Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows

Jessica Keating

2012-2014 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Visual Culture
B.A. Ohio State University, Ph.D. Northwestern University

Project Title: Imperial Automata


Adrian Finucane

Adrian Finucane

2011-2013 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
B.A. Yale, Ph.D. Harvard

Project Title: The South Sea Company and Anglo-Spanish Connections, 1713-1739


Vera Keller

Vera Keller

2010-2012 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
A.B. Harvard, Ph.D. Princeton

Project title:  The Desiderata List: Collecting the Future in the Early Modern Past

Current Academic Affiliation:Assistant Professor of History, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon


Karoline (Kaja) Cook

Karoline (Kaja) Cook

2008-2010 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
A.B. Bryn Mawr, Ph.D. Princeton

Project Title:  Forbidden Crossings: Muslims and Moriscos in Spanish America, 1492-1650.

Current Academic Affiliation: Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Daniela Bleichmar

Daniela Bleichmar

2004-2006 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
A.B. Harvard, Ph.D. Princeton

Project Title: Visual Culture in Eighteenth-Century Natural History. Botanical Illustrations and Expeditions in the Spanish Atlantic

Current Academic Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Art History and History, USC


Mimi Yiu

2005-2006 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Cornell

Current Academic Affiliation: Assistant Professor of English, Georgetown University


Alison Sandman

Alison Sandman

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
A.B. Harvard, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison

Current Academic Affiliation: Assistant Professor of History, James Madison University