2017–18 Awarded Fellowships

Current Year Fellowship Cohort

Long-Term Awards

Scholars are listed with their topics of study.

R. STANTON AVERY DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
Martha Howell, Professor, Columbia University
The Culture of Credit in Commercial Cities of Northern Europe, 1200-1600

FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
Markku Peltonen, Professor, University of Helsinki
Republicanism, Democracy, and Political Accountability in Revolutionary England

LOS ANGELES TIMES DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
Mark Valeri, Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Conversion in Eighteenth-Century British America: How Notions of Belief Shaped the American Revolution

ROBERT C. RITCHIE DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
Daniel Richter, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
The Lords Proprietors: Land and Power in Seventeenth-Century America

ROGERS DISTINGUISHED FELLOW IN 19th-CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY
Richard White, Professor, Stanford University
California Time

DIBNER DISTINGUISHED FELLOW IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Janet Browne, Professor, Harvard University
A Very Short Introduction to the History of Biology

DIBNER RESEARCH FELLOWS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Stefano Gattei, Independent Scholar
The Phoenix and the Architect: Speaking Images and the Engraved Frontispiece of Kepler’s Tabulae Rudolphinae

Renée Raphael, Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
Metals in Motion: Mining Technology between Europe and the Americas, 1400-1800

DANA AND DAVID DORNSIFE FELLOW
Mary Mendoza, Assistant Professor, University of Vermont
Unnatural Border: Race and Environment at the U.S.-Mexico Divide

FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION FELLOW
James Sidbury, Professor, Rice University
E Pluribus Tria: Race Formation in the Age of the American Revolution

MELLON FELLOW
Catherine Bates, Professor, University of Warwick
The Radical Economy of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

MOLINA FELLOW IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE ALLIED SCIENCES Leah Astbury, Fellow, University of Cambridge Breeding Women and Lusty Infants in Seventeenth-Century England