Past Fellows

Mark R. Anderson, independent researcher, Colorado Springs, Colorado, to conduct research on the structure and unit deployment of the Continental Northern Army from the army’s establishment in 1775 through the end of the Canadian campaign of 1776. (2016 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Gabriella Angeloni, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Carolina, to explore the effects in South Carolina of the allegations concerning the Society of the Cincinnati’s establishment of a military elite. (2015 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Benjamin Armstrong, a Ph.D. candidate at King’s College, London, to examine the operational history of the Continental Navy using the example of John Paul Jones’s ship, the Ranger. (2015 Society of the Cincinnati Scholars’ Grant)

Friederike Baer, Ph.D., assistant professor of history at Pennsylvania State University at Abington, to conduct research for a book on Baroness Friederike Riedesel, wife of the commander of the German auxiliary troops who fought with General Burgoyne at Saratoga. (2011 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Paul Bartow, a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of South Carolina, to research the production, distribution and use of gunpowder in Revolutionary America. (2019 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Krysten Blackstone, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Edinburgh, to analyze soldiers’ diaries, memoirs and correspondence from the Revolutionary War, to better understand the morale of enlisted soldiers in the Continental Army. (2018 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Jennifer Bolton, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Davis, to study how the environmental conditions of military camps affected the health, and in turn, the loyalty, of Continental soldiers. (2012 Tyree-Lamb Fellowship)

Mark Boonshoft, Ph.D., an assistant professor of history at Norwich University, to conduct research for a book project that explores the politics of education in the early American republic and how members of the Society of the Cincinnati (individually and collectively) supported academies. (2018 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

C.C. Borzilleri, a Ph.D. candidate at the George Washington University, to research the emergence, experiences and impact of women printers in America in the period of the Revolution and the early Republic. (2023 Leland Madison Park Library Fellowship)

Greg Brooking, Ph.D., assistant professor of history at Kennesaw State University and Reinhardt University, to examine the life and imperial career of Sir James Wright, Georgia’s longest-tenured colonial governor, in an effort to understand the complex struggle for power in both the colonial southeast and the eighteenth-century British Empire. (2015 Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maryland Fellowship at the Society of the Cincinnati)

Alexander Burns, a Ph.D. candidate at West Virginia University, to examine the lives of soldiers as shaped by religion, community, and personal allegiances in support of his dissertation, “’The Entire Army Says Hello’: Common Soldiers’ Experience in European Armies, 1740-1815.” (2019 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

John Burrow, a Ph.D. candidate at Mississippi State University, to study the ways of war in colonial North America, with a particular focus on Bacon’s Rebellion. (2017 Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maryland Fellowship at the Society of the Cincinnati)

Benjamin L. Carp, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Tufts University, to research fear among civilians and soldiers during the American Revolution. (2012 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Tamara Caulkins, Ph.D., lecturer at Central Washington University, to supper her project “Military Drill and Geometry in Revolutionary America” that makes the case that the coordination of “bodies on the ground” is as important as advancements in military technology to understanding the theory and practice of the art of war in the American Revolution. (2022 Society of the Cincinnati Scholars’ Grant)

Thomas A. Chambers, Ph.D., professor of history at Canisius College, to examine George Washington’s relationships with New York City and New Yorkers throughout his military and political career. (2023 Tyree-Lamb Fellowship)

Lindsay Bowles Chervinsky, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Davis, to conduct research into the creation of the first presidential cabinet under George Washington and its development under later presidents. (2015 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Kate Clarke, a Ph.D. candidate at University of Edinburgh, and lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, to study Scottish contributions to the American Revolution and the impact and motivations of several Scotsmen who were leading officers in the Continental Army and Navy. (2021 Tyree-Lamb Fellowship)

Dennis Conrad, Ph.D., independent researcher (retired historian of the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command and editor of The Papers of General Nathanael Greene), to conduct research for an in-depth study of Gen. Nathanael Greene’s transition from quartermaster general to commanders of the Continental forces in the South during the critical year 1780. (2021 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Tom Cutterham, a D.Phil. candidate in history at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, U.K., to examine the establishment of the Society of the Cincinnati and its relationship to the emergence of Federalism in the United States. (2012 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Mark H. Danley, Ph.D., librarian and assistant professor at the University of Memphis, to research the relationship of military thought and publishing in the eighteenth century. (2007 Society of the Cincinnati Scholars’ Grant)

Huw Davies, a senior lecturer at the Defence Studies Department, King’s College, London, to study the transfer and transformation of military knowledge in the mid-eighteenth century for a book project, A Wandering Army: British Military Power 1750-1850. (2019 Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maryland Fellowship)

Iris de Rode, Ph.D., author and independent researcher, to examine the collaboration of French and American military leaders that secured American Independence, focusing on the involvement and contributions of Rochambeau, Vioménil, Chastellux and La Luzerne for a book, Military Enlightenment on the Ground. (2023 Ellen McCallister Clark Massachusetts Library Fellowship)

Michael Demson, Ph.D., associate professor of English at Sam Houston State University, to research the British use of prison ships and their impact on cultural imaginations and political sensibilities in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries for a book, British Hulks in Romantic Seascapes. (2023 American Independence Center Scholarship in honor of Hollis Warren Merrick, M.D.)

Jonathan Den Hartog, Ph.D., professor of history at Samford University, to research the public activity, thought and popular perceptions of John Jay to measure Jay’s influence in the broader culture of Revolutionary America, for a book, John Jay: Founding Statesman. (2022 Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland Library Fellowship)

Samantha Driscoll, a researcher for the National Park Service, to study personal narratives of American and French soldiers on the march to Yorktown for the interpretation of the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail. (2013 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Charles R. Drummond IV, a Ph.D. candidate at Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K., to research political thinking about military power and standing armies in eighteenth-century Britain and America. (2014 Tyree-Lamb Fellowship)

John L. Dwiggins, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, to study military power and democratic politics in America in the decades immediately following the American Revolution. (2010 Tyree-Lamb Fellowship)

Steven Elliott, a Ph.D. candidate at Temple University, to study how the Continental Army developed new methods of sheltering soldiers during the Revolutionary War, with a focus on winter encampments. (2017 Society of the Cincinnati Scholars’ Grant)

Rachel Engl, a Ph.D. candidate at Lehigh University, to explore the bonds of friendship and social connections within the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. (2017 Society of the Cincinnati Scholars’ Grant)

Peter Eubanks, Ph.D., associate professor of French at James Madison University, to study French observations of Americans and American life during the early years of the American republic. (2020 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

David J. Gary, a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. history at CUNY-Graduate Center, to study the Enlightenment roots of the Society of the Cincinnati. (2008 Society of the Cincinnati Scholars’ Grant)

Robb K. Haberman, Ph.D., lecturer in the Department of History at Fordham University, to study the content, context and editorial choices made by Revolutionary War veteran James Selkirk of the New York Continental Line in writing his manuscript memoir, for an annotated published edition. (2023 New York State Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

John Hannigan, a Ph.D. candidate in history at Brandeis University, to research the impact of military experience on black culture and attitudes about slavery in Massachusetts at the time of the American Revolution. (2014 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Ricardo Herrera, Ph.D., associate professor of military history at the School of Advanced Military Studies, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, to examine the largely unknown foraging expedition during the winter encampment at Valley Forge. (2015 Society of the Cincinnati Scholars’ Grant)

Donald Johnson, a Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University, to research the failure of imperial authority in occupied American cities during the Revolutionary War. (2013 Tyree-Lamb Fellowship)

Herbert Johnson, professor emeritus from the University of South Carolina, to study the influence of Revolutionary War military organization on the U.S. Constitution. (2013 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Trenton Cole Jones, a Ph.D. candidate at The Johns Hopkins University, to research the administration of enemy prisoners of war and American military culture during the Revolutionary War. (2010 Society of the Cincinnati Scholars’ Grant)

David Keenan, a Ph.D. candidate in history at Northwestern University, to research the Society of the Cincinnati and its political influence. (2009 Society of the Cincinnati Scholars’ Grant)

Grant Kleiser, a Ph.D. candidate in history at Columbia University, to conduct research in support of his dissertation, “Ruining the ‘Golden Rock:’ British Campaigns against St. Eustatius, 1766-1781.” (2020 Keith Armistead Carr Fellowship)

Timothy C. Leech, a Ph.D. candidate at The Ohio State University, to explore the political process of founding the Continental Army and the transition of fundamentally local acts of resistance to cohesive military rebellion. (2016 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Benoit Leridon, a Ph.D. candidate in history at University of Birmingham (U.K.), to investigate how French-American friendships formed during the American Revolution engendered support for the French Revolution among many prominent South Carolinians. (2021 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

John R. Maass, a Ph.D. candidate at The Ohio State University, to research the Revolutionary War and state formation in North Carolina, 1776-1789. (2007 Tyree-Lamb Fellowship)

Scott Madere, a Ph.D. candidate at Louisiana State University, to conduct research on the influence of classical antiquity on eighteenth-century military theory and practice, identifying and documenting the use of works of classical authors that were in print and in circulation in the era of the American Revolution. (2023 Keith Armistead Carr Fellowship)

Holly Mayer, associate professor of history at Duquesne University, to examine the social and institutional dynamics of Moses Hazen’s Second Canadian, “Congress’s Own,” Regiment. (2013 Society of the Cincinnati Scholars’ Grant)

Scott C. Miller, a Ph. D. candidate at the University of Virginia, to explore the impact of America’s early financial crises on Revolutionary War veterans. (2016 Tyree-Lamb Fellowship)

Bénédicte Miyamoto, an associate professor in History and Art History at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, to conduct research for a book titled The Art of War: Military Pictorial Works in the Eighteenth Century. (2019 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Keith Muchowski, M.L.S., M.A., associate professor at New York City College of Technology, to study the life and career of Richard Varick, Revolutionary War veteran, lawyer and public official. (2022 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Patrick Mullins, Ph.D., assistant professor of history at Marquette University, to research documentary, visual and material evidence of the “cult of tyrannicide” in the Colonial and Revolutionary period, for a book titled All True Patriots: The Cultural Politics of Resistance in the Transatlantic American Revolution. (2021 Keith Armistead Carr Fellowship)

Constance Nestor, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Stirling, Scotland, to support research documenting the participation of American colonists from Scotland who aligned with opposing forces (patriot or loyalist) during the Revolutionary War and the resulting diaspora of Scottish loyalists after the war. (2023 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Patrick O’Brien, Ph.D., lecturer at Kennesaw State University, to investigate the material and ideological concerns that shaped loyalist women’s allegiance during the colonial crisis and into the Revolutionary era, for a book project, Unknown and Unlamented: Loyalist Women, Exile, and the American Revolution. (2022 Keith Armistead Carr Fellowship)

Kieran O’Keefe, a Ph.D. candidate at the George Washington University, to conduct research for his dissertation on loyalists, patriots and violence in the Hudson River Valley. (2019 Keith Armistead Carr Fellowship)

Julia Osman, a Ph.D. candidate in French history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, to research the changes in the French Army from 1662 to 1790 and the development of the French construction of the notion of the citoyen armée. (2009 Tyree-Lamb Fellowship)

Christy Pichichero, Ph.D., assistant professor of French at George Mason University, to investigate how French military officers, administrators and soldiers participated in advancing ideas of human and political rights, military psychology and war trauma, and social justice. (2015 Tyree-Lamb Fellowship)

Thomas A. Rider II, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to analyze the Continental Army’s practice of partisan warfare (petite guerre) during the Revolutionary War and the sources that influenced its commanders. (2018 Tyree-Lamb Fellowship)

Meg Roberts, a Ph.D. candidate at University of Cambridge, Newnham College, to conduct research in support of her dissertation on the role and practice of nursing/caregiving and care networks in America, and especially in the Continental Army, during the Revolutionary War. (2023 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Jessica Choppin Roney, Ph.D., associate professor at Temple University, to conduct research for her book Revolutionary Settlement: Colonies of the American Revolution, which examines the political arrangements provoked by the demographic upheaval of the constitutional period as free migrants moved north and west to form new communities. (2022 Tyree-Lamb Fellowship)

John Ruddiman, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University and then as assistant professor of history at Wake Forest University, to conduct research on the impact of military service on the lives of the young officers of the Continental Army. (2007 and 2012 Society of the Cincinnati Scholars’ Grants)

Ian Saxine, a Ph.D. candidate in history at Northwestern University, to research the common culture of violence among Native Americans and European colonists on the Maine frontier, 1688-1763. (2014 Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maryland Fellowship at the Society of the Cincinnati)

Robert A. Selig, Ph.D., author, historian and historical consultant, to transcribe and translate into English the extensive account of the Yorktown campaign in Dupleix de Cadignan’s manuscript journal—held in the Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Collection—for a scholarly, annotated edition of this generally unknown primary source. (2023 Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia Library Fellowship)

Gary Sellick, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Carolina, to study the Carolina Corps, a British unit of black troops raised in South Carolina and evacuated to the Caribbean in 1782. (2017 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Douglas G. S. Simes, Ph.D., senior lecturer in history at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, to study the eighteenth-century military works of Thomas Simes in the context of the art-of-war literature of his time. (2007 and 2008 Society of the Cincinnati Scholars’ Grants)

Nora Slonimsky, a Ph.D. candidate at the City University of New York Graduate Center, to examine how copyright, particularly in cartography, illustrates competing ideas about the role of the press and literary labor in supporting national and political identity. (2016 Society of the Cincinnati Scholars’ Grant)

Craig Bruce Smith, a Ph.D. candidate at Brandeis University, to conduct research in the Society of the Cincinnati archives for evidence of personal and collective honor among the Revolutionary generation. (2011 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Donald J. Stoker, Ph.D., professor at the U.S. Naval War College Postgraduate School, to research military strategy during the Colonial and Revolutionary periods of American history. (2007 Society of the Cincinnati Scholars’ Grant)

Riley Sutherland, a B.A. and M.A. candidate at the University of South Carolina, to conduct research for her master’s thesis, “Industrious Women: Female Military Workers in the Revolutionary War and American Memory.” (2022 Nicholas Sellers Fellowship)

Christopher Tozzi, Ph.D., assistant professor of European history at Howard University, to investigate the participation of foreign and minority soldiers in the French army and attitudes toward foreign troops within the United States during the American Revolution. (2014 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

Patricia R. Turner, Ph.D., a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, to conduct research for a book project on the life and career of Col. Armand de la Rouërie, a French volunteer to the American cause who commanded the partisan corps known as “Armand’s Legion” and became a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. (2018 Society of the Cincinnati Scholars’ Grant)

Gregory J. W. Urwin, Ph.D., professor of history at Temple University, to examine the impact of the British campaign in Virginia before the Yorktown siege. (2011 Tyree-Lamb Fellowship)

Christopher Walton, a Ph.D. candidate at Southern Methodist University, to examine the effects of the American Revolution on the religious experiences of Congregationalist non-combatants in the Connecticut River Valley during the war years. (2022 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)

David Ward, a Ph.D. candidate at the College of William and Mary, to examine the effect of extended volunteer military service and the role of military veterans in the economic and geographic expansion of the early republic. (2017 Tyree-Lamb Fellowship)

John B. Weaver, a Ph.D. candidate in history at West Virginia University, to study foreign volunteers in the Continental Army and their relationship with German-American officers in the Continental Army (2020) and to conduct research in support of his dissertation examining the rifle in North American from the era of the French and Indian War through the War of 1812 (2023). (2020 Society of the Cincinnati Scholars’ Grant; 2023 Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland Library Fellowship)

Col. Kevin J. Weddle, Ph.D., professor at the U.S. Army War College, to conduct research for a book on the Saratoga Campaign of 1777. (2007 Society of the Cincinnati Scholars’ Grant)

Glenn F. Williams, historian at the National Museum of the U.S. Army, to research the military and political history of Lord Dunmore’s War of 1774. (2008 Tyree-Lamb Fellowship)

Nathan Wuertenberg, a Ph.D. candidate at the George Washington University, to conduct research on the military and political aspects of the 1775 Quebec Campaign. (2017 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)