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Abramovitz, Matthew
Nina Rosenwald Fellowship, 1999-2000
Fellowship topic: Exceptional Minds, Exceptional Nation: The Nineteenth-Century Search for "American Genius"
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Cornell University
Current position:
Recent publications:

Adams, Michael Henry
Nina Rosenwald Fellowship, 1999-2000
Fellowship topic: Harlem Lost and Found
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Independent Scholar
Current position:
Recent publications:
Adams, Michael Henry. Style and Grace: African Americans at Home. Bulfinch Press, 2006.
Adams, Michael Henry. Harlem: Lost and Found. New York: Monicelli Press, 2001.

Adelman, Sarah Mulhall
Patricia D. Klingenstein Fellowship, 2007-2008
Fellowship topic: Treated As Children Should Be: New York City Orphan Asylums and Nineteenth Century Conceptions of Childhood
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Johns Hopkins University
Current position:
Recent publications:

Atkinson, Roark
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowship, 2007-2008
Fellowship topic: Invisible Plantations: Religious Violence, Occult Healing & Witchcraft in Scottish Atlantic World
Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Wisconsin
Current position: Assistant Professor of History, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Recent publications:

Baker, Dara
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2002-2003
Fellowship topic: Aristocrats, Democrats, or Virtuous Men? Defining Citizenship in Jacksonian America
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Harvard University
Current position:
Recent publications:

Brownlee, Peter John
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2002-2003
Fellowship topic: The Economy of the Eyes: Vision and the Cultural Production of Market Revolution, 1828-1855
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Washington University
Current position:
Associate Curator, Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Illinois
Recent publications:
Brownlee, Peter John. Manifest Destiny / Manifest Responsibility: Environmentalism and the Art of the American Landscape. Terra Foundation for American Art, 2008.

Burgess, Douglas
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowship, 2009-2010
Fellowship topic: The Politics of Piracy: A Challenge to Law and Policy in the Atlantic Colonies, 1660-1730
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Brown University
Current position:
Assistant Professor of History, Yeshiva University, New York
Recent publications:
Burgess, Douglas R., Jr. The World for Ransom: Piracy is Terrorism, Terrorism is Piracy. Prometheus Books, 2010.
Burgess, Douglas R., Jr. The Pirates Pact: The Secret Alliances Between History’s Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial America.
McGraw-Hill, 2008.

Carter, Sarah Anne
Patricia D. Klingenstein Fellowship, 2007-2008
Fellowship topic: Object Lessons in American Culture
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Harvard University
Current position:
Recent publications:

Cassily, Erik J.
Patricia D. Klingenstein Fellowship, 2007-2008
Fellowship topic: Competing Histories: Writing Africa's Past in the Debate Over American Slavery, 1809-1860
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Central Connecticut State
Current position:
Recent publications:

Clarke, Frances M.
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2002-2003
Fellowship topic: Sentimental Bonds: Suffering, Sacrifice and Benevolence in the Civil War North
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Independent Scholar
Current position:
Recent publications:
Clarke, Frances M. War Stories: Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North. University of Chicago, 2011.

Clytus, Radiciani
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowship, 2006-2007
Fellowship topic: Envisioning Slavery: American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Yale University
Current position:
Recent publications:

Coogan, Mary
Patricia D. Klingenstein Fellowship, 2007-2008
Fellowship topic: Trusting Memory: Recollections of an Irish-American Immigrant Family
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Independent Scholar
Current position:
Recent publications:

Crain, Caleb
Peck Stacpoole Fellowship, 2003-2004
Fellowship topic: Ned vs. Kate: The Divorce of Edwin and Catharine Forrest
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Independent Scholar
Current position:
Recent publications:
Crain, Caleb. American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation. Yale University Press, 2001.

Cunningham, Daphne
Nina Rosenwald Fellowship, 1999-2000
Fellowship topic: Benevolent Design: African-American Children and the Institutions Created for Them
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Indiana University
Current position:
Recent publications:

Day, Jared N.
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2002-2003
Fellowship topic: Deciphering the City: Caricature and Satire in New York, 1848-1892
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Carnegie Mellon University
Current position:
Recent publications:
Trotter, Joe W. and Jared N. Day. Race and Renaissance: African Americans in Pittsburgh since World War II. University of Pittsburgh, 2010.

Dziennik, Matthew P.
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowship, 2011-2012
Fellowship topic: The Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America, 1756-1783
Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Edinburgh
Research fellow for the upcoming academic year

Eastman, Carolyn
Peck Stacpoole Fellowship, 2003-2004
Fellowship topic: A Nation of Speechifiers: Oratory, Print, and the Making of a Gendered American Public, 1780-1830
Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Texas
Current position:
Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas / Austin
Recent publications:
Eastman, Carolyn. A Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public after the Revolution, University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Erickson, Paul J.
Nina Rosenwald Fellowship, 1999-2000
Fellowship topic: Welcome to Sodom: The Cultural Work of the American City-Mysteries Novel, 1840-1860
Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Texas
Current position:
Director of Academic Programs, American Antiquarian Society
Recent publications:

Farland, Maria
Patricia D. Klingenstein Fellowship, 2007-2008
Fellowship topic: The Mechanic and the Muse: Agricultural Science and Walt Whitman's 'Song of the Exposition' and Leaves of…
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Fordham University
Current position:
Recent publications:

Fullilove, Courtney
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, 2011-2012
Fellowship topic: The Gift: Diplomatic Gift Giving and US Trade
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Wesleyan University
Research fellow for the upcoming academic year

Furstenberg, François
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2001-2002
Fellowship topic: Ideological Origins of American Nationalism, 1800-1984
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Johns Hopkins University
Current position:
Assistant Professor of History, University of Montreal
Recent publications:
Furstenberg, François. In the Name of the Father: Washington’s Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation. Penguin Press, 2006.

Ganter, Granville
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2002-2003
Fellowship topic: When America Meant North and South: 1816-1826
Affiliation at time of fellowship: St. John's University
Current position:
Recent publications:
Ganter, Granville. The Collected Speeches of Sagoyewatha, or Red Jacket. Syracuse University Press, 2006.

Gantt, Jonathan W.
Patricia D. Klingenstein Fellowship, 2007-2008
Fellowship topic: The Meaning of Irish Terrorism in the Atlantic Community, 1865-1922
Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of South Carolina
Current position:
Recent publications:

Gary, David J.
Patricia D. Klingenstein Fellowship, 2007-2008
Fellowship topic: Rufus King
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Graduate Center / City University of New York
Current position:
Recent publications:

Greenberg, Joshua
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2001-2002
Fellowship topic: Advocating "the Man": Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Market Revolution in NY, 1800-1840
Affiliation at time of fellowship: American University
Current position:
Department of History, Bridgewater State University
Recent publications:
Greenberg, Joshua. Advocating the Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840. Columbia University Press, 2008.

Haefeli, Evan
Nina Rosenwald Fellowship, 1999-2000
Fellowship topic: The Origins of American Religious Freedom: Churches and Politics in the Middle Colonies, 1609-1720
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Princeton University
Current position:
Associate Professor of History, Columbia University
Recent publications:
Haefeli, Evan. Captive Histories: English, French, And Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid. University of Massachusetts
Press, 2006.
Haefeli, Evan. Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield. University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.

Haselby, Sam
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowship, 2005-2006
Fellowship topic: "The Glorious State": The Origins of Protestant American Nationalism, 1782-1832
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Columbia University
Current position:
Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for American Studies and Research, American University of Beirut
Recent publications:

Haulman, Catherine
Nina Rosenwald Fellowship, 1999-2000
Fellowship topic: National Fashions: The Politics of Dress in Late Eighteen-Century America
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Cornell University
Current position:
Recent publications:

Hemenway, Robin
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2001-2002
Fellowship topic: Unwanted Children?: The Colored Orphans' Asylum and the Racial Politics of Child Welfare in NY, 1870-1920
Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Minnesota
Current position:
Recent publications:
Hemenway, Robin. “The Circle of ‘We’”: The Strange History of American Adoption.” American Quarterly 56, 1 (2004): 183-192.

Holm, April
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowship, 2010-2011
Fellowship topic: The Right to Violence: Assault Prosecution in New York, 1760-1840
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Columbia University
Current position:
Assistant Professor of History, University of Mississippi
Recent publications:

Huyssen, David Nicholas
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowship, 2011-2012
Fellowship topic: Class Collisions: Wealth and Poverty in New York, 1890-1920
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Yale University
Research fellow for the upcoming academic year

Kirchner, Franziska
Peck Stacpoole Fellowship, 2003-2004
Fellowship topic: Antebellum Americans in Germany—Transfer of Cultural Knowledge
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Independent Scholar
Current position:
Recent publications:

Klemek, Christopher
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowship, 2008-2009
Fellowship topic: Urbanism as Reform: Modernist Planning and the Crisis of Urban Liberalism in Europe and North America
Affiliation at time of fellowship: George Washington University
Current position:
Assistant Professor of History, George Washington University
Recent publications:
Klemek, Christopher. The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal: Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin. University of
Chicago, 2011.

Koot, Christian
Peck Stacpoole Fellowship, 2003-2004
Fellowship topic: In Pursuit of Profit: Persistent Dutch Infl. on the Inter-Imperial Trade of NY and the Lesser Antilles, 1621-1689
Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Delaware
Current position:
Assistant Professor of History, Towson University
Recent publications:
Koot, Christian. Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713. New York University Press, 2011.

Lemmey, Karen
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, 2010-2011
Fellowship topic: Henry Kirke Brown and the Development of Public Sculpture in New York 1846-1876
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Graduate Center / City University of New York
Current position: Research Associate, Department of American Paintings and Sculpture,
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Recent publications:

Levinson-Wilk, Daniel
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowship, 2005-2006
Fellowship topic: Cliff Dwellers: Modern Service in New York City, 1800-1945
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Duke University
Current position:
Assistant Professor of American Studies, Fashion Institute of Technology
Recent publications:

Luskey, Brian
Peck Stacpoole Fellowship, 2003-2004
Fellowship topic: The Marginal Men: Clerks and the Meanings of Class in Antebellum America
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Emory University
Current position:
Assistant Professor of History, West Virginia University
Recent publications:
Luskey, Brian. On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America. New York University Press, 2010.

Martin, Robert W.T.
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2002-2003
Fellowship topic: The NY Democratic-Republican Societies and the Democratization of the American Public Sphere
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Hamilton College
Current position:
Associate Professor of Government, Hamilton College
Recent publications:
Martin, Robert. The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father. New York University Press, 2006.

McGraw, Charles Dean
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2002-2003
Fellowship topic: Every Nurse Is Not A Sister: Sex, Work and the Invention of the Spanish-American War Nurse
Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Connecticut
Current position:
Recent publications:

McMahon, Cian
Patricia D. Klingenstein Fellowship, 2007-2008
Fellowship topic: The Irish and Race in Reconstruction New York
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Carnegie Mellon
Current position:
Recent publications:
McMahon, Cian. “Ireland and the Birth of the Irish-American Press, 1842-61,” American Periodicals: A Journal of History
and Criticism 19, 1 (2009).
McMahon, Cian. “Irish Free State Newspapers and the Abyssinian Crisis, 1935-6,” Irish Historical Studies 36, 143 (May 2009).

Merkel, William G.
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2002-2003
Fellowship topic: Universal Liberty and African Slavery: A Re-Evaluation of Thomas Jefferson
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Oxford University
Current position:
Associate Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law
Recent publications:
H. Richard Uviller and William G. Merkel. The Militia and the Right to Arms, or, How the Second Amendment Fell Silent. Duke University Press, 2002.

Miller, Julie
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowship, 2006-2007
Fellowship Topic: Amelia Norman: Seduction and Crime in Nineteenth-Century New York
Affiliation at time of fellowship: History Department, Hunter College, City University of New York
Current position:
Historian, Early America, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington DC
Recent publications:
Miller, Julie. Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City. New York University Press, 2008.

Mongey, Vanessa
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowship, 2010-2011
Fellowship topic: Cosmopolitan Republics: The Gulf of Mexico, 1780s – 1830s.
Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Pennsylvania
Current position:
Recent publications:

Mooney, Richard E.
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2001-2002
Fellowship topic: In Search of Nathan Hale
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Independent Scholar
Current position:
Recent publications:

Muehlbauer, Matthew S.
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2002-2003
Fellowship topic: A Reconsideration of American Indian Warfare in the Colonial Era
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Temple University
Current position:
Recent publications:

Muller, Jennifer Silvia
Patricia D. Klingenstein Fellowship, 2007-2008
Fellowship topic: Employment and Promotion Patterns Among Lancastrian Monitorial System Teachers in NYC, 1808-1842
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Rutgers University
Current position:
Recent publications:

Ott, Julia
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2001-2002
Fellowship topic: Early National and Antebellum Commercial Culture in New York City
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Yale University
Current position:
Assistant Professor of History, Eugene Lang College / New School University
Recent publications:
Ott, Julia. When Wall Street Met Main Street, 1890-1932. Harvard University Press, 2011.

Page, Max
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2001-2002
Fellowship topic: Destroying New York: A History of Fantasies and Premonitions
Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Massachusetts / Amherst
Current position:
Adjunct Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts / Amherst
Recent publications:
Page, Max. The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction. Yale University Press, 2010.
Page, Max. The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940. University of Chicago Press, 2001. 

Riley, Padraig
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowship, 2007-2008
Fellowship topic: Northern Democrats & Southern Slaveholders: Jeffersonian Democracy Reconsidered
Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of California / Berkeley
Current position:
Assistant Professor of History, Dalhousie University
Recent publications:
Riley, Padraig. “Slavery and the Problem of Democracy in Jeffersonian American,” in Matthew Mason and John Craig Hammond, eds., Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Slavery in the New American Nation, University of Virginia Press, 2011.

Russek, Audrey S.
Patricia D. Klingenstein Fellowship, 2007-2008
Fellowship topic: Cultural History of the Restaurant Industry
Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Texas / Austin
Current position:
Andersen Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies, Carleton College
Recent publications:
Russek, Audrey. “‘So Many Useful Women’: The Pseudonymous Poetry of Marjorie Allen Seiffert, 1916-1938,” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 28, 1 (September 2009).

Sandoval-Strausz, Andrew
Nina Rosenwald Fellowship, 1999-2000
Fellowship topic: For the Accommodation of Strangers: Liberalism, Space and Hotel Life in Nineteenth-Century America
Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Chicago
Current position:
Associate Professor of History, University of New Mexico
Recent publications:
Sandoval-Strausz, A.K. Hotel: An American History. Yale University Press, 2007.

Schaffzin, Eliezra
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2001-2002
Fellowship topic: The Phineus Masters Academy for Girls
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Harvard University
Current position:
Recent publications:

Singleton, Theresa
Peck Stacpoole Fellowship, 2003-2004
Fellowship topic: Coffee in Cuba’s Plantation Economy, 1800-1860
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Syracuse University
Current position:
Recent publications:

Stagg, Allison
Patricia D. Klingenstein Fellowship, 2007-2008
Fellowship topic: American Political Caricatures
Affiliation at time of fellowship: University College London
Current position:
Recent publications:

Stein, Jordan Alexander
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, 2011-2012
Fellowship topic: The People Are Clarissa: Novelizations of Print, Sexuality, and Character in the Protestant Atlantic
Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of Colorado / Boulder
Research fellow for the upcoming academic year

Stein, Joshua Michelangelo
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowship, 2009-2010
Fellowship topic: The Right to Violence: Assault Prosecution in New York City, 1760-1840
Affiliation at time of fellowship: University of California / Los Angeles
Current position:
Recent publications:

Trask, Jeffrey
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, 2010-2011
Fellowship topic: ‘American Things:’ The Cultural Value of Decorative Arts in the Modern Museum, 1905-1931
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Columbia University
Current position: History Department, University of Massachusetts / Amherst
Recent publications:
Trask, Jeffrey. Things American: Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era. University of Pennsylvania Press
2012.

Truglio, Donna
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2001-2002
Fellowship topic: May Day in America, 1870-1945
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Cornell University
Current position:
Recent publications:

Vaughn, Chris
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2001-2002
Fellowship topic: Imperial Subjects: U.S. Media and the Philippines
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Rutgers University
Current position:
Recent publications:

Waterman, Bryan
Nina Rosenwald Fellowship, 1999-2000
Fellowship topic: Industries of Knowledge: The Friendly Club and the Making of Early American Intellectual Culture
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Boston University
Current position:
Associate Professor of English, New York University
Recent publications:
Waterman, Bryan. The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York, ed. w/ Cyrus R.K. Patell. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Waterman, Bryan. Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

White, Timothy
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowship, 2008-2009
Fellowship topic: New York City: Culture Capital
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Yeshiva University
Current position:
Assistant Professor of History, New Jersey City University
Recent publications:

Wilder, Craig Steven
Nina Rosenwald Fellowship, 1999-2000
Fellowship topic: In the Company of Black Men: The African Societies of the City of New York, 1706-1945
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Williams College
Current position:
Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Recent publications:
Wilder, Craig. In The Company Of Black Men: The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City. New York University Press, 2001.
Wilder, Craig. A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn. Columbia University Press, 2000.

Williams, Diana Irene
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2002-2003
Fellowship topic: They Call It Marriage: Interracial Families in Post-Emancipation Louisiana
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Harvard University
Current position:
Assistant Professor of History, Law, and Gender Studies, University of Southern California
Recent publications:

Zabin, Serena
Nina Rosenwald Fellowship, 1999-2000
Fellowship topic: Places of Exchange: Race Gender, and New York City, 1700-1765
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Rutgers University
Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship, 2001-2002
Fellowship topic: Places of Exchange: New York City in the First British Empire
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Carleton College
Current position:
Associate Professor of History, Carleton College
Recent publications:
Zabin, Serena. Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.