Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship

Jay and Deborah Last Fellowships are for research on American art, visual culture, or other projects that will make substantial use of graphic materials as primary sources. The awards are funded from the gift of Jay and Deborah Last.

Application Deadline
Contact Person
Nan Wolverton

Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2023-24 Kayla Schreiber University of Southern Mississippi Graduate Student of English Black Fugitivity, Disability, and Sexual Deviancy in Nineteenth Century Slave Narratives
2023-24 Hampton Smith Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD Candidate in History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture Making under Slavery in the Black Atlantic World, 1750-1865
2023-24 Andrea Pappas Santa Clara University Associate Professor of Art and Art History Art and Enslavement in Two Massachusetts Embroideries 1756-1758
2023-24 Patricia Johnston College of the Holy Cross Professor of Visual Arts Global Aesthetics
2023-24 Todd Thompson Indiana University of Pennsylvania Professor of English Manifest Jestiny
2022-23 Alexandra Macdonald College of William and Mary PhD Candidate in History The Social Life of Time in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1660-1830
2022-23 Allison Fulton University of California, Davis PhD Candidate in English Disciplining Craft: The Gendered Making of Nineteenth-Century American Science
2022-23 Anders Bright University of Pennsylvania PhD Candidate in History Luck’s Metropolis; Lotteries, Finance, and Class in New York, 1780-1830
2022-23 Julia Carroll Boston University PhD Candidate in American & New England Studies The Protestant Sanctioning of Race-Based Slavery in Language & Landscape in the Anglo-American South, 1739-1791
2022-23 Alexander David Clayton University of Michigan, Ann Arbor PhD Candidate in History The Living Animal: Biopower and Empire in the Atlantic Menagerie, 1760-1890