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