Postdoctoral Fellows

2021-2022 USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Princeton University

Project Title: Bodies and Books in the Early Modern Hispanic World

Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, Whitman College

2018-2020 USC Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of the Early Modern Americas/Atlantic World 
Ph.D. Yale University

Project Title: Patriots Before Revolution: The Rise of Party Politics in the British Atlantic, 1716-1748

Current Position: Assistant Professor of History, University of Alabama at Birmingham

2017-2019 USC Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Harvard University

Current Position: Assistant Professor, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto

2017-2019 USC Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Harvard University

Current Position: Associate Curator of French Painting, National Gallery of Art

2016-2018 USC Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Columbia University

Current Position: Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2018 USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Fellow
Postdoctoral Scholar – Research Associate
Ph.D. Padua University, Italy

Project Title: The Psalter in the Seminary in Padua (MS 353): A Gem of Parisian Gothic Art at the Time of Louis IX (1214-1270)

Current Position: Research Associate in European Art, Huntington Art Museum

2016-2018 USC Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Brown University

Project Title: Prelude to Empire: English State Building in the Atlantic and its Global Repercussions, 1620-1688

Current Position: Assistant Professor of History, George Washington University

2016-2017 USC Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. John Hopkins University

Project Title: The Long Middle Passage: The Enslavement of Africans and the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1640-1807

Current Position: Lecturer in the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, Lancaster University

2014-2016 Provost Postdoctoral Scholar in Early Modern Studies
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

Current Position: Associate Professor of Literatures in English, Cornell University

2014-2016 Provost Postdoctoral Scholar in Early Modern Studies

2014-2016 USC Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Project Title: The Birth of Globalization: Cross-Cultural Knowledge Transfer along European-Asian Trade Routes and the Rise of the Multinational Corporation

Current Position: Codirector, RAND Center for Applied Network Analysis/Management Scientist/Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School

2014-2016 USC Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Project Title: World Art and the Illumination of Virtual Space

Current Position: Director, Visualization Lab for Digital Art History, University of California, Berkeley

2013-2014 CRASSH/EMSI/Harman Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Visual Culture
Ph.D. Yale University

Book Publication:
The Paradox of Body, Building and Motion in Seventeenth-Century England, (Manchester University Press, 2015)

Current Position: Independent Editor and Writer

2012-2014 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern Visual Culture
Ph.D. Northwestern University

Project Title: Imperial Automata

Book Publication:
Animating Empire: Automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World (Penn State University Press, 2018)

Current Position: Associate Professor of Art History, Carleton College

2012-2013 Provost Postdoctoral Scholars in Early Modern Studies
Ph.D. Princeton University

Current Position: Bacca Foundation Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Culture, and Society, Duke University

2011-2013 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Harvard University

Book Publication:
Temptations of Trade: British Agents in Eighteenth-Century Spanish America, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)

Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University

2010-2012 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Princeton University

Book Publication:
Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575–1725, (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

Current Position: Professor of History, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon

2008-2010 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Princeton University

Book Publication:
Forbidden Passages: Muslims and Moriscos in Spanish America, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)

Current Position: Lecturer-History of the Atlantic World at Royal Holloway, University of London

2005-2006 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Cornell University

Book Publication:
Architectural Involutions: Writing, Staging, and Building Space, c. 1435-1650, (Northwestern University Press, 2014)

Current Position: Publications and Interpretative Manager, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University

2004-2006 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Princeton University

Book Publications:
Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin (Yale University Press, 2017)
Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment (University of Chicago, 2012)

Current Position: Professor of Art History and History, USC; Founding Director, Levan Institute for the Humanities, USC; Director, USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison

Current Position: Associate Professor of History, James Madison University