The Past Speaks

Winners of Fellowships from the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia

Dissertation Fellowships

Katherine Arner, Johns Hopkins University
“Making Yellow Fever American: Disease Knowledge and the Geopolitics
of Disease in the Atlantic World, 1793-1822”

Melissah Pawlikowski, Ohio State University
“In the Land of Liberty: The Squatter Exodus into the Ohio Valley, 1760 to 1800”

Short Term Fellows

Rob Gamble, Johns Hopkins University
“A Second Hand Republic: The Informal Economy in the Antebellum Mid Atlantic”

Aaron Marrs, US Government, Office of the Historian
“Moving Forward: A Social History of the Transportation Revolution”

Simon Middleton, University of Sheffield
“Cultures of Credit in Eighteenth-Century America”

Dael Norwood, Princeton University
“Trading in Liberty: The Politics of the American China Trade, c. 1784-1862”

Caitlin Rosenthal, Harvard University
“Accounting for Control: Bookkeeping in Early Nineteenth-Century America”