We are excited to announce our 2026 class of research fellows. Our fellowships support onsite research at our library, making possible the advanced study of the colonial and revolutionary eras through our extensive special collections. This year’s scholars will be studying a variety of themes including: policing and governance in early America, the Stamp Act crisis, George Washington and early American memory, Henry Knox, the concept of health in urbanizing environments and privateering in the American Revolution.
Richard Bell, University of Maryland, “The First American Civil War: Patriots, Loyalists, and the Battle for America” (Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland Fellowship)
Eamonn Bellin, Georgetown University, Anglo-Irish and English officers’ contributions to their politics in Ireland from, 1776-1801 (The State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania Fellowship)
Edward Blum, San Diego State University, “A Republic that Counts: How Numbers Created the United States” (Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Fellowship)
Jason Bohm, Independent scholar, “America’s Marines, The War at Sea and The Penobscot Expedition in the American Revolution, 1775–1779” (Thomas Jay McCahill III Fellowship of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire)
Nicole Breault, University of Texas at El Paso, “Set the Watch: Policing and Governance in Early America” (Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)
Jamie Brummitt, University of North Carolina Wilmington, “Around This Sacred Sarcophagus: Pilgrimages, Relics, and the Tomb of George Washington in Early American Memory” (North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)
Jamie Goodall, Independent scholar, “With a Little Help from My Friends: Why the Royal Navy Needed Loyalist Privateers in the American Revolution” (Keith Armistead Carr Fellowship – Society of Colonial Wars DC)
Phillip Hamilton, Christopher Newport University, a new biography of Henry Knox (Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)
Timothy Hemmis, Texas A&M University – Central Texas, “A Man Caught In Between: Mapping, Espionage, and the Life of the Geographer of the United States, Thomas Hutchins, 1730-1790” (Delaware State Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)
Ricardo Herrera, Professor, ret., Department of National Security and Strategy, U.S. Army War College, “The Campaigns for Savannah, 1778-1779” (Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Georgia Leland Madison Park Fellowship)
Alexandra Langer, Johns Hopkins University, the Stamp Act crisis of 1765 and the broader geographic context in the British colonies (Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maryland Fellowship)
Molly Nebiolo, Butler University, “Constructing Health: Concepts of Well-Being in an Urbanizing Atlantic World” (The Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey Fellowship, sponsored by member Frederic Rogers Kellogg and Molly S. Kellogg, Trustee of The General Henry Knox Museum)
Tanner Ogle, Texas A&M University, “Rebellion Rising: Jacobitism, Conspiracy, and Revolution in the Atlantic World (1745-1788)” (Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut Robert Girard Carroon Fellowship)
Samuel Postell, Clemson University, “Carlo Botta and the Creation of America’s Common Manual” (Society of the Cincinnati of the State of South Carolina Fellowship)
Michał Rastaszański, University of Warsaw, “Tadeusz Kosiuśzko at Saratoga: A Study of the Battle in the Atlantic Context” (New York State Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)
Robert Selig, Independent scholar, “The Journal du Bord of Charles Martin Le Baigue, cuisinier on the 80-gun ship Auguste, March 1781-June 1783” (Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia Fellowship)
The American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati, Inc., seeks to ensure that the history and legacy of the American Revolution in understood and appreciated. The Institute houses one of the world’s leading research libraries on the revolutionary period and provides learning opportunities for teachers, students, scholars and lifelong learners through museum exhibitions and public programs.
Strengths of the Institute’s collections are materials relating to the art of war in the eighteenth century, documents about the conduct of the Revolutionary War, primary sources that provide context for the achievement of the American forces and their French allies in securing the independence of the United States, personal narratives from the war and the archives of the Society of the Cincinnati.