HSP, LCP Welcome August 2016 Fellows

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HSP, LCP Welcome August 2016 Fellows

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) and The Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP) jointly award approximately 25 one-month fellowships for research in residence in either or both collections during each academic year. Fellows hail from across the country and around the world, utilizing both institutions' collections in contemporary scholarship. 
 

HSP and LCP proudly welcome the August 2016 fellows:

  • Dr. Guadalupe Carrasco-Gonzalez, Department of History, University of Cadiz, Spain, Maritime Traffic between Philadelphia and Cadiz (Spain) and the U.S. Merchants in Cádiz during the Revolutionary and  Napoleonic Wars, PEAES Short-Term Fellow
  • Dr. Lucas Dietrich, Department of English, Lesley University, J. B. Lippincott Co., Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, and Early Mexican American Literature. HSP-LCP Short-Term Fellow
  • Michael Hattem, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University, The Past is Prologue: The Origins of American History Culture, 1730–1800, HSP McNeil Fellow
  • Dr. Joseph Rezek, Department of English, Boston University, Early Black Writing and the Politics of Print, NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Miriam Rich, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University, Monstrous Childbirth: Concepts of Defective Reproduction in American Medicine, 1830–1920. LCP Fellow in the Program in Early American Medicine, Science, and Society
  • Blevin Shelnutt, PhD Candidate in English, New York University, Print Capital: Broadway and the Making of Mass Culture, LCP Reese Fellow in American Bibliography
  • Damon Turner, PhD Candidate in History, Morgan State University, The Reinventing of an Abolitionist: The Transatlantic Study of the United States, Sierra Leone, England, and the Quest for an Imaginary Homeland in Africa through the Eyes of Paul Cuffe, 1776-1817, PAAH Short-Term Fellow

To learn more about available fellowships, click here.