Brooke Bachia
Rutgers University–Newark
“Respectability and Resistance: How Black Women Navigated Morality in the Nineteenth Century Anti-Slavery Movement” [Recipient of the College Fellowship in Slavery and Abolition Studies]
Ishaan R. Barrett
Columbia University
“Building Power in the Nation’s Capital from 1790 to 1850: Slave Labor, the Politics of Abolitionism, and the Construction of the White House and Capitol Building in Washington, DC”
Oscar Chan
New York University
“A Legal Analysis of Loyalist Property Confiscation and Origin of the Bill of Attainder Clause”
Quentin A. Colón Roosevelt
Princeton University
“International Abolition: The Influence of Spanish and British Diplomacy in United States v. Schooner Amistad”
Dhriti Jagadish
Claremont McKenna College
“‘Where Judge Kane Got His Law’: Pennsylvania Fugitive Slave Jurisprudence, 1826–1855”
Miray Özmutlu
Minerva University
“Counter-Coding the Archive: Fugitive Slave Ads and the Digital Reclamation of Black Narratives”
Keith G. Pemberton II
Yale University
“The Slavery Question in Transatlantic Diplomacy: How Abolition Movements and the Institution of Slavery Shaped US Foreign Relations in the Early Republic”
Emelia Richling
Stanford University
“Freedom in the Balance: Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Contestation of Economic Regulation and Liberty, 1933–1936”
Emily Scolnick
University of Pennsylvania
“Black Borders of Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Gazette during the Stamp Act Crisis” [Recipient of the Gilder Lehrman College Fellowship in honor of Professor Alan Heimert for a project focusing on seventeenth- or eighteenth-century American history]
Jessica Wang
Harvard University
“Constructing Consent: Judicial Dispossession of Indigenous Communities in the Northeast”