The Library Company of Philadelphia 2020-2021 Research Fellows
Long-Term Fellows
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellow
Emily Gowen, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Boston University, On the Margins: Steady Sellers and the Problem of Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America
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
Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellow
Umniya Najaer, Ph.D. Candidate, Modern Thought & Literature, Stanford University, Knotted Maternity, Infanticide and the Infant’s Corpse: Imagining Enslaved Women’s Reproductive Lives
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
Program in Early American Economy and 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, Ph.D. 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
Library Company 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 T. Deutsch Fellow in Women History
Kim Nielsen, Professor, Department of History, University of Toledo, Dorothea Dix, Psychiatric Asylums, and the Institutionalization of Modern Insanity
Davida T. Deutsch / American Trust for the British Library / Library Company Fellow
Rachel Burke, Ph.D. 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 the Social History of Medicine
Meg Roberts, Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, Domestic Caregiving in the American Revolution
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Holly Gruntner, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, 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
Colin Anderson, Ph.D. 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, Ph.D. 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 and 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, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University, Exchanging Empires: Free Ports, Reform, and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1750-1781
Teanu Reid, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History and African American Studies, Yale University, Hidden Economies and Finances in the Early Anglo-Atlantic World
Matteo Rossi, Ph.D. Candidate, Global History of Empires, Università degli Studi di Torino, National Economy and Empire: Henry Carey and the Building of the Post-Colonial State
Agnes Trouillet, Associate Professor, Department of History, Paris VII Diderot, Penn’s Settlement Design—Spatial Units, Surveying, and Political Power in Colonial Pennsylvania
Joseph Wallace, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, ‘The Architects of their Fortunes’: The Rise of Financial Capitalism in Baltimore, 1760s-1840s
Reese Fellow in American Bibliography
Sophie Jones, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Liverpool, ‘Useful and Ornamental’: The Socio-Cultural Importance of Early American Subscription Libraries
Fellow in the Visual Culture Program
Siobhan Angus, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of the History of Art, Yale University, Photography in Deep-Time: Materiality, Resource Extraction, and Climate Change
Short-term Fellows Jointly Sponsored by 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, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Religion, Princeton University, Boiling Puddings: Conflicts around Religious Print during the Revolutionary Period
Katie Bondy, Ph.D. 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, Ph.D. 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, Ph.D. 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
Alex Leslie, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Rutgers University, Reading Regions: Cultural Geography and American Literature, 1865-1925
Megan Piorko, Allington Post-Doctoral Fellow, Science History Institute, Alchemy & Medicine in the New World: American Reception and Reinvention of Seventeenth-Century Texts
Jacinda Tran, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, Yale University, Landscapes of Crisis and Care: Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement and Racialization in Philadelphia
Ami Yoon, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Columbia University, Casual Things: Poetry, Natural History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century America
Barra Foundation International Fellows
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, Ph.D. 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
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Short-term Fellows
Balch Fellows
Shannon Devlin, Ph.D. 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, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University, Health and Social Activism in American Chinatowns, 1949-1999
Dilworth Fellow
Heather Walser, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University, Consistent with the Public Good: Conceptualizations of Amnesty, Peace, and Federal Power
Albert M. Greenfield Fellow
Charlotte Rosen, Ph.D. 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
McFarland Fellow
Dwain Coleman, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Iowa, Black Civil War Veterans and the Fight for Community in the Midwest
McNeil Fellows
Eric Becerra, Ph.D. 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, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University, Slavery is Slavery: Early American Mythmaking and the Invention of the Free State
J.T. Jamieson, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, A Mere Change of Location: Migration and Reform in Antebellum America