Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence

Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2024-25 Susan Schulten University of Denver Distinguished University Professor of History Maps and Visual Culture in American History
2023-24 Jesse Alemán University of New Mexico Professor Nineteenth-century American literature and US Latino/a literary histories
2022-23 Lisa Brooks Amherst College Henry S. Poler '59 Presidential Teaching Professor of English and American Studies Tracking Molsemsis: An Environmental History of Eastern Coyotes
2021-22 P. Gabrielle Foreman Pennsylvania State University Paterno Family Professor of American Literature and Professor of African American Studies & History Founding Families of the Convention Movement: The Long History of Black Organizing for Civil Rights
2020-21 Manisha Sinha University of Connecticut James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History Reconstruction of American Democracy after the Civil War
2019-20 Karen Sánchez-Eppler Amherst College L. Stanton Williams 1941 Professor of American Studies and English The Archives of Childhood: Playing with the Past
2018-19 Neal Salisbury Smith College Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor Emeritus in the Social Sciences Lives on the Line: Colonial Histories in Early New England
2017-18 Peter S. Onuf University of Virginia Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor The Worlds of Isaiah Thomas
2016-17 Gregory H. Nobles Georgia Institute of Technology Professor Betsey Stockton’s Mission: From Slavery to Freedom, From Princeton to the Pacific
2015-16 Dwight A. McBride Northwestern University Daniel Hale Williams Professor of African American Studies, English, and Performance Studies Poetics, Politics, and Phillis Wheatley
2014-15 Richard L. Bushman Columbia University Gouverneur Morris Professor of History Emeritus Farmers in the Production of the Nation
2014-15 Claudia L. Bushman Columbia University Professor of American Studies Emerita Boston in 1870
2013-14 Mary C. Kelley University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women’s Studies 'What Are You Reading, What Are You Saying?' American Reading and Writing Practices, 1760-1860
2012-13 Christopher D. Castiglia Pennsylvania State University Liberal Arts Research Professor of English The Practices of Hope and other Romantic Dispositions
2011-12 John P. Demos Yale University Samuel Knight Professor of History Emeritus The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
2010-11 Lois E. Horton George Mason University Professor Emerita African Americans and the Concept of Freedom in the Revolutionary Era
2010-11 James O. Horton George Washington University Professor Emeritus A Documentary History of African Americans from 1619 to the Civil War
2009-10 Ezra Greenspan Southern Methodist University Professor William Wells Brown: An African-American Life in Letters
2008-09 David Paul Nord Indiana University, Bloomington Professor Newspapers and Cities in Early America
2007-08 Margaretta M. Lovell University of California, Berkeley Professor of the History of Art Painting the Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and Winslow Homer
2006-07 Philip F. Gura University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill William S. Newman Distinguished Professor The Club of the Like-Minded: A History of New England Transcendentalism
2005-06 Richard Wightman Fox University of Southern California Professor Lincoln's Body, Lincoln's Blood: The Death and Life of the Savior President
2004-05 David D. Hall Harvard University Bartlett Professor of New England Church History A New History of Puritan America
2003-04 Karen Ordahl Kupperman New York University Silver Professor The Founding of Jamestown in Its Atlantic Context
2002-03 Robert A. Gross College of William and Mary Professor The Transcendentalists and Their World
2001-02 Patricia C. Cohen University of California, Santa Barbara Professor Thomas Low Nichols and Mary Gove Nichols: Sex and Marriage Reform in the 1840s
2000-01 Alan S. Taylor University of California, Davis Professor The Divided Ground: The Northern Borderland (U.S. and Canada) in the Wake of the American Revolution
1999-00 Karen Halttunen University of California, Davis Professor American Pilgrimage: A Cultural History of Plymouth Rock
1998-99 Jay Fliegelman Stanford University Professor Storied Associations: Books from Important American Libraries, 1650-1860, and the Tales they Tell