Recent Fellows
The following fellows are in residence during the 2023-2024 academic year.
Professor, University of New Mexico
2023-24 Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence Nineteenth-century American literature and US Latino/a literary histories
PhD Candidate in History, University of Connecticut
2023-24 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship An Uneasy Alliance: Cooperation and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Black and White Women's Activism
Lecturer of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
2023-24 Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship Writing Beauty: Painting and Queer Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
PhD Candidate in Art History, University of Delaware
2023-24 Drawn to Art Fellowship Pastel Rebellion: The Material Politics of North American Pastels, 1758-1814
Associate Professor of History, Wofford College
2023-24 AAS-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship Atlantic Oceanic Mobilities
Poet and Interdisciplinary Artist, Guilford, CT
2023 Jay and Deborah Last Artist Fellowship Research for “Measuring the Sun,” encompassing new and ongoing work on Emily Dickinson focused on artworks in the form of composites, concordances, visual indexes, and artist books
PhD Candidate, Teaching Fellow in History, Harvard University
2023-24 Brown Family Collection Fellowship Domestic Disturbances: The Shaping of Black Fatherhood, Manhood, and Resistance in AmericaPhD Candidate in English, Northeastern University
2023-24 Stephen Botein Fellowship Kitchen VentriloquismsSenior Editor, Publications and Editorial Department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
2023-24 David Jaffee Fellowship in Visual and Material Culture Hairdressing in the 19th Century
Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota, Morris
2023-24 Justin G. Schiller Fellowship Siblings on the Move: German, Irish, and French Canadian Families, 1840-1930
Associate Editor in Research and Collections, Kentucky Historical Society
2023-24 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship The Washington Doctrine, A Continental History, 1800-1920
PhD Candidate in History, University of Texas, Austin
2023-24 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship Writing the Other America: Democracy, Race, and Print Culture in the Americas, 1830-1898Poet, Edmonton, AB
2024 Hearst Foundations Fellowship Research on Harriet E. Wilson for a historical fiction trilogy
Visiting Scholar in History, Saint Michael's College
2023-24 AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship Freedom's Generation: Coming of Age in the Era of Emancipation
PhD Candidate in English Literature, University of Edinburgh
2023-24 Barbara L. Packer Fellowship Recounting the Lives of Women Writers: Emerson on Fuller, Godwin on Wollstonecraft, and Sand on Sand
PhD Candidate in English, University of Southern California
2023-24 Reese Fellowship Publishing Americans in Nineteenth-Century India
Lecturer in English, American Studies, and Creative Writing, University of Manchester
2023-24 Stephen Botein Fellowship Engineering Peace
Associate Professor of English, Bradley University
2023-24 Alstott Morgan Fellowship Other People's Children
Research Associate, Georg August University of Göttingen
2023-24 Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship Nonhuman Agency in Early North American MediaUniversity Librarian Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida
2023-24 AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship A Perfect Machine: The Adams Power Press
Historical Novelist, Fort Washington, MD
2023 Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship Research for “Sally Forth,” on African-American experience during the American Revolution from the years 1771-1785PhD Candidate in American history, University of Maryland
2023-24 Diana Korzenik Virtual Research Fellowship 'Come by Water and Not by Land:' Iron, Rivers, and Challenges to Settler Colonialism in Maryland, 1608-1782Professor of Art History, Savanah College of Art and Design
2023-24 Diana Korzenik Virtual Research Fellowship Black-Owned Art Collections in the United States, 1860-1870
Graduate Candidate in Literatures in English, Cornell University
2023-24 Brown Family Collection Fellowship Family and Bereavement in the Album
Associate Professor of History, Baylor University
2023-24 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship Mutual Entanglements: Transracial Ties between Haitians and Revolutionary Americans
Professor of Visual Arts, College of the Holy Cross
2023-24 Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship Global Aesthetics
Senior Lecturer of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023-24 AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship Brazi in Early North American Black Print Culture
Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
2023-24 AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship “Unstable as Water”: Early Black Atlantic Literature and Textual Fluidity
Poet, Boston, MA
2023 Hearst Foundations Fellowship Research for “Acts of Resistance to New England Slavery by Africans Themselves in New England,” a series of poems about Black self-determinism and articulations of freedom within and against the context of Northern slavery
Associate Professor of History, University of Oklahoma
2023-24 AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship The Carceral Turn: Crime and Punishment during the Civil War Era
PhD Candidate in History, University of Missouri, Kansas City
2023-24 Kate Van Winkle Keller Fellowship for Research in Early American Music and Dance Female Hymnodists of the Nineteenth Century
Playwright, Oklahoma City, OK
2023 Hearst Foundations Fellowship Research for “Macbeth/Forrest/Macbeth” a radical reworking of the text of Shakespeare’s Macbeth as seen through the lens of the Astor Place Riots
PhD Candidate in English, Rutgers University
2023-24 Reese Fellowship Playing with Scripted Intimacy: The Uptake of American Autograph Albums, 1820-1860
Poet and Visual Artist, Sunderland, MA
2023 Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship Research for “The Avian Kingdom,” a project that concerns reinventing the pastoral poem and fusing human consciousness with that of the landscape, as well as various environmental and health crisesPhD Candidate in History, University of Cincinnati
2023-24 Joyce Tracy Fellowship The Birthing of a Nation: Confederate Nationalism in the Southern PressInter/Multi/Anti-disciplinary Poet, Artist, and Scholar, Hillsboro, OR
2024 Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship Research for “Red-Acted” a collection of Indigenous erasure poetry
PhD Candidate in English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2023-24 Lapides Fellowship in Pre-1865 Juvenile Literature and Ephemera Animals and Becoming Human(e) in Nineteenth-Century American Children's LiteraturePhD in English, State University of New York, Buffalo
2023-24 Diana Korzenik Virtual Research Fellowship Intersection Wellness, Psychiatric, and Medical Institutional Care and the Patient Experience, 1820-1900
Associate Professor of Art and Art History, Santa Clara University
2023-24 Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship Art and Enslavement in Two Massachusetts Embroideries 1756-1758
Assistant Professor of English, Colby College
2023-24 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship Signifying Against Anti-Blackness: Black Rhetorical Communities in Early America 1760-1830
Professor of Constitutional Studies & Judaic Studies, University of Oklahoma
2023-24 AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship The Great Jewish Lunacy Trial
Professor of History, University of Guelph
2023-24 Legacy Fellowship Samuel Larned in South America: The Monroe Doctrine's Dependable Diplomat
PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
2023-24 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship Haitian Revolution Refugees and Legal Cultures of Slavery and Freedom in the Atlantic World, 1791-1860PhD Candidate in History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2023-24 American Historical Print Collectors Society Fellowship "On That Shield!": American Identity and the Constitution in the Early RepublicVisual Artist and Senior Lecturer, College of the Holy Cross
2024 Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship Investigation into the history of American lacemaking in past centuries
Graduate Student of English, University of Southern Mississippi
2023-24 Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship Black Fugitivity, Disability, and Sexual Deviancy in Nineteenth Century Slave Narratives
PhD Candidate in History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023-24 Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship Making under Slavery in the Black Atlantic World, 1750-1865
Documentary Filmmaker, Narrowsburg, NY
2024 Hearst Foundations Fellowship Research for her historical film about the life, work, and massive influence of artist Frances Flora “Fanny” Palmer (1812-1876)
PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
2023-24 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship White Allies in Revolutionary Massachusetts?: The Antislavery Commitments of Isaiah Thomas and Ezekiel Russell
Professor of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
2023-24 Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship Manifest JestinyPhD Candidate in History, CUNY Graduate Center
2023-24 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship American Timelines: Imperial Communications, Colonial Time-Consciousness, and the Coming of the American Revolution