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 November 2015 fellows:
Jessica Blake, PhD Candidate in History, University of California at Davis, Caribbean Taste, Production, and Regionalism in Early Republic New Orleans, LCP PEAES Fellow
Dr. Christopher J. Bonner, Department of History, University of Maryland, The Price of Citizenship: Black Protest, American Law, and the Shaping of Society, 1827–1868, LCP NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Julia Dauer, PhD Candidate in English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Natural History and First Person Prose in Early America, 1783–1830, LCP Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellow
Bradley Dixon, PhD Candidate in History, University of Texas at Austin, Republic of Indians: Indigenous Vassals, Subjects, and Citizens in Early America, HSP-LCP Fellow
Sonia Hazard, PhD Candidate in Religious Studies, Duke University, The American Tract Society and the Materiality of Print in Antebellum America, LCP Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellow
Dr. Laura T. Igoe, Princeton University Art Museum, Art and Ecology in the Early Republic, LCP NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson, Department of History, Michigan State University, Practicing Freedom: Intimacy, Kinship, and Property in Atlantic New Orleans, 1685–1810, LCP Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Allan Kulikoff, Department of History, University of Georgia, Many Masks of Benjamin Franklin, LCP McLean Contributionship Fellow
Holly Pinheiro, PhD Candidate in History, University of Iowa, Men of Color, to Arms! Race, Manhood, and Citizenship during the Civil War Era, LCP Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Short-term Fellow
To learn more about the HSP and LCP fellowship program, please click here.
HSP also invites fellows and researchers to its monthly First Wednesday Coffee, an opportunity to mingle over free coffee and baked goods on the first Wednesday of every month from 3-4 p.m. in HSP's recently renovated Lobby.