Library Resident Fellows

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Susan E. Brandt: Temple University; Gifted women and skilled practioners: Gender and healing authority in the Mid-Atlantic region, 1740-1830
Susan L. Branson: Syracuse University; Animal magnetism in Nineteenth-Century America
Sarah Jane Chesney: College of William and Mary; The flowering web: Tracing William Hamilton's botanical network in late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Andrew J. B. Fagal: Binghamton University; "To Provide for the Common Defense": The political economy of war in the Early American Republic, 1789-1818
Claire Gherini: Johns Hopkins University; "Addrift to Effect their Own Cure": Making and consuming medical knowledge in the plantation socieites of the Anglophone Atlantic, 1730-1800
Frances Gouda: University of Amsterdam; Colonial governance and public health, 1913-1942: A transnational study of Rockefeller Foundation initiatives in the Dutch East Indies, U.S. Philippines and Travancore (British India)
Jenny Heil: Emory University; The American Columbus: Chronology, geography, and the historical imagination in Nineteenth-Century literature
Lindsay M. Keiter: College of William and Mary; From alliance to affection: Region, religion, and republicanism in American marriages, 1750-1860
Joshua A. Kercsmar: University of Notre Dame; Living emblems: How animals shaped religious and political identity in America, 1630-1800
Sara Jane Kirshen: Columbia University; Valuing families: Marriage, statistics, and the state, 1800-1909
Maureen Mathews: Linacre College, University of Oxford; Hallowell Collection: Photographs and memories
Sarah McCaslin: University of Edinburgh; Performing Scottishness: Scottish clubs and societies in Scotland and America, 1750-1850
Keith Mikos: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Magnification: Meaning, metaphysics, and the microscope
Christopher R. Pearl: Binghamton University; "For the Good Order of Government": The American Revolution and the creation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Ashley T. Rubin: University of California-Berkeley; Penal cycles: American punishment since the Revolution
David J. Silverman: George Washington University; Thundersticks: firearms and the transformation of Native America
David Singerman: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; An empire of purity: Making the modern sugar economy, 1875-1925
Alistair Sponsel: Harvard University; Darwin, Lyell, and British geology in the mid-nineteenth century
Jef Van Der Aa: University of Jvaskyla, Finland; Language issues at the socialist scholars conferences: Dell Hymes' early engagement
Ashli White: University of Miami; Object lessons of the Revolutionary Atlantic
Isaiah Wilner: Yale University; Franz Boas and the transformation of race in America, 1858-1942
Laura Wright: Johns Hopkins University; The role of the Bible in the archaeological method of William F. Albright

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Katherine Arner: Johns Hopkins University; Making yellow fever American: Disease knowledge and the geopoliltics of disease in the Atlantic World, 1793-1822
Heather R. Beatty: Oxford University, University of the Pacific; Patriots, politics and medical practitioners: Trans-Atlantic medical relations in the age of the American Revolution
Myles D. Beaupre: University of Notre Dame; "The Manifest Destiny of the Indian": Extinction, Native Americans, and human nature in nineteenth-century America
Margaret M. Bruchac: University of Connecticut; Indigenous informants and American anthropologists: Discursive encounters
Kenneth E. Carpenter: Independent Researcher; Disseminating economic literature before 1850
Renaud Contini: National University of Ireland, Maynooth; Nurturing Utopia: Visions of order in the Jeffersonian ideology of western expansion, and its European parallels
Simon J. Gilhooley: Cornell University; The textuality of the Constitution and the origins of original intent
Lisa A. Green: University of California, Riverside; The modern synthesis of evolution and the biological sciences curriculum study
Rainer Hatoum: John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University Berlin; On the "exotic other" at the Pacific Northwest coast
Erica Rhodes Hayden: Vanderbilt University; "Plunged into a vortex of iniquity": Female criminality and punishment in Pennsylvania, 1820-1860
Henry Kammler: Goethe University Frankfurt, Institut fuer Ethnologie; "Ditidaht texts" (edition of the Haas-Swadesh corpus of Ditidaht texts collected in 1931)
Joseph Daniel Martin: University of Minnesota; Good fences make good neighbors: Building the boundaries of solid state physics, 1940-1975
Brenna S. O'Rourke: Temple University; "A revolution in the price of commodities": Gender, capitalism, and the life of Stephen Girard
Katherine Paugh: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Thomas Thistlewood and the great pox: A Jamaican overseer's ideas about race, venereal disease, and infertility, 1750-1786
Dolores Pfeuffer-Scherer: Temple University; The Franklin women: Kinship, gender roles, and public culture in Philadelphia and beyond, 1720-1900
Jayne Ptolemy: Yale University; "To extend the empire of civilization and knowledge": Philadelphian Quakers and the frontier in the benevolent imagination
Concepcion Saenz-Cambra: European Union (EACEA); Early twentieth century American women mapping Indian territory: The case of Elsie Clews Parsons
Funke Sangodeyi: Harvard University; The body as ecosystem: Gut flora, good germs and microbial ecology, 1940s-2000s
Heather A. Shannon: Rutgers University; Just an amateur: Adam Clark Vroman, photography, and the American West, 1895-1904
Brooke Sherrard: Florida State University; American Biblical archaeology, 1838-1971: Faith, land, and the politics of historical proof
Gaye Wilson: University of Edinburgh; Thomas Jefferson: Image and ideology

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Alita LaLisa Anderson: Independent Scholar; Heads and Harlem: Zora Neale Hurston's Introduction to Medicine and Race
Tatiana Artemyeva: Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Institute of International Connections; Benjamin Franklin and Russia in the Enlightenment
Eric William Boyle: University of California Santa Barbara; Beyond Mirage and Magic Bullets: Redefining the Boundaries of Medicine in Modern America
Jane Elizabeth Calvert: St. Mary's College of Maryland; "Dissenter in Our Own Country": Eighteenth-Century Quakerism and the Origins of American Civil Disobedience
William John Campbell: McMaster University; Convergence of Interests in a Post-War Era: Indians, Agents, Speculators and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix
Kate Davies: University of York; Women, Letters, and the Atlantic World, 1760-1840
Jed Shaver-Rivera Foland: University of Massachusetts, Amherst; The Massachusetts Eugenics Program: Women, Academics, and the Shutesbury-Leverett Eugenics Study
Melinda Brook Gormley: Oregon State University; Geneticist L. C. Dunn and an Intellectual Community of Public Activists
Ann Merrill Ingram: Davidson College; The Culture of Flowers in Nineteenth-Century America
Paul E. Kerry: Brigham Young University; The Moravian Mission to the Indians: Language, Conversion and Identity
Judy Kertesz: Harvard University; Skeletons in the American Attic: Curiosity, Science, and the Appropriation of the American Indian Past
Will Beecher Mackintosh: University of Michigan; A Restless Nation: Mobility, Cosmopolitanism, and Class in the United States, 1790-1865
Ethan Miller: Johns Hopkins University; The Logics of Culture: Professionalism and the Self in Early U.S. Anthropology
Richard Newman: Rochester Institute of Technology; Black Founder: Richard Allen and the Early American Republic
Friedrich Poehl: Independent Scholar; Franz Boas and the History of Modernity
Wolfgang Splitter Manfred: Independent Scholar; Lutheran Missionaries and American Exceptionalism in Eighteenth - Century Georgia and Pennsylvania
Bernhard Tilg: Independent Scholar; Franz Boas and the History of Modernity
Kirsten E. Wood: Florida International University; At the Crossroads: Taverns and the Making of America, 1765-1865

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Christopher Bilodeau: Cornell University; The Making of Maine: Sebastien Rale, the Eastern Abenakis, and the Expansion of Colonial New England
Susan Branson: University of Texas at Dallas; Benjamin Franklin and Scientific Education for Women in Eighteenth Century America
Benjamin L. Carp: University of Virginia; Cityscapes and Revolution: Urban Spaces and Revolutionary Mobilization in North America, 1740-1790
James H. Carrott: University of Wisconsin, Madison; The "Paxton Boys" Unmask'd: Settlers, Native Americans, and Resistance on the Pennsylvania Frontier, 1730-1771
Georg F. Eckardt: Friedrich Schiller University; Franz Boas and Wolfgang Kohler: Their Opposition to Nazis and their Support of German Emigrants to USA
Heather Ewing: Independent Scholar; In Search of James Smithson: Founding Donor of the Smithsonian
Sally E. Hadden: Florida State University; Legal Cultures in Early American Cities: Boston, Philadelphia, Charleston
K. Walter Hickel: National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health; The Child Welfare Movement and the Politics of Disability in America, 1890 to 1960
Jodi Kelber-Kaye: The University of Arizona; A Tale of Obsession: How Both Progressive and Right-Wing Eugenics Fueled Biological Essentialism as an Explanation for Difference
Shawn D. Kimmel: University of Michigan; "The Spell to Disenchant and Reform the World": Liberal Policy and Moral Reform among Philadelphia Philanthropists, 1825-1855
Thomas E. Kinsella: Richard Stockton College of New Jersey; Bookbinding in Colonial Philadelphia
Kenton Kroker: McGill University; The First Modern Plague? Epidemic Encephalitis in America, 1919 - 39
Jonathan A. P. Lelliott: University College London; Raymond Pearl, Herbert Spencer Jennings and Eugenics
Sharon M. Leon: University of Minnesota; Beyond Birth Control: Catholic Responses to the Eugenics Movement in the United States, 1900 - 1950
Ryan Cameron MacPherson: University of Notre Dame; America's Vestiges of Creation: Nature's Development and Divine Presence amid Pre-Darwinian Struggles for Civilization
Laura M. Stevens: University of Tulsa; "The Poor Indians": Missionary Writings and Transatlantic British Sensibility, 1642-1776
Philip K. Wilson: Penn State College of Medicine; Charles B. Davenport and the Establishment of a National Database on Heredity
Marianne S. Wokeck: Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis; Between Tradition and New Ways: The Role of Pastors Modeled for German Settlers in Colonial America

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Sumi K. Cho: DePaul University College of Law; The Greening of the Eugenics Movement
Nathaniel Comfort: SUNY-Stony Brook; Natural History: Barbara McClintock and Transposable Elements, 1942-1966
Kevin T. Dann: Ramapo College; Princeton; The Geography of Feeblemindedness: Family Studies at the Eugenics Record Office, 1910-1930
Michael Elliott: Columbia University; Form and Re-form: Literary Realism, Ethnography, and Race in the Turn-of-the-Century United States
T. Christopher Jespersen: Clark Atlanta University; Contesting International Change: Comparing the Anglo-American Responses to Revolution Over Two Centuries
Lee B. Kass: Elmira College; Cornell University; McClintock, Cytogenetics and Evolution
Herbert S. Lewis: University of Wisconsin; Pragmatism and American Anthropology, 1900-1930
Margaretta M. Lovell: UC-Berkeley; Henry Tatham's Journey to the Ruins of Aztalan
Margaret Meredith: UC-San Diego; A Noble Commerce: American Interpretations of Fossil Bones in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840
David Sampliner: New York University; The Power of Science: The APS and Enlightenment Culture in Philadelphia, 1730-1790
Veront M. Satchell: The University of the West Indies; Slavery and Technical Change: Comparative Analysis of Sugar Technology in Jamaica and Louisiana during the Period of Slavery
Christine A. Stolba: Emory University; A corrupt tree bringethforth evil fruit: Religion and the American Eugenics Movement, 1900-1943
Rosemary Uvy Zumwalt: Davidson College; Franz Boas and His Students: The Formation of American Anthropology

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Marta Ardila: Ph.D. candidate, Boston U.; Scientists in the Spanish colonies of America--a comparative study.
Mary M. Bartley: Ph.D. candidate, Cornell U.; Sexual selection theory, female choice, and the Victorian legacy.
Susan E. Brown: Ph.D. candidate, U. of California at Santa Barbara; S. P. Langley, E. C. Pickering, C. A. Young and the origins of American astrophysics.
Beverley Olson Flanigan: Ohio U.; American Indian languages and English--the pidginization process in North America.
James Fleming: Colby College; Climate change, culture, and cultivation--transmission and transformation of Enlightenment views.
Kenneth Haltman: Ph.D. candidate, Yale U.; A catalogue raisonée of the art of Titian Ramsay Peale from the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains.
William Hart: Ph.D. candidate, Brown U.; Race, ethnicity, and crosscultural contact on the 18th-century frontier of New York.
John Keane: Polytechnic of Central London; Biography of Thomas Paine.
Nikolai L. Krementsov: Institute of the History of Science and Technology, Leningrad; U.S. response to Soviet scientific developments, 1945-56.
Jean Lockhart, M.D.: San Rafael, CA; Biography of D. Carleton Gajdusek.
Burke O. Long: Bowdoin College; Social, political, and ideological aspects of biblical criticism--the case of William Foxwell Albright.
Lawrence J. McCrank: Ferris State U.; Ladders across culture--instructional media, books, and libraries in the Catholic mission to Oregon, 1835-85.
Madeleine Pinault: Musée du Louvre, Paris; A catalogue and critical study of the papers of Duhamel du Monceau and Fougeroux de Bondaroy.
Kirill O. Rossianov: Institute of the History of Science and Technology, Moscow; Eugenics and political ideology between the world wars.
J. David Smith: Lynchburg College; Charles Davenport and biological determinism--a study of eugenic science and social policy.
Pierre Swiggers: U. of Louvain, Belgium; P. S. Du Ponceau--American and European linguistics in the early 19th century.
Andrea Walton: Ph.D. candidate, Columbia U.; Alma mater's daughter's--women scholars at Columbia University.
Elizabeth Guilmette Winchester: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London; The Drosophila community.

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