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.

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Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2017-18 Kathrinne Duffy Brown University PhD Candidate Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
2017-18 Erika Schneider Framingham State University Associate Professor Lost in Translation, Found in Print: American Gift Books
2017-18 Whitney Barlow Robles Harvard University PhD Candidate Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History, 1700-1820
2017-18 Rachel Miller University of Michigan PhD Candidate Capital Entertainment: Creative Labor and the Modern State, 1860-1910
2017-18 Leslie McAbee University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill PhD Candidate Exotic Animals and the American Conscience, 1840-1900
2017-18 Irene Cheng California College of Arts Assistant Professor The Shape of Utopia
2017-18 Helen Hunt Tennessee Technological University Professor of English Provoking Pleasure: Erotic Dominance & Submission in Early American Fiction
2017-18 Sonia Hazard Duke University PhD Candidate The Touch of the Word: Evangelical Cultures of Print in Antebellum America
2017-18 Judith Ridner Mississippi State University Associate Professor Clothing the Babel: The Material Culture of Ethnic Identity in Early America
2017-18 Elizabeth Hopwood Loyola University Chicago Instructor Eating the Atlantic: Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Caribbean Tables and Texts