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

 

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellows

 

Christine Bell, Ph.D. candidate in Art History, Northwestern University. A Family Conflict: Visual Imagery of the “Homefront” in the American Civil War (1861-1866)

 

Ernest Freeberg, Ph.D. candidate in History, Emory University. The Education of Laura Bridgman, the First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language

 

Maurice Jackson, Ph.D. candidate in History, Georgetown University. Anthony Benezet and the Age of the Atlantic Revolution

 

Daniel P. Kilbride, Ph.D. candidate in History, University of Florida. Philadelphia and the Southern Elite: Class, Culture, and Kinship in Antebellum America

 

Michael D. Layton, Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, Duke University. The Origin of American Political Parties in the States, 1776-1787

 

Margaret H. McAleer, Ph.D. candidate in History, Georgetown University. Paupers, Criminals, and Gentlemen: Philadelphia's Irish, 1785-1805.

 

Dr. Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Professor of English, Florida State University. An Edition of the Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt

 

Richard E. Powell, Jr., Ph.D. candidate in History, University of Delaware. The Animate Creation: Artifacts and Domestic Life

 

Dr. Merril D. Smith, Instructor in History, Temple University. Between Generations: Mothers and Daughters and the Transmission of Culture in Early America

 

David M. Stewart, Ph.D. candidate in English, University of Chicago. Reading American Sensationalism: Print, Pleasure, and the Contexts of Popular Response, 1835-1870

 

Dr. Mark Valeri, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Lewis and Clark College. Concepts of Moral Discipline and the Transition to Capitalism in Early America

 

McLean Contributionship Fellow

 

George W. Boudreau, Ph.D. candidate in History, Indiana University. The Surest Foundation of Happiness: Education and Society in Franklin's Philadelphia

 

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

 

Dr. James Walvin, Provost, Alcuin College, University of York. Slavery Systems in the Modern World

 

Travel Grants

 

Dr. John W. Pulis, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Adelphi University. Bridging Troubled Waters: African Americans, the Free Black Community, and Afro-Christianity in Jamaica

 

Dr. Alan Rudrum, Professor of English, Simon Fraser University. Books owned by Henry Vaughan