Cooper Austen
Princeton University
“Profit vs. Patriotism: Privateering and the Formation of the American Navy during the Revolutionary War”
Kashish Bastola
Harvard University
“Dixie Is Asian: Eighteenth-Century Asian American Community Formation in the Gulf South” [Recipient of the inaugural Gilder Lehrman College Fellowship in honor of Professor Alan Heimert (1928–1999) for a project focusing on 17th- or 18th-century American history]
Christopher Jordan Brown
Columbia University
“The Political Craze: Investigating African American Officeholders during Reconstruction”
Vincent Calvagno
Adelphi University
“‘A Matter of So Much Importance’: The Treatment of Native American Prisoners of War in the New York Campaign of 1776”
Muyao Huang
Rice University
“Interpersonal Conflicts and Diplomatic Strategies: American Merchants in China”
Khari Eyèn Zamé Johnson
Howard University
“Days of Judgment: The Resurrectionist Riots of 1788 and Their Impact on Early Black American Communities”
Alexa Kupor
Stanford University
“Politics on the Periphery: The Redefinition of Civic Participation by Early American Petitioners”
Faith Page
College of William and Mary
“Black Reconstruction: How African Americans Fought for Freedom, Suffrage, and Respect”
Ryan Torres Infesta
University of Pennsylvania
“Economic Architect of a Nation: An Analysis of Robert Morris’s Policies as Superintendent of Finance”
Esha Venkataraman
Barnard College
“Colonization Posed as Liberation: The American Colonization Society in the Nineteenth Century”