navHench Post-Dissertation Fellows
Established as the Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellowship in 1998, the Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship has been renamed in honor of John B. Hench, who retired in August 2007 as vice president for collections and programs after thirty-three years on the staff of the American Antiquarian Society.
| Fellowship | Affiliation | Position | Project | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altschuler | Sari | 2013-14 | Hench | University of South Florida | assistant professor of English | National Physiology: Literature, Medicine, and the Invention of the American Body, 1789-1860 |
| Anderson | Jennifer | 2006-7 | Hench | New York University | PhD candidate | Nature's Currency: The Atlantic Mahogany Trade, 1725-1825 |
| Badley | Chip | 2023-24 | Hench | University of California Santa Barbara | Lecturer of English | Writing Beauty: Painting and Queer Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
| Carbonell | Caylin | 2020-21 | Hench | College of William & Mary | Ph.D. candidate in history | ’At Home in My Master’s House’: Household, Labor, and Authority in Early New England |
| Cullon | Joseph | 2005-6 | Hench | Dartmouth College | assistant professor | Colonial Shipwrights and their World: Men, Women, and Markets in Early New England |
| Daly | Ann | 2021-22 | Hench | Mississippi State University | assistant professor of history | Minting America: The Politics, Technology and Culture of Money in the Early United States |
| Ford | Bridget | 2002-3 | Hench | University of California, Davis | PhD | Crossing Over: Religion, Race, and Nation in Civil War America |
| Gillis | Brendan | 2016-17 | Hench | Miami University of Ohio | visiting assistant professor | Conduits of Justice: Magistrates and the British Imperial State, 1732-1834 |
| Gordon | Adam | 2011-12 | Hench | UCLA | PhD in English | Cultures of Criticism in Antebellum America |
| Gowan | Emily | 2022-23 | Hench | Boston University | PhD candidate in English | On the Margins: Steady-Sellers and the Problem of Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America |
| Haynes | April | 2009-10 | Hench | University of California, Santa Barbara | PhD in history | Riotous Flesh: Confronting Gender and Sexuality through Grahamite Health Reform, 1830-1860 |
| Homestead | Melissa | 2000-1 | Hench | University of Pennsylvania | PhD candidate | Imperfect Title, Nineteenth-Century American Women Authors and Literary Property |
| Jones | T. Cole | 2014-15 | Hench | The Johns Hopkins University | PhD in history | Deprived of their Liberty: Enemy Prisoners and the Culture of War in Revolutionary America |
| Lepler | Jessica | 2008-9 | Hench | University of New Hampshire | assistant professor | 1837: Anatomy of a Panic |
| Lobel | Cindy | 2004-5 | Hench | CUNY Graduate Center | PhD candidate | Consuming Classes: Changing Food Consumption Patterns in New York City, 1780-1860 |
| Marr | Timothy | 1999-00 | Hench | Yale | Ph.D. candidate | Imagining Ishmael: Studies of Islamic Orientalism in America from the Puritans to Melville |
| Martinko | Whitney | 2015-16 | Hench | Villanova University | assistant professor | Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1785-1860 |
| McCarthy | Molly | 2003-4 | Hench | Brandeis University | Ph.D. candidate | A Page, A Day: A History of the Diary in America |
| McLaughlin | Don James | 2018-19 | Hench | University of Tulsa | assistant professor of 19th-century American literature | Infectious Affect: The Phobic Imagination in American Literature |
| Miller | Rachel | 2019-20 | Hench | Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University | postdoctoral associate | Capital Entertainment: Stage Work and the Origins of the Creative Economy, 1843-1912 |
| Peterson | Dawn | 2012-13 | Hench | New York University | Ph.D. in American studies | Unusual Sympathies: Settler Imperialism, Slavery, and the Politics of Adoption in the Early U.S. Republic |
| Roberts | Kyle | 2007-8 | Hench | University of Pennsylvania | Ph.D. candidate | Evangelical Gotham: Popular Religious Belief in New York City, 1783-1845 |
| Rood | Daniel | 2010-11 | Hench | University of California, Irvine | Ph.D. in history | Plantation Technocrats: A History of Science and Technology in the Slaveholding Atlantic World, 1830-1860 |
| Saba | Roberto | 2017-18 | Hench | University of Pennsylvania | Ph.D. in history | American Mirror: The United States and the Empire of Brazil in the Age of Emancipation |
| Sentilles | Renée | 1998-99 | Hench | Franklin & Marshall College | visiting assistant professor | Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey |
| Silverman | David | 2001-2 | Hench | Princeton University | Ph.D. candidate | Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community Among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871 |
