Past and Current MHS Short-term Fellowship Recipients

Abigail Bowen Wright Fellowship

2024-2025

Andrew Walgren
University of Georgia
Media Combat: The Great War and the Transformation of American Culture

African American Studies Fellowship

2024-2025

Timothy Hastings
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Situating Race in New Hampshire's Atlantic World

2023-2024

Caleb Knapp
Yale University
Sex and Slavery in the Antebellum United States

2022-2023

Brigitte Lewis
University of Chicago
The Legend of Neptune: The Life of Nipton - A History of Slavery, Freedom, Land, and Community in Three Centuries of New England

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
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
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Educational Reconstruction: African-American Education in the Urban South, 1865-1890

2006-2007

Maria Alessandra Bollettino
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
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
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
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.
Northwestern University
"all things are changeable": The Worlds of Prince Hall and the Development of Black Atlantic Identities, 1760-1820

1999-2000

Lois Brown
Mount Holyoke College
"Free at Last?" Former Slaves in Boston's Home for Aged Colored Women, 1861-1900

Andrew Oliver Research Fellowship

2024-2025

Megan Baker
University of Delaware
Crayon Rebellion: The Material Politics of North American Pastels, 1758-1814

2023-2024

Nancy Siegel
Towson University
"Down Steep Rocks, Through Swamps & Woods We Came to this Celebrated Place": Louisa Davis Minot and the American Landscape Experience

2022-2023

Karah Mitchell
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"The Call of Kind": Humanizing the Animal in American Literature, 1830-1918

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
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
Lake Forest College
Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and the Construction of Masculinity

2006-2007

Emily Gerhold
Virginia Commonwealth University
American Beauties: Breasts in Nineteenth Century American Art and Culture

2005-2006

Caroline Baer Frank
Brown University
China as Object and Idea in the Making of an American Identity, 1680-1820

2004-2005

Wendy J. Katz
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
The Truthful Likeness in 17th–Century Boston

2003-2004

Christopher Lukasik
Boston University
Discerning Characters: Social Distinction and The Face in American Literary and Visual Culture, 1780-1850

2002-2003

JoAnne Marie Mancini
University College Cork
A Culture in Colour: Chromolithography in Massachusetts, 1860-1900

2001-2002

Carma R. Gorman
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
Oxford University
The Works of Washington Allston

1998-1999

Phillip H. Round
University of Iowa
Citizenship in Black and White: Early National Identity and the Popularity of Silhouettes

1996-1997

Eric Robert Papenfuse
Yale University
Canvas and Quill: John Singleton Copley, Mercy Otis Warren, and the Cultural Construction of American Independence

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship

2024-2025

Jared Asser
University of Georgia
A Reconstruction of Feeling: How Emotions Shaped Change in the Post-Civil War Period

Collin Bonnell
Concordia University
Joining the Ascendancy: Six Old English Families’ Transformations from ‘Irish’ to ‘British’ Elites

Ethan Gonzales
University of Virginia
The Visible State: U.S. Diplomatic Agents and Information in Europe and the Federal Territories, 1789-1800

Adam Laats
Binghamton University (State University of New York)
School Children: A New History of US Public Education

Arya Martinez
University of New Hampshire
The Turbulent Confederation: The Bank of North America and the Emergence of a New National Economy

Marcus Nevius
University of Missouri
Internal Enemy of the Most Alarming Kind: Marronage and the Political Economy of Fear in the British Atlantic in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

Isaac Robertson
New York University
Phillis Wheatley (Peters) and the Peril and Deliverance of Shipwreck

Alaina Scapicchio
University of South Florida
America Bewitched: Memory and Commemoration of Witchcraft

2023-2024

Zachary Brown
Yale University
The Law of Nations and the Constitution in Early National America, 1787-1857

Laura Clerx
Boston College
Nature's Properties: Science and Commerce in Early America, 1780-1850

Dawn Colemann
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Secular Womanhood: Creating New Spiritual Lives in American Literature

James Hill
University of Pittsburgh
"According to the Indian Custom": Native Rights, Customs, and Laws under American Rule, 1776-1848

Kristof Loockx
Centre for Urban History, University of Antwerp
Reclaiming the Seafarer's Soul: The Work and Efforts of Charitable Societies in the Sailortowns of Boston and Antwerp, c.1850-1930

Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan
Rutgers University
Surviving the New Nation: A Material History of Poverty in the United States

Lea Stephenson
University of Delaware
“Wonderful Things”: Egyptomania, Empire, and the Senses, 1870-1922

2022-2023

Richard Bell
University of Maryland
The First Freedom Riders: Streetcars and Street Fights in Jim Crow New York

Armando Chávez-Rivera
University of Houston-Victoria & North American Academy of the Spanish Language
Alexander Hill Everett, Richard Robert Madden, and U.S. Influences over Cuba in 1835-45

Daniel Doherty
Durham University
"Bleeding Massachusetts": Anti-Abolitionist and Anti-Black Violence in the Antebellum North

Andre Fleche
Castleton University
The American Civil War and the Shaping of the Western Hemisphere, 1848-1877

Mercedes Haigler
University of Virginia
Settled Out of Doors: Social Life, Everyday Spaces, and the Development of Partisanship in Philadelphia and Washington City (1790-1832)

Betsy Klimasmith
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Staging Ephemerality: The Theatrics of Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie

Jeremy Land
University of Helsinki
Trans-Imperial Trade and the American Revolution

Leo Lovemore
Brown University
"Treasurers of God’s Bounty": Money, Medicine, and Power in Boston, 1785-1865

Meredith Stukey
Purdue University
The Romanovs on a World Stage: Autocracy, Democracy, and Crisis, 1896-1918

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 19^th 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 Republic, 1763-1814

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
Ohio State University
History's Imprint: The colonial Book and the Writing of American History in the Nineteenth Century

Jim Downs
Connecticut College
Sick From Freedom: The Unexpected Consequences of the American Civil War

Caroline Frank
Brown University
Native American Enslavement in Southern New England, 1630-1730

Elizabeth Gray
Towson University
Worlds of Pain: Opium and Early America

Matthew Hudock
University of Delaware
African American Colonization and Identity

Whitney Martinko
University of Virginia
Progress Through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860

Rachel Shelden
University of Virginia
Washington Brotherhood: Friendship and Politics in the Civil War Era

Recipients Prior to 2009-2010

Benjamin F. Stevens Fellowship

2024-2025

Erin Russell
American University
Keeping the Books, Minding the Linens: Household Recordkeeping in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century New England

2023-2024

Gerald Holland
Liberty University
Lightning Bolt of Liberty: The Insane Genius of James Otis

2022-2023

Michael Larmann
University of Montana
Monuments and Moderation: Daniel Webster and the Commemoration of Compromise in the Age of Disunion, 1853-1865

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
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
University of Houston
Colonizing Childhood: Native American Children in Early New England

2006-2007

Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai
University of Virginia
New England's Elite: Young Northerners in the Civil War Era

2005-2006

Deborah Walling
Auburn University
The Spiritual Trance: James Freeman Clarke's Ministry and Mesmerism

2004-2005

Margaret Sumner
Rutgers University
Reason, Revelation, and Romance: The Social and Intellectual Construction of Early American College Communities, 1782-1860

2003-2004

Nian-Sheng Huang
California State University Channel Islands
The Poor in Massachusetts, 1630-1830

2002-2003

William van Arragon
Indiana University - Bloomington
Cotton Mather in American Cultural Memory, 1728-1892

2001-2002

Jennifer Anderson
New York University
Currencies of Environmental Knowledge: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade, c. 1700-1800

1999-2000

Melissane Parm
Boston University
A Freedom to Suit Themselves: Negotiating Indian Identity on Cape Cod, 1757-1834

1998-1999

Paul A. Van Dyke
University of Southern California
Port Canton, 1690-1840: Explorations of American Enterprise in an Expanding World

1997-1998

Roger Francis Thompson
University of East Anglia
East Anglian Towns in Early New England

1996-1997

Daniel A. Cohen
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

2024-2025

Seokweon Jeon
Harvard University
Guardians of Divine Borders: Tracing the Religious Underpinnings Boston's Nativist Movement and Immigration Policy Formation, 1894-1921

2023-2024

Richard Boles
Oklahoma State University
Black and Indigenous Religious Interactions in Early America

2022-2023

Barry Huff
Principia College
Slavery, Suffrage, and Science: Mary Baker Eddy and Nineteenth-Century New England Sermons

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

Elizabeth Woodman Wright Fellowship

2024-2025

Christopher Willoughby
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Collected Without Consent: A Global History of Harvard Medical School’s Racial Skulls

Fellowship to Support the Study of Social and Cultural Club Life in Boston

2024-2025

Kwelina Thompson
Harvard Business School
A Literary Life: Exploring the Publishing Industry in Boston's World of Letters

Boston Marine Society Fellowship

2005-2006

Jane T. Merritt
Old Dominion University
The Trouble With Tea: Consumption, Politics, and the Making of a Global Colonial Economy

2004-2005

Kevin McDonald
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
Duke University
Those Who Go Down to the Sea in Ships

2002-2003

Matthew McKenzie
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

2024-2025

Thomas Lecaque
Grand View University
Holy War Rhetoric in Early America, 1680-1765

2023-2024

Kevin March
Boston College
Breaking Dawn: King Philip's War and the Rise of the Wabanaki Confederacy, 1675-1763

2022-2023

Eva Landsberg
Yale University
The Politics of Sugar in the 18th-Century British Atlantic

Rachel Trocchio
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Thinking the Instant: A New Reading of the Great Awakening

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

2024-2025

Elliot Warren
William & Mary
The Common Hall: Local Leaders and the Development of America’s Political Economy in the Era of the French Revolution, 1786-1800

2023-2024

Emily Whitted
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Darned, Patched and Mended: Repairing Textiles in Eighteenth-Century America

2022-2023

Tian Xu
Historic New England
Representing Minorities in the Civil War Era: Lawyers in Black and Chinese Legal Mobilization

Jeanette Zaragoza
University of Puerto Rico
Interpreting a Transatlantic Saga: How Interpreters and Translators Wove The Amistad

2021-2022

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 Texas at El Paso
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

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

Amy Hughes
Brooklyn College – CUNY
An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century America

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

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

2024-2025

Abby Clayton
Indiana University Bloomington
Narrating Abolition: Scissors-and-Paste Reform in the Emerging Anglosphere

2023-2024

Amanda Klug
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Memories of the United States Constitutional Convention, 1787-1861

2022-2023

Alison Russell
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"On That Shield": American Identity and the Constitution in the Early Republic

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

2024-2025

Sara Danger
Valparaiso University
American Girls, Literary Labor, and The Lowell Offering

2023-2024

Jordan Watkins
Brigham Young University
Slavery and Religion in the Nineteenth Century

2022-2023

Jessica Leeper
University of Oxford
The Adams and Johnson Women at Court in Early American European Diplomacy, c.1780-1820

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

2024-2025

Madeline DeDe-Panken
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Gathering Knowledge, Sustaining Science: Women Foragers and American Mushroom Culture, 1880-1930

2023-2024

Blake McGready
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Making Nature’s Nation: The Revolutionary War and Environmental Interdependence in New York, 1775–1783

2022-2023

Joshua Bartlett
Bilkent University
Arboreal Poetics: The Language, Materiality, and Politics of Trees in American Poetry

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

2024-2025

Peter Messer
Mississippi State University
Pressing Problems and Riotous Customs: The Liberty Riot and the coming of the American Revolution

2023-2024

Thomas Rider
University of Wisconsin - Madison
War By Detachment: The Continental Army and Petite Guerre, 1775-1783

2022-2023

Serena Zabin
Carleton College
Boston's Black Refugees

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

2024-2025

Cooper Wingert
Georgetown University
Wartime Freedom Seekers, Provost Marshals, and Emancipation during the US Civil War

2023-2024

Ariel Wilks
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Privateers in the Public Sphere: Perception, Representation, and the Nature of Early American Privateering

2022-2023

Christopher Walton
Southern Methodist University
At Home in War: Religion in the Connecticut River Valley during the American Revolution

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

2024-2025

Galen Bunting
Northeastern University
Gendered Trauma in World War One Nurse Narratives

Shaibal Dev Roy
University of Southern California
Pandita Ramabai and the Nineteenth-Century American Feminists

2023-2024

Loryn Clauson
University of Toledo
Hold My Purse Strings: Marriage, Gender, and Finance in Antebellum America

Ariel Silver
Southern Virginia University
The Conversationalists

2022-2023

Stephanie Gorton
Independent Scholar
The Icon and the Idealist: The Two Radical Women Who Brought Choice to America

Jennifer Reiss
University of Pennsylvania
Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America

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

2024-2025

Chelsi Arellano
Florida State University
Glorious Change: Gender, Politics, and the Popular during the Reign of William III and Mary II

Emma Chapman
University of California, Davis
Missing: Mobility, Kinship, and Absent People in Early New England and New France, 1680-1720

Wulfstan Scouller
Yale University
Money, Guns, and Land: A Longue Durée History of King Philip's War

2023-2024

Matthew Kruer
University of Chicago
Sovereigns and Subjects: Indigenous Nations within the British Atlantic Empire

Yusuf Mansoor
University of Connecticut
Native Americans in Tangier: Transatlantic Networks in the Early Modern World

2022-2023

Aabid Allibhai
Harvard University
Belinda Sutton’s World: Slavery, Legal Activism, and Abolition in Revolutionary New England

Daniel Bottino
Rutgers University
Poised on the Edge of Literacy: Personal Wax Seals of Early Colonial New England

Theodore R. Delwiche
Yale University
The Contested Classics:Education in Early North America, 1630-1830

Can Mert Kökerer
University of Chicago
The Participatory Foundations of Democracy in New England: Institutional Innovation, Political Legitimation, and Popular Domination during the Colonial Era

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

2024-2025

Boone Ayala
University of Chicago
Leviathan's Peripheries: Political Ideology and Corporate Autonomy in England and its Empire

Rebecca Simpson Menzies
University of Southern California
From Agawam to Springfield: Society, Culture, and the Environment in a Seventeenth Century Town

2023-2024

Nicole Breault
University of Texas at El Paso
Set the Watch: Policing and Governance in Revolutionary Boston

John Patrick Fetherston
University of Maryland, College Park
"Daring to call for liquor": Anglo-American Taverns and the Making of a Black Counterpublic, 1741-1831

2022-2023

Weiao Xing
University of Cambridge
Puritan Narratives of Encounters in Early Eighteenth-Century New England

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

Recipients prior to 2009-2010