The Library Company of Philadelphia Research Fellows in American History & Culture

 

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

 

Dr. Carol Colatrella, Assistant Professor of Literature, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Cities, Ships, and Jails: Reforming Reading and the Rhetoric of Melville's Fiction

 

James W. Cook, Jr., Ph.D. candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley. Victorian American Illusionism

 

Cheryl J. Fish, Ph.D. candidate in English and American Literature, City University of New York. Travelling Through: Gender, Race and Social Transformation in American Travel Narratives

 

Susan Lindsey Lively, Ph.D. candidate in History, Harvard University. Going Home: Americans in Britain in the Eighteenth Century

 

Dr. Barbara Bowen Oberg, Editor and Director, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University. “Happily situated in my own house”: Franklin's Final Years in Philadelphia

 

Dr. Christopher W. Phillips, Assistant Professor of History, Emporia State University. “Negroes and other slaves”: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860.

 

Patrick J. Rael, Ph.D. candidate in History, University of California, Berkeley. Black Thought in the North, 1827-1860

 

Vivien Sandlund, Ph.D. candidate in American History, Emory University. The Ideas and Strategies of the Gradual Emancipationists, 1800-1850

 

Dr. Thomas P. Slaughter, Professor of History, Rutgers University. Curious Gardeners: The Nature of John and William Bartram

 

Dr. Louise L. Stevenson, Associate Professor of History, Franklin and Marshall College. Women's Intellectual Life in the United States

 

Virginia Stewart, Ph.D. candidate in History, Northwestern University. Reading the Provincial Mind: Dilemmas of American Political Identity, 1720-1776

 

Dr. Terence Whalen, Assistant Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago. Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses

 

McLean Contributionship Fellow

 

Dr. Carol Sue Humphrey, Associate Professor of History, Oklahoma Baptist University. Development of the American Media, 1800-1825

 

Barra Foundation International Fellow (with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania)

 

Dr. Sergei I. Zhuk, Professor of History, Dniepropetrovsk University, Ukraine. In Search for “New Canaan”: Ethos and Society in Colonial Pennsylvania