The Library Company of Philadelphia 2011-2012 Research Fellows
Long-Term Fellows
National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellows
Dr. Edward Cahill, Department of English, Fordham University; Colonial Rising: Narratives of Upward Mobility in British America
Dr. Marcy Dinius, Department of English, University of Delaware; Radical African American Print Culture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Dr. Nancy Hagedorn, Department of History, State University of New York at Fredonia; On the Waterfrontier: Atlantic Port City Waterfronts as Zones of Cultural Interaction, 1700–1825
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellows
Jennifer Heil, Ph.D. Candidate in English, Emory University; The American Columbus: Chronology, Geography, and the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Thomas LeCarner, Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of Colorado; The Empathic Response: Narratives of Forgiveness in American Law, Literature, and Culture
Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Fellows in African American History
Dr. David Crosby, Independent Scholar, Jackson, Mississippi; An Annotated Critical Edition of Anthony Benezet’s Antislavery Writings
Aston Gonzales, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Michigan; Black Activist Art in Philadelphia, 1820-1860
Lori Leavell, Ph.D. Candidate in English, Emory University; Imagining a Future South: David Walker’s Appeal and Antebellum American Literature
Anna Stewart, Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of Texas at Austin; Lives Reconstructed: Slave Narratives and Freedmen’s Education
Short-Term Fellows
McLean Contributionship Fellow
Sarah Chesney, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, William and Mary; The Flowering Web: Tracing William Hamilton’s Botanical Network in Late-Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Reese Fellows in American Bibliography
Kristen Highland, Ph.D. Candidate in English, New York University; “A Great Emporium”: The Book Store and the Cultural Geography of Antebellum New York City
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Dr. Cynthia Bouton, Department of History, Texas A&M University; Subsistence, Society, and Culture in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century and Age of Revolution
Fellow in the Program in Early American Medicine, Science, and Society
Susan Brandt, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Temple University; Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1740-1830
Fellow in the Program in Early American Visual Cultures
Catherine Walsh, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware; Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Orality in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture
Program in Early American Economy and Society Fellows
PEAES Post-Doctoral Fellows
Dr. Joseph Adelman, Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University; Revolutionary Networks: The Business of Printing and the Production of American Politics, 1763-1789
Dr. Martin Ohman, Department of History, University of Virginia; Pursuits of Union: American Political Economy, Federal Politics, and Internal Divisions, 1783-1821
PEAES Long-term Dissertation Fellows
Andrew Fagel, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Binghamton University; To ‘Provide for the Common Defense’: The Political Economy of War in the Early American Republic, 1789-1818
Dael Norwood, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Princeton University; Trading in Liberty: The Politics of the American China Trade, c.1784-1862
Edward Pompeian, Ph.D. Candidate in History, William and Mary; Spirited Enterprises: The United States, Venezuela, and the Independence of Latin America, 1790-1823
Danielle Skeehan, Ph.D. Candidate in English, Northeastern University, Counterfeit Subjects: Credit, Commerce, and the Generation of Atlantic World Counterpublics.
PEAES Short-Term Fellows
Hannah Farber, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of California at Berkeley; The Insurance Industry in the Early Republic
Frances Kolb, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Vanderbilt University; Contesting Borderlands: Commerce and Settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1765-1800
Colleen Rafferty, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Delaware; “To Establish an Intercourse Between our Respective Houses”: Economic Networks in the Mid-Atlantic, 1735-1815
Steven Smith, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Missouri; A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730-1830
Fellowships Jointly Sponsored with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows
Dr. Tyler Boulware, Department of History, West Virginia University; Next to Kin: Native Americans and Friendship in Early America
Jacob Crane, Ph.D. Candidate in English, Tufts University; Barbary(an) Invasions
Trenton Jones, Ph.D. Candidate in History, The Johns Hopkins University; “Deprived of Their Liberty:” Prisoners of War and Revolutionary American Military Culture
Stephanie Koscak, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Indiana University; Multiplying Pictures for the Public: Reproducing the English Monarchy, ca.1648-1780
Timothy Lombardo, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Purdue University; The Development of Blue-Collar Conservatism in Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia
Dr. Lucia McMahon, Department of History, William Paterson University; Life Lessons: A Cultural History of Female Biography in Nineteenth-Century America
Dr. Erin Murphy, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville; Herbert Welsh and the Anti-Imperialist Investigations on “Atrocities” in the Philippines, 1899-1910
Dr. Heather Nathans, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of Maryland; Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage
Dr. Richard Newman, Department of History, Rochester Institute of Technology; All’s Fair: Race and Sanitary Reform in the Civil War Era
Dr. David Prior, Department of History, University of South Carolina; Paul Du Chaillu, the Exploration of Equatorial West Africa, and the Politics of Race in the Civil War-Era United States
Dr. Adam Shapiro, Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison; William Paley and the Natural Theology Tradition in America
Nicholas Wood, Ph.D. Candidate in History; University of Virginia; Questions of Humanity and Expediency: The Slave Trades and African Colonization in the Early American Republic
Mary Catherine Wood, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware; Benjamin West’s Nelson Memorial: Neoclassical Sculpture and the Atlantic World ca. 1812
Benjamin Wright, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Rice University; Early American Clergy and the Transformation of Antislavery: From the Politics of Conversion to the Conversion to Politics, 1770-1830
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
Paul Polgar, Ph.D. Candidate in History, The City University of New York Graduate Center; To Be Free and Equal? Antislavery Reform in America, 1783-1833
Dr. Ashli White, Department of History, University of Miami; Object Lessons of the Revolutionary Atlantic
Barra Foundation International Fellows
Dr. Gesa Mackenthun, Department of American Studies, Rostock University, Germany; Mesoamerican Antiquities and the Transnational Birth of Archaeology
Dr. David Lambert, Department of History, University of Warwick, UK; Mobility, Race and Power in the Caribbean, ca.1780 – ca.1880
Historical Society of Pennsylvania McFarland Fellow
Dr. James Gigantino, Department of History, University of Arkansas; Freedom and Slavery in the Garden of America: African Americans and Abolition in New Jersey, 1775-1861
Fellowships Jointly Sponsored with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Mellon Dissertation Fellows in Early American Literature
and Material Texts, July 2011 – July 2012
Mark Mattes, Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies, University of Iowa; Material Letters: Media History and the Politics of Epistolary Practice, 1780-1845
Seth Perry, Ph.D. Candidate in Divinity, University of Chicago; “A Valuable Book”: Bibles and Religious Authority in Early National America