2011–2012
Balch Institute Fellows
- Dr. Daniel Amsterdam, Department of History, The Ohio State University: Building a Civil Welfare State: Businessmen's Forgotten Campaign to Remake Industrial America
- Alecia Barbour, PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology, SUNY Stony Brook: Music and Remembrance: Listening to US "Internment Camps," 1939–1947
Albert M. Greenfield Fellow
- Vanda Krefft, Independent Scholar: Lone Master of the Movies: A Biography of William Fox, Founder of 20th Century Fox
The Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Research Fellows
Esther Ann McFarland, in Memory of Judge William Lewis, Fellow
- Dr. James J. Gigantino II, Department of History, University of Arkansas: Freedom and Slavery in the Garden of America: African Americans and Abolition in New Jersey, 1775–1861
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, PhD Candidate in History, Tufts University: Barbary(an) Invasions
- Trenton Jones, PhD Candidate in History, The Johns Hopkins University: “Deprived of Their Liberty": Prisoners of War and Revolutionary American Military Culture
- Stephanie Koscak, PhD Candidate in History, Indiana University: Multiplying Pictures for the Public: Reproducing the English Monarchy, ca.1648–1780
- Timothy Lombardo, PhD 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, PhD 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, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware: Benjamin West’s Nelson Memorial: Neoclassical Sculpture and the Atlantic World ca. 1812
- Benjamin Wright, PhD 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, PhD 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 Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London: Mobility, Race and Power in the Caribbean, ca.1780–ca.1880
