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 December 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

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

Dan Du, PhD Candidate in History, University of Georgia, This World in a Teacup: Chinese-American Tea Trade, 1784–1860, PEAES Short-Term 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 US South, Mellon Scholars Program in African American History Postdoctoral 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

To learn more about available fellowships, click here.