The American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum is excited to announce its 2023-2024 Fellowship recipients! This year, the Society has awarded eight long-term fellowships, and 47 short-term fellowships and internships for scholarly research in the history of science, Indigenous and Native American studies, and early American history.
This year, the Library & Museum will also welcome one NASI Career Pathways Fellow as part of the NASI Career Pathways Fellowship for postdoctoral scholars with expertise related to Native American and Indigenous Studies and allied fields who are interested in pursuing professional opportunities at libraries, museums, and cultural organizations. This funding opportunity is part of the Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI), supported by the Mellon Foundation. Fellows will be based at the Library & Museum’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR), which aims to promote greater collaboration among scholars, archives, and Indigenous communities throughout the Americas. You can learn more about these opportunities here.
As the American Philosophical Society’s Head of Scholarly Programs Adrianna Link had to say: "I'm delighted to welcome this year's fellowship recipients to the APS. Fellows form the core of the Society's scholarly community, and it is always gratifying to see the different ways fellows approach the APS's collections, as well as the ways fellows relate to one another through their research."
Our recipients are equally excited. Mellon Foundation NASI Career Pathways Fellow Emily Leischner said, "I am thrilled to be joining the APS this fall. When I was planning what to do post-graduation, I was looking for opportunities to continue the collaborative work I do with the Nuxalk First Nation and to develop the skills I need to be a leader in advocating for and enacting community-based research in heritage institutions. The Career Pathways Fellowship is such a perfect fit - there's nothing else like it."
For a complete list of this year’s cohort and their projects, click here. Learn more about the American Philosophical Society's Fellowships and how to apply on the APS website. Congratulations to all of our recipients!
Long-Term Fellows
John C. Slater Predoctoral Fellowship
- Nayanika Ghosh, PhD Candidate in History of Science, Harvard University, “Genes and Gender: Sociobiology and the Emergence of a Political Critique of Science in Postwar United States”
Friends of the APS Predoctoral Fellowship
- Michael Ortiz-Castro, PhD Candidate in American Studies, Harvard University, “American Nature: Life and Political Community in Post-Reconstruction America, 1877-1927”
Mellon Foundation NASI Predoctoral Fellowship
- Alexandra Lamina, PhD Candidate in Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, “Indigenous Geospatial Mobility: Agency, Gender, and Urbanization in Ecuadorian Amazonia”
Mellon Foundation NASI Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Christopher Roy, PhD, Cultural Anthropology, Princeton University, “Temahigániak and Hallowell"
David Center for the American Revolution Predoctoral Fellowship
- Andrea Miles, PhD Candidate in History, University of Louisville, “Black Rebels: African American Revolutionaries from North Carolina During and After the War of Independence”
David Center for the American Revolution Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Zara Anishanslin, Associate Professor of History and Art History, University of Delaware, “Under the King's Nose”
APS-NEH Sabbatical Fellowship
- Brooke Newman, Associate Professor of History, Virginia Commonwealth University - “The Queen's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery”
NASI Career Pathways Fellowship
- Emily Leischner, PhD, Museum Anthropology, University of British Columbia, “Activating Nuxalk Ancestral Governance to Protect the Nuxalk Language at the APS”
Short-Term Fellows
Friends of the APS Fellowship
- Tessa Bangs, Columbia University, “Typologies, Temporalities, and Translocalism: The Building of a Usable Past through the Production of Knowledge in the Early National Period”
- Jin-Woo Choi, Princeton University, “Melting Memories: The Meteorological Makings of the Great Winter of 1709”
- Kenneth Banks, Wofford College, “Oceanic Mobilities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World”
- Megan Cherry, North Carolina State University, “Gin in Eighteenth-Century Colonial America”
David Center for the American Revolution Short-Term Resident Research Fellows
- Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Université de Paris 8, “America 250”
- Robb Haberman, Fordham University, “The Revolutionary War Memorialist as Editor: The Memoir of James Selkirk”
- Louis Bissieres, University of Paris, “Merchant networks and a revolution in banking in rural areas during the Early Republic”
- Sarah Donovan, William & Mary, “Transplanted Whiteboys and Sons of Paxton: Patterns of Extralegal Violence in the British Atlantic World”
- Blake Grindon, Princeton University, “The Death of Jane McCrea: Sovereignty and Violence in the Northeastern Borderlands of the American Revolution”
- Grant Stanton, University of Pennsylvania, “The Almost Revolution of 1765: Insults and the Moral History of the Stamp Act Crisis”
Mellon Foundation Fellowship
- David Chen, Independent Scholar, “Transnational science exchanges in the interwar years: the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) experience”
- Leandra Zarnow, University of Houston, “The Heterodites: Six Women and the Secret Society that Shaped American Feminism”
- Aaron Gluck-Thaler, Harvard University, “The Pattern Recognizers: Surveillance, Security, and the Making of Identity in 20th Century America”
- William Krause, Vanderbilt, “Scientific Genius: A Cultural and Intellectual History of the Idea in Modern America, 1880-1990”
- Alison Russel, University of Massachusetts, “On That Shield!': American Identity and the Constitution in the Early Republic”
- Kathleen Telling, William & Mary, “Authors of Mischief': Quaker (Mis)Behavior, Family, and Social Order in the Long Eighteenth-Century Carolinas and Virginia'”
Swan Foundation Short-Term Resident Research Fellowship for Revolutionary-Era Material Culture
- John Weaver, West Virginia University, “The Long Rifle: Material Culture, Violence, and Early American Identity, 1720 – 1820"
- Grant Stanton, University of Pennsylvania, “The Almost Revolution of 1765: Insults and the Moral History of the Stamp Act Crisis”
Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) Undergraduate Interns
- Mara Gutierrez, Yale University
- Cassidy Hubbard, Washburn University
- Keyen Singer, University of Oregon
Indigenous Community Research Fellows
- Etta Anderson, Colorado River Indian Tribes, “Mohave Language Revitalization”
- Ensley Guffey, Catawba Indian Nation
- Ian McCallum, Munsee-Delaware Nation, University of Toronto, "Asiiskusiipuw"
NASI Digital Knowledge Sharing Fellowship
- Maureen Matthews, Manitoba Museum
- Laura Spaan, Eyak Cultural Foundation
- Alexander Jimerson, Deadiwënöhsnye's Gëjóhgwa'
- Sara Snyder Hopkins, Western Carolina University
Barra Foundation Fellowship
- Jane Chang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “Intermingling of the Old and New: The Formation of a New German-American Medical Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania (1730-1780)”
- Laura Clerx, Boston College, “Nature's Properties: Science and Commerce in Early America, 1780-1850”
Daythal L. Kendall Fellowship
- Emily Moore, Colorado State University, “Southern Tlingit History”
- Kaylen James, University of Minnesota, “Settler Anxieties: Critical Indigenous Interventions in Fame, Technology, and New Media Studies”
Nancy Halverson Schless Fellowship
- Jennifer Reiss, University of Pennsylvania, “Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America”
Jacques Barzun Fellowship for Collections & Programming in the History of Biology
- Gina Surita, Princeton University
William T. Golden Fellowship
- Keith Pluymers, Illinois State University, “Water, Steam, and Philadelphia's Eighteenth-Century Anthropocene”
Leon and Joanne V.C. Knopoff Fellowship
- Angelica Clayton, Yale University, “Traumatic information: interpersonal violence and the cybernetic human”
Stefano Furlan, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, “Katharine Way, John Wheeler, and the role of women in the exploration of the microcosm”
Eugene Garfield Fellowship
- Jamie Marsella, Harvard University, “The Science of Right Living”: Euthenics in Child Welfare Reform 1900-1930”
- David Munns, CUNY, “Not a Decree of Fate: A New History of Eugenics”
- Libby O’Neil, Yale University, “The Sciences of Unity: Organicist Systems Thinking Between Vienna and the United States, 1900-1980”
François André Michaux Fund Fellowship
- Alexandria Taylor Mitchem, Columbia University, “'Everything in the Universe in its Own Nature': the Archaeology of 19th century Natural History at Bartram’s Garden”
Edward C. Carter II Fellowship
- Caroline Borzilleri, George Washington University, “The Personal and Professional Lives of Women Printers in the Early American Republic”
William S. Willis Fellowship
- Edú Trota Levati, “US-Brazil relations in the first quarter of the 19th century through the lenses of Condy Raguet”
- Michael Borsk, Queens University of Charlotte, “Measuring Ground: Surveyors and the Geography of Colonialism in the Great Lakes Region, 1783-1840”
- Sam Holley-Kline, Florida State University, “A Labor History of Mexican Archaeology”
- Tina Irvine, Indiana University, “From Eugenics To Genomics: The Politics of Race, Science, and Power in the Long Twentieth Century”
- Elena Ryan, Princeton University, “From Native to Nation: The End of Legal Pluralism in the Great Lakes, 1763-1832”
- Christopher Tong, “Global Darwinism and the Emergence of Racial Hierarchies”