Lapidus–OI Fellowship for Graduate Research in Early American Print Culture Recipients

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture offers up to eight fellowships annually to support advanced graduate student research related to early American and transatlantic print culture. Below are the recipients of these fellowships.

2021

Lapidus–OI Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture Fellows

• Chip Badley, University of California, Santa Barbara — “The Practiced Eye: Painting and Queer Personhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature”
• Elyse Bell, Queen’s University — “Home and Belonging in the British Atlantic World, c. 1750-1830”
• Heesoo Cho, Washington University in St. Louis — “The Pacific Ocean in Print: The Transatlantic Making of Pacific Knowledge in the Early Republic, 1783-1820”
• Emily Clark, Johns Hopkins University — “Laboring Bodies: Dispossessed Women and Reproduction in Colonial New England”
• Devin Leigh, University of California, Davis — “The Origins of an Archive: Enslavers and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Production in an Age of Abolition”
• Alexandra Macdonald, William & Mary — “The Social Life of Time”
• Adam McNeil, Rutgers University — “‘I Would Not Go With Him’: Black Loyalist Women’s Revolutionary Fight for Freedom during the American Revolution”
• Teanu Reid, Yale University — “Hidden Economies and Finances in the Early Anglo-Atlantic World”

2020

Lapidus–OI Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture Fellows

2019

Lapidus–OI Slavery and Print Culture Fellows

• Patrick Barker, Yale University — “Slavery and its Shadow: Race, Labor, and Environment in the Transformation of the Southern Caribbean, 1776-1876”
• Maria Esther Hammack, University of Texas — “South of Slavery: Enslaved and Free Black Movement across a Global Frontier, Mexico, the United States, and Beyond, 1793-1868”
• Elsa Barraza Mendoza, Georgetown University — “Slavery and the Expansion of Jesuit Higher Education”
• Jorge Enrique Delgadillo Núñez, Vanderbilt University — “The Disappearance of Afrodescendants from Guadalajara: Identity Change, Slavery, and Historical Memory in Mexico, 17th to 19th centuries”

Lapidus–OI Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture Fellows

• Amer Arinn, City University of New York — “Tar & Feathers: Colonial Culture and the Making of Patriot Violence”
• Lance Boos, Stony Brook University — “Print and Performance: The Development of a British Atlantic Musical Marketplace in the Eighteenth Century”
• Simon Sun, Harvard University — “Thomas Jefferson’s Hau Kiou Choaan: China and Early America (1497-1794)”

2018

Lapidus–OI Slavery and Print Culture Fellows

• Christopher Grant, University of Chicago, “Crafting Community: Race, Creative Labor, and Everyday Aesthetics in the Creole Faubourgs of New Orleans, 1790–1896”
• Andrea Nero, University at Buffalo, “‘Beggars and Kings’: Early American Scientific Societies’ Discourses About Marginalized People”

Lapidus–OI Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture Fellows

• E. Bennett Jones, Northwestern University, “‘The Indians Say’: Settler Colonialism and the Scientific Study of Animals in America, 1722–1860”
• Derek O’Leary, University of California Berkeley, “Building the American Archive in the Atlantic World”
• Kathryn Schweishelm, Freie Universitat, “False Faces: Women, Cosmetic Surgery, and the Cultural History of a Contested Practice”
• Matthijs Tieleman, University of California Los Angeles, “A Revolutionary Wave: Dutch and American Patriots in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World”

2017

Lapidus–OI Slavery and Print Culture Fellows

• Sean Morey Smith, Rice University — “Debating Slavery and Making Race Scientific: A Scientific and Medical History of Abolition in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1733–1833”
• Jordan Wingate, University of California Los Angeles — “The Transnational Origins of the American Self”

Lapidus–OI Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture Fellows

• Louis Gerdelan, Harvard University — “Calamitous knowledge: the languages of disaster in the British, French and Spanish Atlantic worlds, 1666–1765”
• Stephen Hay, University of British Columbia — “Mariners and Misinformation in the American Atlantic, 1740–1775”
• Shira Lurie, University of Virginia — “Politics at the Poles: Liberty Poles and the Popular Struggle for the New Republic”
• Nicole Mahoney, University of Maryland — “Liberty, Gentility, and Dangerous Liaisons: French Culture and Polite Society in Eighteenth-Century America”
• Anna Vincenzi, University of Notre Dame — “Imagining an Age of Revolutions? A Study of the Reception of the American Revolution in the Italian States (1765–1809)”

2016

Lapidus-OI Slavery and Print Culture Fellow

• Fernanda Bretones Lane, Vanderbilt University — “Cuban Slavery in the Age of British Abolitionism”

Lapidus-OI Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture Fellows

• Jamie M. Bolker, Fordham University — “Lost and Found: Wayfinding in Early American Literature”
• Marissa Christman Rhodes, SUNY Buffalo — “Body Work: Wet-Nurses and Politics of the Breast in Anglo-Atlantic Classified Advertisements”
• Amanda E. Stuckey, William & Mary — “Reading Bodies: Disability and the Book in American Literature and Culture, 1784–1880”
• Jordan Taylor, Indiana University-Bloomington — “‘On the Ocean of News’: North American Information Networks in the Age of Revolution”

2015

Lapidus-OI Slavery and Print Culture Fellows

• Eric Herschthal, Columbia University — “Science Unchained: How the Antislavery Movement Shaped Scientific Knowledge During the Age of Revolution, 1760–1820”
• Jordan Smith, Georgetown University — “The Invention of Rum”

Lapidus-OI Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture Fellows

• Katlyn Carter, Princeton University — “Practicing Representative Politics in the Revolutionary Atlantic World: Secrecy, Accountability, and the Making of Modern Democracy”
• Keith Grant, University of New Brunswick — “Reading the Evangelical Atlantic: Communication Networks and Religious Culture in Cornwallis Township, Nova Scotia, 1770–1850”
• Christy Pottroff, Fordham University — “The Mail Gaze: Early American Women’s Literature, Letters, and the Post Office, 1790–1865”
• Amy Torbert, University of Delaware — “Going Places: The Material and Imagined Geographies of Prints in the Atlantic World, 1770–1840”

2014

Lapidus-OI Slavery and Print Culture Fellows

• Elena K. Abbott, Georgetown University — “Free Soil, Canada, and the Atlantic Geography of the American Slavery Debate”
• Lauren Heintz, University of California, San Diego — “Lawless Liaisons: Kinship, Interraciality, and Queer Desire in the US Hemispheric South, 1791–1865”
• Nathan Jérémie-Brink, Loyola University Chicago — “Distributing African American Antislavery Texts, 1773–1845”
• Sueanna Smith, University of South Carolina —“Making Private Traditions Public: Prince Hall Freemasonry and African American Print Culture in the Long 19th Century”

Lapidus-OI Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture Fellows

• Michael D. Hattem, Yale University — “‘Their history as a part of ours’: History Culture and Historical Memory in British America, 1720–1776”
• Heike Jablonski, University of Heidelberg — “John Foxe in America”
• Molly Perry,William & Mary — “Influencing Empire: Protest and Persuasion in the British Empire, 1764–1769”
• Katherine Smoak, Johns Hopkins University — “Circulating Counterfeits: Making Money and Its Meaning in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic”

2013

Lapidus-OI Fellows

• Myron Gray, University of Pennsylvania — “The Music of Franco-Philadelphian Politics, 1778–1801”
• Ryan Hanley, University of Hull — “Black Writing in Britain, 1770–1830”
• Alyssa Zuercher Reichardt, Yale University — “A New War: French, British, and Iroquois Imperial Communication Networks and the Contest for the Ohio Valley”
• Asheesh Siddique, Columbia University — “Daring to Ask: The Questionnaire and the Problem of Knowledge in the Late Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic Enlightenment”