This program wrapped up in 2020 and is no longer accepting applications.
The Bernard and Irene Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellows Program was established in 2005 to foster a vibrant scholarly relationship between the New-York Historical Society and The New School. Postdoctoral fellows were invited to help build this connection through research, teaching, and public history programming. The positions were open to scholars who would have completed a PhD in History or American Studies before the end of the academic year of their application.
In the course of a one-year (non-renewable) fellowship, Bernard and Irene Schwartz fellows developed a major research project with New-York Historical Society resources, taught two undergraduate courses at The New School's Eugene Lang College, and shared in both institutions’ commitments to public history.
Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellows have an outstanding record of producing distinguished scholarship during and after the program and have proceeded to positions at diverse institutions.
Previous Bernard and Irene Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellows
Roark Atkinson,
Assistant Professor, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Invisible Plantations:
Religious Violence, Occult Healing, and Witchcraft in the Scottish Atlantic
World, 1590-1820 (forthcoming)
Kathryn Boodry
The Thread: Cotton
Slavery and Finance from the Louisiana Purchase to ReconstructionÌý(forthcoming, Columbia ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú Press)
Radiclani Clytus,
Assistant Professor, Brown ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú
Graphic Slavery:
American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual (forthcoming, New York
ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú Press)
Matthew Dziennik,
Assistant Professor, United States Naval Academy
(Yale ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú Press,
2015)
Sam Haselby,
Senior Editor, Aeon
Ìý(Oxford ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú Press, 2015)
April Holm,
Assistant Professor, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú of Mississippi
A Kingdom Divided:
Border Evangelicals in the Civil War Era (forthcoming)
David Huyssen,
Lecturer in American History, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú of York
(Harvard ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú Press,
2014)
Christopher Klemek,
Associate Professor, George Washington ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú
(ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú of Chicago Press, 2011)
Daniel Levinson-Wilk,
Associate Professor of History, FIT
Cliff Dwellers: Modern
Service in New York City, 1800–1945 (forthcoming)
Catherine McNeur,
Assistant Professor, Portland State ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú
(Harvard ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú Press,
2014)
Christopher Minty,
Assistant Editor at The Adams Papers Editorial Project at the Massachusetts
Historical Society
United by
Association: Partisanship and the Origins of the American Revolution
(forthcoming)
Dael Norwood,
Assistant Professor, SUNY Binghampton
Trading Freedom: How
Commerce with China Defined Early America (forthcoming, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú of
Chicago Press)
Brendan O'Malley,
Assistant Professor, Newbury College
Protecting the
Stranger: Regulating Immigration, Citizenship, and Public Welfare in
Nineteenth-Century New York (forthcoming)
Lauren Santangelo,
Writing Seminar Faculty, Princeton Writing Program
The "Feminized" City:
New York and Suffrage, 1870-1917 (forthcoming)
Christine Walker,
Assistant Professor, Yale-NUS College
Jamaica Ladies:
Gender, Authority and Atlantic Slavery (forthcoming)
Mason Williams,
Assistant Professor, Albright College
(W.W. Norton, 2013)