Past Fellows: 2005-2006
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Chiara Cillerai, Ph.D. Candidate in English, Rutgers University: Cosmopolitanism and National Identity in Early American Writings
Kenneth Cohen, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Delaware: Cultural Business: The Making and Meaning of Leisure in Early America, 1750-1840
Sarah Crabtree, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Minnesota: A Nation of God: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution
Caroline Frank, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Brown University: China as Object and Idea in the Making of an American Identity, 1680-1820
Dr. Eric Gardner, Department of English, Saginaw Valley State University: Early African American Fortune-Telling
David Head, Ph.D. 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, Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of Minnesota: Drowning: Cultural Currents of Submersion and Buoyancy in the Nineteenth Century
Shawn Kimmel, Ph.D. Candidate in American Culture, University of Michigan: From “Medical Police” to Public Hygiene in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Jennifer Manion, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Rutgers University: Prison Reform and the Criminal Identity in Early Pennsylvania: 1776-1835
Angela Murphy, Ph.D. 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, Ph.D. Candidate in Religion, Claremont Graduate University: “Considerate Portions”: The Complex Religious Ecology of Early National Philadelphia, 1827-1844
Christopher Phillips, Ph.D. Candidate in English, Stanford University: Cultural Uses of Epic in the United States, 1785-1876
Trisha Posey, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Maryland: Poverty Encounters: Unitarians, the Poor and Poor Relief in Antebellum Boston and Philadelphia
Dr. Judith A. Ridner, Department of History, Muhlenberg College: Remembering Actions Most Cruel and Barbarous: Connecting Memories of Violence in Ireland and America
Kyle Roberts, Ph.D. 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
Dr. Marcia C. Robinson, Department of Religion, Syracuse University: Frances Watkins Harper: Black Abolitionist Among the Women of Maine, 1854-1856
Dr. 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, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania: Gender, Benevolent Devotionalism, and the Quest for Respectability Among Philadelphia Catholics, 1820-1870
Dr. 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
Dr. Peter Kastor, Department of History, Washington University, St. Louis: An Accurate Empire: Describing America, 1776-1840
Dr. Kirsten Wood, Department of History, Florida International University: At the Crossroads: Taverns and the Making of America, 1765-1865
Barra Foundation International Fellows
Dr. Kate Davies, Department of English, University of York: Women, Letters, and the Atlantic World, 1760-1840
Dr. Simon Newman, Department of History, University of Glasgow: The Transformation of Working Life and Culture in the British Atlantic World, 1600-1800
The Library Company of Philadelphia 2005-2006 Research Fellows
NEH Post-Doctoral Fellows
Dr. Sally E. Hadden, Department of History, Florida State University: Legal Cultures in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
Dr. Wayne Bodle, Department of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania: The Fabricated Region: Making the Middle Colonies of British North America
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
William J. Campbell, Ph.D. 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, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University: “Promoting a Nearer Connection”: Forms of Friendship in Philadelphia, 1730-1780
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Benjamin Ponder, Ph.D. Candidate in Communication Studies, Northwestern University: “Common Sense”: Thomas Paine’s Rhetorical Revolution
Reese Fellow in American Bibliography
Nicholas Wrightson, Ph.D. 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
Dr. Konstantin Dierks, Department of History, Indiana University: The Cultural Reach of Letter Writing in Anglophone Print Culture of the Eighteenth Century
Fellow in the Program in Early American Medicine, Science, and Society
Dr. Lisa M. Hermsen, College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology: Manic America: A Rhetorical and Cultural History
The Library Company of Philadelphia Program in Early American Economy & Society Research Fellows
Resident Post-doctoral Fellows
Dr. Rohit T. Aggarwala, Department of History, Columbia University: Seat of Empire: New York, Philadelphia, and the Emergence of an American Metropolis, 1776-1837
Dr. Francois 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
Resident Dissertation Fellow
James Fichter, Ph.D. candidate in History, Harvard University: The American East Indies, 1773-1815
Short-Term Fellows
Dr. Konstantin Dierks, Indiana University, Bloomington: The Service Economy of Letter Writing in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
Dr. Regina Grafe, Oxford University, UK: Fiscal Re-Distribution in the Spanish Empire
Dr. Emma Hart, St. Andrews University, UK: The Meanings of the Market: A Cultural History of Consumer Behavior in Early America, 1607-1776
Peter Maw, Ph.D. candidate in History, University of Manchester, UK: The Organizing and Financing of Anglo-American trade from 1783 to 1825
Dr. Marina Moskowitz, University of Glasgow, UK: Seed Money: The economies of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America
Dr. Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin: The Industrial Book, 1840-1880