Current Fellows

Adrian Brettle
Doctoral Candidate, University of Virginia
Confederate Expansionist Ambitions during the American Civil War, 1861–1865
(Gilder Lehrman Collection)

Shelley L. Dowling
Independent Scholar
Elbridge T. Gerry
(New York Public Library, New-York Historical Society Library, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Museum of the City of New York)  

Roberto Fernandez III
Independent Scholar
The Puerto Rican Regiment US Volunteers, 1899–1901
(New York Public Library, National Archives and Records Administration-NY)

Julia Guarneri
Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University
Making Metropolitans: Newspapers and the Urbanization of Americans, 1880–1930
(New York Public Library, New-York Historical Society Library, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture-NYPL, Brooklyn Historical Society,  Museum of the City of New York)  

Louis Hyman
Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Temp: The Fall and Rise of Flexible Labor in the United States, 1945–2007
(New York Public Library, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York University Tamiment Library)

E. Wyn James
Reader and Co-Director of the Cardiff Centre of Welsh American Studies, Cardiff University
The American travel diary of the Welsh abolitionist, Morgan John Rhys, 1794–1795
(Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Melissa Amy Maestri
Doctoral Candidate, University of Delaware
The Atlantic Web of Bondage: Comparing the Slave Trades of New York City and Charleston, South Carolina
(New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture-NYPL)

Paul Otto
Professor of History, George Fox University
Beads of Power: Wampum and the Making of Early America
(New York Public Library, New-York Historical Society Library)

Matthew Spooner
Doctoral Candidate, Columbia University
Origins of the Old South: The Reconstitution of Southern Slavery, 1776–1808
(Gilder Lehrman Collection, New York Public Library, New-York Historical Society Library, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Kaye Wise Whitehead
Assistant Professor, Loyola University, Maryland
Notes from a Slave Ship Doctor: Interpreting the 1749–51 Diaries of William Chancellor
(New-York Historical Society Library, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture-NYPL)