Past Fellows: 1990
The Library Company of Philadelphia & Historical Society of Pennsylvania Summer Research Fellows
Dr. Iver Bernstein, Department of History, Washington University. The Origins of the American Civil War
Dr. Joanna Cowden, Department of History, California State University, Chico. The Politics of Dissent: Northern Peace Democrats and the War against the Confederacy
Dr. Brian Greenberg, Department of History, University of Delaware. Workers’ Response to Industrialization in America
Dr. D.G. Hart, Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton College. A Social History of Philadelphia Presbyterianism
Dr. Jessica Kross, Department of History, University of South Carolina. To Live a Religious Life in the World: Rebecca Jones and her Circle
Dr. Peter C. Mancall, Department of History, University of Kansas. Alcohol and Empire: Indians, Colonists, and the Liquor Trade in British America.
Mr. Paul Nierman, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Temple University. Samuel G. Dixon, Pennsylvania’s First State Health Commissioner
Dr. Angelita Reyes, Women’s Studies Program, University of Iowa. Paradigms of Unsung Women in African American and Caribbean Women’s Writing
Dr. Alan Taylor, Department of History, Boston University. William Cooper’s Town: Recreating Authority in Post-Revolutionary America
Mr. Mathew Ward, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, College of William and Mary. The Impact of the Seven Years’ War on the Virginia and Pennsylvania Frontier
Mr. John C. Wills, Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan. Retail Trade and the Consumer Revolution in Post-Revolutionary Philadelphia
Barra Foundation International Fellow
Ms. Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Ph.D. candidate, Paris VII, and Professeur Assistant, Groupe HEC Science and American Ideology in the Early Republic
Library Company Zachariah Poulson Fellows
Dr. William B. Todd and Dr. Ann Bowden, Austin, Texas. A Descriptive and Historical Bibliography of Sir Walter Scott, 1792-1836.
Library Company McLean Fellow
Dr. Everett C. Wilkie, Jr., Connecticut Historical Society. A Bibliography of the Literature of Emigration to America to 1815.