Below is a list of all recipients of Gilder Lehrman College Fellowships since the program’s founding. The fellow’s name, home institution at the time of the fellowship, and project title are followed by the research archive and year of the award. (COL - Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library; GLC - Gilder Lehrman Collection; NYHS - New-York Historical Society; NYPL - New York Public Library; SCH - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Austen, Cooper
Princeton University
“Profit vs. Patriotism: Privateering and the Formation of the American Navy during the Revolutionary War” (GLC, NYPL, 2024)
Bastola, Kashish [Recipient of the inaugural Gilder Lehrman College Fellowship in honor of Professor Alan Heimert (1928–1999) for a project focusing on seventeenth or eighteenth-century American history]
Harvard University
“Dixie is Asian: Eighteenth-Century Asian American Community Formation in the Gulf South” (GLC, NYPL, Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum, 2024)
Billups, Mashayla
Howard University
“Black Communities and Domestic Terrorism: An Analysis” (GLC, NYHS, SCH, 2022)
Bojko, Alexandre
University of South Florida
“Jacksonian Charisma and Whig Non-Conformity: An Analysis of the Political Rhetoric of Democrats and Whigs in the Election of 1840” (NYPL, NYHS, Morgan Library, 2023)
Brown, Christopher Jordan
Columbia University
“The Political Craze: Investigating African American Officeholders during Reconstruction” (GLC, NYPL, SCH, 2024)
Brown, Natalie
Yale University
“African American Music as a Tool of Resistance” (GLC, COL, SCH, 2023)
Calvagno, Vincent
Adelphi University
“‘A Matter of So Much Importance’: The Treatment of Native American Prisoners of War in the New York Campaign of 1776” (GLC, NYPL, 2024)
Chen, Zirui
Columbia University
“The Great North Carolina Klan Trials, 1870–1871: Due Process, State Action, and the Southern Redemption of the Fourteenth Amendment” (GLC, NYPL, 2022)
Harris, Holly
Texas Christian University
“The Life of Warren David Gribbons: American Air Force POW during WWII” (GLC, Brooklyn Public Library, 2022)
Hochman, Sasha
Barnard College
“What Does It Mean to Write a ‘History of the Present’? Mercy Otis Warren’s History of the American Revolution” (GLC, 2022)
Huang, Muyao
Rice University
“Interpersonal Conflicts and Diplomatic Strategies: American Merchants in China” (GLC, NYPL, COL, 2024)
Johnson, Baird
Stanford University
“Contesting the Nature of the Union: Complicating the Ratification Debate” (GLC, 2023)
Johnson, Khari Eyèn Zamé
Howard University
“Days of Judgment: The Resurrectionist Riots of 1788 and Their Impact on Early Black American Communities” (GLC, NYHS, NYPL, SCH, 2024)
Kaltenbacher, Aidan
Saint Louis University
“Development of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States after the Civil War” (NYPL, GLC, Barnard College Archives and Special Collections, 2023)
Kaul, Ishani
Rice University
“An Analysis of Journalism Surrounding the American Women’s Suffrage Movement” (GLC, 2022)
Konrad, Sarah
Duke University
“Person and Property at Once: The Peculiar Case of The State v. Cally, a Slave” (GLC, 2023)
Kupor, Alexa
Stanford University
“Politics on the Periphery: The Redefinition of Civic Participation by Early American Petitioners” (GLC, SCH, Peabody Essex Museum, Boston Public Library, 2024)
Liu, Novia
Stanford University
“Revolutionizing the Second Chamber: Bicameralism, Republicanism, and the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution” (GLC, NYPL, 2023)
Ma, Daniel
Yale University
“Choctaw Claims and Choctaw-Chickasaw Treaties: A Single Political Topic?” (GLC, Oklahoma History Center, 2022)
Mes, Benoit
University of Oxford
“Across the Color Line: Intimate Interracial Relationships in the United States of America before Loving v. Virginia (1967)” (SCH, COL, GLC, Queens College Civil Rights Archive, 2023)
Nash, William
Princeton University
“Am I My Brother’s Keeper? James and Joshua Speed in Antebellum American History” (NYPL, GLC, 2023)
Page, Faith [Recipient of the Gilder Lehrman College Fellowship in Slavery and Abolition Studies]
College of William and Mary
“Black Reconstruction: How African Americans Fought for Freedom, Suffrage, and Respect” (GLC, NYPL, SCH, COL, 2024)
Rangel, Alonso
Concordia University
“The Mexican American Boundaries Revisited” (GLC, 2022)
Reutenauer, Gwyn
Barnard College
“Uncovering Tobacco: The Role of the Crop in the Colonization and Settlement of Connecticut” (GLC, Beinecke Library, 2023)
Schapiro, Jacob
College of William and Mary
“Investigating African American Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century through the Calhoun Industrial School” (GLC, 2023)
Sperber, Grace
Stanford University
“Meaning at the Pyre: Constitutional Thought at the Frontier” (GLC, 2022)
Torres Infesta, Ryan
University of Pennsylvania
“Economic Architect of a Nation: An Analysis of Robert Morris's Policies as Superintendent of Finance” (GLC, NYPL, 2024)
Trabosci, Sierra Love
University of New Mexico
“The Impact of the American West on the United States Civil War” (GLC, COL, 2022)
Venkataraman, Esha
Barnard College
“Colonization Posed as Liberation: The American Colonization Society in the Nineteenth Century” (GLC, NYPL, SCH, COL, NYU, 2024)
Yelnosky, Samuel Martin
Columbia University
“The Southern Roots of Cold War Development Policy” (GLC, 2022)