Fellow in History, Göttingen University
Bibliography and Edition of German-Language Broadsides Printed in North America, 1700–1830

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-Term Fellows

Balch Institute Fellows in Ethnic Studies

Stephanie Dyer, Lecturer in History, University of California, Davis
Markets in the Meadows: Shopping Centers and Suburban Sprawl in Metropolitan Philadelphia, 1922–1980

Margaret McAleer, Senior Archivist, Manuscript Division, The Library of Congress
Civil Stranger: The Irish in Philadelphia during the Early National Period

Long-Term Fellows

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Seth Rockman, Assistant Professor of History, Occidental College
Between Freedom and Slavery: Working for Wages in Early Baltimore and Philadelphia

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow

Shawn Kimmel, PhD Candidate in American Studies, University of Michigan
Political Economy in Philadelphia’s Pamphlet Literature of Philanthropy and Reform, 1825–1855

Short-Term Fellows

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Shirley Samuels, Professor of Humanities, University of Delaware
Facing the Nation: Cultural Iconography and the Civil War

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Peter Brownlee, PhD Candidate in American Studies, George Washington University
Vision and the Cultural Production of Market Revolution: Changing Formation of American Visual Culture, 1828–1855

Morgan Fellow in the History of the Book

Patrick Erben, PhD Candidate in English, Emory University
German-American Writing in Manuscript and Print

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

Mark Schmeller, Lecturer in History, Rice University
Phrenology Surveys the Public Mind

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Jennifer Anderson-Lawrence, PhD Candidate in History, New York University
Mahogany as a Commodity in the Atlantic World Economy

Kenryu Hashikawa, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
City and Country in the Early Republic: Social and Economic Networks in the New York-Philadelphia Region

Brian Luskey, PhD Candidate in History, Emory University: Marginal Men
Clerks and the Social Boundaries of 19th-Century America

Sarah Hand Meacham, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
The Topography of Drink: Gender and the Creation of a Market for Alcohol in Early Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Thomas Augst, Assistant Professor of English, University of Minnesota
The Sobriety Test: Temperance, Manhood and Practice of Citizenship, 1820–1920

Kevin Berland, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University at Shenango
William Byrd’s Histories of the Dividing Line

Patricia Prandini Buckler, Associate Professor of English, Purdue University North Central
Antebellum Scrapbooks, Albums and Commonplace Books

Eric Burin, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Dakota
Reckoning with Slavery: American Colonization Society Manumissions

Jane E. Calvert, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago
Dissenters in Our Own Country: 18th-Century Quakerism and the Limits of American Political Legitimacy

James Carrot, PhD Candidate in History, University of Wisconsin at Madison
The “Paxton Boys” Unmask’d: Settlers, Native Americans, and Resistance on the Pennsylvania Frontier, 1730–1771

James W. Cook, Jr., Assistant Professor of History and American Culture, University of Michigan
Cracks in the White Republic: Race, Culture and Transgression in the U.S. North, 1780–1865

Francois Furstenberg, PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Ideological Origins of American Nationalism, 1800–1848

Scott Gac, PhD Candidate in History, Queens College-City University of New York
The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America

Lori Ginzberg, Associate Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Sexual and Religious Transgression and 19th-Century Women’s Citizenship

Gabriele Gottlieb, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pittsburgh
A Solemn Warning and Caution to Every One”: Capital Punishment in Early America, 1750–1800

Joshua Greenberg, PhD Candidate in History, American University
Advocating “The Man”: Masculinity and the Critique of the Market Revolution in New York, 1800–1840

Matthew Pratt Guterl, Assistant Professor of History, Washington State University
After Slavery: Emancipation in the Atlantic World, 1830–1880

Jennifer J. Harper, PhD Candidate in Art History, Yale University
Popular Imagery Intended to Promote Abolitionism

Thomas J. Humphrey, Assistant Professor of History, Cleveland State University, Cleveland State University
Forging Community: Cultures of Violence in the Pennsylvania Backcountry, 1753–1815

Benjamin H. Irvin, PhD Candidate in History, Brandeis University
Representative Men: Personal and National Identity in the Continental Congress

Daniel Kilbride, Assistant Professor of History, John Carroll University
The Grand Tour: Americans, European Travel, and the Formation of American Culture, 1760–1865

Michael Mackintosh, PhD Candidate in History, Temple
The Nature of Contact: Natives, Newcomers, and the Natural World in Pennsylvania, 1638–1765

Holly Mayer, Associate Professor of History, Duquesne University
Soldier to Citizen: Military Service and the Development of American Identity during the Revolution

John McCurdy, PhD Candidate in History, Washington University in St. Louis
The Rank of Men Called Bachelors: Manhood, Family and 18th-Century Anglo-American Cultural Change

Amrita Myers, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
Negotiating Freedom: Being Free, Black and Female in Charleston, South Carolina, 1790–1860

Carl Smith, Professor of History, Northwestern University
The Cultural History of Water in Urban America

Olivia Smith Storey, Associate Professor of Literary Studies, Colby-Sawyer College
Fly Away Home: Orality and Literature in Great Britain, the Caribbean and African America

Marrianne S. Wokeck, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis
Between Tradition and New Ways: The Role Pastors Modeled for German Settlers in Colonial German America

Aaron Wunsch, PhD Candidate in Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
Laurel Hill Cemetery

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Adrienne Hood, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto
Fashion and Memory

Silvia Sebastiani, PhD Candidate in History and Civilization, European University Institute
Race, Women and Progress in the Debate of the Scottish Enlightenment

Long-Term Fellows

Program in Early American Economy & Society Postdoctoral Fellow

Donna J. Rilling, Assistant Professor of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Industry, Environment, and Community in the Early 19th Century Greater Delaware Valley

Program in Early American Economy & Society Dissertation Fellow

Katherine Carté, PhD Candidate in Early American History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Of Heaven and Earth: Economic Activity and Religion Among Backcountry Moravians, 1740–1800

Short-Term Fellows

McLean Contributionship Fellow

David R. Brigham, Curator of American Art, Worcester Art Museum
Peale’s Museum of Art and Science and its Precedents in 18th-Century Philadelphia

William Reese Company Fellow in American Bibliography

Susan Branson, Assistant Professor of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas, Dallas
Mary Clarke Carr: First Female Editor of an American Women’s Magazine

Morgan Fellow in the History of the Book

Louise L. Stevenson, Professor of History and American Studies, Franklin and Marshall College
Women’s Literacy in the Early Republic and British and American Literature, 1750–1850

Program in Early American Economy & Society Short-Term Fellows

Sean Patrick Adams, Assistant Professor of History, University of Central Florida: Old Dominion and Industrial Commonwealths
The Political Economy of Coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1810–1875

Brooke Hunter, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
The Threshold of Exchange: The Flour Industry of the Lower Delaware River Valley, 1750–1820

Elizabeth M. Nuxoll, Adjunct Assistant Professor of American History, Long Island University
A Biography of Robert Morris

Joseph T. Rainer, PhD Candidate in American Studies, The College of William & Mary
The Honorable Fraternity of Moving Merchants: Yankee Peddlers in the Old South, 1800–1860

Rohit Daniel Wadhwani, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
The Social, Economic, and Political Origins of Expanding Access to Financial Institutions in the 19th Century Northeast

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

David J. Anthony, Assistant Professor of English, Southern Illinois University
White Collar Gothic: Debtor Masculinity, Submission, and the U.S. Bank in Antebellum America

Radiclani Clytus, PhD Candidate in African-American Studies and American Studies, Yale University
Touring the Empire: Transatlantic Art and the Cultural Vision of 19th-Century Modernity

Steven Conn, Assistant Professor of History, Ohio State University
Encounters with History: Native Americans in the 19th-Century Imagination

James Delbourgo, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University
Political Electricity: Experimentalism, Enthusiasm and Enlightenment in 18th Century British America

Ian Frederick Finseth, PhD Candidate in English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Science and Pastoralism in American and African American Antislavery Literature

Alicia María Gaméz, Fellow, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Making American Nature: Scientific Narratives of Order and Origin in Visual and Literary Conceptions of Race in the Early American Republic

Jacqueline Goldsby, Assistant Professor of English, Cornell University
A Spectacular Secret: The Cultural Logic of Lynching in American Life and Literature, 1882–1992

Christopher J. Lukasik, PhD Candidate in English, Johns Hopkins University
Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and The Body in American Literacy and Visual Culture, 1780–1850

Carla J. Mulford, Associate Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University
Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire

Simon P. Newman, Director, Andrew Hooke Centre for American Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Historical Bodies: Death and Dying in Early National Philadelphia

Elisa Tamarkin, Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
American Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion and National Culture, 1800–1865

Ashli White, PhD Candidate in American History, Columbia University
‘A Flood of Impure Lava’: Saint Dominguan Refugees in the United States, 1791–1820

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Alex Preda, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Bielefeld
The Market and the Steam Engine: How Natural Sciences Shaped Financial Markets in the 19th Century U.S. and Europe

Jane Lois Rendall, Co-Director, Centre for 18th Century Studies, University of York
The End of New Caledonia: Scottish Women and Enlightened Networks, 1795–1813

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Augusta Rohrbach, Assistant Professor of English, Oberlin College
Material Contexts of Literary Realism from Abolition to the Harlem Renaissance

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Peter X. Accardo, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Byron’s American Editions Printed to the Year 1830, A Bibliography

Dee E. Andrews, Associate Professor of History, California State University, Hayward
Representing an Equal and Universal Liberty: The First Generation of American Antislavery

Erica Renée Armstrong, PhD Candidate in American History, Columbia University
The Transforming Identities of African American Women in Philadelphia, 1780–1850

Friederike Baer-Wallis, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
Imagining How They Lived: German-Americans in the Early American Republic, 1783–1820

Wendy Bellion, PhD Candidate in Art History, Northwestern University
Likeness and Deception in Art of the Early American Republic

Jeannine DeLombard, Assistant Professor of English, University of Puget Sound
The Juridical Metaphor in Antebellum Literary Abolitionism

Nathaniel Alexander Frank, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University
Producing Men: Work, Manhood, and the Rise of Capitalism in the Early American Republic

Robert Anthony Garson, Director, David K. Bruce Centre for American Studies, Keele University
The Adoption of the U.S. Dollar and the Forging of a National Identity, 1776–1792

Kevin P. Gumienny, PhD Candidate in History, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Creating “A Thirst for Knowledge:” Natural Philosophy and Natural History in 18th-Century America

David J. Hancock, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
Wine and the Emerging Atlantic Economy, 1703–1807

Sam W. Haynes, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas, Arlington
Anti-British Sentiment and the Emergence of an American Post-Colonial Identity

Etta M. Madden, Assistant Professor of English, Southwest Missouri State University
Pictures of Health: Responses to Benjamin Rush’s Teachings on Temperance, 1800–1850

Jon S. Miller, PhD Candidate in American Literature, University of Iowa
Prohibition and Parties: Temperance in 19th-Century American Literature and Culture

Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago
Urban Social Experiences and Hotel Life in 19th-Century America

Laura Schiavo, PhD Candidate in American Studies, George Washington University
Stereographs, Perception, and American Middle-Class Identity, 1850–1882

Nina Catherine Stoyan-Rosenzweig, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Farmers and the Exploitation of Wildlife Resources: Overuse or Husbanding?

Kirsten Sword, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Wayward Wives, Runaway Slaves and the Limits of Patriarchal Authority in Early America

Stephen Whitman, Assistant Professor of History, Mount St. Mary’s College
Regions, Borders, and Race: Free People of Color in the Mid-Atlantic, 1750–1860

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Sarah Catherine Knott, PhD Candidate in History, Oxford University
The Culture of Sensibility in the Era of the American Revolution

Marco Sioli, Department of American History, University of Milan
Democratic Republican Societies of the 18th Century: The Western Pennsylvania Experience

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Jeanne Boydston, Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Remember the Ladies: Gender, Labor, and Political Culture in the Early American Republic

Stephanie M.H. Camp, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
Viragos: Slave Women’s Everyday Politics in the Old South

Alexandra M. Cornelius, PhD Candidate in History, Washington University
“A man’s a man for a‘ that”: The Black Response to the Rise of Scientific Racism

Carolyn Eastman, PhD Candidate in American History, Johns Hopkins University
Oratory, Print, and the Development of the AmericanPpublic, 1780–1830

Paul J. Erickson, PhD Candidate in American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Welcome to Sodom: The Cultural Work of the American City-Mysteries Novel, 1840–1860

Martha Hodes, Assistant Professor of History, New York University
Place and Race, Borders and Identities: Black and White Migrations in the Civil War Era

Theodore Kornweibel, Jr., Professor of Africana Studies, California State University, San Diego
The African American Railroad Heritage

Daniel L. Letwin, Assistant Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University
Black Political Thought and the Social Equality Question in Nineteenth-Century America

W.T. Lhamon, Jr., Professor of English, Florida State University
Jump Jim Crow

Trish Loughran, PhD Candidate in English, University of Chicago
Virtual Nation: Local and National Cultures in Print, 1776–1850

Louis P. Masur, Professor of History, City College of the City University of New York
The American Republic in 1831

Margaret O. Meredith, PhD Candidate in History of Science, University of California, San Diego
A Noble Commerce: American Interpretations of Fossil Bones in the Atlantic World, 1780–1815

Eric Slauter, PhD Candidate in American Literature, Stanford University
The State as a Work of Art: Politics and the Cultural Origins of the Constitution

Kariann Yokota, PhD Candidate in U.S. History, University of California, Los Angeles
From an Unstable Beginning: National Identity and the Practice of Everyday Life in Post-Colonial America

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Alice Fahs, Assistant Professor of American History, University of California, Irvine
Publishing the Civil War: Popular Literature and the Meanings of the Nation, 1861–1865

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Zhangcan Cheng, Associate Professor of Chinese, Nanjing University
American Image of China From 1784–1844: Media and Knowledge

Glenn Moore, Lecturer in American History, University of Melbourne
Useful Leisure Activities in Nineteenth-Century America

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Dorri R. Beam, PhD Candidate in American Literature, University of Virginia
Purple Protests: The Highly Wrought Tradition in 19th-Century Women’s Writing

Gary R. Dyer, Assistant Professor of English, Idaho State University
The Sexual Politics of Chivalry, 1790–1850

Jon-Paul Dyson, PhD Candidate in History, SUNY Buffalo
Learning About Nature: Children and Natural History in the 19th Century

Catherine M. Eagan, PhD Candidate in English, Boston College
The Racialization of the Irish on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Todd A. Estes, Assistant Professor of History, Oakland University
Humor, Politics and the Political Culture of the 1790s

Michelle Garfield, PhD Candidate in History, Duke University
The Politics of Knowledge: Black Women’s Literary Societies in the Antebellum North

Ruth Wallis Herndon, Assistant Professor of History, University of Toledo
Growing Up in Early America

Peter C. Mancall, Professor of History, University of Kansas
Two Richard Hakluyts and the Creation of English America

Michael Meranze, Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
The Fragility of Justice: Police, Political Economy, and Sympathy in the Early Republic

David Brett Mizelle, PhD Candidate in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Exhibition Animals and the Boundary Between Man and Beast in Early America

Adrienne Munich, Professor of English, Director of Women’s Studies, SUNY Stonybrook
God Bless Our Queen: Victoria in America

Samuel Otter, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
Representing Race

Ellen Sacco, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of California, Los Angeles
Spectacular Masculinities: The Museums of Peale, Baker and Bowen in the Early Republic

Dennis M. Shannon, Assistant Professor of History, Auburn University, Montgomery
Mathew Carey and the Political Culture of the Early Republic

Emily B. Todd, PhD Candidate in English, University of Minnesota
Sir Walter Scott and 19th-century American Publishing History

Shirley Teresa Wajda, Assistant Professor of History, Kent State University
The Popular Reception of Phrenology by Americans

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Philip Mark Katz, Lecturer in History, Princeton University
The French Diaries of General John Meredith Read, U.S. Consul-General, 1870–71

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Pere Gifra-Adroher, Assistant Professor of English, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Between History and Romance: Travel Writing on Spain in Antebellum American Culture

Christine Hucho, PhD Candidate, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
Foreign and Female: German Immigrant Women in 18th-Century Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

David Brigham, Assistant Professor of Art and American Studies, Lebanon Valley College
Mark Catesby and the Subscribers to His Natural History of Carolina

Andrew Coopersmith, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Civil War Propaganda

Seth Cotlar, PhD Candidate in History, Northwestern University
In Paine’s Absence: The Europeanization of American Political Thought, 1787–1803

Pattie Cowell, Professor of English, Colorado State University
A Colonial Mid-Atlantic Writers’ Circle

Leslie J. Delauter, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Berkeley
American Gothic and Revolutions of Popular Culture before the Civil War

Sarah E. Fatherly, PhD Candidate in History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Women, Religion, and Commercial Culture in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia

Kristen Foster, PhD Candidate in History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Struggle for a Virtuous Republic in Philadelphia, 1787–1837

Anthony A. Iaccarino, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Los Angeles
The Problem of Slavery in Early National Virginia, 1780–1832

Susan M. Ryan, PhD Candidate in English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Cultural Politics of Benevolence in Antebellum America

Helen Tangires, PhD Candidate in American Studies, George Washington University
Public Markets and Civic Culture in Nineteenth-Century America

Travel Grants

Thomas F. Bonnell, Associate Professor of English, Saint Mary’s College
Publishing the Classics of British Poetry, 1765–1810

Randall K. Burkett, Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University
Afro-American Publishers and Publishing, 1872–1961

Ann Fidler, PhD Candidate in Law and History, University of California, Berkeley
American Legal Self-Help Publications and Their English Origins

Mark Reinberger, Assistant Professor of Environmental Design, University of Georgia
The Architecture and Landscape of the Philadelphia Colonial Country House

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Warren McDougall, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh
The Scottish Book Trade to Philadelphia in the Eighteenth Century

Marcus M. G. Wood, Research Fellow, University of Manchester
American Abolition Publications in the Nineteenth Century

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Martin J. Burke, Fulbright Lecturer, University College, Galway
Protestants, Catholics, and the Construction of Religious Identities in America, 1700–1900

Donald Farren, independent scholar, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Books Published by Subscription in 18th-Century America

Wilma King, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University
Free Women of Color in North America, 1670–1870

Elizabeth Milroy, Assistant Professor of Art History, Wesleyan University
Art Exhibitions in Philadelphia, 1850–1875

Andrew R. Murphy, PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America

Richard Newman, PhD Candidate in History, SUNY Buffalo
The Transformation of American Abolition, 1790–1830s

Edward L. Schwarzschild, Honors Fellow, Sweet Briar College
American Writers Confront the Photograph: The Photographs of Robert Montgomery Bird

Stephen P. Rice, PhD Candidate in American Studies, Yale University
Incorporating the Machine into the Work Place, 1820–1885

Nancy F. Rosenberg, independent scholar, Brooklyn, New York
Quakers and the Origins of Public Education in Early 19th-Century Philadelphia

Paul Sternberger, PhD Candidate in Art History, Columbia University
Photography and Landscape in America, 1880–1900: Between the Amateur and Aesthete

Karin A. Wulf, Assistant Professor of History, American University
Milcah Martha Moore’s Book: The Commonplace Book of an 18th-Century American

McLean Contributionship Fellow

James Raven, Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Book Importation in Colonial Philadelphia

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Shane White, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Sydney
African-American Style from the 17th Century to the 1930s

Jussara Menezes Quadros, PhD Candidate in Literary Theory, State University of Campinas
Romantic Edition: Literature and the Art of the Book in the Romantic Period

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Christine Bell, PhD Candidate in Art History, Northwestern University
A Family Conflict: Visual Imagery of the “Homefront” in the American Civil War (1861–1866)

Ernest Freeberg, PhD Candidate in History, Emory University
The Education of Laura Bridgman, the First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language

Maurice Jackson, PhD Candidate in History, Georgetown University
Anthony Benezet and the Age of the Atlantic Revolution

Daniel P. Kilbride, PhD Candidate in History, University of Florida
Philadelphia and the Southern Elite: Class, Culture, and Kinship in Antebellum America

Michael D. Layton, PhD Candidate in Political Science, Duke University
The Origin of American Political Parties in the States, 1776–1787

Margaret H. McAleer, PhD Candidate in History, Georgetown University
Paupers, Criminals, and Gentlemen: Philadelphia’s Irish, 1785–1805

Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Professor of English, Florida State University
An Edition of the Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt

Richard E. Powell, Jr., PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
The Animate Creation: Artifacts and Domestic Life

Merril D. Smith, Instructor in History, Temple University
Between Generations: Mothers and Daughters and the Transmission of Culture in Early America

David M. Stewart, PhD Candidate in English, University of Chicago
Reading American Sensationalism: Print, Pleasure, and the Contexts of Popular Response, 1835–1870

Mark Valeri, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Lewis and Clark College
Concepts of Moral Discipline and the Transition to Capitalism in Early America

McLean Contributionship Fellow

George W. Boudreau, PhD Candidate in History, Indiana University.
The Surest Foundation of Happiness: Education and Society in Franklin’s Philadelphia

Travel Grants

John W. Pulis, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Adelphi University
Bridging Troubled Waters: African Americans, the Free Black Community, and Afro-Christianity in Jamaica

Alan Rudrum, Professor of English, Simon Fraser University
Books owned by Henry Vaughan

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Barra Foundation International Research Fellow in American History and Culture

James Walvin, Provost, Alcuin College, University of York
Slavery Systems in the Modern World

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Carol Colatrella, Assistant Professor of Literature, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Cities, Ships, and Jails: Reforming Reading and the Rhetoric of Melville’s Fiction

James W. Cook, Jr., PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
Victorian American Illusionism

Cheryl J. Fish, PhD Candidate in English and American Literature, City University of New York
Travelling Through: Gender, Race and Social Transformation in American Travel Narratives

Susan Lindsey Lively, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University
Going Home: Americans in Britain in the Eighteenth Century

Barbara Bowen Oberg, Editor and Director, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University
“Happily situated in my own house”: Franklin’s Final Years in Philadelphia

Christopher W. Phillips, Assistant Professor of History, Emporia State University
“Negroes and other slaves”: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790–1860

Patrick J. Rael, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley
Black Thought in the North, 1827–1860

Vivien Sandlund, PhD Candidate in American History, Emory University
The Ideas and Strategies of the Gradual Emancipationists, 1800–1850

Thomas P. Slaughter, Professor of History, Rutgers University
Curious Gardeners: The Nature of John and William Bartram

Louise L. Stevenson, Associate Professor of History, Franklin and Marshall College
Women’s Intellectual Life in the United States

Virginia Stewart, PhD Candidate in History, Northwestern University
Reading the Provincial Mind: Dilemmas of American Political Identity, 1720–1776

Terence Whalen, Assistant Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago
Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Carol Sue Humphrey, Associate Professor of History, Oklahoma Baptist University
Development of the American Media, 1800–1825

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Barra Foundation International Research Fellow in American History and Culture

Sergei I. Zhuk, Professor of History, Dniepropetrovsk University, Ukraine
In Search for “New Canaan”: Ethos and Society in Colonial Pennsylvania

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Keith Arbour, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Benjamin Franklin’s Reputation and the Fashioning of the Young Republic, 1790–1845

Thane Bryant, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
Poverty and Poor Relief in Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1790–1840

Patricia Crain, PhD Candidate in English, Columbia University
Cultures of Reading in the American Renaissance

Cynthia Anne Kierner, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Reading and Southern Women, 1720–1820

Clare A. Lyons, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Changing Patterns of Sexuality in Philadelphia, 1750–1830

Jacquelyn C. Miller, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University
The Body Politic: Disease and Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution

Dana D. Nelson, Assistant Professor of English, Louisiana State University
Naked Nature: Science, Masculinity and the Engendering of “Race” in 19th-Century America

Leslie Cheryl Patrick-Stamp, Assistant Professor of History, Bucknell University
Ideology and Punishment: The Crime of Being Black, Pennsylvania, 1639–1804

Robert F. Reid-Pharr, PhD Candidate in American Studies, Yale University
Conjuring Nation: Class, Gender and the Development of an African-American Nation Literature, 1827–1862

Everett C. Wilkie, Jr., head librarian, Connecticut Historical Society
European/American Emigration Literature through 1815: A Descriptive Bibliography

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Carol Nackenoff, Associate Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College
Political Discourse in Antebellum America

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Barra Foundation International Research Fellow in American History and Culture

Karen O’Brien, research fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge
History and Environmentalism in America, 1760–1800

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

Bonnie Barthold, Department of English, Western Washing­ton University
“Africa” in American Discourse, 1808–1865

Martha Jane Brazy, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Duke University
The World a Slaveholder Made: Stephen Duncan and Plantation Society

Robert Dunne, PhD Candidate, Department of English, Lehigh University
Multi-Cultural Perspec­tives of the American Dream

Todd A. Estes, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Kentucky
Federalist Party Ideology in the Early 1790s

Michael Grossberg, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University
Motherhood on Trial: The d’Hauteville Custody Case and Social Change in Antebellum America

Jeffrey L. Pasley, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
Professional Politicians in the Early Republic, 1787–1856

John Wood Sweet, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
Eighteenth-Century Images of African-Americans and Indians

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Marcus Daniel, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
Ribaldry and Billingsgate: Popular Journalism and Political Culture in the Early Republic

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Barra Foundation International Research Fellow in American History and Culture

William A. Speck, Professor of Modern History, University of Leeds
Electoral Behavior in Colonial Pennsylvania

Zachariah Poulson Fellows

William B. Todd and Dr. Ann Bowden, Austin, Texas
A Descriptive and Historical Bibliography of Sir Walter Scott, 1792–1836

McLean Contributionship Fellow

Everett C. Wilkie, Jr., Connecticut Historical Society
A Bibliography of the Literature of Emigration to America to 1815

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Summer Research Fellows

Iver Bernstein, Department of History, Washington University
The Origins of the American Civil War

Joanna Cowden, Department of History, California State University, Chico
The Politics of Dissent: Northern Peace Democrats and the War against the Confederacy

Brian Greenberg, Department of History, University of Delaware
Workers’ Response to Industrialization in America

D.G. Hart, Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton College
A Social History of Philadelphia Presbyterianism

Jessica Kross, Department of History, University of South Carolina
To Live a Religious Life in the World: Rebecca Jones and her Circle

Peter C. Mancall, Department of History, University of Kansas
Alcohol and Empire: Indians, Colonists, and the Liquor Trade in British America

Paul Nierman, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Temple University
Samuel G. Dixon, Pennsylvania’s First State Health Commissioner

Angelita Reyes, Women’s Studies Program, University of Iowa
Paradigms of Unsung Women in African American and Caribbean Women’s Writing

Alan Taylor, Department of History, Boston University
William Cooper’s Town: Recreating Authority in Post-Revolutionary America

Mathew Ward, PhD Candidate, Department of History, The College of William & Mary
The Impact of the Seven Years’ War on the Virginia and Pennsylvania Frontier

John C. Wills, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
Retail Trade and the Consumer Revolution in Post-Revolutionary Philadelphia

Barra Foundation International Research Fellow in American History and Culture

Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, PhD Candidate, Paris VII, and Professeur Assistant, Groupe HEC
Science and American Ideology in the Early Republic

McLean Contributionship Fellows

Alfred Owen Aldridge, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois
The Reaction to China in the America of the Enlightenment

Elaine Forman Crane, Department of History, Fordham University
An edition of The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Summer Research Fellows

Cheryll Ann Cody, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Houston
Slaves and Freedmen in St. Ann’s Parish, Jamaica, 1758–1840

James M. Gallman, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Loyola College in Maryland
Irish Immigrants in Philadelphia and Liverpool

Carol F. Karlsen, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan
Women’s and Men’s Work among the Indians

Rebecca Larson, PhD Candidate, Department of History of American Civilization, Harvard University
Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women Traveling Ministers

Adam Norman Lynde, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Temple University
Professionalism of the British Army in North America, 1755–1830

Frederick L. McElroy, Assistant Professor, Department of Afro-American Studies, Indiana University
Eighteenth-Century Evangelical Anti-Slavery Literature

G. Roeber, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
The Culture of German America, 1727–1789

Nick Salvatore, Associate Professor, Cornell University
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations: “Amos Webber, Black Philadelphian”

Hugh R. Slotten, PhD Candidate, Department of History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey

Barra Foundation International Research Fellows in American History and Culture

Claire Lamont, Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, School of English Language and Literature
The Impact of Sir Walter Scott’s Novels in America

Reinhard Spindler, Department of History of the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
The Philadelphia-India Trade, 1784–1812

Zachariah Poulson Fellow

Whitman H. Ridgway, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland
Attitudes Toward the Bill of Rights, 1789–1791

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Summer Research Fellows

Nicola Beisel, PhD Candidate, Sociology, University of Michigan
Anti-Vice Societies in 19th Century Boston, New York, and Philadelphia

John K. Brown, PhD Candidate, History, University of Virginia
The Baldwin Locomotive Works and American Industrial Development, 1832–1954

Rosalind R. Burnam, PhD Candidate, History, University of California, Los Angeles
Philadelphia Publishers in the New Republic, 1790–1830

Bruce A. Dorsey, PhD Candidate, History, Brown University
Religious Benevolence and Popular Piety in Postrevolutionary Philadelphia, 1783–1844

Aaron Fogleman, PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan
German Naturalizations in Pennsylvania, 1765

Nian-Sheng Huang, PhD Candidate, History, Cornell University
Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture

Isabelle Lehuu, PhD Candidate, History, Cornell University
The New Readers in Antebellum America

Margot Melia, PhD Candidate, University of Western Australia
The Role of Free Black “Garrisonian” Women in Antislavery and Other Reforms in the Antebellum North, 1830–1865

James H. Merrell, Assistant Professor of History, Vassar College
The Cultural Brokers of Colonial Pennsylvania

Dennis Moore, PhD Candidate, English, University of North Carolina
The Unpublished Essays of Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Jack D. Warren, PhD Candidate, History, Brown University
The Rise and Fall of Federalism in Pennsylvania: The Decline of Deference and the Origins of Democracy, 1785–1805

Jean Fagan Yellin, Professor of English, Pace University
The Life of Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897), Author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Short-Term Fellows of the Library Company and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Summer Research Fellows

Elizabeth Rauh Bethel, Research Associate, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University
Afro-American Responses to the First Emancipation, 1780–1865

Hywel M. Davies, University Administrator, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
The Transatlantic World of Samuel Jones, Baptist Minister of Pennepek, Pennsylvania

Gail E. Farr, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
The Politics of Public Health Care: Philadelphia General Hospital, 1854–1930

Michael Hackenberg, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Graduate Library School
Early Philadelphia Subscription Publishing, 1820–1875

Judith A. Hunter, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Yale University
Nativism in Antebellum Philadelphia

Nancy G. Isenberg, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin
The Feminist and Religious Discourse of the Woman’s Rights Movement in America, 1848–1860

Judith K. Major, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Group in Architecture
The Role of “Imitation” in Andrew Jackson Downing’s Theory of Landscape Gardening

Sonya Michel, Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University
A History of Public Child Care in America, 1815–1945

Mary Panzer, PhD Candidate, Boston University, American and New England Studies Program, and Fellow, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
John Moran (1831–1902), Philadelphia Photographer

Janice G. Schimmelman, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Oakland University
Bibliography of American Imprints on Art through 1865

Thomas P. Slaughter, Associate Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University
Race Relations in Southeastern Pennsylvania from the Mid–18th Century through the Civil War

Dell Upton, Assistant Professor of Architectural History, University of California, Berkeley
The Commercialization of Anglo-American Architecture, 1750–1850