The Library Company of Philadelphia 2006-2007 Research Fellows
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Dr. Anne Baker, Department of English, North Carolina State University: A Cultural Biography of Susanna Rowson
Jacqueline Cahif, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Glasgow: Prostitution in Early Philadelphia
Jasmine Nichole Cobb, Ph.D. Candidate in Communication and Culture, Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania: Activist Movement Among African American Women
Dr. John Cross, Department of Art, Media, and Design, London Metropolitan University: American Furniture Makers and their Influence on Colonial Jamaica
Dr. Carol Faulkner, Department of History, SUNY Geneseo: Lucretia Mott and Radical Abolition in Philadelphia
Simon Finger, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Princeton University: Epidemic Constitutions: Public Health and Political Culture in the Port of Philadelphia, 1740-1800
Sara Babcox First, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Michigan: Mechanics of Renown; or, the Rise of a Celebrity Culture in Early America
Dr. Susanna W. Gold, Tyler School of Art, Temple University: The Performance of Memory: Art, War, and Nation at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition
Saadia Lawton, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, University of Wisconsin: Contested Meanings: The Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century British-American Responses to the Kneeling Slave Image
Stephanie Gray Mayer, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, Boston University: The Art of The Gift: Sully, Mount, Huntington and the Antebellum Gift Book Industry
Katherine E. Paugh, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania: “The Strongest Interest in Preventing this Diminution”: Rationalizing Reproduction in the British West Indies, 1760-1833
Yvette Piggush, Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of Chicago: Governing Imagination: American Social Romanticism 1790-1840
Kimberly Sambol-Tosco, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania: Relational Politics: Gender, the Household, and African-American Public Culture in the North, 1780-1860
Thomas Saxton, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Lehigh University, Living in Two Worlds: The Durability of Transatlantic Family Ties in the Delaware Valley
Stephanie Schnorbus, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Southern California: For Secular or Religious Use?: The Changing Nature and Purpose of Elementary Education – Pennsylvania, 1681-1834
Lynda K. Yankaskas, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Brandeis University: Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731-1851
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Dr. Friederike Baer, Honors College, University of Georgia: The Trial of Frederick Eberle: Language, National Identity, and Patriotism in Pennsylvania’s German Community, 1780-1820
Dr. Peter C. Messer, Department of History, Mississippi State University: Revolution by Committee: Religion, the Law, and Public Ceremony in the Birth of American Politics
Barra Foundation International Fellows
Dr. Lucy Frank, Department of English, Warwick University: Suturing the Nation: The Politics of Mourning in Postbellum America (1861-1886)
Dr. Francois Weil, Director, Centre d’études nord-américaines, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales: Family Trees: A Cultural History of Genealogy in America
The Library Company of Philadelphia 2006-2007 Research Fellows
NEH Post-Doctoral Fellows
Dr. Rosalind Beiler, Department of History, University of Central Florida: Communication Networks and the Dynamics of Migration, 1660-1730
Dr. Gregory E. O’Malley, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University: Final Passages: The British Inter-Colonial Slave Trade in the Long Eighteenth Century
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Jenna M. Gibbs, Ph.D. Candidate in History, UCLA: Imagining Race, Rights, and Citizenship in Transatlantic Theatricality (1770s-1850s)
Eric C. Stoykovich, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Virginia: Live Stock Nation: The Political Economy and Agricultural Improvement of Farm Animals in the Northern United States, 1794-1870
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Joshua Beatty, Ph.D. Candidate in History, College of William and Mary: Performances of Authority: A Cultural History of the Stamp Act Crisis
Reese Fellow in American Bibliography
Johanna Archbold, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Centre for Irish-Scottish Studies, Trinity College, Dublin: The development of the monthly magazine in Ireland, Scotland and America, 1770-1830
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Dr. Daniel Hulsebosch, New York University School of Law: Writs to Rights: The Transformation of the Anglo-American Common Law in the Age of Revolution
Fellow in the Program in Early American Medicine, Science, and Society
Dr. Tanya R. Sheehan, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University: Portrait Photography as Social Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
The Library Company of Philadelphia Program in Early American Economy & Society 2006-2007 Research Fellows
Resident Post-doctoral Fellows
Dr. Marina Moskowitz, Department of History, University of Glasgow: Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America
Dr. Simon Newman, Department of History, University of Glasgow: The Transformation of Working Life and Culture in the Anglo-American Atlantic World, 1600-1800
Resident Dissertation Fellows
Candice Harrison, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Emory University: The Contest of Exchange: Place, Power, and Politics in Philadelphia’s Public Markets, 1770-1859
Jessica Lepler, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Brandeis University: 1837: The Anatomy of a Panic
Short-Term Fellows
David Davidson, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Northwestern University: Republic of Risk: The Intellectual Basis of Entrepreneurship in America, 1783-1800
Lesley Doig, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Rutgers University: The Unexpected Costs of Revolution: Prosperity and Conflict in American Merchant Families, 1770-1820
Emily Pawley, Ph.D. Candidate in the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania: Accounting with Money and Materials in Early American Agriculture
Justin Roberts, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University: Eighteenth-Century Slave Plantation Labor in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia