March 10, 2025
The American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati is excited to announce the 2025 class of research fellows who will work from the research library at our headquarters, Anderson House, located in Washington, D.C. Through its fellowship program, the Institute encourages advanced study of and publication on the importance and legacy of the American Revolution. This year, fellows are receiving support to explore the library and museum collections related to their various research projects, including Jewish participation in the Revolutionary War, loyalists in Savannah, the Penobscot Expedition, cavalry uniforms, Shays’ Rebellion and American diplomacy.
2025 Research Fellows
Melchior Baltazar, Independent scholar, “The Influence of George Washington’s Military Aides and Officers on the Evolution of His Views on Slavery” (North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)
Jonathan Jacobo Bar Shuali, University of Madrid, “Fighting Antisemitism in Military History” (New York State Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)
Richard Bell, University of Maryland, “A Global History of the American Revolution” (Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland Fellowship)
Zachary Deibel, Virginia Military Institute, “The Civic Educational Enterprise of the American Revolution” (Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia Fellowship)
Catherine Duffy, Coastal Heritage Society, Savannah, Georgia, “Loyalists & Liberty: Savannah in the American Revolution” (Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Georgia Fellowship)
Charles Evered, Playwright, an untitled play on George Washington (Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Fellowship)
William Fahey, Thomas More College, the Penobscot Expedition of 1779 (Thomas Jay McCahill III Fellowship of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire)
Kaitlin Fergeson, Independent scholar, “Identifying Cavalry Uniforms of the American Revolution” (Society of the Cincinnati in the State New Jersey Fellowship)
VanJessica Gladney, University of Pennsylvania, “A ‘Rebellion’ Called ‘Shays’s’: The Massachusetts Regulation of 1786-1787” (Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)
James L. Kochan, Independent scholar, “Uniforms of the Continental Army’s Mid-Atlantic States” (Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut Robert Girard Carroon Fellowship)
Susan Brynne Long, Charles Young Postdoctoral Fellow, The United States Army Center of Military History, “Prisoner of War Management in the American Revolution” (The State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania Fellowship.)
Christopher Minty, Center for Digital Editing, University of Virginia, “Naval Documents of the American Revolution” (Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship)
Sandra Moats, University of Wisconsin, Parkside, “U.S. Consuls and the Development of American Diplomacy” (Keith Armistead Carr Fellowship)
The American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati, Inc., seeks to ensure that the history and legacy of the American Revolution in understood and appreciated. The Institute houses one of the world’s leading research libraries on the revolutionary period and provides learning opportunities for teachers, students, scholars and lifelong learners through museum exhibitions and public programs.
Strengths of the Institute’s collections are materials relating to the art of war in the eighteenth century, documents about the conduct of the Revolutionary War, primary sources that provide context for the achievement of the American forces and their French allies in securing the independence of the United States, personal narratives from the war and the archives of the Society of the Cincinnati.
For more information about the Institute’s fellowship program: https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/research-fellowships/