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New-York Historical Society Fellowships New-York Historical Society Fellowships 2017 – 2018 Fellows Joseph Murphy, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow Fellowship Topic: Neither a Slave nor a King: The Antislavery Project and the Origins of the Civil War and Reconstruction Affiliation at time of fellowship: Adjunct Instructor, Hunter College, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Adams State University Sarah Gronningsater, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow Fellowship Topic: The Arc of Abolition: The Children of Gradual Emancipation and the Origins of National Freedom Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania Julia Rose Kraut, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow Fellowship Topic: A Fear of Foreigners and Freedom: Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in America Affiliation at time of fellowship: Judith S. Kaye Fellow, Historical Society of the New York Courts Frank Cirillo, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellow Fellowship Topic: “The Day of Sainthood Has Passed”: Abolitionists and the Golden Moment of the Civil War, 1861-1865 Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Virginia Michael Hattem, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellow Fellowship Topic: Past and Prologue: History Culture and the American Revolution Affiliation at time of fellowship: Yale University Anna Nau, Patricia and John Klingenstein Fellow Fellowship Topic: America’s First Preservation Architects: Rethinking the Origins of Architectural Preservation in the United States, 1876- 1926 Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Texas in Austin Franklin Sammons, Patricia and John Klingenstein Fellow Fellowship Topic: The Long Life of Yazoo: Land, Finance, and the Political Economy of Dispossession, 1789-1840 Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of California at Berkeley Natale A. Zappia, Patricia and John Klingenstein Fellow Fellowship Topic: Food Frontiers: Land, Ingredients, and Power in Early North America Affiliation at time of fellowship: Nadine Austin Wood Chair in American History and Associate Professor of History at Whittier College in California Nicholas A. Juravich, Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Women’s History Affiliation at time of fellowship: Columbia University Nicole Mahoney, Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Women’s History Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Maryland, College Park William J. Simmons, Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Women’s History Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Southern California 2016 – 2017 Fellows Natalie Joy, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow Fellowship Topic: Abolitionists and Indians in the Antebellum Era Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University Megan Cherry, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow Fellowship Topic: New York Asunder: Factionalism in Colonial New York Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University Maeve Kane, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow Fellowship Topic: Shirts Powdered Red: Iroquois Women and the Politics of Consumer Civility, 1600-1850 Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, State University of New York, Albany Amanda Bellow, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellow, 2016-2917 Fellowship Topic: Visualizations of Slavery and Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Era Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of North Carolina Alisa Wade, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellow Fellowship Topic: An Alliance of Ladies: Power, Public Affairs, and Gendered Constructions of the Upper Class in Early National New York City Affiliation at time of fellowship: City University of New York Graduate Center Robert Caldwell, Patricia and John Klingenstein Short-Term Fellowship Fellowship Topic: Albert Gallatin: Pioneer of Social Scientific Maps of Native American Tribes Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Texas, Arlington Hidetaka Hirota, Patricia and John Klingenstein Short-Term Fellowship Fellowship Topic: Democratic Intolerance: The History of American Nativism Affiliation at time of fellowship: Visiting Assistant Professor, City University of New York Jane Manners, Patricia and John Klingenstein Short-Term Fellowship Fellowship Topic: Infinitely Dangerous to the Revenue of the United States”: The Great New York Fire of 1835 and the Law of Disaster Relief in Jacksonian America Affiliation at time of fellowship: Princeton University Joanna Scutts, Andrew W. Mellon PostDoctoral Fellow in Women's History Affiliation at time of fellowship: Independent scholar Sarah Litvin, Andrew W. Mellon PreDoctoral Fellow in Women's History Affiliation at time of fellowship: City University of New York Graduate Center Lana Povitz, Andrew W. Mellon PreDoctoral Fellow in Women's History Affiliation at time of fellowship: New York University 2015 – 2016 Fellows Trenton Cole Jones, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Fellowship Topic: Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Radicalization of the American Revolution Affiliation at time of fellowship: American Antiquarian Society Matthew Karp, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship Fellowship Topic: The Foreign Policy of Slavery, 1833-1865 Affiliation at time of fellowship: Princeton University Stephen Petrus, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship Fellowship Topic: The Politics and Culture of Greenwich Village and the Rise of the Tumultuous Sixties Affiliation at time of fellowship: Museum of the City of New York Brendan O’Malley, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowship Fellowship Topic: Protecting the Stranger: Regulating Immigration, Citizenship, and Public Welfare in Nineteenth-Century New York Affiliation at time of fellowship: CUNY Brooklyn College Christine Walker, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowship Fellowship Topic: To Be My Own Mistress: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery, and the Creation of Britain’s American Empire, 1660-1770 Affiliation at time of fellowship: Texas Tech University Brian Broadrose , Patricia and John Klingenstein Short-Term Fellowship Fellowship Topic: The Iroquois as a Militaristic Slaving Society? A critical examination of the primary historical/anthropological sources used in the construction of Haudenosaunee pasts Affiliation at time of fellowship: SUNY Orange Henry Horatio Joyce, Patricia and John Klingenstein Short-Term Fellowship Fellowship Topic: Building and Belonging: McKim, Mead & White and the Making of New York City's Clubland Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Oxford, St. Cross College Paul Polgar, Patricia and John Klingenstein Short-Term Fellowship Fellowship Topic: A Well Grounded Hope: Abolishing Slavery and Racial Inequality in Early America Affiliation at time of fellowship: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/College of William & Mary Alisa Wade, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Women’s History Fellowship Topic: An Alliance of Ladies: Power, Public Affairs, and Gendered Constructions of the Upper Class in Early National New York City Affiliation at time of fellowship: CUNY Graduate Center 2014 – 2015 Fellows James W. Cook, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow Fellowship Topic: The Lost History of Global Black Celebrity, 1770-1920 Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Michigan Zara Anishanslin, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow Fellowship Topic: Producing Revolution: The Material and Visual Culture of Making and Remembering the American Revolution Affiliation at time of fellowship: City University of New York Jason E. Hill, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow Fellowship Topic: Artist as Reporter: The PM News Picture, 1940-1948 Christopher Minty, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellow Fellowship Topic: Between the Circles of Revolution: Association, Partisanship, and the Origins of the American Revolution in New York, 1765-1775 Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Stirling, UK Lauren Santangelo, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellow Fellowship Topic: The ‘Feminized’ City: New York and Suffrage, 1870-1917 Andrew Roberts, Lehrman Institute Distinguished Fellow Fellowship Topic: Napoleon Affiliation at time of fellowship: Cornell University Sean Wilentz, Leah and Michael Weisberg Fellow 2014-2015 Fellowship Topic: Antislavery politics in the United States from the American Revolution to the Civil War Affiliation at time of fellowship: Princeton University Steven Attewell, Patricia and John Klingenstein Short-Term Fellow Fellowship Topic: The Tammany Tiger in an Era of Mass Unemployment Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of California, Santa Barbara Michael Hattem, Patricia and John Klingenstein Short-Term Fellow Fellowship Topic: Their History as a Part of Ours’: History Culture and Historical Memory in British America, 1720-1776 Affiliation at time of fellowship: Yale University Johanna Neuman, Patricia and John Klingenstein Short-Term Fellow Fellowship Topic: Society in Suffrage Affiliation at time of fellowship: American University 2013 – 2014 Fellows Nick Yablon, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow Fellowship Topic: "From the Sky Scraper to the Wild Flower”: Charles Gilbert Hine’s Walk Up Broadway Gergely Baics, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow Fellowship Topic: Feeding Gotham: Urban Provisioning in Early New York, 1780-1860 Steven Moga, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow Fellowship Topic: Lowlands Transformed: Natural Processes, Urban Systems, and Landscape Change Along Creeks and Streams in New York City. Kathryn Boodry, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellow Fellowship Topic: The intersection of slavery and finance in the nineteenth century, and
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