Past Fellows | The McNeil Center for Early American Studies

Phillip Emanuel, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-2025: “‘Great weights hang by small wires’: Households and the making of the British Empire, c.1650-1713”
Derek Litvak, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-2024: “The Specter of Black Citizens: Race, Slavery, and Citizenship in the Early United States”

M. Scott Heerman, Barra Sabbatical Fellow, 2023-2024: Associate Professor of History, University of Miami,
“Carried Back: Captivity and Belonging in the Age of Atlantic Emancipations”
Alexander David Clayton (History) University of Michigan, “The Living Animal: Biopower and Empire in the Atlantic Menagerie, 1750-1890”
Abigail Corcoran (History) University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Juvenile Reform Societies in the Antebellum United States”
Tayzhaun Glover (History) Duke University, “Freedom on the Horizon: Transmarine Slave Flight and the Abolition of Slavery in Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1824-1848”
Jacqueline Ly (History) Yale University, “Sovereignty, Possession, and Dispossession in Belize, 1730–1786”
Alexandra Macdonald (History) William & Mary, “The Social Life of Time in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1660-1830”
Adam McNeil (History) Rutgers University, New Brunswick, “Contested Liberty: Black Tidewater Women’s Survival in a Revolutionary Age”
Amanda Summers (History) Temple University, “Birth, Life, and Death in the Inquisition Prisons: Control of Empire through Body and Community in the Seventeenth-Century Iberian World”
Duangkamol Tantirungkij (History) Graduate Center, City University of New York, “An Act of Congress: Freedom Suits and the Emancipatory Consequences of the Northwest
Ordinance”
Meg Roberts (History) University of Cambridge, “Caregiving and Crisis in the American Revolutionary War”
Jacob Myers (English) University of Pennsylvania, “Noxious Life: Figuring Vermin in the Natural Histories of the British Caribbean”
Francis Russo (History) University of Pennsylvania, “Utopian Dreams at the End of Early America, 1663-1860”

María Esther Hammack, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2023: Assistant Professor of African American History, “Channels of Liberation: Freedom Fighters & Black Movement Across a Global Frontier, México, The United States and Beyond, 1790-1868”
Arianne Sedef Urus, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-2023: Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge, “Common Shores: A Political Ecology of the Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland Cod Fisheries”

Tara Bynum, Barra Sabbatical Fellow, 2022-2023: Assistant Professor of History, English and African American Studies, The University of Iowa, “Six Degrees of Phillis Wheatley”
Michael Borsk (History) Queen’s University, “Measuring Ground: Surveyors and the Geography of Colonialism in the Great Lakes Region, 1783-1840”
Anders Bright (History) University of Pennsylvania, “Luck’s Metropolis: Lotteries, Finance, and Class in New York, 1790-1830”
Sophie Hess (History) University of Maryland, “Hollow Ground: Industry, Ecology, and Climate Change in the Floodplains of Early Maryland”
Alexandria Mitchem (Anthropology) Columbia University, “Excavating the Roots of Bartram’s Botanical Gardens: Negotiating the Natural World in 19th Century America”
Cody Nager, (History) Graduate Center, City University of New York, “From Different Quarters: Regulating Migration and Naturalization in the Early American Republic, 1783-1815”
Molly Nebiolo, (History) Northeastern University, “Constructing Health: Concepts of Well-Being in Early Atlantic Cities”
Frances O’Shaughnessy (History) University of Washington, “Black Revolution on the Sea Islands: Empire, Property, and the Emancipation of Humanity”
Benjamin Pokross (English) Yale University, “Writing History in the Nineteenth-Century Great Lakes”
Cambra Sklarz (Art History) University of California, Riverside, “The Artist and the Ecosystem: Strategies for the Use and Reuse of Materials in Early America”
Emily Sneff (History) William & Mary University, “When Independence was Declared: The Founding Document of the United States as Breaking News”

María Esther Hammack, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2023: “Channels of Liberation: Freedom Fighters & Black Movement Across a Global Frontier, México, The United States and Beyond, 1790-1868”
Bradley L. Craig, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2021: Assistant Professor of History, Concordia University, “Oathbound: The Trelawny Maroons of Jamaica in the Revolutionary Atlantic World”
Leonard von Morzé, Barra Sabbatical Fellow, 2021-2022: Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Boston, “A Multilingual Public Sphere: Language Politics and the Non-Anglophone Book Trade in the Early U.S. Republic”
Raymond Batchelor (History) Texas A&M University, “‛Quit You like Men’: Pacifism, Race, and Manhood in Pennsylvania 1681–1800”
Michael Baysa (Religious Studies) Princeton University, “Print, Publics, and Puddings: Constraints on Religious Publications in Eighteenth-Century America”
Emily J. Clark (History) Johns Hopkins University, “Laboring Bodies: Dispossessed Women and Reproduction in Colonial New England”
Whitney Fields (History) Rutgers University, “Captive in Promised Land: Black Youth, Labor, and Incarceration in
Nineteenth-Century Urban America”
Timothy Grieve-Carlson (History) Rice University, “American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in Early Pennsylvania”
Philippe Halbert, (History of Art) Yale University, “Letters of a Canadian Woman: Identity and Self-Fashioning in the Atlantic World of Madame Bégon (1696-1755)”
Lauren Michalak (History) University of Maryland, College Park, “‘The Mobs All Cry’d Peace With America’: The Gordon Riots and Revolution in England and America"
Paul Wolff Mitchell (Anthropology) University of Pennsylvania, “Anthropological Skull Collections, 1790-1860: Global History, Politics, and Afterlives of Cranial Race Science”
Umniya Najaer (English) Stanford University, “The Black Womb: Gynecology, Racial Science and Reproductive Autonomy”
Henry Snow (History) Rutgers University, “Making Revolutions: Labor and Power at the Atlantic Dockside, 1740-1840”
Evelyn Strope (History) University of Cambridge, “The Politics of Material Culture in the Early Republic, c. 1800-1815”
Anna Leigh Todd (History) University of Pennsylvania, “A Defect of Birth: Illegitimacy in Early America”
Kristina Williams (History) Duke University, “Anticipating Freedom: Slave Rebellion, Amelioration, and Emancipation in Barbados, 1816-1838”

Elizabeth Polcha, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2021: Associate Professor of History, Drexel University, "Redacting Desire: The Sexual Politics of Colonial Science in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World"
Bradley L. Craig, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2022: Assistant Professor of History, Concordia University, “Oathbound: The Trelawny Maroons of Jamaica in the Revolutionary Atlantic World”
Marisa J. Fuentes, Barra Sabbatical Fellow, 2020-2021: Associate Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, “Refuse Bodies, Disposable Lives: A History of the Human and the Transatlantic Slave Trade”
Jessica Choppin Roney, Barra Sabbatical Fellow, 2020-2021: Associate Professor of History, Temple University, “Revolutionary Settlement: Colonies of the American Revolution, 1763–1815”
Hannah Elizabeth Anderson (History) University of Pennsylvania, “Lived Botany: Households, Ecological Adaptation and the Origins of Settler Colonialism in British North America”
Emily Banta (English) Rutgers University, “The Pursuit of Fun: Comic Play in Antebellum Democratic Culture”
Meagan Anne Conger (Anthropology) University of Georgia, “Re-Evaluating Timeframes for Indigenous and European Interaction in Southern Ontario, AD 1550–1650”
Anna F. Graham (Anthropology) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Lower Mississippi Valley American Indian Cuisine and the Transition to Maize Agriculture”
Emily T. Gowen (English) Boston University, “On the Margins: Steady Sellers and the Problem of Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America”
Gabrielle Guillerm (History) Northwestern University, “The Forgotten French: Catholicism, Colonialism, and Americanness on the Early Trans-Appalachian Frontier”
J.E. Morgan (History) Emory University, “American Concubines: Gender, Race, Law, and Power in the British American and
U.S. South”
Kevin Murphy (History) State University of New York, Stony Brook, “Coercion and Sworn Bond in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic”
Kieran John O’Keefe (History) George Washington University, “‘These Wretched Miscreants’: Loyalists, Patriots, and Violence in the Hudson River Valley"
Henry Stoll (Music) Harvard University, “The Carnival Mirror: Music and Parody in Early Haiti, 1804–1820”
Meagan Wierda (History) Rutgers University, “To Count and Be Counted: Quantification in the Age of American Slavery”
Charnan Williams (History) University of Michigan, “History of Slavery, Freedom, Race, and Labor in California from Mexican
Independence to the US Civil War, 1821–1865”
Cory James Young (History) Georgetown University, “For Life or Otherwise: Abolition and Slavery in South Central Pennsylvania, 1780 to 1847”

Casey Schmitt, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2020: Associate Professor of History, Cornell University, "The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking, Colonization, and Trade in the greater Caribbean, 1530-1690"
Elizabeth Polcha, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2021: Associate Professor of History, Drexel University, "Redacting Desire: The Sexual Politics of Colonial Science in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World"
Zara Anishanslin, Barra Sabbatical Fellow, 2019-2020: Associate Professor of History and Art History, University of Delaware, "London Patriots: Transatlantic Politics, Material Culture, and the American Revolution"
Michael L. Dickinson, Barra Sabbatical Fellow, 2019-2020: Assistant Professor of African American History, Virginia Commonwealth University, "Almost Dead: Captivity and Social Rebirth in the Urban Black Atlantic, 1680-1807"
Ajay Batra (English) University of Pennsylvania, “The Making of Abolition in the Archives of Atlantic Slavery, 1785–1865”
Lila Chambers (History) New York University, “Liquid Capital: Alcohol and the Rise of Slavery in the British Atlantic, 1640–1736”
Sherri Cummings (History) Brown University, “In Search of Equiano’s Sister: Thoughts of Slavery, Freedom and Black Girlhood in the Early Modern British Atlantic”
Timothy Fosbury (English) University of California, Los Angeles, “Persistent Futures of Bermudas Past: Genres of Geography and Race in Early America”
Kellen Heniford (History) Columbia University, “Slavery is Slavery: Early American Mythmaking and the Invention of the Free State”
Nicole Mahoney (History) University of Maryland, “Liberty, Gentility, and Dangerous Liaisons: French Culture and Polite Society in Early National America”
Elise Mitchell (History) New York University, “Smallpox and Slavery: Morbidity, Medical Intervention, and Enslaved People’s Lives in the Greater Caribbean”
Peter Olsen-Harbich (History) College of William and Mary, “A Meaningful Subjection: Coercive Inequality and Indigenous Political Economy in the Colonial Northeastern Woodlands”
Ittai Orr (American Studies) Yale University, “American Intelligences: Literature and the Science of the Mind, 1780–1860”
Kyle Repella (History) University of Pennsylvania, “Human Capital: Strategies of Slaving in the Greater Delaware Valley, 1620–1760”
Simeon Simeonov (History) Brown University, “Empire of Consuls: Consulship, Sovereignty, and Empire in the Revolutionary Atlantic (1778–1848)”
Sarah Templier (History) The Johns Hopkins University, “The Power of Consumer Desire: Textiles and Clothes in French and British North America, 1713–1760”

Nancy O. Gallman, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2019, Assistant Professor of History, Lewis & Clark College, "American Constitutions: Life, Liberty, and Property in Spanish East Florida"
Casey Schmitt, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2020: Associate Professor of History, Cornell University, "The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking, Colonization, and Trade in the greater Caribbean, 1530-1690"
Steven Thomas, Barra Sabbatical Fellow, 2018-2019 Associate Professor of English, Wagner College, "Multiethnic Ethiopia and American Literary History"
Chelsea Berry (History) Georgetown University, “Poisoned Relations: Medicine, Sorcery, and Poison Trials in the Greater Caribbean, 1680-1850”
Christopher Blakley (History), Rutgers University, “Inhuman Empire: Slavery and Nonhuman Animals in the British Atlantic World”
Lucien Holness (History), University of Maryland, “Between North and South, East and West: The Anti-Slavery Movement in Southwestern Pennsylvania”
Elizabeth Kiszonas (History), University of Arkansas, “Westward Empire: George Berkeley's 'Verses on the Prospect of Planting Arts' in American Art and Cultural History”
Joseph La Hausse de Lalouvière (History), Harvard University, “Enslavement and Empire in the French Caribbean, 1802-1848”
Laura McCoy (History), Northwestern University, “In Distress: Family and a Marketplace of Feeling in the Early American Republic”
Timo McGregor (History), New York University, “Empire of Strangers: Mobility and Political Community in the Dutch Atlantic, 1645-1688”
Michael Monescalchi (English), Rutgers University, “A Disinterested Republic: Reform and New Divinity Theology in Early America”
Kelsey Salvesen (History), University of Pennsylvania, “The Word Became Flesh and was Stitched Among Us: Gender, Empire, and Religion in Early North America”
Franklin Sammons (History), University of California, Berkeley, “Yazoo’s Settlements: Finance, Law, and the Political Economy of Dispossession”
Matthijs Tieleman (History), University of California, Los Angeles, “A Revolutionary Wave: Dutch and American Patriots in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World”

Christopher Heaney, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2018, Assistant Professor of History, Penn State University, "The Pre-Columbian Exchange: The Circulation and Study of the Ancient Peruvian Dead in the Atlantic World and America"
Nancy O. Gallman, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2019, Assistant Professor of History, Lewis & Clark College, "American Constitutions: Life, Liberty, and Property in Spanish East Florida"
Jeremy B. Zallen, Barra Sabbatical Fellow, 2017-2018: Assistant Professor of History, Lafayette College, "American Lucifers: Makers and Masters of the Means of Light, 1750–1900"
Emilie Connolly (History) New York University, “Indian Trust Funds and the Routes of American Capitalism, 1795–1865”
Andrew J. Dial (English) McGill University, “The ‘La Valette Affair’: Jesuits and Money in the French Atlantic”
Nicole K. Dressler (History) Northern Illinois University, “The ‘Vile Commodity’: Criminal Servitude, Authority, and the Rise of Humanitarianism in the Anglo-American World, 1718–1820”
Andrew Ferris (English) Princeton University, “Colonial Histories in ‘Indian Country’: Anglo-American Historical Writing in the Seventeenth Century”
Aaron Roy Hall (History) University of California, Berkeley “Slavery and the Constitutional Sublime: Claiming the Founding in Antebellum America”
Elaine LaFay (History and Sociology of Science) University of Pennsylvania, “Atmospheric Bodies: Medicine, Meteorology, and the Cultivation of Climate in the Antebellum Gulf South”
Alicia Maggard (History) Brown University, “One Nation, under Steam: Technopolitics, Steam Navigation, and the Rise of American Industrial Power”
Alexandra L. Montgomery (History) University of Pennsylvania, “Projecting Power in the Dawnland: Colonization Schemes, Imperial Failure, and Competing Visions of the Gulf of Maine World, 1710–1800”
Hayley Negrin (History) New York University, “Possessing Native Women and Children: Slavery, Gender and English Colonialism in the Early American South 1670–1772”
Jordan Buchanan Smith (History) Georgetown University, “The Invention of Rum”
Samantha M. Sommers (English) University of California, Los Angeles, “Reading in Books: Theories of Reading from Nineteenth-Century American Fiction”
Andrew Zonderman (History) Emory University, “Embracing Empire: Eighteenth-Century German Migrants and the Development of the British Imperial System”

Elizabeth Ellis, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2017: Assistant Professor of History, New York University, "The Many Ties of the Petites Nations: Relationships, Power, and Diplomacy in the Lower Mississippi Valley 1685–1785"
Christopher Heaney, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2018, Assistant Professor of History, Penn State University, "The Pre-Columbian Exchange: The Circulation and Study of the Ancient Peruvian Dead in the Atlantic World and America"
Emma Hart, Barra Sabbatical Fellow, 2016-2017: School of History, University of St Andrews, "Trading Spaces: The Early Modern Market Place and the Creation of the American Economy"
Megan Bailey (Anthropology) University of Maryland, “Landscapes of Tension: Negotiation of Everyday Life on a Maryland Plantation”
Nicholas Bonneau (History) University of Notre Dame, “Unspeakable Loss, Distempered Awakenings: North America's Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemic of 1735–1765”
Jane Dinwoodie (History) Oxford University, “Beyond Removal: Indians, States, and Sovereignties in the American South, c.1812–1860”

Lauren Duval (History) American University, “Landscapes of Allegiance: Space, Gender, and Military Occupation in the American Revolution”
Eric Herschthal (History) Columbia University, “The Science of Antislavery: The Role of Science in the Early Antislavery Movement, 1770–1830”

Melissa Morris (History) Columbia University, “Cultivating Colonies: Tobacco and the Upstart Empires, 1580–1660”

Alexander Ponsen (History) University of Pennsylvania, “Conflict and Coexistence on the Edge of Empire: The Limits of Sovereignty in the Iberian Imperial World, 1570–1650”

Christy Pottroff (English) Fordham University, “The Mail Gaze: Early American Literature, Letters, and the Post Office”

Alyssa Zuercher Reichardt (History) Yale University, “War for the Interior: Imperial Conflict and the Formation of North American and Transatlantic Communications Infrastructure, 1730–1774”

Rebecca Rosen (English) Princeton University, “Making the Body Speak: Anatomy, Autopsy and Testimony in Early America, 1639–1790”
Nora Slonimsky (History) Graduate Center, CUNY, “‘The Engine of Free Expression’?: The Political Development of Copyright in the Colonial British Atlantic and Early National United States”
Katherine Smoak (History) Johns Hopkins University, “Circulating Counterfeits: Making Money and its Meanings in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic”

Whitney Stewart (History) Rice University, “The Racialized Politics of Privacy: Meaning and Materiality in the Nineteenth-Century Black Home”

Yevan Terrien (History) University of Pittsburgh, “Exiles and Fugitives: Mobility, Labor, and Power in French Louisiana, ca. 1700–1780”

Sarah L.H. Gronningsater, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014-2016: Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, "Delivering Freedom: Gradual Emancipation, Black Legal Culture, and the Origins of Sectional Crisis in New York, 1759–1870"
Elizabeth Ellis, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2017: Assistant Professor of History, New York University, "The Many Ties of the Petites Nations: Relationships, Power, and Diplomacy in the Lower Mississippi Valley 1685–1785"
Dee E. Andrews, Barra Sabbatical Fellow, 2015-2016: Professor of History, California State University East Bay, "Thomas Clarkson, Author, and the Age of Abolition"
Jessica Blake (History) University of California, Davis, “Caribbean Taste, Production, and Regionalism in Early Republic New Orleans”
Daniel Couch (English) UCLA, “The Imperfect Form: Literary Fragments and Politics in the Early Republic”
Lori Daggar (History) University of Pennsylvania, “Cultivating Empire: Native Nations, Quaker Missionaries, and the Negotiation of American Imperialism, 1754–1846”

Elizabeth Eager (Architecture) Harvard University, “Drawing Machines: The Mechanics of Art in the Early Republic”
Rachel Engl (History) Lehigh University, “America's First Band of Brothers: Friendship, Camaraderie, and Collusion within the Continental Army during the Revolutionary Era”

Alexandra Finley (History) College of William and Mary, “Blood Money: Sex, Family, and Finance in the Antebellum Slave Trade”

Nicholas Gliserman (History) University of Southern California, “Landscapes of Conflict: Cartography and Empire in Northeastern America, 1685–1713”

Andrew Inchiosa (English) University of Chicago, “Found among the Papers of the Early Republic”

Christopher Jones (History) College of William and Mary, “Religion and Revolution in the Atlantic World: Methodism in North America and the Caribbean”

Lauren Kimball (English) Rutgers University, “Re-versing the American Renaissance”
Alex Manevitz (History) New York University, “The Rise and Fall of Seneca Village and the Politics of Free Space in Antebellum New York City”
Don James McLaughlin (English) University of Pennsylvania, “Touching Phobia: Viral Affect and the Medicalization of Fear in Anglo-American Literature, 1786–1885”

Tommy Richards (History) Temple University, “The Texas Moment: Breakaway Republics and Contested Sovereignty in North America, 1836–1846”

Tony Perry (American Studies) University of Maryland, “‘To Go to Nature's Manufactory’: The Ecology of Slavery in Antebellum Baltimore County, Maryland”

Gabriel Rocha (History) New York University, “Sustaining Conquest: Island Colonies in the Atlantic Commons, 1480–1620”
Laura Soderberg (English) University of Pennsylvania, “Vicious Infants: Antisocial Childhoods and the Politics of Population in the Antebellum United States”
Rachel Walker (History) University of Maryland, “A Beautiful Mind: Reading Faces in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1760–1860”

Sarah L.H. Gronningsater, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014-2016: Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, "Delivering Freedom: Gradual Emancipation, Black Legal Culture, and the Origins of Sectional Crisis in New York, 1759–1870"
David Silverman, Barra Sabbatical Fellow, 2014-2015: Professor of History, George Washington University, "Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America"
Christine Croxall (History) University of Delaware, “Holy Waters: Religious Conflicts and Commitments in the Mississippi River Valley, 1780–1830”
Demetri D. Debe (History) University of Minnesota, “Necessary Connections: Building Black Mobility in the Public Markets of the Greater Caribbean, 1660–1815”
Jamie Forde (Anthropology) University of Colorado, “The Conquest of the Hill of the Sun: Indigenous Domestic Life at Colonial Achiutla, Oaxaca, Mexico”
Kristina Garvin (English) Ohio State University, “Past and Future States: The Cultural Work of the Serial in U.S. Literature, 1786–1815”
Brendan Gillis (History) Indiana University, “Conduits of Justice: Magistrates and the British Imperial State, 1732–1834”
Sonia Hazard (Religion) Duke University, “Unruly Agencies: The American Tract Society, Religious Choice, and the Materiality of Print, 1825–1865”
Benjamin Hicklin (History) University of Michigan, “‘Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be’?: Experiencing Credit and Debt in the English Atlantic, 1660–1750”

James Hill (History) College of William and Mary, “Muskogee Internationalism in an Age of Revolution, 1763–1818”
Justene Hill (History) Princeton University, “Felonious Transactions: Slave Economies and Localized Law in South Carolina, 1787-1860”
Jessica C. Linker (History) University of Connecticut, “‘It is My Wish to Behold Ladies among My Hearers’: Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720–1860”
Emily Merrill (History) University of Pennsylvania, “Judging Empire: British Military Courts and the Politics of the Body”
Max Mishler (History) New York University, “Boundaries of Freedom: Abolition, Punishment, and the Atlantic Origins of Mass Incarceration”
Alan Niles (English) University of Pennsylvania, “Memory, Mourning, and Writing Materials: Forming Memorial Literatures in the Anglophone Atlantic, ca. 1500–1700”

Carolyn Roberts (African and African American Studies) Harvard University, “Surgeon, Fetish Woman, Apothecary, Slave: Transatlantic Medical Cultures, Economies, and Laborers in the British Slave Trade, 1680–1807”
Rachel Trocchio (English) University of California, Berkeley, “The Puritan Sublime”

Denise Noelani Arista, Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013-2014: History, Brandeis University, "Histories of Unequal Measure: Euro-American Encounters with Hawaiian Governance and Law, 1796-1827"
Lyra Monteiro, Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013-2014: Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, "Ancient Histories of Race in the Early United States (1770-1861)"
Ashley Cohen, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013-2014: English, University of Pennsylvania, "The Global Indies: India, the Americas, and the Imaginative Geography of the British Empire, 1763-1869"
Michael Blaakman (History) Yale University, "Speculation Nation: Land Speculators and Land Mania in Post-Revolutionary America"
Benjamin Breen (History) University of Texas at Austin, "Tropical Transplantations: Drugs, Nature and Globalization in the Portuguese and British Empires, 1640-1755"
Sara Damiano (History) Johns Hopkins University, "Gender and the Culture of Credit in New England, 1730-1790"
John Dixon (History of American Civilization) Harvard University, "Found at Sea: Mapping Ships’ Locations on the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic"
Lynn Feeley (English) Duke University, "Ground Plans: Ecological Viewpoints in the Antebellum United States"
John Garcia (Rhetoric) University of California, Berkeley, "Biography, Book History, and American Nationalism, 1800-1855"
Claire Gherini (History) Johns Hopkins University, "'Experiment and Good Sense Must Direct You': Managing Health and Sickness in the British Plantation Enlightenment, 1740-1815"

Matthew Goldmark (Hispanic Studies) University of Pennsylvania, "Future Perfect: Kinship, History, and the Colonial Queer in Latin America"
Katie Hemphill (History) Johns Hopkins University, "Bawdy City: Commercial Sex in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore"
Brenna O’Rourke Holland (History) Temple University, "Free Market Family: Gender, Capitalism, and the Life of Stephen Girard"
Donald Johnson (History) Northwestern University, "Occupied America: Everyday Experience and the Failure of Imperial Authority in Revolutionary Cities under British Rule, 1774-1783"
Philippa Koch (American Religious History) University of Chicago Divinity School, "Persistent Providence: Religion and Epidemics in Eighteenth-Century America"
Peter Kotowski (History) Loyola University Chicago, "'The Best Poor Man’s Country?' Indentured Servitude in Pennsylvania, 1681-1776"

Mairin Odle (History) New York University, "Stories Written on the Body: Cross-Cultural Markings in the North American Atlantic, 1600-1830"
Sarah Rodriguez (History) University of Pennsylvania, "Children of the Great Mexican Family:’Anglo-American Immigration to Mexico and the Making of Texas, 1810-1861"
Sean Trainor (History & Women’s Studies) Penn State University, "Hair: A History of Men's Grooming in the United States, 1789-1865"
Lindsay Van Tine (English & Comparative Literature) Columbia University, "Translated Conquests: Spanish New World History in U.S. Literature, 1823-1854"
Charles Wallace (History) College of William and Mary, "In the Chieftains’ Shadows: The Deep South Confronts its Ancient Indian Past, 1790-1865"

Christopher Parsons, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011-2013: History, University of Toronto, "Plants and Peoples: French and Indigenous Botanical Knowledges in Colonial North America, 1600-1760"
Adam Lewis, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012-2014: History, University of California, San Diego, "Naturalizing Empire: Citizenship, Sovereignty, and Antebellum American Literature"
Susan Hanket Brandt (History) Temple University, "Gifted Women and Skilled Practioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Delaware Valley, 1740-1830"
Sarah Chesney (Anthropology) College of William and Mary, "The Fruit of Their Labors: Exploring William Hamilton's Greenhouse and the Rise of American Botany in early Federal Philadelphia"
Andrew J. B. Fagal (History) Binghamton University, "The Political Economy of War in the Early Republic, 1783-1821"
Hannah Farber (History) University of California, Berkeley, "American Marine Insurance in the Napoleonic Era: Commerce, the Republic, and the Oceans"
Craig Hollander (History) Johns Hopkins University, "Against a Sea of Troubles: Ideology, Politics, and the Suppression of America's Illegal Slave Trade in the Early Republic"
Kathleen Howard (American Literature) Rutgers University, "A Language 'Burning and God-Given': The Creative Form of Religious Writing"
Jessica Hower (History) Georgetown University, "Tudor Imperialism: Exploration, Expansion, and Experimentation in Sixteenth-Century British Atlantic World"
Benjamin Reed (History) University of North Carolina, "Oration History in Mexico City, 1659-1821: A Political Culture of Religious Identity"
Sarah Schuetze (English) University of Kentucky, "More Than Death: Fear of Illness in American Literature, 1775-1876"
Samantha Seeley (History) New York University, "Freedom, Race, and Forced Migration in the Early American Republic"
Steven Smith (History) University of Missouri, "A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1783-1830"
Emma Stapely (English) University of Pennsylvania, "Insurgent Remains: Afterlives of the American Revolution 1770-1820"
Cameron Strang (History) University of Texas, "Entangled Knowledge, Expanding Nation: Local Science and the United States Empire in the Southeast Borderlands, 1763-1842"
Tristan Tomlinson (History) Stony Brook University, "The Ills of Empire: Managing Health and Populations across the British Atlantic Worls, 1707-1834"

Christopher Parsons, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011-2013: History, University of Toronto, "Plants and Peoples: French and Indigenous Botanical Knowledges in Colonial North America, 1600-1760"
Jessica Roney, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011-2012: History, The Johns Hopkins University, "Revolution by Association: Philadelphia and the American Founding"
Sari Altschuler (English) CUNY Graduate School, "National Physiology: Literature, Medicine, and the Invention of the American Body, 1789-1860"
Jennifer Elliott (History of Art and Architecture) University of Virginia, "The Neoclassical Backcountry: Architecture, Material Culture, and Hybrid Identities in the American South, 1780-1830"
Glenda Goodman (Historical Musicology) Harvard University, "Music and American Identities in the Atlantic World"
Rachel Herrmann (History) University of Texas, Austin, "Food and War: Indians, Slaves, and the American Revolution"
Patricia Lott (African-American Studies) Northwestern University, "Disremembered and Unaccounted for: The Public Collective Memory of Northern Slavery, 1820-1861"
Nenette Luarca-Shoaf (Art History) University of Delaware, "The Mississippi River in Antebellum Visual Culture"
Mark Mattes (American Studies) University of Iowa, "Material Letters: Media History and the Politics of Epistolary Practice, 1780-1845"
Dael Norwood (History) Princeton University, "Trading in Liberty: The Politics of the American China Trade, c. 1784-1862"
Seth Perry (History of Christianity) University of Chicago Divinity School, "'A Valuable Book': Bibles and Religious Authority in Early-National America"
Edward Pompeian (History) The College of William and Mary, "Spirited Enterprises: The U.S., Venezuela, and the Independence of Spanish America, c. 1784-1862"
Aaron Tobiason (Theatre and Performance Studies) University of Maryland, College Park, "'An Extraordinary Power': Journalists, Playwrights, and the Politics of the Early American Stage"
Nicholas Wood (History) University of Virginia, "Questions of Humanity and Expediency: The Slave Trades and African Colonization in the Early American Republic"

Joseph Rezek, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009-2011: English, University of California, Los Angeles, "Tales from Elsewhere: Fiction at a Proximate Distance in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1800-1850"
Caitlin Fitz, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010-2011: History, Yale University, "Our Sister Republics: The United in an Age of American Revolutions"
Cheryl Collins (History) University of Virginia, "Sister States, Coalition Commonwealths: The American Interstate System, 1775-1790"
Felicity Donohoe (History) University of Glasgow, "Native North American Women, White Men, and Ritual Violence in the Eighteenth Century"
Robert Gamble (American Studies) Johns Hopkins University, "A Secondhand Republic: The Informal Economy in the Antebellum Mid-Atlantic"
Katherine Gaudet (English) University of Chicago, "Fear of Fiction: Novels and Their Antagonists in Eighteenth-Century America"
Simon Gilhooley (Government) Cornell University, "The Textuality of the Constitution and the Origins of Original Intent"
Michael Goode (History) University of Illinois at Chicago, "In the Kingdom but Not Of It: The Quaker Peace Testimony and Atlantic Pennsylvania, 1681-1720"
Alea Henle (History) University of Connecticut, "Preserving the Past, Making History: Historical Societies and Editors in the Early Republic"
Nicole Ivy (African American Studies) Yale University, "Materia Medica: Black Women, White Doctors, and Spectacular Gynecology in the Nineteenth-Century U.S."
Matthew Karp (History) University of Pennsylvania, "'This Vast Southern Empire': The South and the Foreign Policy of Slavery, 1833-1865"
Whitney Martinko (History) University of Virginia, "Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement"
Jayne Ptolemy (African American Studies) Yale University, "'To extend the empire of civilization and knowledge': Philadelphian Quakers and the Frontier in the Benevolent Imagination"

Brian Connolly, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2010: History, Rutgers University, "Domestic Intercourse: Incest in the United States, 1780-1871"
Joseph Rezek, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009-2011: English, University of California, Los Angeles, "Tales from Elsewhere: Fiction at a Proximate Distance in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1800-1850"
Virginie Adane (History) Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), "Women in a multicultural colonial society-New Netherland, New York (ca. 1630-ca. 1730)"
Benjamin Bankhurst (History) King's College London, "Habitations of Cruelty: America, Irish Presbyterians, and the Seven Years' War, 1754-1764"

Irene Cheng (Architecture History) Columbia University, "Forms of Function: Self-Culture, Geometry, and Octagon Architecture in Antebellum America"

Paul Conrad (History) University of Texas, Austin, "Captive Fates: Displaced Apache Indians in the Southwest Borderlands, Mexico, and Cuba"
Carrie Hyde (English) Rutgers University, "Alienable Rights: Negative Figures of U.S. Citizenship, 1790-1868"
Laura Johnson (History of American Civilization) University of Delaware, "Cloth as metaphor in the early American Atlantic World, 1550-1750"
Philip Mead (History) Harvard University, "Melancholy Landscapes: Warfare amd Written Expression in Revolutionary America"
Marcia Nichols (English) University of South Carolina, "'And let them see how curiously they're made': Constructing Female Sexuality in Anglo-Atlantic Midwifery Texts, 1690-1810"
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (History) Columbia University, "Corresponding Republics"
Dawn Peterson (American Studies) New York University, "Unusual Sympathies: Race, Family, and Servitude in Jacksonian politics"
Joshua Ratner (English) University of Pennsylvania, "American Paratexts"

Wendy Roberts (English) Northwestern University, "Do You Hear What I Hear? Revival Poetry and the Formation of the Evangelical Ear in Eighteenth-Century America"

Elena Schneider (History) Princeton University, "The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in Eighteenth-century Cuba"

Christina Snyder, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-2009: History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Captives of the Dark and Bloody Ground: Identity, Race, and Power in the Contested American South"
Brian Connolly, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2010: History, Rutgers University, "Domestic Intercourse: Incest in the United States, 1780-1871"
Michele Currie Navakas (English) University of California, Irvine, "Founding Florida: Language and Geography at the Edge of America"
Sarah Dennis (English) University of Illinois, "Prose for Art's Sake: Creating and Documenting an American Aesthetic, 1810-1860"
Jeffrey Edwards (English) University of Pennsylvania, "Privileged Sensibilities: Sensibility and the Articulation of Race in the Early U.S. Republic"
Shona Johnston (History) Georgetown University, "Papists in a Protestant World: The Catholic Anglo-Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century"
Marie Basile McDaniel (History) University of California, Irvine, "Churches Revised: Ethnic Communities and the First Great Awakening"
Justin Pope (History) George Washington University, "Whispers and Waves: Insurrection, Conspiracy, and the Search for Salvation in the British Atlantic, 1729-1742"
Jason Sharples (History) Princeton University, "The Flames of Insurrection: Fear and Power in Early American Slave Societies, 1670-1780"
Laura Keenan Spero (History) University of Pennsylvania, "'Stout, Bold, Cunning and the greatest Travellers in America': The Colonial Shawnee Diaspora"
Megan Walsh (English) Temple University, "Inconspicuous Consumption: Objects, Publics, and Visible Identity in Early American Literature, 1770-1800"

William Huntting Howell, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-2008: PhD, English, Northwestern, “Imitation, Emulation and Early American Culture”
Christina Snyder, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-2009: History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Captives of the Dark and Bloody Ground: Identity, Race, and Power in the Contested American South"
Geoffrey Plank, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-2008: History, University of Cincinnati , "Peace in the British Empire: John Woolman, Imperialism, and the Peaceable Kingdom"
Zara Anishanslin Bernhardt (History of American Civilization) University of Delaware, "Silk in the Age of Homespun: American Portraits, Spitalfields Silks, and Material Expressions of Eighteenth-Century American Identity"
Joanna Cohen (History) University of Pennsylvania, "Millions of Luxurious Citizens: Consumption and Citizenship in New York and Philadelphia, 1815-1876"
Kenneth Cohen (History), "'To Give Good Sport': The Economic Culture of Sporting Leisure in Early America, 1750-1850"
Simon Finger (History) Princeton University, "Epidemic Constitutions: Public Health and Political Culture in the Port of Philadelphia, 1740-1800"
Matthew Garrett (English) Stanford University, "Episodic Poetics in the Early Republic: The Politics of Writing in Parts, 1787-1830"
Robb Haberman (History) University of Connecticut, "At the Intersections of Cultural Life: Magazines and Literary Networks in Post-Revolutionary America, 1783-1800"
Adam Jortner (History) University of Virginia, "A Poltical History of American Miracles, 1780-1863"
Brian Murphy (History) University of Virginia, "The Politics Corporations Make: Interests, Institutions, and the Formation of States and Parties in New York"
Patrick Spero (History) University of Pennsylvania, "From Contested Land to Commonwealth: The Transformation of Pennsylvania, 1730-1800"

Christopher Hodson, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005-2007: PhD, History, Northwestern University, "Refugees: Acadians and the Social History of Empire, 1755-1785"
William Huntting Howell, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-2008: PhD, English, Northwestern, “Imitation, Emulation and Early American Culture”
Catherine E. Kelly, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-2007: History, University of Oklahoma, "Things Useful and Ornamental: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life in the Early Republic"
Yvonne Fabella (History) State University of New York, Stony Brook, "‘Priestesses of Venus’: Gender, Race, and Identity Formation in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue (1763-1789)"
Charles R. Foy (History) Rutgers University, "Ports of Slavery, Ports of Freedom: How Slaves used Northern Seaports’ Maritime Industry to Escape and Create Trans-Atlantic Identities, 1713-1783"
Noah L. Gelfand (History) New York University, "A People Within and Without: International Jewish Commerce and Community in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Atlantic World"
Candice L. Harrison (History) Emory University, "The Contest of Exchange: Place, Power and Politics in Philadelphia’s Public Markets, 1770-1859"
Heather Miyano Kopelson (History) University of Iowa, "Performing Faith: Religious Practice and Identity in the Puritan Atlantic, 1660-1720"
Katherine Paugh (History) University of Pennsylvania, "‘The Strongest Interest in Preventing this Diminution’: Rationalizing Reproduction in the British West Indies, 1760-1833"
Yvette Piggush (English) University of Chicago, "Governing Imagination: American Social Romanticism, 1790-1840"
Jennifer E. Schaaf (History) University of Pennsylvania, "Unveiling Catholics: Gender, Benevolent Devotionalism, and the Quest for Respectability among Philadelphia Catholics, 1800-1880"
Joanne van der Woude (English) University of Virginia, "Towards a Transatlantic Aesthetic: Immigration, Translation, and Mourning in the Seventeenth Century"
Lynda Yankaskas (History) Brandeis University, "Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731-1851"

Christopher Iannini, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2004-2006: PhD, English, City University of New York, "Fatal Revolutions: U.S. Natural Histories of the Greater Caribbean, 1707-1856"
Christopher Hodson, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005-2007: PhD, History, Northwestern University, "Refugees: Acadians and the Social History of Empire, 1755-1785"
April Lee Hatfield, History, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005-2006: Texas A&M University, "Anglo-Spanish Relations in the Caribbean and Southeastern North America , 1584- 1748"
Monique Allewaert (English) Duke University, "Race Revolution in the Plantation-Zone"
Tara Bynum (English) The Johns Hopkins University, "How Did We Say 'Yes' to Enslavement? Self-Discipline, Love, and Conversion"
Richard J. Bell (History) Harvard University, "The Cultural Significance of Suicide in America"
Kristen Block (History) Rutgers University, "Faith and Fortune: Religious Identity and the Politics of Profit in the Seventeenth-Century West Indies"
Michael S. Carter (History) University of Southern California, "Mathew Carey and the Public Emergence of Roman Catholicism in the United States, 1789-1839"
Amy Hudson Henderson (Art History) University of Delaware, "Furnishing the Republican Court: Building and Decorating Philadelphia Homes, 1790-1800"
Daniel Krebs (History) Emory University, "Approaching the Enemy: German Prisoners of War in the American War of Independence, 1776-1783"
Justine S. Murison (English) University of Pennsylvania, "States of Mind: The Politics of Psychology in American Literature, 1780-1860"
Jeroen van den Hurk (Art History) University of Delaware, "Imagining New Netherland: Origins and Survival of Netherlandic Architecture in Old New York, 1614-1776"

Benjamin Irvin, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2003-2005: PhD, History, Brandeis University, “Representative Men: Personal and National Identity in the Continental Congress”
Christopher Iannini, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2004-2006: PhD, English, City University of New York, "Fatal Revolutions: U.S. Natural Histories of the Greater Caribbean, 1707-1856"
Katherine Carté Engel, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2004-2005: History, Texas A & M University, “Of Heaven and Earth: Religion and Economic Activity among Bethlehem's Moravians, 1741-1800”
John Lauritz Larson, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2004-2005: History, Purdue University, “Profligate Mother: Nature, History, and the Rise of a Capitalist Ethos in America”
Julie Kim (English) Duke University,"Consumer Anthropology: New World Foods and Identities in Eighteenth-Century British Empire"
Christian J. Koot (History) University of Delaware, “In Pursuit of Profit: Persistent Dutch Influence on the Inter-Imperial Trade of New York and the English Leeward Islands, 1621-1689”
Jennifer Manion (History) Rutgers University, "Women's Crime and Penal Reform in Early Pennsylvania, 1776-1835"
Cyrus Mulready (English) University of Pennsylvania, "Romancing the Globe: Romance, English Expansion, and the Early Modern Stage"
Matthew Osborn (History) University of California, Davis, "The Anatomy of Intemperance: Alcohol and the Diseased Imagination in Philadelphia, 1784-1850"
Sarah Rivett (English) University of Chicago, "Evidence of Grace: The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England"
Aaron Wunsch (Architectural History) University of California, Berkeley, "The Everyday Picturesque: Land Division and Landscape Architecture in Metropolitan Philadelphia, 1830-1880"

David Stewart, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2002-2004: English, National Central University, Taiwan, "Recreating Men: Ethnographies of Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America"
Benjamin Irvin, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2003-2005: PhD, History, Brandeis University, “Representative Men: Personal and National Identity in the Continental Congress”
Andrew Lewis, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2003-2004: History, American University, "The Curious and the Learned: Natural History in the Early American Republic”
Denver Brunsman (History) Princeton University, "The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment and Its Transatlantic Opponents, 1688-1815"
William Carter (History) Princeton University, "The Imperial Iroquois: From Aggressive Matrilineages to an Empire of Goods, AD 900-1800"
Kyle Farley (History) University of Pennsylvania, "'In the Beginning . . . ': The Transforming History of the Foundings of Massachusetts Bay and Pennsylvania”
Jennifer Lawrence Janofsky (History) Temple University, "'There is no hope for the likes of me': Eastern State Penitentiary, 1829-1856"
Peter Leavenworth (History) University of New Hampshire, "Taste and Cultural Hierarchy in American Popular Music, 1770-1825"
Brian Luskey (History) Emory University, "The Marginal Men: Clerks and Society in the Northeastern United States, 1790-1860"
Robyn Davis McMillin (History) University of Oklahoma, "'The first drudgery...is now pretty well over': Cultivation of the Scientific Arts in Eighteenth-Century America”
Kenneth Shelton (History) Boston College, "A Godly Uniformity: Religion and Empire, 1620-1716"

Kathleen DuVal, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001-2003: PhD, History, University of California, Davis, "'Faithful Nations' and 'Ruthless Savages': The Rise and Fall of Indian Diplomacy in the Arkansas River Valley, 1673-1828"
David Stewart, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2002-2004: English, National Central University, Taiwan, "Recreating Men: Ethnographies of Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America"
Deborah J. Allen (English) Rutgers University, "To Measure and Describe 'the Whole Globe of the Earth': Geographical Writing and
Imperial Enterprise in the Atlantic World, 1660-1815"
Carl Robert Keyes (History) Johns Hopkins University, "Advertising and the Commercial Community in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia"
Peter J. Brownlee (American Studies) George Washington University, "The Economy of the Eyes: Vision and the Cultural Production of Market Revolution, 1828-1855"
Joshua Greenberg (History) American University, "Advocating ‘the Man’: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Market Revolution in New York, 1800-1840"
Hana Layson (English) University of Chicago, "Injured Innocence: Sexual Injury, Sentimentality, and Citizenship in the Early Republic"
Michael Mackintosh (History) Temple University, "The Nature of Contact: Natives, Newcomers, and the Natural World in Pennsylvania, 1638-1765"
Martha Schoolman (English) University of Pennsylvania, "American Abolutionist Geographies"
Ashli White (History) Columbia University, "'A Flood of Impure Lava': Saint Dominguan Refugees in the United States, 1791-1820"

Kathleen DuVal, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001-2003: PhD, History, University of California, Davis, "'Faithful Nations' and 'Ruthless Savages': The Rise and Fall of Indian Diplomacy in the Arkansas River Valley, 1673-1828"
Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001-2002: History, University Of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, "The Men Who Lost America"
Hester Blum (English) University of Pennsylvania, "The View from the Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narratives and the Maritime Imagination"
Vincent Brown (History) Duke University, "Slavery and the Spirits of the Dead: Mortuary Politics in Jamaica, 1740-1834"
Michelle L. Craig (History) University of Michigan, "From Cultivation to Cup: Coffee Trade and Consumption in the British Atlantic Empire, 1750-1833"
James Delbourgo (History) Columbia University, "Political Electricity: Experimentalism, Enthusiasm and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century British America"
Jean Feerick (English) University of Pennsylvania, "Reproducing Race: Early Modern Bodies and the Construction of National Difference"
Sandra Hall (History) University of California, Riverside, "'Virtue Inculcated in a Book': Gender, Class, and the Evolution of the Early American Reading Public"
Birte Pfleger (History) University of California, Irvine, "The Creation of a Gendered Middle Ground in Penn's Woods: Public Discourse, Community and Diversity in Colonial Pennsylvania, 1739-1776"
Martha Rojas (English) Stanford University, "Diplomatic Letters: The Conduct and Culture of Foreign Affairs in the Early Republic"

Brendan McConville, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 2000-2001: History, State University of New York, "The King's Three Faces: The Transformation of Royal Political Culture in America, 1688-1783"
Thomas Slaughter, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2000-2001: History, Rutgers University, "Visionary Quest: Lewis and Clark’s Search for the Known"
Julia Boss (History) Yale University, "Relating New France: Building Catholic Community in North America"
Nicole Eustace (History) University of Pennsylvania, "'Passion is the Gale': Emotion and Power on the Eve of the American Revolution"
Matthew Rainbow Hale (American Studies) Brandeis University, "The Making of the American Nation, 1789-1815"
Ann Kirshner (History) University of Delaware, "'God Visited My Slumber': The Intersection of Dreams, Religion, and Society in America, 1740-1830"
Randolph Scully (History) University of Pennsylvania, "A Gospel Fellowship: Baptist Community and Culture in Southeastern Virginia, 1770-1840"
John Smolenski (History) University of Pennsylvania, "Friends and Strangers: Religion, Diversity, and the Ordering of Public Life in Colonial Pennsylvania, 1681-1765"
Colleen Terrell (English) University of Pennsylvania, "The Machinery of Nationalism: Mechanism and Ideology in the Early Republic"

John Wood Sweet, Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, 1999-2000: History, Catholic University of America, "Bodies Politic: Colonialism, Race, and the Emergence of the American North. Rhode island, 1723-1831"
Paul Erickson (American Studies) University of Texas at Austin, "Welcome to Sodom: The Cultural Work of the City-Mysteries Novel in Antebellum America"
Evan Haefeli (History) Princeton University, "The Origins of American Religious Freedom: Churches and Politics in the Middle Colonies, 1609-1720"
Brooke Brianne Hunter (History) University of Delaware, "The Threshold of Exchange: Flour, Trade, and Community in the Delaware River Valley, 1750-1820"
Eric Slauter (English) Stanford University, "The State as a Work of Art: Politics and Cultural Origins of the Constitution"
Kirk Davis Swinehart (American Studies) Yale University, "Indians in the House: Landscape and Community in William Johnson's New World"

Carolyn Eastman (History) Johns Hopkins University, "'To Communicate Knowledge in a Proper and Agreeable Dress': Oratory, Print, and the Development of the American Audience, 1780-1830"
John Fea (History) State University of New York at Stonybrook, "Rural Religion: Protestant and Moral Order in Southern New Jersey,1664-1800"
Douglas Hamilton (History) Aberdeen University, "Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750-1820" (Manchester University Press, 2005)
Trish Loughran (English) University of Chicago, "Virtual Nation: Local and National Cultures of Print, 1776-1850"
Kariann Yokota (History) University of California Los Angeles, "From An Insecure Beginning: National Identity and The Practice of Everyday Life in Post-Colonial America, 1776-1830"

Seth Cotlar (History) Northwestern University: "In Paine's Absence: The Europeanization of American Political Thought, 1787-1803"
Rodney Hessinger (History) Temple University: "Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn: Sexual and Social Stress and the Role of Youth in Defining Bourgeois America, 1780-1850"
Heather Shawn Nathans (Theatre History) Tufts University: "The Rise of the Post Revolutionary Theater in Boston and Philadelphia"
Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe (History) Princeton University: "Refugees and Revolutionaries: Defining Pluralism in Early America"
Karim Tiro (History) University of Pennsylvania: "The People of the Standing Stone: the Oneida Indian Nation from Revolution through Removal, 1768-1850"

Konstantin Dierks (History) Brown: "The Personal Letter in Revolutionary America, 1750-1800"
Brad Hume (History and Philosophy of Science) Indiana: "The Varied, the Average, the Type: Fracturing and Factoring the Human Subject in the Nineteenth Century"
Patricia Keller (Material Culture) Delaware and Winterthur: "Quilts from Home"
Albrecht Koschnik (History) Virginia: "The Reshaping of the Philadelphia Policy: The Role of Voluntary Associations, 1790-1815"

Valentyn Byvanck (History) NYU: "The Culture of Nationalism in the Early Republic"
Thomas Humphrey (History) Northern Illinois: "Agrarian Rioting in Backcountry New York: Tenants, Landlords and Revolution in the Hudson Valley, 1750-1800" (Ph.D. thesis, 1996)
Maurice Jackson (History) Georgetown: "'Ethiopia Shall Soon Stretch Out Her Hands Unto God': Anthonv Benezei and the Atlantic Antislavery Revolution"
Judith Van Buskirk (History) NYU: "A Social History of New York City during the British Occupation, 1776-1783" (Ph.D. thesis, 1997)

George Boudreau (History) Indiana: "'The Surest Foundation of Happiness': Education and Society, in Franklin's Philadelphia"
Gabrielle Lanier (Material Culture) Delaware and Winterthur: "A Region of Regions: Local and Regional Culture in the Delaware Valley, 1780-1830"
Susan Stabile (English) Delaware: "A Philadelphia Women's Literary Circle, 1760-1820" (Ph.D. thesis, 1996)
Cynthia Van Zandt (History) Connecticut: "Mapping Possibilities: Cultural and Economic Construction of Realities in Early Colonial America"

Gregory Knouff (History) Rutgers: "The Soldiers' Revolution: The Experiences of Pennsylvania Enlisted Men, 1775-1783" (Ph.D. thesis, 1996)
Cathleen McDonnell (History) NYU: "Holy Lives and Happy Deaths: Popular Religious Reading in the Early Republic"
Jane Merritt (History) Washington: "Kinship, Community, and Practicing Culture: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Pennsylvania, 1700-1763" (Ph.D. thesis, 1995)
James Pearson (History) UCLA: "The New York City Debtors' Prison, 1758-1830"
Camilla Townsend (History) Rutgers: "Doing a Day's Business in a New Nation: A Comparative Study of Two Port Towns [Baltimore, Maryland and Guayaquil, Ecuador] in the Early Republican Period"(Ph.D. thesis 1996)

Rose Beiler (History) Pennsylvania: "The Transatlantic World of Caspar Wistar: From Germany to America in the Eighteenth Century" (Ph.D. thesis, 1994)
Thane Bryant (History) Rutgers: "Down and Out in the ëBest Poor Man's Country ': The Poor in Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1790-1840"
John Majewski (History and Economics) UCLA: "Commerce and Community: Economic Culture and Internal Improvements in Pennsylvania and Virginia, 1790-1860" (Ph.D. thesis, 1994)
Deborah Prosser (American Civilization) Pennsylvania: "'An Exceedingly Good Likeness'? Portraits and Society in the Colonies, 1700-1776"
Judith Ridner (History William and Mary: "'A Handsomely Improved Place': Economic, Social, and Gender Role Development in a Backcountry, Town, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1750-1810" (Ph.D., thesis, 1994)

Adam Lynde (History) Temple: "The British Army in North America, 1755-1783: Defeat as a Consequence of the British Constitution" (Ph.D. thesis, 1992)
Jacquelyn Miller (History) Rutgers: "The Body Politic: Disease and Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution"
James Williams (History) Vanderbilt: "Cultural Mingling and Religious Diversity among Indians in the Early Middle Colonies" (Ph.D. thesis, 1993)
Karin Wulf (History) Johns Hopkins: "A Marginal Independence: Unmarried Women in Colonial Philadelphia" (Ph.D. thesis, 1994)

David Brigham (American Civilization) Pennsylvania: "A World in Miniature: Charles Willson Peale's Philadelphia Museum and its Audience, 1786-1827" (Ph.D. thesis, 1992)
Kenneth Haltman (History of Art, Yale): "Figures in a Western Landscape: Reading the Art of Titian Ramsey Peale from the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1819-1820" (Ph.D. thesis, 1992)
Susan Branson (History) Northern Illinois: "Politics and Gender: The Political Consciousness of Philadelphia Women in the 1790s" (Ph.D. thesis, 1992)
Janet Lindman (History) Minnesota: "A World of Baptists: Gender, Race, and Religious Community in Pennsylvania and Virginia, 1689-1825" (Ph.D. thesis, 1994)
Brendan McConville (History) Brown: "'Those Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace': Agrarian Unrest and the Struggle for Political Legitimacy in New Jersey, 1701-1776" (Ph.D. thesis, 1992 - revised version to be published by Cornell University Press, 1997)
Simon Newman (History) Princeton: "American Popular Culture in the Age of the French Revolution" (Ph.D. thesis, 1991 - revised version to be published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997)
Thomas Wermuth (History) SUNY Binghamton: "Yeomen Farmers, Merchant Capitalists, and the Transition to Capitalism in the Hudson River Valley: Ulster County, New York, 1760-1840" (Ph.D. thesis, 1991)

Aaron Fogleman (History) Michigan: Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996)
Margaret Haviland (History) Pennsylvania: "In the World, But Not of the World: The Humanitarian Activities of the Philadelphia Quakers, 1740-1820" (Ph.D. thesis, 1992)
Rebecca Larson (History) Harvard: "'Public Friends,' Quaker Women and Traveling Ministers, 1700-1775" (Ph.D. thesis, 1993)
Rosalind Remer (History) UCLA: Printers and Men of Capital.- Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996)
Joseph Torsella (History) Oxford: "Pro Imperio: The Mind of the British Army, 1775-1783"

Bruce Dorsey (History) Brown: "City of Brotherly Love: Religious Benevolence, Gender, and Reform in Pennsylvania, 1780-1844" (Ph.D. thesis, 1993)
J. David Lehman (History) UCLA: "Explaining Hard Times: Political Economy and the Panic of 1819 in Philadelphia" (Ph.D. thesis, 1992)

Anita Tien (History) Berkeley,: "'To Enjoy Their Customs': The Cultural Adaptation of Dutch and German Families in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1832" (Ph.D. thesis, 1990)
Jack Warren (History) Brown: "The Rise and Fall of Federalism in Philadelphia, 1787-1805"

Charles Bergencren (Folklore) Pennsylvania: "The Cycle of Transformation in the Houses of Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania" (Ph.D. thesis, 1988)
Trevor Burnard (History) Johns Hopkins: "A Colonial Elite: Wealthy Marylanders, 1691-1776" (Ph.D. thesis, 1988)
Judith Hunter (History) Yale: "Before Pluralism: The Political Culture of Nativism in Antebellum Philadelphia" (Ph.D. thesis, 1991)
Ric Northrup [Caric] (Political Science) North Carolina: "Decomposition and Reconstitution: A Theoretical and Historical Study of Philadelphia Artisans, 1785-1820" (Ph.D. thesis, 1989)
Nancy Rosenberg (History) Michigan: "The Sub-textual Religion: Quakers, the Book, and Public Education in Philadelphia, 1682-1800" (Ph.D. thesis, 1991)

Gregory Dowd (History) Princeton: A Spirited Resistance.- The Native American Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)
Susan Mackiewicz (Material Culture) Delaware: "Philadelphia Flourishing: The Material World of Philadelphians, 1682-1760" (Ph.D. thesis, 1988)

William Offutt (History) Johns Hopkins: Of 'Good Law "and "Good Men" Law and Society in the Delaware Valley, 1680-1710 (University of Illinois Press, 1995)
Lisa Wilson (History) Temple: Life after Death: Widows in Pennsylvania, 1750-1800 (Temple University Press, 1992)

Elizabeth Fischer [Gray] (History) Harvard: "A God of Order: Power and Authority in the German Lutheran Congregations of Pennsylvania, 1723-1776" (Ph.D. thesis, 1990)
Christopher Looby (English) Columbia: Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States (University of Chicago Press, 1996)
Michael Meranze (History) Berkeley: Laboratories of Virtue.- Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 (University of North Carolina Press, 1996)
Linda Salvucci (History) Princeton: "Development and Decline: The Port of Philadelphia and Spanish Imperial Markets" (Ph.D. thesis, 1985)

Dee Andrews (History) Pennsylvania: "Popular Religion and the Revolution in the Middle Atlantic Ports: The Rise of the Methodists, 1770-1800" (Ph.D. thesis, 1986)
Mary Schweitzer (History) Johns Hopkins: Custom and Contract.- Household, Government, and the Economy in Colonial Pennsylvania (Columbia University Press, 1987)

Joseph Casino (History) Michigan: "The Military Campaign for Philadelphia, 1777-1778"
Lucy Kerman (History) Berkeley: "Americanization: The History of an Idea, 1700-1860" (Ph.D. thesis, 1983)
Marcus Rediker (History) Pennsylvania: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1750-1800 (Cambridge University Press, 1987)

David Dauer (History) Johns Hopkins: "Colonial Philadelphia's Hinterland Economy"
Jack Michel (History) Chicago: "In a Manner and Fashion Suitable to Their Degree"-A Preliminary Investigation of the Material Culture of early Rural Pennsylvania (Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, 1981)
Marilyn Westerkamp (American Civilization) Pennsylvania: Triumph of the Laity: Scotch-Irish Piety and the Great Awakening, 1625-1760 (Oxford University Press, 1988)
Marianne Wokeck (History) Temple: "'A Tide of Allen Tongues': The Flow and Ebb of German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1683-1776" (Ph.D. thesis, 1982 - revised version to be published by Penn State Press, 1997/8)

Maurice Bric (History) Johns Hopkins: "Ireland, Irishmen, and the Broadening, of the Late-Eighteenth Century Philadelphia Polity" (Ph.D. thesis, 1991)
Neil Fitzgerald (English) Brown: "Wieland's Crime: A Source and Analogue Study of the Foremost Novel of the Father of American Literature" (Ph.D. thesis, 1980)
Elizabeth Gray Kogen Spera (American Civilization) Pennsylvania: "Building for Business: the Impact of Commerce on the City, Plan and Architecture of the City-N of Philadelphia, 1750-1800" (Ph.D. thesis. 1980)
Marvlynn Salmon (History) Bryn Mawr: Women and the Law of Property In Early America(University, of North Carolina Press, 1986)
Billy Smith (History) UCLA: "The Lower Sort"- Philadelphiaís Laboring People, 1750-1800"(Cornell University, Press, 1990)
Jean Soderlund (History,) Temple University: Quakers and Slavery.- A Divided Spirit (Princeton University Press, 1985)

Thomas Doerflinger (History) Harvard: A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia (University of North Carolina Press, 1986)
Ned Landsman (History) Pennsylvania: Scotland and Its First American Colony, 1683-1765 (Princeton University Press, 1985)
Kenneth Morgan (History) Oxford University: Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
Thomas Purvis (History) Johns Hopkins: Proprietors, Patronage, and paper Money.- Legislative Politics in New Jersey, 1703-1776 (Rutgers University Press, 1986)
Sharon Salinger (History) UCLA: "To Serve Well and Faithfully"- Labor andIndentured Servants in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 (Cambridge University Press, 1987)