Emma Teitelman, was awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in American History at Cambridge University, UK, beginning in October 2018. The fellowship runs from 2018 to 2021.
Emma’s dissertation is entitled “Governing the Peripheries: The Social Reconstruction of the South and West After the American Civil War.” Her committee is: Prof. Stephanie McCurry (dissertation supervisor); Prof. Steve Hahn; Prof. Kathy Brown; and Prof. Rogers Smith (Political Science).