2010–2011
Balch Institute Fellows
- Corey Davis, PhD Candidate in History, University of Illinois at Chicago: The Mind of the Merchant Class: The National Board of Trade and the Making of a National Political Economy in the Late Nineteenth Century
- Anne Parsons, PhD Candidate in History, University of Illinois at Chicago: Our Brothers Keepers: Mental Asylums, Prisons, and the Institutionalization of Twentieth-Century America
The Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Research Fellows
- Tim Cassedy, PhD Candidate in English, New York University: The Character of Communication, 1790–1810
- Dr. Julia Chybowski, Music Department, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh: Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield and Philadelphia Musical Culture
- Dr. Vivian Bruce Conger, Department of History, Ithaca College: The World of Deborah Read Franklin: A Transgenerational Exploration of Gender in Revolutionary and Early Republic Philadelphia
- Julie Davidow, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania: “Citizens in the Making”: Black Philadelphians and the Republican Party, 1865–1915
- Nora Doyle, PhD Candidate in History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: “A Higher Place on the Scale of Being”: Experience and Representation of the Maternal Body in America, 1750–1865
- Katherine Gerbner, PhD Candidate in History of American Civilization, Harvard University: Christian Slavery: A Protestant Dilemma
- Simon Gilhooley, PhD Candidate in Government, Cornell University: The Textuality of the Constitution and the Origins of Original Intent
- Glenda Goodman, PhD Candidate in Historical Musicology, Harvard University: Songs Crossing the Atlantic: American Identity, Citizenship, and the Making of Musical Hybrids
- Dr. Amy Hughes, Department of Theater, Brooklyn College: Sensation, Spectacle, and Reform in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Theater
- Dustin Kennedy, PhD Candidate in English, Pennsylvania State University: Nationalism and the Revolutionary Fiction of George Lippard
- Julia Miller, Independent Book Conservator, Ann Arbor, Michigan: A Descriptive Study of American Scaleboard Bindings from the Early Colonial Period through 1850
- Dolores Pfeuffer-Scherer, PhD Candidate in History, Temple University: The Franklin Women: Kinship, Gender Roles, and Public Culture in Philadelphia and Beyond, 1720–1900
- Katie Pfohl, PhD Candidate in History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University: Abstraction’s Islamic Antecedents: American Modernism and Islamic Art, 1830–1930
- Dr. Lloyd Pratt, Departments of English and African and African American Studies, Michigan State University: The Freedoms of a Stranger: African American Literature around 1845
- Rusty Roberson, PhD Candidate in History, University of Edinburgh: Scottish Imperialism in the Colonial American Borderlands
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
- Dr. Katherine Carté Engel, Department of History, Texas A&M University; Breaking Ties: International Protestantism in the Era of the American Revolution
- Megan Walsh, PhD Candidate in English, Temple University; A Nation in Sight: Literature, Visual Technology, and Print Culture in the Early American Republic
Barra Foundation International Fellows
- Dr. John Richard Oldfield, Department of History, University of Southampton: International Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution, 1787–1815
- Dr. David Worrall, Department of English, Nottingham Trent University: British Theatre in Colonial and New Republic America; with Particular Reference to British Military Theatricals and the Mischianza, Philadelphia, 1778
2009–2010
Balch Institute Fellows
- Dr. Simone Cinotto, University of Turin, Italy: Public Housing and Cultural Pluralism in Italian Harlem, 1937–1941
- Dr. Dolores Janiewski, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: Philadelphia and the Construction of a Reactionary Culture, 1878–1918
The Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Research Fellows
- Maria Bollettino, PhD Candidate in History, University of Texas at Austin: Slavery, War, and Empire: The Meaning of the Seven Years’ War for the African Atlantic World
- Christian DuComb, PhD Candidate in Theatre, Speech, and Dance, Brown University: Cultures of Print and Performance in Early Philadelphia
- Dr. Kyle Farley, Department of History, Yale University: History and Memory in Philadelphia
- Cassandra Good, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania: "A Golden Mean": Heterosocial Friendship and the Formation of Political Culture in America, 1770–1830
- Michael Goode, PhD Candidate in History, University of Illinois at Chicago: In the Kingdom but Not of It: The Quaker Peace Testimony and Atlantic Pennsylvania, 1681–1720
- Alea Henle, PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut: Preserving the Past, Making History: Historical Societies, Editors, and Collectors in the Early Republic
- Laura Keim, Curator of Collections and Interpretation, Stenton: Beyond “the Faithful Colored Caretaker”: Creating a Deeper Understanding of Servants and Enslaved Peoples at Stenton
- Sara Lampert, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan: Taking to the Stage in Nineteenth-Century America
- Dr. Andrew Murphy, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University: Liberty, Toleration, and Law: The Political Thought of William Penn
- Jonathan Nash, PhD Candidate in History, State University of New York at Albany: An Incarcerated Republic: Prisoners, Reformers, and the Penitentiary in the Early United States
- Dr. Kristin Schwain, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia: Consuming Art: The Protestant Patrons of Henry Ossawa Tanner’s Biblical Paintings
- Matthew Spooner, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University: To Abolish the Black Man: The American Idea of Colonization, 1776–1860
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
- Dr. Jane Calvert, Department of History, University of Kentucky: The Political Writings of John Dickinson
- Dr. Matthew Hale, Department of History, Goucher College: The French Revolution and American National Identity
Barra Foundation International Fellows
- Daniel Peart, PhD Candidate in History, University College, London: Popular Engagement with Politics in the United States during the Early 1820s
- Dr. Gregory Smithers, School of Divinity, History & Philosophy, University of Aberdeen: Orphans of Freedom: African American Children and "Colored Orphanages," 1830–1930s
2008–2009
Balch Institute Fellows
- Gregory Kupsky, PhD Candidate, Ohio State University: German America and National Socialism, 1933–1945
- Alyssa Ribeiro, PhD Candidate, University of Pittsburgh: City of Brotherly Love? Intergroup Relations between Blacks and Latinos in Philadelphia, 1940s–1980s
- Joan Fragaszy Troyano, PhD Candidate, George Washington University: Presenting and Representing Ethnicity in the 1970s
The Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Research Fellows
- Dr. Lara Cohen, Department of English, Wayne State University: Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Dr. Seth Cotlar, Department of History, Willamette University: The Cultural History of Nostalgia in Modernizing America, 1776–1860
- Joanna Frang, PhD Candidate in American History, Brandeis University: Becoming American on the Grand Tour, 1750–1830
- Marcus Gallo, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis: Imaginary Lines, Real Power: Surveyors and Patronage Networks along the Mid-Atlantic Borderlands, 1740–1810
- Anthony Galluzzo, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, Los Angeles: Revolutionary Republic of Letters: Anglo-American Radical Literature in the 1790s
- Dr. Kristina Huff, Department of English, University of Delaware: Printing Friendship and Buying Feeling: Exchange and Gift Books in the Antebellum United States
- Spencer D. C. Keralis, PhD Candidate in English and American Literature, New York University: Children of Wrath: Violence and Youth in Young America, 1692–1865
- Marcia D. Nichols, PhD Candidate in English, University of South Carolina: “Let Them See How Curiously They’re Made”: Constructing Female Sexuality in Anglo-Atlantic Midwifery Texts, 1690–1800
- Dawn E. Peterson, PhD Candidate in American Studies, New York University: Unusual Sympathies: Race, Family, and Servitude in Jacksonian Politics
- Dr. Jodi Schorb, Department of English, University of Florida: Incomplete Sentences: The Role of Literacy in Pennsylvania Prison Reform, 1787–1850
- Dr. Wolfgang Splitter, Center for United States Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg: The Correspondence of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg, 1753–1787
- Troy Joseph Tomlin, PhD Candidate in History, University of Missouri: Popular Theology in Popular Print: Almanacs and American Religious Life, 1730–1820
- Damon Yarnell, PhD Candidate in History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania: Behind the Line: Purchasing Agents, Inter-firm Control, and the Origin of Mass Production, 1880–1927
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
- Caitlin A. Fitz, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University: Agents of American Revolutions: Latin American Rebels in Philadelphia, 1808–1826
- Dr. Rodney Hessinger, Department of History, Hiram College: Sexual Scandal and Sectarian Conflict in the Second Great Awakening
Barra Foundation International Fellows
- Dr. Holger Hoock, Department of Cultural History, University of Liverpool: A Social and Cultural Study of Violence and Terror in the War of American Independence
- Dr. Ben Marsh, Department of History, University of Stirling: Sericulture in the Atlantic World, ca. 1500–ca. 1800
2007–2008
Balch Institute Fellows
- Dr. Kimberly Sims, Department of History, American University: Blacks, Italians, and the Politics of New York City Crime, 1900–1945
- Carisa A. Worden, PhD Candidate in American Studies, New York University: "One Vast Brothel": Sexuality and Servitude from Chattel Slavery to the "Black Side of White Slavery"
- Katherine L. Turner, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware: Cooking and Eating Among Working-Class Americans, 1880–1930
The Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Research Fellows
- Edward Andrews, PhD Candidate in History, University of New Hampshire: Prodigal Sons: Indigenous Missionaries in the British Atlantic, 1640–1790
- Marie Basile, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Davis: Churches Revised: Ethnic Communities and the First Great Awakening in Philadelphia
- Dr. Michael Les Benedict, Department of History, Ohio State University: "The Favored Hour": Constitutional Politics in the Era of Reconstruction
- Catherine Cangany, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan: Frontier Seaport: Detroit's Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepot, 1750–1825
- John Davies, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware: Class, Culture, and Color: The Impact of Black Saint Dominguans on Free African-American Communities in the Early Republic
- Dr. Janet Dean, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Bryant University: Complex Marriage and Plain Talk: Free Love, Free Speech, and Sex Radicalism in the Nineteenth-Century United States
- Dr. Jeannine De Lombard, Department of English, University of Toronto: Ebony Idols: Fugitive Slaves in Britain
- Yvonne Fabella, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania: Jealous Creoles and "Priestesses of Venus": Gender, Race and the Negotiation of Identity in Colonial Saint Domingue, 1763–1789
- Shona Johnston, PhD Candidate in History, Georgetown University: The Catholic Anglo-Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century
- Dr. Daniel Mandell, Department of History, Truman State University: "All Men Are Created Equal": The Evolution of the Concept of Equality in America, 1790–1860
- Dr. Justine Murison, Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: States of Mind: The Politics of Psychology in American Literature, 1780–1860
- Andrew Newman, PhD Candidate in English, State University of New York at Stony Brook: Language, Literacy and Native Land: Encountering the Delawares
- Dr. Sue Peabody, Department of History, Washington State University: Free Soil in the Atlantic World: Philadelphia Connections
- Douglas Shadle, PhD Candidate in Music, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Bringing Music to a Nation: Philadelphia's Musical Fund Society and Its Patrons, 1820–1846
- Smadar Shtuhl, PhD Candidate in History, Temple University: For the Love of One's Country: The Construction of a Gendered Memory, 1860–1914
- Todd Thompson, PhD Candidate in English, University of Illinois at Chicago: American Satire and Political Change from Franklin to Lincoln
- Emily Westkaemper, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University: Martha Washington Goes Shopping: Mass Culture's Gendering of History, 1910–1950
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows
- Dr. Nicole Eustace, Department of History, New York University: War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812
- Dr. Sean Harvey, Department of History, College of William and Mary: American Languages: Natives and Philology, Nation and Empire, 1783–1857
Barra Foundation International Fellows
- Dr. Matthew Pethers, King’s College London: Revolutionary Politics and the American Theater, 1750–1800
- Dr. Maurizio Valsania, Department of History, University of Torino: The Curse of History: Leader's Distrust of American History, 1783–1828
2006–2007
Balch Institute Fellows
- Rae Bielakowski, PhD Candidate, Loyola University, Chicago: "The Mystical Body": Negotiating Ethnicity and Race
- Dr. Russell A. Kazal, University of Toronto at Scarborough: The Lost World of Pennsylvania Pluralism: Immigrants, Local Intellectuals, and the Regional Roots of Multiculturalism, 1880–1970
- Cristina Stanciu, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1880–1924
The Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Research Fellows
- Dr. Anne Baker, Department of English, North Carolina State University: A Cultural Biography of Susanna Rowson
- Jacqueline Cahif, PhD Candidate in History, University of Glasgow: Prostitution in Early Philadelphia
- Jasmine Nichole Cobb, PhD 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, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University: Epidemic Constitutions: Public Health and Political Culture in the Port of Philadelphia, 1740–1800
- Sara Babcox First, PhD 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, PhD 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, PhD Candidate in Art History, Boston University: The Art of The Gift: Sully, Mount, Huntington and the Antebellum Gift Book Industry
- Katherine E. Paugh, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania: "The Strongest Interest in Preventing this Diminution": Rationalizing Reproduction in the British West Indies, 1760–1833
- Yvette Piggush, PhD Candidate in English, University of Chicago: Governing Imagination: American Social Romanticism 1790-1840
- Kimberly Sambol-Tosco, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania: Relational Politics: Gender, the Household, and African-American Public Culture in the North, 1780-1860
- Thomas Saxton, PhD Candidate in History, Lehigh University: Living in Two Worlds: The Durability of Transatlantic Family Ties in the Delaware Valley
- Stephanie Schnorbus, PhD 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, PhD 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
2005–2006
Balch Institute Fellows
- Ikuko Asaka, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Transnational Formations of Race, Gender, and Identities among Black Canadian Emigrationists, 1830–1869
- Dr. Kathleen DeHaan, Department of Communication, Charleston College: Letters of Transit: Immigrants Write Their Diasporas
- Dr. Rodrigo Lazo, Department of English, University of California, Irvine: Latin American Writers in Philadelphia, 1810–1830
The Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Research Fellows
- Chiara Cillerai, PhD Candidate in English, Rutgers University: Cosmopolitanism and National Identity in Early American Writings
- Kenneth Cohen, PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware: Cultural Business: The Making and Meaning of Leisure in Early America, 1750–1840
- Sarah Crabtree, PhD Candidate in History, University of Minnesota: A Nation of God: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution
- Caroline Frank, PhD Candidate in History, Brown University: China as Object and Idea in the Making of an American Identity, 1680–1820
- Dr. Eric Gardner, Department of English, Saginaw Valley State University: Early African American Fortune-Telling
- David Head, PhD Candidate in History, State University of New York, Buffalo: Pirates, Privateers, and Peaceful Trade: Commercial Legitimacy in the Early American Republic, 1815–1830
- Liz K. Hutter, PhD Candidate in English, University of Minnesota: Drowning: Cultural Currents of Submersion and Buoyancy in the Nineteenth Century
- Shawn Kimmel, PhD Candidate in American Culture, University of Michigan: From “Medical Police” to Public Hygiene in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
- Jennifer Manion, PhD Candidate in History, Rutgers University: Prison Reform and the Criminal Identity in Early Pennsylvania, 1776–1835
- Angela Murphy, PhD Candidate in History, University of Houston: Abolition, Irish Freedom, and Immigrant Citizenship: American Slavery and the Rise and Fall of the American Associations for Irish Repeal
- Katie Oxx, PhD Candidate in Religion, Claremont Graduate University: “Considerate Portions”: The Complex Religious Ecology of Early National Philadelphia, 1827–1844
- Christopher Phillips, PhD Candidate in English, Stanford University: Cultural Uses of Epic in the United States, 1785–1876
- Trisha Posey, PhD Candidate in History, University of Maryland: Poverty Encounters: Unitarians, the Poor, and Poor Relief in Antebellum Boston and Philadelphia
- Dr. Judith A. Ridner, Department of History, Muhlenberg College: Remembering Actions Most Cruel and Barbarous: Connecting Memories of Violence in Ireland and America
- Kyle Roberts, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania: Reading the Evangelical Subject: Periodicals, Memoirs, and the Shaping of Popular Religious Belief in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City
- Dr. Marcia C. Robinson, Department of Religion, Syracuse University: Frances Watkins Harper: Black Abolitionist Among the Women of Maine, 1854–1856
- Dr. Martha Elena Rojas, Department of English, University of Rhode Island: Diplomatic Letters: The Conduct and Culture of Foreign Affairs in the Early Republic
- Jennifer E. Schaaf, PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania: Gender, Benevolent Devotionalism, and the Quest for Respectability among Philadelphia Catholics, 1820–1870
- Dr. Kirsten Sword, Department of History, Indiana University: Wives Not Slaves: Dependence, Authority, and Justice in Early America
Barra Foundation International Fellows
- Dr. Kate Davies, Department of English, University of York: Women, Letters, and the Atlantic World, 1760–1840
- Dr. Simon Newman, Department of History, University of Glasgow: The Transformation of Working Life and Culture in the British Atlantic World, 1600–1800
