Below is a list of all recipients of Gilder Lehrman College Fellowships since the program’s founding. The fellow’s name, home institution at the time of the fellowship, and project title are followed by the research archive and year of the award. (COL - Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library; GLC - Gilder Lehrman Collection; NYHS - New-York Historical Society; NYPL - New York Public Library; SCH - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Billups, Mashayla
Howard University
“Black Communities and Domestic Terrorism: An Analysis” (GLC, NYHS, SCH, 2022)
Bojko, Alexandre
University of South Florida
“Jacksonian Charisma and Whig Non-Conformity: An Analysis of the Political Rhetoric of Democrats and Whigs in the Election of 1840” (NYPL, NYHS, Morgan Library, 2023)
Brown, Natalie
Yale University
“African American Music as a Tool of Resistance” (GLC, COL, SCH, 2023)
Chen, Zirui
Columbia University
“The Great North Carolina Klan Trials, 1870–1871: Due Process, State Action, and the Southern Redemption of the Fourteenth Amendment” (GLC, NYPL, 2022)
Harris, Holly
Texas Christian University
“The Life of Warren David Gribbons: American Air Force POW during WWII” (GLC, Brooklyn Public Library, 2022)
Hochman, Sasha
Barnard College
“What Does It Mean to Write a ‘History of the Present’? Mercy Otis Warren’s History of the American Revolution” (GLC, 2022)
Johnson, Baird
Stanford University
“Contesting the Nature of the Union: Complicating the Ratification Debate” (GLC, 2023)
Kaltenbacher, Aidan
Saint Louis University
“Development of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States after the Civil War” (NYPL, GLC, Barnard College Archives and Special Collections, 2023)
Kaul, Ishani
Rice University
“An Analysis of Journalism Surrounding the American Women’s Suffrage Movement” (GLC, 2022)
Konrad, Sarah
Duke University
“Person and Property at Once: The Peculiar Case of The State v. Cally, a Slave” (GLC, 2023)
Liu, Novia
Stanford University
“Revolutionizing the Second Chamber: Bicameralism, Republicanism, and the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution” (GLC, NYPL, 2023)
Ma, Daniel
Yale University
“Choctaw Claims and Choctaw-Chickasaw Treaties: A Single Political Topic?” (GLC, Oklahoma History Center, 2022)
Mes, Benoit
University of Oxford
“Across the Color Line: Intimate Interracial Relationships in the United States of America before Loving v. Virginia (1967)” (SCH, COL, GLC, Queens College Civil Rights Archive, 2023)
Nash, William
Princeton University
“Am I My Brother’s Keeper? James and Joshua Speed in Antebellum American History” (NYPL, GLC, 2023)
Rangel, Alonso
Concordia University
“The Mexican American Boundaries Revisited” (GLC, 2022)
Reutenauer, Gwyn
Barnard College
“Uncovering Tobacco: The Role of the Crop in the Colonization and Settlement of Connecticut” (GLC, Beinecke Library, 2023)
Schapiro, Jacob
College of William and Mary
“Investigating African American Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century through the Calhoun Industrial School” (GLC, 2023)
Sperber, Grace
Stanford University
“Meaning at the Pyre: Constitutional Thought at the Frontier” (GLC, 2022)
Trabosci, Sierra Love
University of New Mexico
“The Impact of the American West on the United States Civil War” (GLC, COL, 2022)
Yelnosky, Samuel Martin
Columbia University
“The Southern Roots of Cold War Development Policy” (GLC, 2022)