2021-2022 Research Fellows Announced
Each year the MHS grants a number of research fellowships to scholars from around the country. The fellowship program brings a wide variety of researchers working on a full range of topics.
We offer our congratulations to all of the fellowship recipients.
MHS-NEH Long-Term Research Fellowships
Jamie Bolker, Post-Doc, Newberry Library, “Lost and Found: Wayfinding in Early America”
Patrick Bottiger, Associate Professor, Kenyon College, “Corn, Beans, and Squash: The Three Sisters Agricultural Revolution and the Remaking of North America, 300 CE to 1850”
Dan Du, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, “The World in a Teacup: Chinese-American Tea Trade in the Nineteenth Century”
Suzanne & Caleb Loring Fellowship on the Civil War, Its Origins, and Consequences
Anne Cross, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Delaware, “‘Features of Cruelty Which Could Not Well Be Described by the Pen’: The Media of Atrocity in Harper's Weekly, 1862-1866”
MHS Short-Term Research Fellowships
African American Studies Fellowship
Jesse Olsavsky, Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University, “Fire and Sword Will Affect More Good: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835-1861”
Andrew Oliver Research Fellowship
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Professor, Wellesley College, “At Home Abroad: Anne Whitney and American Women Artists in Nineteenth-Century Italy”
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship
Kathryn Angelica, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Connecticut, “‘The Glorious Cause of Liberty’: Women’s Anti-Slavery and Abolitionist Activism in New England”
Heesoo Cho, Ph.D. Candidate, Washington University at St. Louis, “The Making of the Pacific Ocean in the Early Republic, 1780-1820”
Ethan Goodnight, Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University, “Tongues of Fire: Religious Enthusiasm, Racial Formation, and Anti-Blackness in the Atlantic World”
Samuel Jennings, Ph.D. Candidate, Oklahoma State University, “‘The Most Perfect Foundation of Her Faith’: The Virgin Mary in Mid-Eighteenth Century North America”
Joshua Kleuver, Ph.D. Candidate, Binghamton University, “Hiding in Plain Sight: Socialist Legislators at the State Level, 1899-1944”
Helena Yoo Roth, Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Center, CUNY, “American Timelines: Imperial Communications, Colonial Time-Consciousness, and the Coming of the American Revolution”
Emily Yankowitz, Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University, “Documenting Citizenship: How Early Americans Understood the Concept of Citizenship, 1776-1840”
Chelsea Spencer, Ph.D. Candidate, MIT, “The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building, ca. 1865-1930”
Duangkamol Tantirungkij, Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Center, CUNY, “An Act of Congress: Freedom Suits and the Emancipatory Consequences of the Northwest Ordinance (1790-1850)”
Benjamin F. Stevens Fellowship
Joanne Jahnke Wegner, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, “Stolen Lives: Captivity and Gender in the Northeast, 1630-1763”
Conrad & Elizabeth H. Wright Fellowship
Christopher Gillett, Assistant Professor, University of Scranton, “Catholicism and Revolution in the British World, 1630-1673”
Kenneth and Carol Hills Fellowship in Colonial History
Randal Grant Kleiser, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University, “Exchanging Empires: Free Ports, Reform, and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1750-1784”
Anne Powell, Ph.D. Candidate, College of William & Mary, “The Antinomian Controversy: Theological Disorder Amidst Colonial Crisis in New England”
Louis Leonard Tucker Alumni Fellowship
Alexandra Macdonald, Ph.D. Candidate, College of William & Mary, “The Social Life of Time in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1660-1830”
Heather Walser, Ph.D. Candidate, Penn State, “Amnesty’s Origins: Federal Power, Peace, and the Public Good in the Long Civil War Era”
Malcolm and Mildred Freiberg Fellowship
Jimmy Bryan, Professor, Lamar University, “The Empire of Grim: Gothic Subversions of US Expansion”
Mary B. Wright Environmental History Fellowship
Cameron Boutin, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Kentucky, “War and the Elements: Civil War Soldiers’ Experiences with the Weather”
Marc Friedlaender Fellowship
Daniel Gullotta, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University, “‘The Lord Preserve Us from Socinian Presidencies’: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Transformation of American Religious Electoral Politics”
Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship
Sarah Beth Gable, Ph.D. Candidate, Brandeis University, “Policing the Revolution: Massachusetts Communities and the Committees of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety, 1773-1783”
Military Historical Society of Massachusetts Fellowship
James Broomall, Associate Professor, Shepherd University, “Battle Pieces: The Imagery and Artifacts of the Civil War”
Ruth R. & Alyson R. Miller Fellowships
Megan Armknecht, Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University, “Diplomatic Households and the Foundations of U.S. Diplomacy, 1789-1870”
Sarah Pearlman Shapiro, Ph.D. Candidate, Brown University, “Women’s Communities of Care in Revolutionary New England”
Short-term Fellowship
Francis Russo, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania, “Utopian Dreams at the End of Early America: 1663-1860”
Russell Weber, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley, “American Feeling: Political Passions and Emotional Identity in the Early Republic, 1754-1797”
W.B.H. Dowse Fellowship
Jennifer Factor, Ph.D. Candidate, Brandeis University, “Poetry Performance in Colonial New England”
Donovan Fifield, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Virginia, “Credit and Imperial Crises in the American Northeast, 1698-1775”
