The Library Company of Philadelphia 2022-2023 Research Fellows

Library Company of Philadelphia Long-Term Fellows

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows

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

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

Dr. 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

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

Program in Early American Economy and Society Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Program in Early American Economy and Society Dissertation Fellow

Chris 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

Library Company of Philadelphia Short-Term Fellows

Program in Early American Economy and Society Short-Term Fellows

Dr. 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

Dr. 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

Dr. 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

Dr. 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 (ASECS) 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

The Davida T. 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

Dr. Courtney Wilder, Postdoctoral researcher
Early National American Textiles in a New Media Landscape: The Fisher Dye Books

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

Dr. 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
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 Appointed Jointly by the Library Company of Philadelphia and 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

Dr. 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

Dr. 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

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

Dr. 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 (SHEAR) Fellow

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

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Esther Ann McFarland Fellow

Carrie Hagen, Writer
The Vigilance Committee

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Richardson Dilworth Fellow in Law, Politics, and Reform

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

Historical Society of Pennsylvania 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, Associate 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

Historical Society of Pennsylvania 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

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Albert M. Greenfield Short-Term Fellow

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

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Indian Rights Association Fellow

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

Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine Research Fellows, hosted in partnership with the Library Company of Philadelphia

Derek Baron, PhD Candidate, Department of Historical Musicology, New York University
The Biopolitics of Voice: Speech Sciences and the Articulation of Race in Nineteenth-Century America

Dr. Rachel Walker, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Philosophy, University of Hartford
Beauty and the Brain: The Science of the Mind in Early America