PHILADELPHIA, PA - HSP is proud to announce the incoming cohort of research fellows. Out of 139 applicants, three scholars were selected for HSP’s short-term Balch Fellowships in Ethnic Studies and Greenfield Fellowship in 20th-Century History. An additional 32 scholars were selected for short-term fellowships jointly sponsored by HSP and the Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP). 

Throughout the next 12 months, HSP and LCP will host several short presentations during which fellows discuss their research projects and solicit feedback and advice. Stay tuned for more information. 

Historical Society of Pennsylvania 2017–2018 Research Fellows

Balch Fellows in Ethnic Studies

• Samuel King, PhD Candidate in History, University of South Carolina | Exclusive Dining: Immigration and Restaurants during the Era of Chinese Exclusion, 1882–1943

• Brianna Nofil, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University, Gender, Community Policing, and Crime Control in Late Twentieth-Century America

Albert M. Greenfield Fellow in 20th-Century History

• Angela Stiefbold, PhD Candidate in History, University of Cincinnati | Rural Character and Rural Economy: Bucks County, PA, 1930–1990

Short-term Fellows Jointly Sponsored by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Library Company of Philadelphia

LCP Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows and HSP Fellows

• Dr. Jeffrey Blankenship, Department of Art and Architecture, Hobart and William Smith Colleges | Modern Landscapes: Landscape Architecture and Technological Innovation, 1760–1960

• Dr. Lynn Brooks, Department of Theatre, Dance, & Film, Franklin and Marshall College | Black and Blanc on Stage in Antebellum Philadelphia (1820–1861)

• Verdie Culbreath, PhD Candidate in English, Cornell University | Of Able Body and Sound Mind: Dissociative Affects and American Identities in Civil War Literature

• Natalia Doan, PhD Candidate in Philosophy, University of Oxford | The 1860 Japanese Embassy and the Opening of American Civilization: “Female Diplomacy” and the Rupturing of American Hierarchies of Power

• Dr. Erin Downey, Department of Art History, Swarthmore College | Visualizing Knowledge: Athanasius Kircher, Northern European Printmakers, and the Global Jesuit Book Industry

• Dr. J. Matthew Gallman, Department of History, University of Florida | Loyal Dissenters, Angry Copperheads, and Violent Resisters
• Monica Hahn, PhD Candidate in Art History, Tyler School of Art | Go-Between Portraits and the Imperial Imagination circa 1800

• Dr. Rhys Jones, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge | Temporal Claustrophobia at the Continental Congress, 1773–1776

• Dr. Sandro Jung, Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University | Towards a History of Transatlantic Literary Book Illustration, 1770–1820

• Mark Kelley, PhD Candidate in Literature, University of California San Diego | Pirates of Sympathy: Oceanic Inheritances in Antebellum Domestic Fiction and Culture

• Dr. Kathryn Gin Lum, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University | The Heathen World and America’s Humanitarian Impulse

• Dr. Scott Martin, Department of History, Bowling Green University | The Psychoactive Civil War: Alcohol and Drugs in the American Civil War and Its Aftermath

• Dr. Laura Miller, Department of English and Philosophy, University of West Georgia | Reading British Science in Early American Libraries

• Dr. Michele Navakas, Department of English, Miami University of Ohio | Coral in Early American Literature, Science, and Culture

• Rose Roberto, PhD Candidate in Typography and Graphic Communication, University of Reading | Democratizing Knowledge: The Lippincott Editions of Chambers’ Encyclopaedia

HSP McNeil Fellows

• Dr. Jean Franzino, Department of English, Beloit College | Dis-Union: Disability Cultures and the American Civil War

• Dr. Helen Hunt, Department of English, Tennessee Technological University | Provoking Pleasure: Erotic Dominance and Submission in Early American Fiction

• Zachary Isenhower, PhD Candidate in History, Louisiana State University | At the Edge of Humanity: American Indian Legal Identity and the Development of American Citizenship

• Spencer Wigmore, PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware | Albert Bierstadt and the Speculative Terrain of American Landscape Painting, 1863–1888

HSP McFarland Fellow

• Lewis Eliot, PhD Candidate in History, University of South Carolina | Abolitionism, Enslavement, and the Stateless Atlantic World, 1830–1868

HSP Dilworth Fellow

• Shira Lurie, PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia | Politics at the Poles: Liberty Poles and the Popular Struggle for the New Republic

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Fellows

• Dr. Peter Messer, Department of History, Mississippi State University | Feeling Nature: Epistemologies of Natural History in the Early American Republic

• Dr. Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Department of History, Rutgers University New Brunswick | Illicit Mobility: Vagrancy, Poverty, and Movement in the Early American Republic

LCP McLean Contributionship Fellow

• Dr. Heather Morrison, Department of History, SUNY New Paltz | Philadelphia and the Holy Roman Emperor's Plant Collectors

LCP Reese Fellow in American Bibliography

• Dr. Steven Bullock, Humanities & Arts Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Weems’s Washington:  A Biography of Parson Weems’s Life of George Washington

LCP Anthony N.B. and Beatrice Garvan Fellow in American Material Culture

• Dr. Steffi Dippold, Department of English, Kansas State University | Plain as in Primitive: The Figure of the Native in Early America

LCP American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow

• Ross Nedervelt, PhD Candidate in History, Florida International University | The Border-Seas of a New British Empire: The British Atlantic Islands in the Age of the American Revolution

LCP Fellow in the Program in Early American Medicine, Science, and Society

• Rebecca Rosen, PhD Candidate in English, Princeton University | Making the Body Speak: Anatomy, Autopsy, and Testimony in Early America, 1639–1790

LCP Fellow in the Visual Culture Program

• Dr. Allison Stagg, Department of American Art, Freie Universität Berlin | The Market for Caricature Prints in Philadelphia, 1790–1830

LCP Deutsch Fellow in Women’s History

• Dr. Charlene Boyer Lewis, Department of History, Kalamazoo College | The Traitor’s Wife: Peggy Shippen Arnold and Revolutionary America

To learn more about available fellowships, click here.