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
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