Current Fellows, 2011-12

Visiting Research Fellows

Brian Cowan
McGill University
The British Coffeehouse and the British Empire, 1650-1850

Linda Darling
University of Arizona
Empire and Elites in the Ottoman Seventeenth Century

Barbara Krauthamer
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Runaway Slave Women in the Plantation South

Tanalís Padilla
Dartmouth College
The Unintended Lessons of Revolution: Schoolteachers in the Mexican Countryside, 1940-1970

Internal Research Fellows

Invited Research Fellows

Robyn Metcalfe
Lecturer, Boston University
Cash, Commerce, and the City: The Smithfield Cattle Market in 19th Century London

Visiting Research Associates

Christopher Albi
Independent Scholar
Contested Legalities in Colonial Mexico

Christopher Ernst

Ph.D., University of Toronto
The Transgressive Stage: The Culture of Public Entertainment in Late Victorian Toronto

Luis Gordo Pelaez
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ministry of Education, Spain
Urban Planning and Civic Architecture in the Viceroyalty of New Spain


Rafael Enrique Acevedo Puello
Ph.D. candidate, University of the Andes, Colombia
The political uses of the past. The invention and circulation of a provincial patriotic history in the State of Bolivar, 1830-1860.


Enrique G. Ramirez
Ph.D. candidate, Princeton University
Architecture, Aeronautics, and Air Resistance, 1881-1914

Gerda W. Ray
Associate Professor, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Immigration and private prisons, 1980-2000

Woodruff D. Smith
Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Boston
A Study of Respectability as a Global Cultural Pattern


Serena Sprungl
Ph.D. candidate, Yale University
Pan-American Politics and Mexican American Lives:
Women, Children, and Family as the Building Blocks of a Better Texas, 1930s – 1950s

Selina Todd
Associate Professor, St. Hilda's College, Oxford UK
The People: A History of the British Working Class Since 1918

Sam C. Vong
Ph.D. candidate, Yale University
Compassionate Politics: Care and Suffering in the History of Southeast Asian Refugee Migrations, 1960s-1980s


Past Fellows and Affiliates