Polcha awarded ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Doctoral candidate Elizabeth Polcha has been awarded a prestigious Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2018-19 academic year. She has also been named a Research Associate at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania for the coming year. Liz is writing a dissertation titled “Redacting Desire: The Sexual Politics of Colonial Science in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World” under the direction of Professor Elizabeth Maddock Dillon.