navLegacy Fellows
The Legacy Fellowship, also for research on any topic supported by the collections, is funded by the gifts of former fellows and research associates. The tradition of former fellows directing their annual gifts to support a fellowship began in 1997.
| Fellowship | Affiliation | Position | Project | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altschuler | Sari | 2011-12 | Legacy | City University of New York, The Graduate Center | Ph.D. candidate | National Physiology: George Lippard and Antebellum Medical Discourse |
| Bahar | Matthew | 2010-11 | Legacy | University of Oklahoma | Ph.D. candidate | People of the Dawnland and their Atlantic World |
| Bell | Richard | 2022-23 | Legacy | University of Maryland, College Park | professor of history | The First Freedom Riders:Streetcars and Street Fights in Jim Crow New York |
| Bernier | Julia | 2014-15 | Legacy | University of MA, Amherst | PhD candidate in American studies | A Papered Freedom |
| Buchkoski | Courtney | 2018-19 | Legacy | University of Oklahoma | Ph.D. candidate in English | Benevolent Colonization: Emigration Aid and the American West, 1820-1880 |
| First | Sara Babcox | 2005-06 | Legacy | University of Michigan | Ph.D. candidate | The Mechanics of Renown: Culture and Celebrity in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Ford | Bridget | 1998-99 | Legacy | UC Davis | Ph.D. candidate | People of Sorrow, Children of Grace: Race and Religion in the Antebellum West |
| Haberman | Robb | 2004-5 | Legacy | University of Connecticut | Ph.D. candidate | "Magazine Production and the Economics of the Print Trade in Post-Revolutionary America" |
| Hale | Matthew | 2000-1 | Legacy | Brandeis University | Ph.D. candidate | Neither Britons nor Frenchmen: The Creation of American Nationality, 1789-1815 |
| Kabala | James | 2007-8 | Legacy | Brown University | Ph.D. candidate | A Christian Nation?: Religion and the State in the Early American Republic, 1787-1844 |
| Keralis | Spencer | 2009-10 | Legacy | New York University | Ph.D. candidate | Children of Wrath: Violence, Remembrance, and the Making of Youth in Antebellum America |
| Larson | Kate | 2001-2 | Legacy | University of New Hampshire | Ph.D. candidate | Asante, Daughter of Zion: The Life and Memory of Harriet Tubman |
| Lewis | Charlene | 2017-18 | Legacy | Kalamazoo College | professor | The Traitor's Wife: Peggy Arnold and Revolutionary America |
| Malcom | Allison | 2008-9 | Legacy | University of Illinois-Chicago | PhD candidate | "A Protestant Patriotism: Anti-Catholicism and the Rise of Nationhood in North America, 1830-1870." |
| Opal | J. | 2002-3 | Legacy | Brandeis University | Ph.D. candidate | Ambition and Democracy: Worldly Pursuits and Aspirations in New England, 1780 - 1830 |
| Pope | Justin | 2016-17 | Legacy | Beloit College | visiting assistant professor of history | Dangerous Spirit of Liberty: How Slave Rebellion Transformed the Atlantic World |
| Racine | Karen | 2023-24 | Legacy | University of Guelph | professor of history | Samuel Larned in South America: The Monroe Doctrine's Dependable Diplomat |
| Razi | Alpen | 2012-13 | Legacy | University of Toronto | PhD candidate | Colored Citizens of the World |
| Reis | Elizabeth | 1999-00 | Legacy | University of Oregon | adjunct assistant professor | Heaven Help Us: Angles, Gender, and American Religions |
| Sizemore | Michelle | 2019-20 | Legacy | University of Kentucky | associate professor of English | Figures: Literature and Mathematics in the Atlantic World, 1750-1860 |
| Smith | Cynthia | 2020-21 | Legacy | independent scholar | Sentimental Sailors: Rescue and Conversion in Antebellum U.S. Literature | |
| Smith | Robin | 2015-16 | Legacy | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Ph.D. candidate | The 'Iron Harp': Encountering the Industrial Soundscape in the 1840s and 1850s |
| Thomas | Adam | 2013-14 | Legacy | University of California, Irvine | PhD candidate | Racial Ambiguity and Citizenship in the Postemancipaton Transtlantic World |
| Wagner | William | 2006-7 | Legacy | University of California, Berkeley | Ph.D. candidate | Divided Landscapes: Geographic Literacy and the Mapping of Sectional Conflict in America, 1846-1865 |
