Full List of Fellows | Georgian Papers Programme

All Georgian Papers Programme Fellows from 2015-present

King’s College London Summer Fellowship

2020

Mary Lousie O’Donnell (Harpist/musicologist) – The politics and pageantry of George IV’s visit to Ireland in 1821′

Stephanie Howard Smith (University of York) – The Queen’s Dog Physician: Canine Care in the Georgian Court’

2019

Paige Emerick (University of Leicester) – Royal visits within Britain

Matthew McCormack (University of Northampton) – Shoes and buckles at the Georgian court

2018

Huw Davies (King’s College London) – Military command in Britain and America

Kate Gibson (University of Sheffield) – William IV and the experiences of illegitimate children in England between 1660 and 1834

Elizabeth Spencer (University of York) – Royal women and accounting

2017

Madeleine Pelling (University of York) – “Your Affectionate Friend”: Queen Charlotte, Mary Delany and the Art of Friendship

Carolyn Day (Furman University) – Uncovering the Invalid: The Social, Medical, and Personal Responses to the Illness of Princess Amelia (1783-1810)

2016

Jane Levi (King’s College London) – Food & Family Values: From Farm to Table in the Georges’ Households, 1760-1820

Felicity Myrone (British Library) – The topographical map collection of George III

Daniel Reed (Oxford Brookes) – Royal ecclesiastical patronage, bishops of the Northern province who held roles at Court and the Privy Council between 1714-1760

Adam Crymble (University of Hertfordshire) – Digitising a 227-year-old Dinner – a ‘big data’ approach to the dinner that George III ate with his wife on 6 February 1789

2015

Miranda Reading (King’s College London) – Conservative Thought and Ideas of Moral Reform 1780-1832

Dr Alice Marples (King’s College London) – Collecting and Correspondence in the Papers of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753). Read about Alice’s research from the Royal Archives: ‘The Princess and the Physicians’.

British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/King’s College London Georgian Papers Programme Fellowships

2024

Lorna Clark (Carleton University) – Frances Burney in the Royal Household, 1786–91

2023

Brianna Robertson-Kirkland (University of Glasgow/ Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) – ‘They could drive me from that profession [and …] take from me the ONLY INCOME I have’: The case of Dorathea Jordan and #SheSaid

2022

Natalee Garrett (Open University) – Queen Charlotte

2021

Mary-Jannet Leith (University of Southampton) – The Role of Music in the Georgian Royal Household

2020

Jonathan Taylor (University of Surrey) – Princess Charlotte of Wales’s early childhood on Shooter’s Hill and her patronage of the visual arts

2019

Hillary Burlock (Queen Mary University of London) – Politics and social dance at the royal court

Omohundro Institute Georgian Papers Programme Fellowships

2020

John McCurdy (Eastern Michigan University) is researching connections between manhood and military service in Georgian Britain and colonial America.

Allison Stagg (University of London) is researching the role of women within the creation and dissemination of political caricature prints in Europe and America between 1790 and 1820.

Gregory Wiker (University of Rochester) is researching the efforts by enslaved and free black individuals to abolish slavery and achieve equal rights before and after Emancipation in Bermuda.

2019

Christian Crouch (Bard College) – “Queen Victoria’s Captives: The Story of Ambition, Empire, and a Lost Ethiopian Prince”

Miriam Liebman (The Graduate Center, CUNY) – American diplomats in the Court of St. James at the end of the eighteenth century and the Royal Family’s reaction to their presence.

Andrew Maginn (Howard University)– for work related to his dissertation in progress on the Georgian monarch’s understandings of Haiti and the Haitian revolution.

Nancy Siegel (Towson University)– for work related to an exhibition in development for which she is lead curator, “Curious Taste: The Appeal of Transatlantic Satire”

2018

Cassandra Good (University of Mary Washington) – the effects of George III’s public presentation of his family on George Washington’s ideas of family

Meghan Kobza (University of Newcastle) – Social and economic history of the eighteenth-century London masquerade

Nicholas Foretek (University of Pennsylvania)– the power of printers in Britain during the second half of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century

Peter Olsen-Harbich (William & Mary)– early modern Native-European relationships and how they were informed by indigenous political economy

2017

Ann Little (Colorado State University) – The Bosom of the Republic: Women and Citizenship in the Early U.S. Republic, 1760-1830

David Hancock (University of Michigan) – Cosmopolitanism and William Petty-Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquis of Lansdowne (1737-1805)

Peter Walker (Columbia University) – The Church Militant: The American Émigré Clergy and the Making of the British Counterrevolution, 1763-92

Anya Zilberstein (Concordia University) – Georgian Natural History at Home and Abroad

Robyn Davis (Millersville University) – Science in the American Style, 1680 – 1820: Ideas, Observation, and Imagination in the Shaping of a New Nation

Brooke Newman (Virginia Commonwealth University) – Subjects of the Crown: Slavery, Emancipation, and the British Monarchy, 1760-1840

Robert Paulett (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville) – British Policy in 1762-4 and the Idea of a Beautiful America

Nate Holly (William & Mary) – Cherokee as urban and transatlantic actors

2016

Rick Atkinson (Independent Scholar) – The early years of the War of American Independence

Rachel Banke (University of Notre Dame) – The political ideas and colonial schemes of Lord Bute

Andrew Beaumont (University of Oxford) – Lord North, first minister, 1771-1783, and his working patron-client relationship with George III

Daniel Robinson (University of Cambridge) – European Geopolitics and British Foreign Policy in the Politics and Culture of Pre-Revolutionary America, c. 1713-1776

Suzanne Schwarz (University of Worcester) – Monarchy, Empire and Colonisation in West Africa, c. 1780-1820

Cindy Kierner (George Mason University) – Inventing Disaster: The Culture of Calamity from Jamestown to Johnstown

2015

Professor Vincent Carretta (University of Maryland) – Authors of African Descent and the Georgian Court

James Ambuske (University of Virginia) – The Imperial Politics of Scottish Emigration to Revolutionary America, 1763-1803

Mount Vernon Georgian Papers Programme Fellowships

2019

Trent Cole-Jones (Purdue University) – Patrick Henry’s War: The Struggle for Empire in the Revolutionary West

2018

Zara Anishanslin (University of Delaware) – Material Culture in the Georgians Papers

2017

Flora Fraser (Independent Scholar) – In Search of Flora Macdonald (1722-1790): Her Life in Skye and the Western Isles and, as a Highland Emigrant, during the American Revolution and Lord Nelson of Burnham Thorpe, the Nile and Trafalgar: The Life on Land and at Sea of Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805)

2016

Bruce A. Ragsdale (Independent Scholar) – George Washington at the Plow: Agriculture and Leadership in the Age of Revolution, comparing the Washington’s agricultural interests with those of George III