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 September 2016 fellows:

• Dr. Michael Blaakman, Department of History, Yale University, Speculation Nation: Land and Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic, 1776–1803, PEAES Postdoctoral Fellow
• Jessica Blake, PhD Candidate in History, University of California-Davis, A Taste for Africa: Imperial Fantasy and Garment Commerce in Revolutionary-Era New Orleans, PEAES Dissertation Fellow
• Dr. William Coleman, Department of the History of Art, Washington University in St. Louis, Painting Houses: The Domestic Landscape of the Hudson River School, NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
• Nicole Dressler, PhD Candidate in History, Northern Illinois University, The “Vile Commodity”: Morality, Convict Servitude, and the Rise of Humanitarianism in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American World, Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellow
• William Fenton, PhD Candidate in English, Fordham University, Unpeaceable Kingdom: Fighting Quakers, Revolutionary Violence, and the Antebellum Novel, Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation 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. Rashauna Johnson, Department of History, Dartmouth College, “A Looking Glass for the World”: Slavery, Immigration, and Overlapping Diasporas in the U.S. South, Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral Fellow
• Dr. Lindsay Keiter, Department of History, College of William and Mary, Uniting Interests: The Economic Functions of Marriage in America, 1750–1860, PEAES Short-Term Fellow
• Muiris MacGiollabhuí, PhD Candidate in History, University of California, Santa Cruz, Carrying the Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen, 1795–1830, HSP Balch Fellow
• Dr. Joseph Rezek, Department of English, Boston University, Early Black Writing and the Politics of Print, NEH Postdoctoral Fellow
• Dr. Esther Sahle, Department of History, University of Bremen, A Faith of Merchants: Quakers and Institutional Change in the Early Modern Atlantic, HSP Barra Foundation International Fellow
• Katherine Thompson, PhD Candidate in English, University of California, San Diego, “Dens of Iniquity”: George Lippard, Seduction, and Competing Visions of Masculine Brotherhood, HSP-LCP Short-Term Fellow
• Crystal Webster, PhD Candidate in Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Fugitive Play, Discursive Resistance: The Politics of Black Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America, Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Dissertation Fellow
• Magdalena Zapędowska, PhD Candidate in English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Lydia Sigourney, Maria Gowen Brooks, and the Materiality of Antebellum Poetry, LCP Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History

To learn more about available fellowships, click here.