Fellowships Overview

2024

Lapidus–OI Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture Fellows

• Elizabeth Hines (University of Chicago), for a project looking at the change in relationship between England and the Netherlands in the early to mid-17^th century
• Conor William Howard (Indiana University), “Imagined Homelands: ‘Settler Indigeneity’ in Maine and New Brunswick, c. 1783-1842”
• Alejandro Casas Reyes (Florida International University), for a project on the intersection of African and Afro-Cuban religions
• Lauren Santoru (University of Alabama), “Derivative Knowledge: Cultural Translation and Narrative Authority in Colonial English Travel Writing”

Lapidus–OI Slavery and Print Culture Fellows

• Chris Gismondi (University of New Brunswick), “Northern Slavery, Gradual Emancipation, and the Resistance of Enslaved Women and Families”
• Yusuf Mansoor (University of Connecticut), for a project on the Native Americans left by the English in Tangier in the late 17^th century
• Keith Richards (Tulane University), “Contesting Empire: Commerce and Colonial Society in 17^th Century Eastern Cuba”
• Aman G. Williams (New York University), “Slave Boys: Race, Masculinity, and Queerness in the Early Black Atlantic, 1555–1700”

OI–Fort Ticonderoga Short-Term Fellow

• John Weaver (West Virginia University), for a project on the history of rifles and riflemen in 18^th and early-19^th century North America

2023

Lapidus–OI Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture Fellows

• C. C. Borzilleri, George Washington University—on Patty Fessenden, publisher
• Marley Lix-Jones, Harvard University—“Newspaper Wars and Slave Rebellion: The Redevelopment of Racial Difference during the Baptist War”
• Casey Price, University of Tennessee-Knoxville—“We Were Given to This Land: Mapping Settler Colonialism in the Cherokee Homelands, 1682-1810”
• Celia Rodríguez Tejuca, Johns Hopkins University—“From the Ground Up: Picturing Scientific Knowledge in the Late Eighteenth-Century Spanish Americas”

Lapidus–OI Slavery and Print Culture Fellows

• John Balz, University of Wisconsin-Madison—“The Helpers: Creating Afro-Moravian Authority in the German Atlantic World”
• J. P. Fetherstone, University of Maryland—“‘Daring to Call for Liquor’: Anglo-American Taverns and the Making of a Black Counterpublic, 1712-1831”
• Benjamin Groth, Tulane University—“The Black Sacrament: How Baptism Created Race in Spanish New Orleans and the Atlantic World”
• Xinyi Hu, New York University—on enslaved women in colonial Jamaica

OI–Folger Institute Short-Term Fellow

• Jean Marie Christensen, Southern Methodist University—“Bodies of the Crown: Kinship, Health, and the Construction of the Royal Body in Early Modern English Portraiture”

OI–Fort Ticonderoga Short-Term Fellow

• Sara Evenson, University at Albany—on the cultural creation of kitchen spaces at Fort Ticonderoga

Lapidus Fellowship for the Study of Rare Early American Legal Texts

• C. M. Mertens, Leiden University—“Freedom, Race, and Mobility in Early America, 1780-1830s”

2022

Lapidus–OI Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture Fellows

• Zachary W. Deibel, Binghamton University — for a project on the institutionalization of learning and education in North America in the eighteenth century
• Marie Pellissier, William & Mary — “Chewing on the Past: Food and Memory in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1699-2020”
• Emily Sneff, William & Mary — for a project that looks at the dissemination of the Declaration of Independence in the American colonies
• Helena Yoo Roth, City University of New York — “American Timelines: Imperial Communications, Colonial Time-Consciousness, and the Coming of the American Revolution”

Lapidus–OI Slavery and Print Culture Fellows

• Halle-Mackenzie Ashby, Johns Hopkins University — “Bounded by the Womb: Reproduction, Slavery, and Freedom in Barbados”
• Rachel E. Burke, Harvard University — “On Uncertain Ground: Destabilizing the American Landscape through Henry ‘Box’ Brown’s Mirror of Slavery“
• Spencer Gomez, University of California Irvine — “Creating Community and Freedom at the Margins: Black Foreigners in New Granada during the Age of Slavery and Revolution”
• Mikayla Janee Harden, University of Delaware — for a project that looks at the lived experience of enslaved children by examining records in medical publications and artistic depictions

Folger Institute–OI Short-Term Fellow

• Anne Powell, William & Mary—“The Antinomian Crisis and the Pequot War, 1636-1638”

OI–Fort Ticonderoga Short-Term Fellow

• Matthew Dziennik, United States Naval Academy — “First Nations Peoples and Military Labor in the British Atlantic World, c. 1750-1820”

Lapidus Fellowship for the Study of Rare Early American Legal Texts

• Daria Reaven, New York University—for the study of legal conceptions of Innocence
• Matthew Crow, Hobart and William Smith Colleges—“Law and Divinity in Colonial Virginia”

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 in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1660-1830”
• 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”

OI–Folger Institute Short-Term Fellow

• Dyani Johns Taff, Ithaca College — “Gendered Seascapes and Monarchy in Early Modern English Culture”

2020

OI–Folger Institute Short-Term Fellow

• Frances Bell, William & Mary — for the study of enslaved migrants from revolutionary Saint-Domingue to the United States between 1791 and 1810

OI–Fort Ticonderoga Short-Term Fellow

• Blake Grindon, Princeton University — “The Death of Jane McCrea and the Contest for Warfare in the Northeast: Natives, Colonists, and Europeans in the American Revolutionary War”

OI–Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation Short-Term Fellows

• Michael Jarvis, University of Rochester — “Visualizing Spaces in Earliest Anglo-America”
• Rachel Winchcombe, University of Manchester — “‘They being our first instructers for the planting of their Indian Corne’: Commensality, Culinary Exchange, and Anglo-Indigenous Relations”

Lapidus–OI Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture Fellows

• Marlena Cravens, University of Texas at Austin — “‘Among Aliens Abroad’: Unruly Translation and the Making of a Transatlantic Spanish, 1492-1650”
• Yiyun Huang, University of Tennessee-Knoxville — “‘Nothing but large portions of Tea could extinguish it’: Cultural Transfer and the Consumption of Chinese Tea in Early America”
• Jay David Miller, University of Notre Dame — “Quaker Jeremiad: Language, Land, and Labor”

2019

OI–Folger Institute Short-Term Fellow

• Lauren MacDonald, Johns Hopkins University — “Atlantic Reformations, 1545-1620”

OI–Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation Short-Term Fellows

• Nathan Braccio, University of Connecticut — “Parallel Landscapes: Algonquian and English Spatial Understandings of New England, 1500–1700”
• Annemarie McLaren, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge — “‘Badges of silver or copper’: Peace Medals and Delicate Diplomacy in Early Colonial Jamestowne”
• Emily Sackett, University of Virginia — “Women Wanted: Gender, Race, and the Origins of American Plantation Societies, 1607–1720”
• Rachel Tracey, Queen’s University Belfast — “Comparative Archaeologies of the Early Atlantic World: British Colonial Encounters in Ireland and the Chesapeake”

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

• Arinn Amer, 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

OI–Folger Institute Short-Term Fellow

• Rachel Seiler-Smith, Indiana University — “Figuring Blackness”

OI–Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation Short-Term Fellows

• George Boudreau, McNeil Center for Early American Studies — “‘Telling the Story’: Material Culture, Surviving Spaces, and the Presentation of Early America’s History”
• Simon Sun, Harvard University — “‘For That Way, You Shall Soonest Find The Other Sea’: Colonial Jamestown—Williamsburg in Chinese Perspective (1607—1774)”

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

OI–Folger Institute Short-Term Fellow

• Heather Miyano Kopelson, University of Alabama — “Idolatrous Processions: Music, Dance, and Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World, 1500–1700”

OI–Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation Short-Term Fellows

• Scott Berthelette, University of Saskatchewan – “Between Sovereignty and Statecraft: New France and the Contest for the Hudson Bay Watershed, 1663–1774”
• Ywone Edwards-Ingram, William & Mary – “Coachmen in Slavery and Freedom: The Convergence of Work and Display”
• Luciano Figueiredo, Universidade Federal Fluminense – “Jamestown and Rio de Janeiro by the Atlantic: compared perspectives of Bacon’;s Rebellion and the Revolt of Rio in the seventeenth century”
• Evan Haefeli, Texas A&M University — “The British Imperial Expansion of American Religious Diversity, 1660–1732”
• Hannah Tucker, University of Virginia — “Masters of the Market: Mercantile Ship Captaincy in the Colonial British Atlantic, 1607–1774”

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

Short-Term

• Karin Amundsen, University of Southern California — “Metallurgy, Mining, and English Colonization in the Americas, 1550–1624”
• Julia King, Maryland Historical Trust — “Political Development and Virginia’s Plantation Landscape”
• Emily Rose, Harvard University — study of the Virginia Company of London (1606–1624) and its lasting impact on early America
• Edmond Smith, University of Kent — “The City of London, Corporate Behaviour and the Development of the Virginia Plantation, 1609–1619”

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, College of 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

Short-Term Fellows

• Lauren McMillan, University of Mary Washington — “Illicit Trade in the 17th Century Chesapeake: An Archaeological and Historical Study of Dutch Smuggling Activities in Virginia and Maryland”
• Ashli White, University of Miami — “Object Lessons of the Revolutionary Atlantic”
• Lauren Working, University of Durham — “Material Civility and Private Selves in Early Jamestown, 1607–1630”

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

Short-Term Fellows

• Ernesto Mercado-Montero, University of Texas — “Crossing Borderlands, Contesting Empires: The Black Caribs and the Politics of Allegiance and Independence in the Caribbean, 1763–1832 ”
• Melissa Morris, Columbia University — “Cultivating Colonies: Tobacco and the Upstart Empires”

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, College of 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”