Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Fellows, 2023-2024

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Samuel Davis, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Texas Christian University
Antislavery Conquest: Colonization, Removal, and Free-Soil Politics

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellow

Charlette Caldwell, PhD Candidate and Provost Diversity Fellow, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
The Crucible of the Freedom Church: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Culture of Building in the United States, 1790s–1930s

Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-Term Fellows

Dr. Julia Bernier, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Washington & Jefferson College
All on Board: Slavery and Shipping on the Brig Orleans

Dr. Michael Hines, Assistant Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education
“Admirably Fitted for a Teacher”: Peter Williams Cassey, the Phoenixonian Institute, and Transcontinental Black Activism in Education, 1862–1878

Dr. Ronald Angelo Johnson, Associate Professor and the Ralph and Bessie Mae Lynn Chair of History, Baylor University
Mutual Entanglements: Transracial Ties between Haitians and Revolutionary Americans

Janell B. Pryor, PhD Candidate, Dept. of History, Howard University, and Assistant Professor of Visual Culture, Bowie State University
“An Artist of Uncommon Ability”: David Bustill Bowser’s Artistic Production in Philadelphia, 1850–1900