People

Doctoral Fellows

  • Jacob Myers

    Ph.D. Candidate, English

    Project: Noxious Life: Figuring Vermin in the Natural Histories of the British Caribbean

    Jacob Myers is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in global Anglophone literature of the long eighteenth century and the history of science, medicine, and public health. More... (more)

  • Paige Pendarvis

    Ph.D. Candidate, History

    Project: Levels of Life: A History of 'the Standard of Living' in France and Its Empire, 1890-1966

    Paige Pendarvis is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania where she specializes in modern European and international history. Her research interests include the history of... (more)

  • Jennifer Reiss

    Ph.D. Candidate, History

    Project: Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America

    Jennifer W. Reiss is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees, both in History, from Penn, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and two master’s degrees, in... (more)

  • Jeremy Steinberg

    Ph.D. Candidate, Religious Studies

    Project: How the Bible Became Literature: Jewish Assumptions About the Nature of Text in the Hellenistic Period

    Jeremy Steinberg is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Haverford College and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Classical Languages... (more)