The Library Company of Philadelphia 2021-2022 Research Fellows
Francis Johnson Innovation Fellows
Dr. 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
Long-Term Fellows
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
Program in Early American Economy and 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
National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Corinne Field, Associate Professor, Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality, University of Virginia, Grand Old Women: How Abolitionists and Feminists Transformed Aging in America
Dr. Eric D. Lamore, Professor, Department of English, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, “Unstable as [W]ater:” Early Black Atlantic Literature and Textual Fluidity
Dr. Laura Ping, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History, Pace University, Beyond Bloomers: Fashioning Change in Nineteenth-Century Dress
Program in Early American Economy and 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
Dr. 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, “The Architects of their Fortunes”: Financial Revolutions on Baltimore’s Market Street, 1760s-1840s