Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship

Renamed the Hench Fellowship

Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2003-04 Meredith L. McGill Rutgers University Associate Professor Poetry in Motion: Lyric Circulation in the Antebellum United States
2002-03 James Sidbury University of Texas, Austin Associate Professor Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America
2001-02 Jo Radner American University Professor of Literature Performing the Paper: Rural Intellectual Life in Postbellum Northern New England
2000-01 Richard Wightman Fox University of Southern California Professor American Jesus
1999-00 Helen L. Horowitz Smith College Professor Sexual Representation and Censorship in the United States, 1830-80
1998-99 Helen R. Deese Tennessee Technological University Professor Emerita The Journals of Caroline Healey Dall
1997-98 Kathleen Brown University of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor Foul Bodies and Infected Worlds: Cleanliness and Cultural Authority in Early Modern England and America, 1500-1900