2025-2026 Fellows
The following fellows are in residence during the 2025-2026 academic year.
Brown Family Collection Fellowship
A Black Nipmuc Inventory: Reading Environmental Knowledge and Tenure in the Brown Family Collection
ACLS Community College Faculty Research Fellowships
Human and Marine Mammal Kinship: Whales and Colonized Peoples in the Writing of Contemporary Caribbean American Writers
ACLS Community College Faculty Research Fellowships
With Her Cutlass Always Raised: Slavery and Collective Struggle in the Plantation Caribbean
Reese Fellowship
Unpublishing Religion: Race, Heterodoxy, and the Printing Press in Early America
Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship
Hearth and Home: Black Southerners and the Built Environment in the 19th Century
Stephen Botein Fellowship
Mobility, Gender, and Continuity; Native Women in La Florida and the Atlantic World. (1725-1784)
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
Pleasure Seekers: Black Women's Histories of Enjoyment, 1840-1910
Drawn to Art Fellowship
State in Formation: The Architecture of the US Treasury and the Office of the Supervising Architect, 1852-1939
Kate Van Winkle Keller Fellowship for Research in Early American Music and Dance
Beyond Minstrelsy: Cultural Appropriation in Nineteenth Century American Performing Arts
ACLS Community College Faculty Research Fellowships
Sharing the Archives: Open Access Essays on American History from the American Antiquarian Society
Justin G. Schiller Fellowship
Cripping Child Labor: Disabled Working Children in mid-19th Century US Children's Fiction
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
The Silent Penitentiary: Race, Punishment, and Incarceration during the Age of Reform, 1770-1850
Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence
African-American Artists, Writers, and Activists
Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship
Mediating Atrocity: Photography, Violence, and the Civil War Press
Stephen Botein Fellowship
Reclaiming Indigenous Southern New England: Disentangling Indigenous Knowledges and Belongings in Settler Colonial Cultural Heritage Memory Institutions
American Historical Print Collectors Society Fellowship
News in the Show Box: Vues D’Optique and American Visual Culture in the Second Half of the 18th Century
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
In Whitney's Wake: New England Cotton Gin Makers and the Expansion of Forced Labor, 1793-1877
Reese Fellowship
El insomnio y la distancia: Raciality, Marginalization, and Nationalism of the Contemporary Cuban Diaspora in the United States
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
Sailing From New Orleans: Early Nineteenth Century Ship Captains
Lapides Fellowship in Pre-1900 Juvenile Literature and Ephemera
Latinx Girlhood
Alstott Morgan Fellowship
Western Exceptionalism in American Education: A History
Lapides Fellowship in Pre-1900 Juvenile Literature and Ephemera
The Loan of Instructive Books: Antebellum Literature for Working Children and Youth
Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship
Non-Motherhood in American Literature and Culture, Nineteenth Century to the Present
Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship
Stacking the Deck: Fortune-Telling Cards and American Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century
Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship
Tintypes as Artifacts of Intimacy and Memory: Exploring Radical Relationships Through Photography
Barbara L. Packer Fellowship
Unserious Adaptation: Tracking Little Women Fan Engagements from the 19th to the 21st Century
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
Nineteenth-Century Horsewomen: Challenging Gender Norms and Forging Social Networks
ACLS Community College Faculty Research Fellowships
Understanding Women’s Criminality Beyond the Headlines: Narratives and Counter Narratives
Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship
Research for Hannah: An Untelling of an American Myth
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
The Making of Maria Monk: Gender, Sensationalism, and the Runaway Nun
American Historical Print Collectors Society Fellowship
Shifting Ties of Celebrity: British Military Figures in the Eighteenth Century
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
Revolutionary Nationalism, European Imperialism and Anti-Slavery: Irish-American Global Consciousness in the Era of Emancipation, 1840-1865
Legacy Fellowship
Prehistory of Black Chautauqua
Hearst Foundations Fellowship
Research about Jemima Wilkinson, also known as the Public Universal Friend, for a novel
Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship
Archive, Image, Asylum: iconographies of Illness in Shuttered Psychiatric Hospitals
AAS-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship
Several Degrees of Persons: How the First US Census Made the Nation
Joyce Tracy Fellowship
Gender Rebels: Publishing, Policing, and Pathologizing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship
Schooling Intimacy: Love, Romance, and Sexuality at American Female Academies, 1780-1870
Hearst Foundations Fellowship
Research for a narrative song cycle or chamber opera using the letters of black and white Civil War soldiers
David Jaffee Fellowship in Visual and Material Culture
The Latest Novelties: New Goods and New Ideas in 19th-Century America
ACLS Community College Faculty Research Fellowships
Lost and Found: Intimate Reading of Black Newspapers
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
Hulihia Nā Kānāwai ʻĀina: The Remaking of Hawaiʻi Into Someone Else's Playground and Paradise
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
The Black Polemical Essay