mellonscholarfellows | American Antiquarian Society

Mellon Distinguished Scholars in Residence

			Fellowship	Affiliation	Position	Project
Brooks	Lisa	2022-23	Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence	Amherst College	Henry S. Poler '59 Presidential Teaching Professor of English and American Studies	Tracking Molsemsis: An Environmental History of Eastern Coyotes
Foreman	P. Gabrielle	2022	Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence	Penn State	Paterno Family Professor of American Literature and Professor of African American Studies & History	Founding Families of the Convention Movement: The Long History of Black Organizing for Civil Rights
Sinha	Manisha	2020-21	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	University of Connecticut	James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History
Sanchez-Eppler	Karen	2019-20	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	Amherst College	L. Stanton Williams 1941 Professor of American Studies and English	The Archives of Childhood: Playing with the Past
Salisbury	Neal	2018-19	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	Smith College	Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor Emeritus in the Social Sciences	Lives on the Line: Colonial Histories in Early New England
Onuf	Peter	2017-18	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	University of Virginia	Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor	The Worlds of Isaiah Thomas
Nobles	Gregory	2016-17	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	Georgia Institute of Technology	professor	Betsey Stockton’s Mission: From Slavery to Freedom, From Princeton to the Pacific
McBride	Dwight	2015-16	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	Northwestern University	Daniel Hale Williams professor of African American studies, English, and performance studies	Poetics, Politics, and Phillis Wheatley
Bushman	Claudia	2014-15	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	Columbia University	professor of American studies emerita	Boston in 1870
Bushman	Richard	2014-15	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	Columbia University	Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus	Farmers in the Production of the Nation
Kelley	Mary	2013-14	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	University of Michigan	Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women’s Studies	'What Are You Reading, What Are You Saying?' American Reading and Writing Practices, 1760-1860
Castiglia	Christopher	2012-13	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	Pennsylvania State University	liberal arts research professor of English	The Practices of Hope and other Romantic Dispositions
Demos	John	2011-12	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	Yale University	Samuel Knight Professor of History Emeritus	The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
Horton	James O.	2010-11	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	George Washington University	professor emeritus	A Documentary History of African Americans from 1619 to the Civil War
Horton	Lois	2010-11	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	George Mason University	professor emerita	African Americans and the Concept of Freedom in the Revolutionary Era
Greenspan	Ezra	2009-10	Mellon Distinguished Scholar	Southern Methodist University	professor	William Wells Brown: An African-American Life in Letters
Nord	David	2008-9	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	University of Indiana, at Bloomington	professor	Newspapers and Cities in Early America
Lovell	Margaretta	2007-08	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	California at Berkeley	professor of the history of art	Painting the Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and Winslow Homer
Gura	Philip	2006-7	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	William S. Newman Distinguished Professor	The Club of the Like-Minded: A History of New England Transcendentalism
Fox	Richard Wightman	2005-6	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	University of Southern California	professor	Lincoln's Body, Lincoln's Blood: The Death and Life of the Savior President
Hall	David	2004-5	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	Harvard University	Bartlett Professor of New England Church History	A New History of Puritan America
Kupperman	Karen Ordahl	2003-04	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	New York University	Silver Professor	The Founding of Jamestown in Its Atlantic Context
Gross	Robert	2002-3	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	College of William and Mary	professor	The Transcendentalists and Their World
Cohen	Patricia	2001-2	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	University of California, Santa Barbara	professor	Thomas Low Nichols and Mary Gove Nichols: Sex and Marriage Reform in the 1840s
Taylor	Alan	2000-1	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	University of California, Davis	professor	The Divided Ground: The Northern Borderland (U.S. and Canada) in the Wake of the American Revolution
Halttunen	Karen	1999-00	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	University of California, Davis	professor	American Pilgrimage: A Cultural History of Plymouth Rock
Fliegelman	Jay	1998-99	Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence	Stanford University	professor	Storied Associations: Books from Important American Libraries, 1650-1860, and the Tales they Tell

Fellows Directory

Mellon Distinguished Scholars in Residence

Quick Links

Hours

Keep in Touch