Long-Term Fellows
American Council of Learned Societies/Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellows
Brodwyn Fischer
Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University
Great Migrations: Emancipation and Urbanization in Brazil, 1880-1970
Bianca Premo
Associate Professor of History, Florida International University
Taking Tyrants to Court: Civil Litigation in the Spanish Empire during the Age of Enlightenment
Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History
Juliana Barr
Associate Professor of History, University of Florida
La Dama Azul (The Woman in Blue): Gender and Religion in Spanish and Indian Worlds
Lloyd Lewis/Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities
Andrew Needham
Assistant Professor of History, New York University
Power Lines: Energy Development and the Making of the Modern Southwest
Engineering Sustainability: Nature and Technology in Modern America
Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel/Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities
Susan McDonough
Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Judging Your Neighbor: Building a Culture of Neighborliness in a Late Medieval Port Town
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities
İbrahim Kaya Şahin
Assistant Professor of History, Tulane University
Representing the Ottoman-Safavid Conflict (ca. 1500-1650): European Observations on Imperial and Confessional Rivalry in the Middle East
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows
Jacob Dorman
Assistant Professor of History, University of Kansas
Vernacular Ethnology: African American Performance and Parody of Muslim and Oriental Identities in Minstrelsy, Vaudeville, and Early Cinema
Lisa Freeman
Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago
Antitheatricality and the Body Public: From the Renaissance to the NEA
Sarah Pearsall
Senior Lecturer in History, Oxford Brookes University
Beyond One Man and One Woman: A History of Early American Polygamy
Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Faculty Fellow
Jean O’Brien
Professor of History and American Studies, University of Minnesota
Children’s Literature and Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century New England
Long-Term Faculty Fellows
Associated Colleges of the Midwest Faculty Fellows
On the Road: Intercultural Encounters from Europe to the Americas
Benjamin Goluboff
Associate Professor of English, Lake Forest College
David George
Professor of Spanish, Lake Forest College
Newberry Undergraduate Seminar Faculty Fellows
Constructing the Queen: Elizabeth I
Regina Buccola
Associate Professor of English, Roosevelt University
Celeste Chamberland
Assistant Professor History, Roosevelt University
Short-Term Fellows
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Darryl Domingo
Instructor of English, University of Toronto
Unbending the Mind: or, The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature & Culture, 1690-1760
Lester J. Cappon Fellows in Documentary Editing
José António Brandão
Professor of History, Western Michigan University
Memoirs of Michilimackinac
Douglas Kibbee
Professor of French, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Political Philosophy and the Establishment of the Standard Language in France, 1550-1651
Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) Faculty Fellows
Laura Muñoz
Lecturer in Art History, Universidad de Salamanca
The Effects of Globalization on Art: Architectural Transferences Between Europe and the United States During the 21st Century
Sarah Sasson
Lecturer in French, IES Paris/Business and International Affairs Program
The Countess de Boigne: Scribe of Her Time
Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Fellows
Angela Calcaterra
PhD Candidate in English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Locating Natives in American Literary History
Glenda Goodman
PhD Candidate in Historical Musicology, Harvard University
Songs Crossing the Atlantic: Identity, Belonging, and the Making of Hybrid Music in America
Jonathan Hancock
PhD Candidate in History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Shocks to the Natural Order: Indians, Settlers, Slaves, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
Elaine Nelson
PhD Candidate in History, University of New Mexico
Dreams and Dust in the Black Hills: Contested Identities in America’s “Land of Promise”: 1800-1973
Benjamin Reed
PhD Candidate in History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Devotion to Saint Philip Neri in Colonial Mexico City, 1659-1821
Christopher Steinke
PhD Candidate in History, University of New Mexico
Borderlands Conduit : The Missouri River Trade Corridor, 1718-1803
Kate Williams
PhD Candidate in History, University of Minnesota
Cyd Safiad (Standing Together): The Politics of Alliance of Welsh and American Indian Rights’ Movements, 1960s-2000
Newberry Short-Term Resident Fellows
Kate Arthur
PhD Candidate in English, University of Exeter
The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania in Conversation with Safavid Persia
Robert Baker
Assistant Professor of History, Georgia State University
Constitutional Law, Historical Narratives, and the Fugitive Slave Clause
William Campbell
Assistant Professor of History, California State University
Las Indígenas on the Imperial Fringe: Allies and Adversaries in the Northern Amazonian Andes and Upper Ohio Country, 1535-1774
Alejandro Cañeque
Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland
Religion, Colonialism, and the Politics of Martyrdom in the Spanish Empire
Stephanie Crumbaugh
PhD Candidate in History, Johns Hopkins University
Capital Negotations: Native Diplomats in the American Capital from the Continental Congress to Andrew Jackson
Brian Gillis
PhD Candidate in English, University of California at Berkeley
Native Tongues: Red English, Translation, and the Transnational in American Indian Literature
Julia Guarneri
PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Making Metropolitans: Urban Culture and Print Community in U.S. Newspapers, 1880-1930
Nathaniel Holdren
PhD Candidate in History, University of Minnesota
“The Compensation Law Put Us Out Of Work”: Workplace Injury Law, Pre-Employment Physicals and Discriminatory Hiring in the Early 20th Century United States
Sarah Keyes
PhD Candidate in History, University of Southern California
Beyond the Plains: Migration to the Pacific and the Reconfiguration of America, 1820-1900
Brian Lockey
Associate Professor in English, St. John’s University
Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans: Writing at the Margins of Early Modern England
John López
PhD Candidate in the History of Architecture and Art, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Hydrographic City: Mapping Mexico City’s Urban Form in Relation to its Aquatic Condition, 1521-1700
Mark Meuwese
Associate Professor of History, University of Winnipeg
Ethnic Soldiering Among the Mohawks of Colonial New York and the Potiguars of Northeastern Brazil in the Era of European Colonization, circa 1500-1800
Emily Michelson
Lecturer of History, University of St. Andrews
The Pulpit and the Press in Catholic Italy, 1520-1600
Eric Olmanson
Independent Scholar, Rachel Carson Center
CB&Q Railroad
Jeff Ostler
Professor of History, University of Oregon
Toward a History of an Indigenous Consciousness of Genocide and Destruction: Memories of Gnadenhütten
Birgit Tremml
Teaching Assistant of History, University of Vienna
The Philippines and the Pacific Ocean: Interfaces for Intercultural Encounters in the Early Modern Era
Daniel Wasserman
PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
The Languages of Catholicism: Evangelization and Linguistic Politics in the Spanish World, c. 1550-1600
Daniel Watkins
PhD Candidate in History, Ohio State University
Writing the History of the People of God: Criticism, Censorship, and Enlightenment in the Affaire Berruyer (1728-1765)
Kelly Wisecup
Assistant Professor of English, University of North Texas
Communicating Disease: Medicine and Writing in Early American Colonial Encounters
Susan Kelly Power and Helen Hornbeck Tanner Fellow
Brian Gillis
PhD Candidate in English, University of California at Berkeley
Native Tongues: Red English, Translation, and the Transnational in American Indian Literature
Short-Term Fellows in the History of Cartography
Pamela Brekka
PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Florida
The Antwerp Polyglot Bible: Montano’s ‘New World Indian-Jew’ Map as a Reflection of Sixteenth-Century Cultural Crosscurrents
Spencer Snow
PhD Candidate in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Reading the Map: The Nationalization of Geographic Space, Reading Publics, and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century American Identity, 1803-1898
South Central Modern Language Association Fellow
Mónica Díaz
Assistant Professor of Colonial Spanish America, University of Texas Pan American
Indigenous Nobility in New Spain: Forging an Ethnic Identity
Special Awards and Fellowships
Frances C. Allen Fellows
Nichole Keway
PhD Candidate in English, Michigan State University
“Anishinaabek Abroad”: Traditional and 19th Century Stories of the Journey
Cheryl Cash
PhD Candidate in American Cultural Studies, Bowling Green State University
The Art of Community Building: Art and Survival in the Post World War II Chicago Indian Community
Newberry/British Academy Exchange Fellows
To the British Academy:
Paul Patterson
Assistant Professor of English, St. Joseph’s University
Speculum Devotorum: An Edition with Commentary
Samuel Thomas
Assistant Professor of History, University of Alabama at Huntsville
Midwifery, Medicine, and Society in England, 1660-1725
To the Newberry:
Fred Schurink
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Newcastle University
Renaissance Translations of Plutarch’s Essays and Lives: A New Edition
Newberry/École des Chartes Exchange Fellows
To the École Nationale des Chartes:
Anna Dysert
M.L.S Candidate in Archival Studies, McGill University
Medical Marginalia and the Creation of the Canon: the Developing Mise-en-page of Medical Treatises, 1100-1300
To the Newberry:
Delphine Le Corfec
Archivist-in-Training, École Nationale des Chartes
Caxton at the Newberry Library
Lawrence Lipking Fellow at the Newberry
Gregory Laski
PhD Candidate in English, Northwestern University
The Present-Past: Race, Repetition, and the Temporality of American Democracy after Slavery
Arthur and Lila Weinberg Fellow
Richard Cahan
Independent Scholar
Chicago Artifact