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Leopold Fellowship

lf_3-students-at-podium_250x188.jpgThe Center supports an undergraduate program honoring Professor Richard Leopold, a long-time member of the NU Department of History. The Leopold Fellowship program provides a group of able Northwestern undergraduate students with an opportunity to engage in genuine historical research. The fellowship entails an hourly wage and possible travel expenses, but no academic credit. Leopold Fellows work on current faculty research projects, learning how to interpret complex archival and documentary materials.

The program is OPEN to ALL Northwestern undergraduates, irrespective of school or major. For more on the application process, please go to How to Apply for a Leopold Fellowship (also on the left sidebar).

NEW!  CCHS and Northwestern's McCormick Library of Special Collections and University Archives are partnering together to offer an exciting new opportunity for undergrads interested in history and archival work: Leopold Fellowships at Special Collections/Archives. The positions are for the whole academic year (Fall/Winter/Spring). Library Leopold Fellows will be paid $15 per hour for 10-15 hours per week as student temporary employees.  

More at How to Apply for a Leopold Fellowship (also on the left sidebar).

2026-2027 LEOPOLD FELLOWS

*Asterisk denotes a returning Leopold Fellow

  1. Joyin AKINOLA (senior, WCAS) working with Prof. Leslie HARRIS on “The History of Race and Medicine at Northwestern University” (F/W/S)
  2. Gabriel BAYER (senior, WCAS) working with Prof. Scott SOWERBY on “Absolution and Arms: The Waldensians in the Italian Alps, 1650-1730” (summer, F/W/S)
  3. Hannah BECKER (sophomore, WCAS), working with Prof. Sean HANRETTA on “A Global History of Death and Dying” (summer, F/W/S)
  4. Gabriella BERNSTEIN (junior, WCAS) working with Prof. Michelle MOLINA on “Altar Scenes: Mexican Silver Both Sacred and Profane” (late summer, F/W/S)
  5. *Xuhare BEREIKUA (senior, WCAS) working with Prof. Scott SOWERBY on “Seventeenth-century Spanish sources on the expulsion of the Moriscos” (F/W/S)
  6. River BRAVERMAN (sophomore, WCAS) working with Prof. Zavier NUNN on “Sex Changes” (F/W/S)
  7. *Yuliia CHERNOVA (senior, WCAS) working with Prod. Scott SOWERBY on “Catherine the Great and German Migration to Russia in the 1760s” (summer, F/W/S)
  8. Lara CHOY (senior, WCAS) working with Prof. Daniel IMMERWAHR on “This Too Shall Burn: America in the Age of Wood” (F/W)
  9. Leah COX (junior, WCAS) working with Kennetta Hammond PERRY on “James Baldwin and the Legacies of British Empire: The Case of Israel and Palestine” (F/W/S)
  10. Lori CUI (sophomore, WCAS) working with Prof. Zavier NUNN on “Sex Changes” (F/W/S)
  11. *Mariam FOFANA (senior, WCAS) working with Prof. Henry BINFORD on “Early Black Migrants to the Urban Middle West” (F/W/S)
  12. Polina GIRSE (sophomore, WCAS) working with Prof. Akin OGUNDIRAN on “Robert Soper in Oyo-Ile, 1973-1979: Archaeological History of an African City (AD 1200-1836” (F/W/S)
  13. Diego GUERRERO (junior, WCAS) working with Prof. Lauren STOKES on “The History of Business Aviation” (summer, F/W/S)
  14. Luke HAAN (sophomore, WCAS), working with Prof. Leslie HARRIS on “Leaving New Orleans: A Personal Urban History” (summer, F/W/S)
  15. Sonali JAIN (sophomore, WCAS) working with Prof. Leslie HARRIS on “The History of Race and Medicine at Northwestern University” (F/W/S)
  16. Abigail JACOB (junior, WCAS) working with Prof. Henry BINFORD on “Early Black Migrants to the Urban Middle West” (F/W/S.)
  17. Angelo KARADIMAS (senior, WCAS) working with Prof. Sean HANRETTA on “A Global History of Death and Dying” (F/S)
  18. Abby KELSO (junior, WCAS) working with Prof. Sean HANRETTA on “A Global History of Death and Dying” (summer, W/S)
  19. Hannah KIM (senior, WCAS) working with Prof. Leslie HARRIS on “Leaving New Orleans: A Personal Urban History” (summer, F/W/S)
  20. Emily LIU (junior, SESP) working with Prod. Ajay MEHROTRA on “Experts, Politics, and the Making of the New Deal Tax Policy” (summer, F/W/S)
  21. *Medina (Dina) MIRANDA (senior, WCAS) working with Prof. Daniel IMMERWAHR on “This Too Shall Burn: America in the Age of Wood” (W/S)
  22. Lauren MAUGHON (sophomore, WCAS) working with Prof. Akin OGUNDIRAN on “Robert Soper in Oyo-Ile, 1973-1979: Archaeological History of an African City (AD 1200-1836” (F/W/S)
  23. Skye McPHILLIPS (junior, WCAS) working with Prof. Kate MASUR on “Sex, Pregnancy, Law, and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century United States” (W/S)
  24. Sejal MEHTA (senior, WCAS) working with Prof. Lauren STOKES on “The History of Business Aviation” (F/W/S)
  25. Emilia MUCHA (senior, WCAS) working with Prof. Scott SOWERBY on “Absolution and Arms: The Lipka Tatar Rebellion of 1672” (summer, F/W/S)
  26. Maya MUKHERJEE (senior, Medill School of Journalism) working with Prof. Michael ALLEN on “The Imperial Presidency” (F/W/S)
  27. Alexa MURPHY (junior, WCAS), working with Prof. Michelle MOLINA on “Altar Scenes: Mexican Silver Both Sacred and Profane” (W/S)
  28. Ayla MUSHTAQ (sophomore, WCAS) working with Prof. Yohanan PETROVSKY-SHTERN on “The History of Laughter” (summer, F/W/S)
  29. Ashley PAUL (sophomore, WCAS) working with Prof. Leslie HARRIS on “The History of Race and Medicine at Northwestern University” (F/W/S)
  30. Natalie ROOTS-NOWAKOWSKI (senior, WCAS) working with Prof. Akin OGUNDIRAN on “Robert Soper in Oyo-Ile, 1973-1979: Archaeological History of an African City (AD 1200-1836” (F/W/S)
  31. Isabella SANCHEZ (junior, WCAS) working with Prof. Michelle MOLINA on “Altar Scenes: Mexican Silver Both Sacred and Profane” (late summer, F/W/S)
  32. Juan SANCHEZ GUERRA (junior, WCAS) working with Prof. Yohanan PETROVSKY-SHTERN on “The History of Laughter” (summer, F/W/S)
  33. Anthony SCARMOZZINO (junior, WCAS) working with Prod. Ajay MEHROTRA on “Experts, Politics, and the Making of the New Deal Tax Policy” (summer/W/S)
  34. Brad SONTAY-TZUN (junior, WCAS) working with Kennetta Hammond PERRY on “James Baldwin and the Legacies of British Empire: The Case of Israel and Palestine” (F/W/S)
  35. Alexandra STILLMAN (sophomore, WCAS) working with Prof. Henry BINFORD on “Early Black Migrants to the Urban Middle West” (F/W/S)
  36. Isabel SU (senior, WCAS) working with Prod. Ajay MEHROTRA on “Experts, Politics, and the Making of the New Deal Tax Policy” (summer, F/W/S)
  37. Meiling SUN (sophomore, SESP) working with Prof. Sean HANRETTA on “German Surveillance of Religion in West Africa” (summer, F/W/S)
  38. Henry VRTIS (senior, WCAS) working with Prof. Paul GILLINGHAM on “The Prehistory of Money Laundering in Mexico” (summer, F/W/S)
  39. Saraphina WAMBI (junior, WCAS) working with Kennetta Hammond PERRY on “James Baldwin and the Legacies of British Empire: The Case of Israel and Palestine” (summer, F/W/S)
  40. Joseph WANG (junior Medill) working with Prof. Sean HANRETTA on “German Surveillance of Religion in West Africa” (summer, W/S)
  41. *Joyce WANG (senior, WCAS) working with Prof. Daniel IMMERWAHR on “This Too Shall Burn: America in the Age of Wood” (W/S)
LIBRARY FELLOWS: TBA.

 

2025-2026 LEOPOLD FELLOWS

*Asterisk denotes a returning Leopold Fellow

  1. Ethan ABISELLAN (sophomore, WCAS), working with Prof. Emily KADENS on “Exploring Early Modern English Documents with AI” (Fall/Winter/Spring)
  2. *Eliana AEMRO SELASSIE (junior, WCAS), working with Prof. Haley BOWEN on “Breaching the Cloister: Convents, Laywomen, and the State in the Early French Empire” (summer, W/S)
  3. *Tim BELLO (senior, WCAS), working with Prof. Ajay MEHROTRA on “American Law & Political Economy in Historical Perspective” (F/W/S)
  4. Xuhare BEREIKUA (junior, WCAS), working with Prof. Scott SOWERBY on “Contemporary Responses to Population Decline in Spain, 1600-1680” (summer, F)
  5. Eleanor BERGSTEIN (junior, WCAS), working with Prof. Caitlin FITZ on “Women’s Sports in Early America” (summer, W)
  6. Claire CHAPLIN (senior, WCAS), working with Prof. Kathleen BELEW on “Megalodon is Gone: A History of Conspiracy Theories” (W/S)
  7. William CLARK (sophomore, WCAS), working with Prof. Scott SOWERBY on “Absolution and Arms: Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Ireland” (summer) and “Absolution and Arms: The Lipka Tatar Rebellion of 1672” (W/S)
  8. *Mariam COSMOS (senior, Medill School of Journalism), working with Prof. Leslie HARRIS on “Leaving New Orleans: A Personal Urban History” (summer, F/W/S)
  9. Dasha DUBININA (sophomore, Medill School of Journalism), working with Prof. Yohanan PETROVSKY-SHTERN on “Behind Bars: Ukrainian and Jewish dissidents in the gulag, 1959-1989” (summer, F/W/S) 
  10. Mariam FOFANA (junior, WCAS), working with Prof. Henry BINFORD on “Early Black Migrants to the Urban Middle West” (W/S)
  11. *Ari FRIEND (senior, WCAS), working with Prof. Leslie HARRIS on “Leaving New Orleans: A Personal Urban History” (summer, F/W/S)
  12. Abigail JACOB (sophomore, WCAS), working with Prof. Henry BINFORD on “Early Black Migrants to the Urban Middle West” (W/S)
  13. Andrew JOSEPH (sophomore, WCAS), working with Prof. Emily KADENS on “Exploring Early Modern English Documents with AI” (F/W/S)
  14. *Isabella (Bella) LEPENDORF (senior, WCAS), working with Prof. Leslie HARRIS on “Leaving New Orleans: A Personal Urban History” (summer, F)
  15. *Olivia (Liv) McALLISTER-NEVINS (senior, WCAS), working with Prof. Leslie HARRIS on “The history of race and medicine at Northwestern University” (summer, F/W/S)
  16. Medina MIRANDA (junior, WCAS), working with Prof. Daniel IMMERWAHR on “This Too Shall Burn: America in the Age of Wood” (W/S)
  17. Catherine NDOVU (junior, WCAS), working with Prof. Rose MIRON on “Founding : A New History of Early Chicago” (F/W/S)
  18. *Julie PARK (senior, WCAS), working with Prof. Ajay MEHROTRA on “The VAT Laggard: A Comparative History of U.S. Resistance to the Value-added Tax” (summer, F/W/S)
  19. Anirudh RAO (senior, WCAS), working with Prof. Emily KADENS on “Exploring Early Modern English Documents with AI” (summer, F/W)
  20. *Cate ROSE (senior, WCAS), working with Prof. Daniel IMMERWAHR on “This Too Shall Burn: America in the Age of Wood” (W/S)
  21. Rhys REILLY (junior, WCAS), working with Prof. Akin OGUNDIRAN on “The Chemistry of History: Technology, Mobility, and Trade in West Africa, 400 BC-AD 1830” (F/W/S)
  22. Joyce WANG (junior, WCAS), working with Prof. Daniel IMMERWAHR on “This Too Shall Burn: America in the Age of Wood” (W/S)
  23. *Lara WEISSMANN (senior, Journalism), working with Prof. Brett GADSDEN on “From Protest to Politics: How African Americans Transformed the Presidency” (summer, F/W/S)