Past and Current MHS Short-term Fellowship Recipients
African American Studies Fellows, 1999-
Andrew Oliver Research Fellows, 1996-
Andrew W. Mellon Fellows, 1996-
Benjamin F. Stevens Fellows, 1996-
C. Conrad & Elizabeth H. Wright Fellowship
Boston Marine Society Fellows, 2002-2005
Cushing Academy Fellows, 2012-2014
Kenneth and Carol Hills Fellowship in Colonial History
Louis Leonard Tucker Alumni Fellows, 2011-
Malcolm and Mildred Freiberg Fellows, 2009-
Marc Friedlaender Fellows, 1999-
Mary B. Wright Environmental History Fellows
Massachusetts Historical Society Research Fellows, 2016-
The Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellows, 1997-
Military Historical Society of Massachusetts Fellowship
Paine Publication Fund Fellow, 2010
Paul Revere Memorial Association Fellows, 1996-2003
Ruth R. & Alyson R. Miller Fellows, 1998-
Society of Colonial Wars Fellows
Society of Colonial Wars of Massachusetts Fellows, 1997-2004
Twentieth-Century History Fellows, 2006-2010
African American Studies Fellowship
2021-2022
Jesse Olsavsky
Duke Kunshan University
“Fire and Sword Will Affect More Good": Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835-1861
2020-2021
Evan Turiano
City University of New York
Running Toward Abolition: Fugitive Slaves, Legal Rights, and the Coming of the Civil War
2019-2020
Aston Gonzalez
Salisbury University
Brilliant Contests: Black Genius during the Long Nineteenth Century
2018-2019
Crystal Webster
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: Nineteenth Century Black Children’s Cultural and Political Resistance
2017-2018
Natalie Joy
Northern Illinois University
Abolitionists and Indians in the Antebellum Era
2016-2017
James Shinn
Yale University
Republicans, Reconstruction, and the Origins of U.S. Imperialism in the Caribbean, 1865-1878
2015-2016
Ben Davidson
New York University
Freedom's Generation: Coming of Age in the Era of Emancipation
2014-2015
Westenley Alcenat
Columbia University
"Escape to Zion: Black Emigration and the Elusive Quest for Citizenship, 1816-1868"
2013-2014
Eric Otremba
Macalester College
"Enlightened Institutions: Science, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in the English Atlantic, 1626-1720"
2012-2013
Heather Cooper
University of Iowa
"Representing the Race: African American Performances of Slavery and Freedom in the Nineteenth Century"
2011-2012
Millington Bergeson-Lockwood
University of Michigan
"Not as Supplicants but as Citizens: Race, Party, and African American Politics in Boston, Massachusetts, 1864-1903"
2010-2011
Richard Boles
The George Washington University
"Divided Faiths: The Rise of Segregated Northern Churches"
2009-2010
Karen Woods Weierman
Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Literature, Worcester State College
"The Case of the Slave-Child, Med: The Geography of Freedom in Antebellum Boston"
2008-2009
Shevaun Watson
University of South Carolina
"African American Studies Testimony & Transformation: African American Rhetorical Performance, 1729-1829"
2007-2008
Hilary N. Green
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Educational Reconstruction: African-American Education in the Urban South, 1865-1890”
2006-2007
Maria Alessandra Bollettino
Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Texas at Austin
"Slavery, War, and Empire: The Meaning of the Seven Years War for the African Atlantic World."
2005-2006
Christianna Elrene Thomas
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, The Ohio State University
"A Cry for Mercy: An Examination of African Americans and Religion in Eighteenth-Century New England."
2004-2005
Reginald Howard Pitts
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
"Harriet E. 'Hattie' Wilson: Life After Our Nig; or A Small Medium at Large"
2003-2004
Matt Clavin
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, American University
"'Men of Color, to Arms!' Remembering Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in the American Civil War"
2002-2003
Thomas L. Doughton
Independent Scholar
"Good Masters Well Served: Slavery and African Americans in Cotton Mather's Boston"
2001-2002
Jeannine DeLombard
Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Puget Sound
"'At the Bar of Public Opinion': Black Testimony and White Advocacy in Antebellum Literary Abolitionism"
2000-2001
Chernoh M. Sesay, Jr.
Ph.D. candidate, History Department, Northwestern University
"'all things are changeable': The Worlds of Prince Hall and the Development of Black Atlantic Identities, 1760-1820"
1999-2000
Lois Brown
Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College
"'Free at Last?' Former Slaves in Boston's Home for Aged Colored Women, 1861-1900"
Andrew Oliver Research Fellowship
2021-2022
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio
Wellesley College
At Home Abroad: Anne Whitney and American Women Artists in Nineteenth-Century Italy
2020-2021
Thomas Brown
University of South Carolina
Monograph on the Shaw Memorial
2019-2020
Chip Badley
University of California, Santa Barbara
The Practiced Eye: Painting and Queer Personhood in Nineteenth-Century America
2018-2019
Ann Daly
Brown University
Hard Money: The Making of a Specie Currency, 1828-1860
2017-2018
Susan Eberhard
University of California - Berkeley
Artisanal Currencies: Silver Circulations of the US-China Trade, 1784-1876
2016-2017
Kimberly Alexander
University of New Hampshire
Exploring Anglicization Through Pre-1750 Textiles
2015-2016
Joseph Lasala
Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies
Fiske Kimball's Thomas Jefferson Architect
2014-2015
Mark Thompson
University of Groningen
"Land, Liberty, and Property: Surveyors and the Production of Empire in British North America"
2013-2014
Katherine Smoak
Johns Hopkins University
"Circulating Counterfeits: Making Money and its Meanings in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic"
2012-2013
Katelyn Crawford
University of Virginia
"Mobility and Portrait Painting in the Late Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World"
2011-2012
Mary Katherine Matalon
University of Texas, Austin
"From Painting to Porcelain: American Women Collectors, c. 1780-1915"
2010-2011
Annie Rudd
Columbia University
"The Performance of Everyday Life: A History of the Photographic Pose"
2009-2010
Mazie Harris
Ph.D candidate, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University
"'To Feast Our Bodily Eyes': Nineteenth Century American Portrait Vignettes and Card Albums"
2008-2009
Mary Niall Mitchell
University of New Orleans
"The Real Ida May: A Story of Slavery, Freedom, and Race in Antebellum America"
2007-2008
Christopher Reed
Professor, Art Department, Lake Forest College
“Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and the Construction of Masculinity”
2006-2007
Emily Gerhold
Ph.D. Candidate, Virginia Commonwealth University
"American Beauties: Breasts in Nineteenth Century American Art and Culture."
2005-2006
Caroline Baer Frank
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
"China as Object and Idea in the Making of an American Identity, 1680-1820."
2004-2005
Wendy J. Katz
Professor, Department of Art & Art History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
"The Truthful Likeness in 17th–Century Boston"
2003-2004
Christopher Lukasik
Assistant Professor, Departments of English and American Studies, Boston University
"Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and The Face in American Literary and Visual Culture, 1780-1850"
2002-2003
JoAnne Marie Mancini
Lecturer, Department of History, University College Cork
"A Culture in Colour: Chromolithography in Massachusetts, 1860-1900"
2001-2002
Carma R. Gorman
Assistant Professor, Art History, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
"Cultivating Audiences: Henry Sargent and the Marketing of Art in the United States, 1795-1845"
1999-2000
Shannon Ross McBriar
Ph.D. candidate in English Literature, Oxford University
The Works of Washington Allston
1998-1999
Phillip H. Round
Assistant Professor, Department of English, The University of Iowa
"Citizenship in Black and White: Early National Identity and the Popularity of Silhouettes."
1996-1997
Eric Robert Papenfuse
Ph.D. candidate, Yale University
"Canvas and Quill: John Singleton Copley, Mercy Otis Warren, and the Cultural Construction of American Independence."
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship
2021-2022
Kathryn Angelica
University of Connecticut
‘The Glorious Cause of Liberty’: Women’s Anti-Slavery and Abolitionist Activism in New England
Heesoo Cho
Washington University at St. Louis
The Making of the Pacific Ocean in the Early Republic, 1780-1820
Ethan Goodnight
Harvard University
Tongues of Fire: Religious Enthusiasm, Racial Formation, and Anti-Blackness in the Atlantic World
Samuel Jennings
Oklahoma State University
‘The Most Perfect Foundation of Her Faith’: The Virgin Mary in Mid-Eighteenth Century North America
Joshua Kleuver
Binghamton University
Hiding in Plain Sight: Socialist Legislators at the State Level, 1899-1944
Helena Roth
Graduate Center, CUNY
American Timelines: Imperial Communications, Colonial Time-Consciousness, and the Coming of the American Revolution
Chelsea Spencer
MIT
The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building, ca. 1865-1930
Duangkamol Tantirungkij
Graduate Center, CUNY
An Act of Congress: Freedom Suits and the Emancipatory Consequences of the Northwest Ordinance (1790-1850)
Emily Yankowitz
Yale University
Documenting Citizenship: How Early Americans Understood the Concept of Citizenship, 1776-1840
2020-2021
Danielle Alesi
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Consuming Empire: Eating and Engaging with Animals in the Americas, 1492-1650
Nicholas DiPucchio
Saint Louis University
American Expansions: Imperial Frustrations and the Evolution of Manifest Destiny, 1775-1845
Ashley Garcia
University of Texas, Austin
An American Socialism: The Fourierist Movement and Nineteenth Century American Culture
Yiyun Huang
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The Chinese Origins of Medicinal Tea: Global Cultural Transfer in a Vast Early America
Leslie Leonard
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Burdens and Blessings of Responsibility: Responsibility, Duty, and Community in Nineteenth-Century America
Mia Levenson
Tufts University
“Nineteenth-Century Physicians and the Performance of Popular Anatomy”
Brian Maxson
East Tennessee State University
The Strange Tale of a Latin Speech, Renaissance Venice, and Nineteenth-Century New England
Cody Nager
City University of New York
From Different Quarters: Regulating Migration and Naturalization in the Early American Republic, 1783-1815
Alina Scott
University of Texas, Austin
A Reason to Petition and Pray: Religion, Citizenship, and Autonomy in Native Petitions, 1800-1850
Arleen Tuchman
Vanderbilt University
History of the Family Disease of Addiction
2019-2020
Yuri Amano
Johns Hopkins University
Bodies in Pain: The Medical Culture of Sympathy in the United States, 1830-1865
Elizabeth Herbin-Triant
University of Massachusetts Lowell
The Lords of the Lash and Loom: Abolitionists, Anti-Abolitionists, and the Business of Manufacturing Slave-Grown Cotton
Samantha Payne
Harvard University
The Last Atlantic Revolution: Race and Reconstruction in Cuba, Brazil, and the United States, 1865-1912
Patrick Browne
Boston University
The Ordeal of Homecoming: Northern Civilians and the Social Response to the Returning Union Veteran
J. Matthew Gallman
University of Florida
Loyal Dissenters, Angry Copperheads, and Violent Resisters: The Northern Democratic Party and the American Civil War
Michael D’Alessandro
Duke University
Staged Readings: Contesting Class in Popular American Literature and Theatre, 1830-1875
Todd Whelan
Graduate Theological Union
Calling the Unconverted: Jews, Indians, and Missionary Publishing in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1649-1830
Madeline Zehnder
University of Virginia
Pocket-Sized Nation: Cultures of Portability in America, 1790-1840
Lila Teeters
University of New Hampshire
Native Citizens: The Fight Over Native American Citizenship in the United States, 1866-1924
2018-2019
Nicholas Ames
University of Notre Dame
Communities of Difference in 19th Century Irish-America
Caroline Culp
Stanford University
The Memory of Copley: Afterlives of the American Portrait, 1774-1920
Timothy Fosbury
University of California, Los Angeles
Persistent Archives and the Early Americas, 1600-1830
Madeline Kearin
Brown University
Sensory Experiences of Daily Life at New England Hospitals for the Insane
Andrew Kettler
University of Toronto
Odor and Power in the Americas
Molly Laas
University Medical Center Göttingen
Moral Measurements: Wilbur Olin Atwater and the Making of the American Diet
Kirsten Macfarlane
Cambridge University
The Reception of European Biblical Scholarship in Early North America
Adam Mestyan
Duke University
American Travelers in the Middle East, 1830s-1930s
Molly Reed
Cornell University
Ecology of Utopia: Environmental Discourse and Practice in Antebellum Communal Settlements
2017-2018
Daniel Burge
University of Alabama
A Struggle Against Fate: The Opponents of Manifest Destiny and the Collapse of the Continental Dream, 1846-1871
Angela Hudson
Texas A&M University
The Rise and Fall of the Indian Doctress: Race, Labor, and Medicine in the 19th-century United States
Lindsay Keiter
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Uniting Interests: Love, Wealth, and the Law in American Marriage, 1750-1860
Kimberly Killion
University of California - Berkeley
From Farms to Kitchens to "the Body Laboratory": Nutritional Science and the Politics of Food in the United States
Sunmin Kim
University of California - Berkeley
A Laboratory for the American National Identity: The Re-Invention of Whiteness in the Dillingham Commission (1907-1911)
Aaron Moulton
University of Arkansas
Caribbean Blood Pact: Dictators, Exiles, and the CIA in the Caribbean Basin, 1944-1955
Heather Sanford
Brown University
Palatable Slavery
Jaclyn Schultz
University of California – Santa Cruz
Learning the Value of a Dollar: Children and Commerce in the U.S., 1830-1900
Christopher Pastore
University at Alban
American Beach: Law, Culture, and Ecology along the Ocean's Edge
2016-2017
Abigail Cooper
Brandeis University
"Lord, Until I Reach My Home”: Inside the Refugee Camps of the American Civil War
Stephen Engle
Florida Atlantic University
Champion in Our Hour of Need: The Life of John Albion Andrew
Jessica Farrell
University of Minnesota
(Re)Capturing Empire: A Reconsideration of Liberia’s Precarious Sovereignty and American Empire as Exception in the 19th Century
Andrea Gray
Papers of Thomas Jefferson and George Mason University
“Leaving their callings”: Retirement in the Early Republic
Ross Nedervelt
Florida International University
The Border-seas of a New British Empire: The British Atlantic Islands in the Age of the American Revolution
Luke Nichter
Texas A&M University – Central Texas
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and the Decline of the Eastern Establishment
Franklin Sammons
University of California, Berkeley
The Long Life of Yazoo: Land Speculation, Finance, and Dispossession in the Southeastern Borderlands, 1789-1840
Michael Verney
University of New Hampshire
“Our Field of Fame”: Naval Exploration and Empire in the Early American Republic, 1815-1860
Stephen West
Catholic University of America
A Constitutional Lost Cause: The Fifteenth Amendment in American Memory and Political Culture, 1870-1920
2015-2016
Rebecca Brannon
James Madison University
Did the Founding Fathers Live Too Long?
Christina Carrick
Boston University
Among Strangers in a Distant Climate: Loyalist Exiles Define Empire and Nation, 1775-1815
Travis Jaquess
University of Mississippi
Founding Daddies: Republican Fatherhood and the American Revolution and Early Republic1763-1814
Benjamin Kochan
Boston University
Looking East and Thinking Below the Surface: Ecology and Geopolitics in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries, 1945-2006
Gregory Michna
West Virginia University
Facing Outward and Inward: Native American Missionary Communities in New England, 1630-1763
Scott Shubitz
Florida State University
Emancipating the American Spirit: Reconstruction and Renaissance in New England, 1863-1877
Sueanna Smith
University of South Carolina
African Americans and the Cultural Work of Freemasonry: From Revolution through Reconstruction
Jordan Taylor
Indiana University-Bloomington
English Channels: Globalization and Revolution in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1789-1804
Peter Walker
Columbia University
The Church Militant: The American Émigré Clergy and the Making of the British Counterrevolution, 1763-92
2014-2015
Laurie Dickmeyer
University of California Irvine
"Americans in Chinese Treaty Ports: The Interplay of Trade and Diplomacy in the Nineteenth-Century China and United States"
Mark Dragoni
Syracuse University
"Operating Outside of Empire: Trade and Citizenship in the Atlantic World, 1756-1812"
Jeffrey Egan
University of Connecticut
"Watershed Decisions: The Social and Environmental History of the Quabbin Reservoir, 1860-1941"
David Faflik
University of Rhode Island
"Passing Transcendental: Harvard, Heresy, and the Modern American Origins of Unbelief"
Alex Jablonski
SUNY Binghamton
"Subjects into Citizens: The Imperial Origins of American Citizenship"
Nathan Jeremie-Brink
Loyola University Chicago
"Gratuitous Distribution: Distributing African-American Antislavery Texts, 1773-1845"
Jordan Smith
Georgetown University
"The Invention of Rum"
Robin Smith
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
"The Labor of Poetry and the Poetry of Labor: Industrialization and the Place of Poetry in Antebellum America"
Meghan Wadle
Southern Methodist University
"Stray Threads: Industrial Women's Writings and American Literature, 1826-1920"
2013-2014
Matthew Amato
University of Southern California
"Exposing Humanity: Slavery, Freedom, and Photography in America, 1840s to 1870s"
Richard Bell
University of Maryland
"Slavery's Black Market: A Micro-history"
Catherine Cangany
University of Notre Dame
"An Empire of Fakes: Counterfeit Goods in Eighteenth-Century America"
Christopher Florio
Princeton University
"The Poor Always with You: Impoverishment in the United States, 1835-1868"
Katherine Johnston
Columbia University
"The Experience of Hot Climates: Health, Race, and the Body in the British Atlantic World"
Nicholas Pellegrino
University of Nevada
"When in Rome: Early American Catholicism and the Separation of Church and State, 1763-1840"
Bryan Rosenblithe
Columbia University
"Peripheral Interests: The Ceded Territories, the British Atlantic and the Origins of the American Revolution, 1758-1766"
David Singerman
MIT
"An Empire of Purity: Making the Modern Sugar Market"
Maria Zumaglini
Florida International University
"The Home, the School, and Everyday Forms of State Education: A Comparative Study of the Public School in Boston, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo"
2012-2013
Frances Clarke
University of Sydney
"Home Fires Burning: Keeping Warm in the Industrializing North"
Eberhard Faber
Princeton University
"'Everybody Talks of Visiting That Country': New England Reactions to the Louisiana Purchase, Territorial Rule, and Louisiana Statehood, 1803-1812"
Michael Hevel
University of Iowa
"'Betwixt Brewings': A History of College Students and Alcohol"
Ann K. Johnson
University of Southern California
"Cabinets of Miscellany and Meaning: Managing Information in Antebellum America"
Greta LaFleur
University of Hawai'I at Manoa
"American Insides: Popular Narrative and the Historiography of Sexuality, 1675-1815"
Jen Manion
Connecticut College
"Crossing Gender; Female Masculinity in the 18th and 19th Centuries"
Brooke Newman
Virginia Commonwealth University
"Island Masters: Gender, Race, and Power in the Eighteenth-Century British Caribbean"
Benjamin Park
University of Cambridge
"Localized Nationalisms in Post-Revolutionary America"
Brad Snyder
University of Wisconsin
"The House of Truth: The Men Who Created Modern Progressivism"
2011-2012
Sean Adams
University of Florida
"Home Fires Burning: Keeping Warm in the Industrializing North"
Jane Fiegen Green
Washington University, St. Louis
"The Boundary of Youth: Employment, Adulthood, and Citizenship in the Early United States"
Kerima Lewis
University of California, Berkeley
"Atlantic Fires Burning: Arson as a Weapon of Slave Resistance in the British American Colonies, 1675-1775"
Andrew Lipman
Syracuse University
"The Saltwater Frontier: Indians, Dutch, and English on Seventeenth-Century Long Island Sound"
Bonnie Lucero
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Race, Space, and Nation: Social Change amidst Imperial Transition in Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1895-1906"
Patricia Roylance
Syracuse University
"Anachronisms: The Temporalities of Early American Media"
Nancy Siegel
Towson University
"Political Appetites: Revolution, Taste, and Culinary Activism in the Early Republic"
Jared Taber
University of Kansas
"Last Dams Standing: Environmental Perspectives on Deindustrialization in Twentieth-Century Massachusetts"
Ben Wright
Rice University
"Early American Clergy and the Transformation of Antislavery: From the Politics of Conversion to the Conversion of Politics, 1770-1830"
2010-2011
Anthony Antonucci
University of Connecticut
"`When in Rome': American Relations with the Italian States from Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1790-1860"
Matthew Bahar
University of Oklahoma
"The People of the Dawnland and Their Atlantic World"
Irene Cheng
Columbia University
"Forms of Function: Self Culture, Geometry, and Octagon Architecture in Antebellum America"
Rachel Herrmann
University of Texas at Austin
"Food and War: Indians, Slaves, and the American Revolution"
Sarah Keyes
University of Southern California
"Circling Back: Migration to the Pacific and the Reconfiguration of America, 1820-1900"
Susan Pearson
Northwestern University
"Registering Birth: Population and Personhood in American History"
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
Columbia University
"Corresponding Republics: Private Letters and Patriot Societies in the American, Dutch and French Revolutions, ca. 1765-1792"
Marc Selverstone
University of Virginia
"Henry Cabot Lodge and the Withdrawal of American Troops from Vietnam"
David Silverman
The George Washington University
"Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America"
2009-2010
Carol Bundy
Independent Scholar
"McClellan's Visit to Boston, January 28-February 8, 1863"
Jan Cigliano
Independent Scholar
"John Hay: Genius of Diplomacy"
Lindsay DiCuirci
Ph.D candidate, Department of English, The Ohio State University
"History's Imprint: The colonial Book and the Writing of American History in the Nineteenth Century"
Jim Downs
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Connecticut College
"Sick From Freedom: The Unexpected Consequences of the American Civil War"
Caroline Frank
Visiting Lecturer, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
"Native American Enslavement in Southern New England, 1630-1730"
Elizabeth Gray
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Towson University
"Worlds of Pain: Opium and Early America"
Matthew Hudock
Ph.D candidate, Department of History, University of Delaware
"African American Colonization and Identity"
Whitney Martinko
Ph.D candidate, Department of History, University of Virginia
"Progress Through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860"
Rachel Shelden
Ph.D candidate, Department of History, University of Virginia
"Washington Brotherhood: Friendship and Politics in the Civil War Era"
Benjamin F. Stevens Fellowship
2021-2022
Joanne Jahnke Wegner
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Stolen Lives: Captivity and Gender in the Northeast, 1630-1763
2020-2021
Benjamin Remillard
University of New Hampshire
‘In Reduced Circumstances’ Yet Civically Engaged: The Activism of Southern New England's Revolutionary War Veterans of Color
2019-2020
David J. Gerleman
George Mason University
History on the Hoof: New England’s Horse and Cattle Industry During the American Civil War
2018-2019
Dexter Gabriel
University of Connecticut
A West Indian Jubilee in America: Mapping August First in New England
2017-2018
Gretchen Murphy
University of Texas - Austin
Disestablishing Virtue: Federalism, Religion, and New England Women Writers
2016-2017
Abram Van Engen
Washington University in Saint Louis
American Model: The Life of John Winthrop’s City on a Hill
2015-2016
Sarah Templier
Johns Hopkins University
Between Merchants, Shopkeepers, Tailors, and Thieves: Circulating and Consuming Clothes, Textiles, and Fashion in French and British North America, 1730-1774
2014-2015
Serena Zabin
Carleton College
"Occupying Boston: An Intimate History of the Boston Massacre"
2013-2014
Katie Booth
University of Pittsburgh
"The Performance of Miracles: Alexander Graham Bell's Mission to Save the Deaf"
2012-2013
Sarah Sutton
Brandeis University
"Industrializing the Family Farm: Dairy Farming, Milk Consumption, and the New England Landscape"
2011-2012
Randi Lewis
University of Virginia
"To 'the most distant parts of the Globe': Trade, Politics, and the Maritime Frontier in the Early Republic, 1763-1819"
2009-2010
Lori Veilleux
Ph.D candidate, Department of Religious Studies, Brown University
"Religion, Science, and Boston's 1832 Cholera Epidemic"
2008-2009
Michael Block
University of Southern California
"New England Merchants, the China Trade, and the Origins of California"
2007-2008
R. Todd Romero
Assistant Professor of History, University of Houston
“Colonizing Childhood: Native American Children in Early New England”
2006-2007
Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai
PhD candidate, The University of Virginia
"New England's Elite: Young Northerners in the Civil War Era."
2005-2006
Deborah Walling
Department of English, Auburn University
"The Spiritual Trance: James Freeman Clarke's Ministry and Mesmerism."
2004-2005
Margaret Sumner
PhD Candidate, Department of History, Rutgers University
"Reason, Revelation, and Romance: The Social and Intellectual Construction of Early American College Communities, 1782-1860"
2003-2004
Nian-Sheng Huang
Associate Professor, Department of History, California State University Channel Islands
"The Poor in Massachusetts, 1630-1830"
2002-2003
William van Arragon
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Indiana University - Bloomington
"Cotton Mather in American Cultural Memory, 1728-1892"
2001-2002
Jennifer Anderson
Ph.D. candidate, American and Atlantic World History, New York University
"Currencies of Environmental Knowledge: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade, c. 1700-1800"
1999-2000
Melissane Parm
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Boston University
"A Freedom to Suit Themselves: Negotiating Indian Identity on Cape Cod, 1757-1834."
1998-1999
Paul A. Van Dyke
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Southern California
"Port Canton, 1690-1840: Explorations of American Enterprise in an Expanding World."
1997-1998
Roger Francis Thompson
Professor of American History, University of East Anglia
"East Anglian Towns in Early New England."
1996-1997
Daniel A. Cohen
Associate Professor of History, Florida International University
"Rebecca Reed and the Burning of the Charlestown Convent: Gender, Class, and Sectarian Conflict in 19th-Century America"
C. Conrad & Elizabeth H. Wright Fellowship
2021-2022
Christopher Gillett
University of Scranton
Catholicism and Revolution in the British World, 1630-1673
2020-2021
Makiki Reuvers
University of Pennsylvania
Bodies of Empire: The Political, Religious, and Corporeal Makings of Subjecthood in Seventeenth-Century New England
2019-2020
Kristen Beales
The College of William & Mary
Thy Will Be Done: Merchants and Religion in Early America, 1720-1815
2018-2019
Jennifer Rose
Claremont Graduate University
The World Becomes Round: Early Encounters between Bombay Parsis & Yankee Merchants, 1771-1861
Boston Marine Society Fellowship
2005-2006
Jane T. Merritt
Associate Professor, Department of History, Old Dominion University
"The Trouble With Tea: Consumption, Politics, and the Making of a Global Colonial Economy."
2004-2005
Kevin McDonald
PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of California.
"Praying Pirates, Mettlesome Merchants and Malagasy Matriarchs: The Making and Breaking of an Indo-Atlantic Trade World, 1645-1730."
2003-2004
Stephen Berry
Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Program in Religion, Duke University
"Those Who Go Down to the Sea in Ships"
2002-2003
Matthew McKenzie
Ph.D. Candidate, American History, University of New Hampshire
"Navigating Federalism: Science, Public Policy and the Boston Marine Society in Early Republican Boston, 1790-1803"
Cushing Academy Fellowship
2014-2015
Sean Munger
University of Oregon
"Ten Years of Winter: The Cold Decade and Environmental Consciousness in the Early 19th Century"
2013-2014
Mary Fuhrer
Independent Scholar
"Recovering the Illness Narratives of Consumptives in the Boston Almshouse, 1800-1850"
2012-2013
Jennifer Staver
University of California Irvine
"Energy, Work, and Power along the Pacific Coast of North America, 1768 to 1820"
Kenneth and Carol Hills Fellowship in Colonial History
2021-2022
Randal Grant Kleiser
Columbia University
Exchanging Empires: Free Ports, Reform, and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1750-1784
Anne Powell
College of William & Mary
The Antinomian Controversy: Theological Disorder Amidst Colonial Crisis in New England
2020-2021
Holly Gruntner
College of William & Mary
‘Some People of Skil and Curiosity’: Knowledge and Early American Kitchen Gardens, 1650-1830
Kaila Schwartz
College of William & Mary
Naming New Englanders: Family, Legacy, and Identity, 1620-1850
Library Fund Fellowship
2001-2002
Orlando Felix Garcia Martinez
Director Archivo Histórico Provincial de Cienfuegos
Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1879-1920
Louis Leonard Tucker Alumni Fellows
2021-2021
Alexandra Macdonald
College of William & Mary
The Social Life of Time in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1660-1830
Heather Walser
Penn State
Amnesty’s Origins: Federal Power, Peace, and the Public Good in the Long Civil War Era
2020-2021
Arlene Diaz
Indiana University
A War Beyond the Battlefield: Information, Espionage, and News in the Spanish-Cuban-American War, 1878–1898
Cassandra Jane Werking
University of Kentucky
Is My North Star Also Your North Star? How the Borderlands Between Canada and the United States Shaped the American Civil War
2018-2019
Nicole Breault
University of Connecticut
The Night Watch of Early Boston, 1662-1776
Matthew Fernandez
Columbia University
Images Abroad: Henry Adams and the Picturing of Modernism
Xiangyun Xu
Pennsylvania State University
The American Debate over the China Relief Expedition of 1900
2017-2018
Alexandra Montgomery
University of Pennsylvania
Projecting Power in the Dawnland: Colonization Schemes, Imperial Failure and Competing Visions of the Gulf of Maine World, 1710-1800
Ittai Orr
Yale University
Intellectual Power: Print Culture and Intelligence in the United States, 1781-1908
Michael Williams
Carnegie Mellon University
Impolite Science: Print and Performance in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic
2016-2017
Catherine Kelly
University of Oklahoma
Making Peace: Loyalists in the Early U.S. Republic
2016-2017
David Montejano
University of California, BerkeleY
From Southern Plantation to Northern Mill: Traveling along the Cotton Trail during the American Civil War
2015-2016
Daina Ramey Berry
University of Texas at Austin
Ghost Values of the Domestic Cadaver Slave Trade
2015-2016
Amy Hughes
Brooklyn College – CUNY
An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century America
2015-2016
Margaret Newell
Ohio State University
Miles to Freedom: William and Ellen Craft and the Struggle for Black Rights in Nineteenth-Century America and England
2014-2015
Mary Draper
University of Virginia
"The Urban World of the Early Modern British Caribbean"
2014-2015
Jonathan Koefoed
Indiana University - Purdue University Columbus
"Cautious Romantics: Trinitarian Transcendentalists and the Emergence of a Conservative Religious Tradition in America"
2013-2014
Kariann Yokota
University of Colorado
"Pacific Overtures: Transnational Encounters in the Pacific World, 1776-1853"
2012-2013
Lauri Coleman
College of William and Mary
"Interpretations of New England Weather in the Revolutionary Era"
2011-2012
Megan Prins
University of Arizona
"Winters in America, 1880-1930"
Malcolm and Mildred Freiberg Fellowship
2021-2022
Jimmy Bryan
Lamar University
The Empire of Grim: Gothic Subversions of US Expansion
2020-2021
John Bidwell
Morgan Library & Museum
The Declaration of Independence: Prints, Broadsides, and Facsimiles
2019-2020
Lance Boos
Stony Brook University
Print and Performance: The Development of a British Atlantic Musical Marketplace in the Eighteenth Century
2018-2019
Diego Pirillo
University of California, Berkeley
Renaissance Books in Early America: John Winthrop Jr. and Italian Occultism
2017-2018
Derek O’Leary
University of California - Berkeley
Building the American Archives
2016-2017
Nora Slominsky
Graduate Center, CUNY
“The Engine of Free Expression”[?]: The Political Development of Copyright in the Colonial British Atlantic and Early National United States
2015-2016
Karen Weyler
University of North Carolina – Greensboro
Urban Printscapes: One Hundred Years of Print in the City
2014-2015
Kristina Garvin
Ohio State University
"Past and Future States: The Cultural Work of the Serial in U.S. Literature, 1786-1814"
2013-2014
Denise Gigante
Stanford University
"The Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America"
2012-2013
Katherine Grandjean
Wellesley College
"'Terror ubique tremor': Communicating Terror in Early New England, 1677-1713"
2011-2012
Amy Morsman
Middlebury College
"Reading, Writing, Race & Respectability: "Yankee Schoolmarms," Race Reform, and Northern Views on Reconstruction"
2010-2011
Mary Kelley
University of Michigan
"American Reading and Writing Practices, 1760-1860"
2009-2010
Alea Henle
Ph.D candidate, Department of History, University of Connecticut
"Preserving the Past, Making History: Historical Societies, Editors, and Collectors in the Early Republic"
Marc Friedlaender Fellowship
2021-2022
Daniel Gullotta
Stanford University
‘The Lord Preserve Us from Socinian Presidencies’: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Transformation of American Religious Electoral Politics
2020-2021
Stephen Carter
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Adamsian Afterlives: Thinking American Pasts in a Post-American World
2019-2020
Miriam Liebman
City University of New York
A Tale of Two Cities: American Women in Paris and London, 1780-1800
2018-2019
Nicole Williams
Yale University
The Shade of Private Life: The Right to Privacy and the Press in American Art, 1875-1900
2017-2018
Nina Sankovitch
Independent Scholar
The Rebels of Braintree: Exploring Collaboration, Conflict, and Conciliation Between Colonial Families Prior to the American Revolution
2016-2017
Julia Rose Kraut
New York UniversitY
A Fear of Foreigners and of Freedom: Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in America
2015-2016
Mary Hale
University of Illinois – Chicago
Fictions of Mugwumpery: The Problem of Representation in the Gilded Age
2014-2015
Kristen Burton
University of Texas Austin
"John Barleycorn vs. Sir Richard Rum: Alcohol, the Atlantic, and the Distilling of Colonial Identity, 1650-1800"
2013-2014
Lindsay Schakenbach
Brown University
"Manufacturing Advantage: The Federal Government, Diplomacy and the Origins of American Industrialization, 1790-1840"
2012-2013
Rick Kennedy
Point Loma Nazarene University
"Cotton Mather Biblia Americana Volume 8"
2011-2012
Jonathan Beecher Field
Clemson University
"Antinomian Idol: Anne Hutchinson & American Historiography"
2010-2011
Marc-William Palen
University of Texas at Austin
"The Cleveland 'Conspiracy': Mugwumpery, Free Trade Ideology, and Foreign Policy in Gilded-Age America"
2009-2010
Matthew Hale
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Goucher College
"The French Revolution and American National Identity"
2008-2009
Margery Heffron
"Researching the Papers of Louisa Catherine Adams at the MHS"
2007-2008
Kenneth P. Minkema
Executive Director, Jonathan Edwards Center, Yale University
“Biblia Americana”
2006-2007
Virginia Gilmartin
Ph.D. Candidate, Rutgers University
"Henry Adams: Imagining Women."
2005-2006
Linus B. Kafka
Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
"The World and Henry Adams: Cosmopolitan Intellectuals and the Making of Modern America."
2004-2005
Bradford J. Wood
Professor, Department of History, Eastern Kentucky University
"The James Murray Letters and Colonial North Carolina"
2002-2003
William C. diGiacomantonio
Associate Editor, First Federal Congress Project
"Thatcher Letters"
2001-2002
Margaret A. Lowe
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Bridgewater State College
An edition of the diary of Marion Lawrence Peabody
2000-2001
Richard A. Samuelson
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Virginia
Brooks Adams's Biography of John Quincy Adams
1999-2000
Elizabeth Miles Nuxoll
Robert Morris Papers
"The Personal and Family Papers of Robert Morris."
Mary B. Wright Environmental History Fellowship
2021-2022
Cameron Boutin
University of Kentucky
War and the Elements: Civil War Soldiers’ Experiences with the Weather
2020-2021
Zachary Bennett
Connecticut College
Contested Currents: Rivers and the Remaking of New England”
Massachusetts Historical Society Research Fellows
2021-2022
Francis Russo
University of Pennsylvania
Utopian Dreams at the End of Early America: 1663-1860
Russell Weber
University of California, Berkeley
American Feeling: Political Passions and Emotional Identity in the Early Republic, 1754-1797
2016-2017
Judith Harford
University College Dublin
The Power of Social and Professional Networks to Promote Agency and Negotiate Access: the role of the Women's Educational Association, Boston, in Advancing the Cause of Women's Admission to Harvard
The Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship
2021-2022
Sarah Beth Gable
Brandeis University
Policing the Revolution: Massachusetts Communities and the Committees of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety, 1773-1783
2020-2021
Darcy Stevens
University of Maine
Conceptions of Neutrality During the American Revolution in the Northeast Borderlands
2019-2020
Catherine Treesh
Yale University
Creating a Continental Community: Committees of Correspondence and the American Revolution
2018-2019
Roberto Flores de Apodaca
University of South Carolina
“Alas my Backsliding Hart!”: Religious Worldview and Culture of New England Continentals 1775-1783
2017-2018
John McCurdy
Eastern Michigan University
Quarters: Billets, Barracks, and Place in Revolutionary America
2016-2017
Craig Smith
William Woods University
Redemption: The American Revolution, Ethics, and Abolitionism in Britain and the United States
2015-2016
Katlyn Carter
Princeton University
Practicing Representative Politics in the Revolutionary Atlantic World: Secrecy, Accountability, and the Making of Modern Democracy
2014-2015
Daniel Soucier
University of Maine
"Navigating Wilderness and Borderland: The Invasion of Canada, 1775-1776"
2013-2014
Zara Anishanslin
College of Staten Island/CUNY
"Rebelling Subjects, Revealing Objects: The Material and Visual Culture of Making and Remembering the American Revolution"
2012-2013
Holger Hoock
University of Pittsburgh
"Scars of Independence: Practices and Representations of Violence in the American Revolutionary War"
2011-2012
Trenton Jones
Johns Hopkins University
"Deprived of Their Liberty": Prisoners of War and American Military Culture
2010-2011
David Preston
The Citadel
"Braddock's Veterans: Paths of Loyalty in the British Empire, 1755-1775"
2009-2010
Jeffrey Kosiorek
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Hendrix College
"The Power of Our Patriot Fathers: Memory, Commemoration, and the American Revolution in the 19th Century"
2008-2009
Jeffrey Malanson
Boston College
"Addressing America: Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics and Diplomacy, 1796-1850"
2007-2008
Peter C. Messer
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Mississippi State University
“Revolution By Committee: Law, Language and Ritual in Revolutionary America”
2006-2007
Professor Daniel J. Hulsebosch
New York University-School of Law
"Writs to Rights: The Transformation of the Anglo-American Common Law in the Age of Revolution."
2005-2006
John Anthony Ruddiman
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Yale University
"'Becoming men of some consequence' Young Men of the Continental Army in Revolutionary War and Peace."
2004-2005
Stephen C. Bullock
Professor, Department of Humanities and Arts, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"The Politics of Politeness: Culture, Class, and Power in Provincial America, 1690-1776."
2003-2004
Keith Beutler
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis
"The Death of the Parents: Loss of the United States' Founding Generation and Historicized Epistemologies of Memory, 1790-1840"
2002-2003
Christopher A. Sleeper
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Riverside
"Boston's Beachcombers: The Economic, Social and Legal Milieus of Boston's Maritime Community, 1740-1810"
2001-2002
Benjamin Carp
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Virginia
"Cityscapes and Revolution: Urban Spaces and Revolutionary Mobilization in North America, 1740-1790"
2000-2001
Karen O'Brien
Ph. D. candidate, Northwestern University
"Making the Personal Political: Religion, Obligation, and Identity in the American Revolution";
1999-2000
George Quintal, Jr.
Independent Scholar
"Participants in the Boston Tea Party."
1998-1999
Walter L. Sargent
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Minnesota
"The Soldiers of Plymouth, 1775-1783: Citizen Soldiers or Sunshine Patriots?"
1997-1998
Max Cavitch
Ph.D. candidate, Department of English, Rutgers University
"Revolutionary Mourners: The Poetic Response to George Washington's Death."
Military Historical Society of Massachusetts Fellowship
2021-2021
James Broomall
Shepherd University
“Battle Pieces: The Imagery and Artifacts of the Civil War”
2020-2021
Dwain Coleman
University of Iowa
Black Civil War Veterans and the Fight for Community in the Midwest
2019-2020
Thomas Rider
University of Wisconsin – Madison
War by Detachment: the Continental Army and Petite Guerre
Paine Publication Fund Fellowship
2010-2011
Edward Hanson
The Papers of Robert Treat Paine
Paul Revere Memorial Association Fellowship
2003-2004
Donald Burke
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Wayne State University
"James Otis and the Political Culture of Whig Constitutionalism"
2002-2003
Daniel McDonough
Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee at Martin
"Boston Under British Occupation, 1774-1776"
2001-2002
Gayle E. Sawtelle
Visiting Research Collaborator, Department of History, Princeton University
"The commercial landscape of pre-industrial Boston"
2000-2001
Louis Arthur Norton
Master's candidate, History Department, University of Connecticut
"Paul Revere and the Penobscot Expedition, 1779"
1998-1999
Robert Martello
Ph.D. candidate, Science, Technology, and Society Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Paul Revere's Copper Rolling Mills"
1997-1998
Rob Martello
Ph.D. candidate, Science, Technology, and Society Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Paul Revere's Copper Rolling Mills"
1996-1997
Wayne Bodle
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Iowa
"Alchemy in Reverse?: New England's 'Copper' and the Transformation of the American Mineralogical Imagination."
Ruth R. & Alyson R. Miller Fellowship
2021-2022
Megan Armknecht
Princeton University
Diplomatic Households and the Foundations of U.S. Diplomacy, 1789-1870
Sarah Pearlman Shapiro
Brown University
Women’s Communities of Care in Revolutionary New England
2020-2021
Mallory Huard
Pennsylvania State University
America's Private Empire: Gender and Commercial Imperialism in Nineteenth Century Hawai'i
Jessica Vander Heide
Lehigh University
Schooling Intimacy: Lessons in Love, Romance, and Sexuality at American Female Academies, 1780-1870
2019-2020
Abena Boakyewa-Ansah
Vanderbilt University
The Currency of Freedom: Black Women and the Making of Freedom During the American Civil War
Erica Schumann
Binghamton University
A Republic of Numbers: Enumeration and Ideology in the Early American Household
2018-2019
Shealeen Meaney
Russell Sage College
Boston meets Brahmin: Massachusetts Women in Gandhi’s India
Christopher Stampone
Southern Methodist University
“[A]s if she were born to empire”: Isabella, the Bildungsroman, and the Establishment of a New American Society Identity in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s The Linwoods
2017-2018
Kabria Baumgartner
University of New Hampshire
A Right to Learn: African American Women and Educational Activism in Early America
Caylin Carbonell
The College of William and Mary
Women and Household Authority in Colonial New England
2016-2017
Evan Haefeli
Texas A&M University
The Delaware as Women and the Iroquois Great Peace of 1670
Cathryn Halverson
University of Copenhagen
Faraway Women and The Atlantic Monthly
2015-2016
Alisa Wade Harrison
CUNY Graduate Center
An Alliance of Ladies: Power, Public Affairs, and Gendered Constructions of the Upper Class in Early National New York City
Julia James
Syracuse University
Women in the Woods: War, Gender, and Community in the Native Northeast
2014-2015
Kate Culkin
Bronx Community College
"'For the Love of Your Sister': Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and the Emerson Legacy"
Rachel Walker
University of Maryland
"A Beautiful Mind: Physiognomy and Female Intellect, 1750-1850"
2013-2014
Marisa Benoit
University of Oxford
"Comparing Attitudes toward Infertility in Early Modern England and Colonial New England"
Marie Stango
University of Michigan
"Antislavery and Colonization: African American Women in Nineteenth Century West Africa"
2012-2013
Bonnie Lucero
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
"Privates, Prostitutes, and Pardos: Women and Racial Conflict in Cienfuegos, Cuba, circa 1898"
Lindsay Moore
Boston University
"Women, Power, and Litigation in the English Atlantic World, 1630-1700"
2011-2012
Kathryn Goetz
University of Minnesota
"A Consuming Femininity: Gender, Culture and the Material Worlds of Young Womanhood, 1750-1850"
Jessica Linker
University of Connecticut
"'It is my wish to behold Ladies among my hearers': Early American Women and Practices of Natural History, 1720-1860"
2010-2011
Nora Doyle
University of North Carolina
"'A Higher Place in the Scale of Being': Experience and Representation of the Maternal Body in America, 1750-1865"
Laura Prieto
Simmons College
"New Woman: New Empire: 1898 and Its Legacies for Women in the United States"
2009-2010
Sara Lampert
Ph.D candidate, Department of History, University of Michigan
"The Public Woman: Taking to the Stage in 19th Century America"
Deborah McNally
Ph.D candidate, Department of History, University of Washington
"Within Patriarchy: Puritan Women in Massachusetts's Congregational Churches, 1630-1715"
2008-2009
Rachel Cope
Syracuse University
"'In Some Places a Few Drops and Other Places a Plentiful Shower': The Religious Impact of Revivalism on Women in the 19th Century"
Serena Zabin
Carleton College
"Street Politics and the Boston Massacre"
2007-2008
Dana Magill Cooper
Assistant Professor of History, Stephen F. Austin State University
“Our American Cousin: Mary Endicott Chamberlain”
Ann Schofield
Professor of American Studies and Women’s Studies, University of Kansas
“Women in Black: A Comparative Study of Class, Gender and Mourning in Britain and the United States”
2006-2007
Bonnie Laughlin Schultz
Ph.D. Candidate, Indiana University
"'COULD I NOT DO SOMETHING FOR THE CAUSE?': The Brown Women and John Brown's Female Networks"
Helene Quanquin
Universite Sorbonne
"Men and American Feminism, 1830-1890"
2005-2006
Natalie A. Dykstra
Assistant Professor of English, Hope College
"Still Life: The Photographs of Marian 'Clover' Adams"
Mary Trautman
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Case Western Reserve University
"She's All at Sea: Space, Place, and Women's Writing on Water"
2004-2005
Judith Ann Giesberg
Professor, Department of History, Villanova University
"Northern Women's Work and Poverty in the U.S. Civil War."
April Rose Haynes
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Bodies of Knowledge: Women's Activism and Ideas in the Popular Health Movement, 1830-1860."
Marla R. Miller
Professor, Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"The Last Mantua Maker: Gender, Commerce and Change in Boston, 1789-1840."
2003-2004
Linzy A. Brekke
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
"Fashioning America: Consumption, Clothing and the Politics of Appearance, 1783-1836"
Laurie Hochstetler
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Virginia
"Places of Faith: Parish Structure and Women's Lives in Seventeenth-Century Old and New England"
Rebecca Rix
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History; Legal History Fellow, Yale Law School, Yale University
"Gender and Reconsitution: The Family and Individual Basis of Democracy Contested, 1880-1933"
2002-2003
Lee Chambers-Schiller
Associate Professor of History, University of Colorado at Boulder
"'Rocking the Nation Like a Cradle:' Maria Weston Chapman and the Construction of Political Womanhood"
Kate Davies
Permanent Lecturer, Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture, University of York
"Republican Sensibilities: Women, Writing and Atlantic Political Culture 1760-1810"
Judith S. Graham
Lecturer, Department of History, Boston College
"World War I Letters of Eleanor (Nora) Saltonstall"
2001-2002
Ellen A.Foster
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Literature, Duquesne University
"C.M. Sedgwick's Representations of American Nationhood"
Karen Leroux
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Northwestern University
"Servants of Democracy: Women's Work in U.S. Public Education, 1866-1902"
Teresa Anne Murphy
Associate Professor, American Studies Department, The George Washington University
"Angels of History: Women and Historical Imagination in the Early Republic"
2000-2001
Natalie A. Dykstra
Assistant Professor of English, Hope College
The Life and Photography of Marion 'Clover' (Hooper) Adams
Monica D. Fitzgerald
Ph.D. candidate, History Department, University of California, Davis
"Saints and Sinners: Defining Gender in a Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Town and Church"
Erin Elizabeth McMurray
Ph.D. candidate, American History, New York University
Early 20th-century history of the Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls
1999-2000
Jenifer B. Elmore
Ph.D. candidate, Department of English, Florida State University
The Personal Writings of Catharine Sedgwick.
1998-1999
Kirsten Sword
Ph.D. candidate, Program in the History of American Civilization, Harvard University
"Wayward Wives, Runaway Slaves and the Limits of Patriarchal Authority in Early America."
Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship
2020-2021
Christian Cuthbert
independent scholar
Preaching and Practice in Inter-colonial Warfare, 1744-48
Camden Elliott
Harvard University
Environmental Histories of the French and Indian Wars, 1688-1764
Hannah Schmidt
University of Maine
Identities Held Captive: Geography and Forced Migration in the Captivity Narratives of the Colonial Northeast
Society of Colonial Wars of Massachusetts Fellowship
2004-2005
Christian A. Crouch
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, New York University
"Imperfect Reflections: French use of Indian Warfare and the Six Nation's use of European Patronage During The Seven Years' War, 1754-1761"
2002-2003
John E. Grenier
Assistant Professor of History, United States Air Force Academy
"The Mi'kmaq Insurgency of the Seven Years' War"
2001-2002
Christopher Bilodeau
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Cornell University
"The Making of Maine: Sébastien Râle, the Eastern Abenakis, and the Expansion of Colonial New England"
Denver A. Brunsman
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Princeton University
"From Riots to Rights: Opposition to British Naval Impressment in Transatlantic Perspective, 1689-1815"
1999-2000
Kirk Davis Swinehart
Ph.D. candidate, Department of American Studies, Yale University
"Indians in the House: Sir William Johnson among the Mohawks, 1738-1824."
1997-1998
Jenny Hale Pulsipher
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Brandeis University.
"Crisis of Authority: Massachusetts Bay Colony in King Phillip's War"
Twentieth Century History Fellowship
2010-2011
Brian Gratton
Arizona State University
"Henry Cabot Lodge and the Politics of Immigration Restriction"
2009-2010
Derek Attig
Ph.D candidate, Department of History, University of Illinois
"Race, Region, and the Idea of America in 20th Century Bookmobility"
2008-2009
Bernadette Beredo
University of Hawaii
"From Colonial Bureau to Commonwealth Institution: Cultures of Government Archives in the Phillipines, 1898-1935"
2007-2008
Kenneth Weisbrode
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
“The State Department’s Bureau of European Affairs and American Diplomacy, 1909-1989”
2006-2007
Brian K. Kennedy
Ph.D. Candidate, The Ohio State University
"A Divisive Decade: How Foreign Events and Cultural Conflicts Divided Americans During the 1930s"
W. B. H. Dowse Fellowship
2021-2022
Jennifer Factor
Brandeis University
Poetry Performance in Colonial New England
Donovan Fifield
University of Virginia
Credit and Imperial Crises in the American Northeast, 1698-1775
2020-2021
Joseph Hall
Bates College
Making Home: Wabanaki and English Claims to Place, 1600-1800
Kristin Olbertson
Alma College
Credible Women: Gender & Testimony in Eighteenth-Century New England Courts
2019-2020
Nicholas Garcia
University of California, Davis
The New England Company and the Rise of English Colonialism
James Farwig
Ohio State University
"Any Indyan which they shall attain to": Slavery and Early Intercultural Contact in North America and the Caribbean
2018-2019
Taylor Kirsch
University of California, Santa Cruz
Indigenous Land Ownership in the Praying Towns of the New England Borderlands: Indigenous Lives Lands and Legacies of Seventeenth Century Massachusetts
Ian Saxine
Alfred University
The End of War: Indians, Empires, and Identity in the American Northeast, 1713-1727
2017-2018
David Ciepley
University of Denver
The Tug-of-War between Trust and Corporation as Models for Colonial New England Government
George O’Brien
University of South Carolina
"What an expecting and troublesome being a New England Refugee is": The Struggles of Early New England Emigrants in Nova Scotia, 1755-1783
2016-2017
Nathan Fell
University of Houston
The Nature of Colonization: Native Americans, Colonists, and the Environment in New England, 1400-1750
Michael Hattem
Yale University
The Past is Prologue: The Origins of American History Culture, 1730-1800
2015-2016
Katie Moore
Boston University
"a just and honest valuation": Money and Value in Colonial America, 1690-1750
Joanne Jahnke Wegner
University of Minnesota
Captive Economies: Commodified Bodies in Colonial New England, 1630-1763
2014-2015
Melissa Johnson
University of Michigan
"Regulating the Word: Religious Reform and the Politics of Knowledge in the Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Atlantic"
Adrian Weimer
Providence College
"Rumors and the Restoration in Boston"
2013-2014
Jill Bouchillon
University of Stirling
"Friendship in Colonial New England, 1750-1775"
Christine DeLucia
Mount Holyoke College
"The Memory Frontier: Memorializing King Philip's War in the Native Northeast"
2012-2013
Nichole George
University of Notre Dame
"Riots and Remembrance: America's Idols and the Origins of American Nationalism"
Reiner Smolinski
Georgia State University
"Cotton Mather: The Life of a Puritan Intellectual"
2011-2012
Robyn McMillin
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
"Science in the American Style, 1680-1815: A School of Fashion and Philosophy, of Liberty and People"
Tyler Boulware
University of West Virginia
"Next to Kin: Native Americans and Friendship in Early America"
2010-2011
Sara Damiano
The Johns Hopkins University
"Financial Credit and Professional Credibility: Lawyers and Laypeople in New England Ports, 1700-1776"
Neal Dugre
Northwestern University
"Creating New England: Intercolonial Political Culture and the Birth of a Region in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic"
2009-2010
Justin Pope
Ph.D candidate, Department of History, George Washington University
"Whispers and Waves: Insurrection, Conspiracy, and the Search for Salvation in the British Atlantic, 1729-1742"
Richard Rath
Visiting Residential Scholar, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
"The Disenchantment of America: Mediating the Senses in the 18th-Century Atlantic World"