Current Fellows

2012–2013

Balch Institute Fellows

  • Dr. Dominique Daniel, Kresge Library, Oakland University: Archiving Ethnic History: Ethnic Identities and the Shaping of the Balch Institute Collections
  • Dr. Konstantinos Karpozilos, University of Peloponnese, Greece: "The Great American Family":  "Americanization" and the Shaping of Modern Greece (1944–1959)
  • Dr. Mark Santow,  University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth: Castles Made of Sand? Home Ownership in the Modern US

Albert M. Greenfield Fellow

  • Dr. David Hochfelder, University at Albany, SUNY: Creating the Ownership Society: A Social History of Saving and Investing

The Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Research Fellows

Esther Ann McFarland, in Memory of Judge William Lewis, Fellow

  • Thomas Sheeler, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware: Negotiating Slavery on Mason and Dixon's Line:  Race, Section, and Union in Maryland and Pennsylvania before the Civil War

Robert L. McNeil Jr. Fellows

  • Shana Klein, PhD Candidate in Art History: University of New Mexico; The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in Nineteenth-Century American Still-Life Representation
  • Angel-Luke O'Donnell, PhD Candidate in History, University of Liverpool; Tangible Imaginations: Construction of American Identity in Philadelphia, 1764–1776
  • Sean Trainor, PhD Candidate in History and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University; The Culture and Economy of Men’s Grooming in the Nineteenth-Century US
  • Dr. Caroline Wigginton, Department of American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University; Epistolary Neighborhoods: Intimacy, Women’s Writing, and Circulation in Eighteenth-Century North America

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

  • Kelly Arehart, PhD Candidate in History, The College of William and Mary; Give up your dead: How Business, Technology, and Culture separated Americans from their dearly-departed, 1780–1930
  • Dr. Richard Bell, Department of History, University of Maryland; The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping and the Domestic Slave Trade
  • Peter Y. Choi, PhD Candidate in History, University of Notre Dame; Beyond the Great Itinerant: George Whitefield and Revivalism after the Revivals
  • Dr. J. Michelle Coghlan, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University; Culinary Designs: Food Writing and the Making of American Taste
  • William Coleman, PhD Candidate in History, University College London; Sung Down: Music and Political Culture in the United States from the Early Republic to the Civil War Era
  • Michael F. D'Alessandro, PhD Candidate in American Studies, Boston University; Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Audience in Popular American Literature and Theater, 1835–1870
  • Dr. Bert Emerson, Institute of Transdisciplinary Studies, Woodbury University; Local Rules: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth Century Fictions
  • Nicole Frisone, PhD Candidate in History, University of Minnesota; False Prophecies: Morris Milgram and the Market for Privately Developed, Racially Integrated Housing, 1947–1968
  • Stephanie L. Gamble, PhD Candidate in History, The Johns Hopkins University, Capital Negotiations: Native Diplomats in the American Capital from George Washington to Andrew Jackson
  • Jonathan W. Hall, PhD Candidate in History, University of Montana; Rabid Republic: Dogs and Men in America, 1700–1920
  • Maeve Kane, PhD Candidate in History, Cornell University; They That Made the Men: Clothing, Sovereignty and Women’s Work in Iroquoia 1600–1850
  • Jessica C. Linker, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut; "It is my wish to behold Ladies among my hearers": Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720–1860
  • L. Mairin Odle, PhD Candidate in History, New York University; Stories Written on the Body: Cross-Cultural Markings in the North American Atlantic, 1600–1830
  • Maureen Connors Santelli, PhD Candidate in History, George Mason University; "The Greek Fire":  The Classical Tradition in America and the Greek War for Independence, 1720–1832
  • Sarah Jones Weicksel, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago; The Fabric of War: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

  • Dr. Richard Godbeer, Department of History, University of Miami; The Life and Times of Elizabeth and Henry Drinker
  • Dr. Anne Lombard, Department of History, California State University San Marcos; Regulators and Legal Reform in Pennsylvania, 1763–1810

Barra Foundation International Fellows

  • Dr. Frances M. Clarke, Department of History,  University of Sydney; Minors in the Military: A History of Child Soldiers in America from the Revolution to the Civil War
  • Dr. Zhang Tao, American Studies, Research Center, Sichuan International Studies University; Confucius in Early America’s Imagination of China