Recent Fellows
The following fellows are in residence during the 2024-2025 academic year.
PhD Candidate in English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2024-25 Brown Family Collection Fellowship The Queer Genealogies of Black Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century
PhD Candidate in English, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV
2024-25 Joyce Tracy Fellowship Suffragists and the New Departure Strategy in the History of women's right to vote (1868-1876)
PhD Candidate in English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2024-25 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship (Un)Veiling Disease: Women’s Breast Cancer and Concealed DiagnosesPhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
2024-25 Kate Van Winkle Keller Fellowship for Research in Early American Music and Dance Sensory Performance of National Identity in 19th Century American TourismPostdoctoral Teaching Associate, Northeastern University
2024-25 Stephen Botein Fellowship Wild Science: Radical Politics and Rejected Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century FictionAssistant Professor, University of North Texas
2024-25 AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship Music’s Long Anthropocene: The Climate of Empire and the Sound of Ecological Disaster
Poet, Edmonton, AB
2024 Hearst Foundations Fellowship Research on Harriet E. Wilson for a historical fiction trilogy
PhD Candidate in English, Indiana University, Bloomington
2024-25 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship Narrating Abolition: Scissors-and-Paste Reform in the Emerging AnglospherePhD Candidate in World History, Northeastern University
2024-25 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship Labor and Race in the Global Textile Industry: Lowell, Concord and Monterrey in the Early 19th CenturyAssociate Professor of English, Texas A&M University
2024-25 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship The Millican Massacre: Newspaper Transmission and Extension of Reconstruction Racial ViolencePhD Candidate in History, Carnegie Mellon University
2024-25 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship Private Wrongs: A Hidden History of the American Civil War’s First Black RegimentProfessor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2024-25 Kate Van Winkle Keller Fellowship for Research in Early American Music and Dance Border Crossings: Latin U.S. History We Weren’t Taught
Assistant Professor of English, North Dakota State University
2024-25 Reese Fellowship Bodies of BelieversProfessor, National Chengchi University
2024-25 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship Racial and Ecological Intimacies in the Mid-nineteenth-century Atlantic Silk ImaginationProfessor, Binghamton University
2024-25 Lapides Fellowship in Pre-1900 Juvenile Literature and Ephemera School Children: A New History of US Public Education, 1790-1860Associate Professor of History, University of South Dakota
2024-25 Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship Leg Show: Ballet, Burlesque, and Female Spectacle in the Civil War Era and Gilded AgeVisiting Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
2024-25 AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship Hostile Love: Rage, Race, and Gender in American Children’s Literature, 1850-1900Director, Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth Century Studies, Lehigh Univeristy
2024-25 AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship "Butchered after the most barbarous manner”: Violence in the Tuscarora War
PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
2024-25 Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship A Valley Between Worlds: Slavery, Dispossession, and the Creation of a Settler-Colonial Society in the Hudson Valley, 1674-1766
PhD Candidate in the School of Information, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2024-25 Reese Fellowship A Most Familiar Form(e): Textual and Visual Knowledge Transmission in the Cultural Astronomy of Colonial North America
Inter/Multi/Anti-disciplinary Poet, Artist, and Scholar, Hillsboro, OR
2024 Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship Research for “Red-Acted” a collection of Indigenous erasure poetryPhD Candidate in English and African American Studies, Pennsylvania State University
2024-25 Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship The Hold: Black Femme Formations of Space, Text, and Being in the Long Nineteenth CenturyAdjunct Professor, Florida International University
2024-25 AAS-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship Security, Imperial Reconstitution, and the British Atlantic Islands in the Age of the American Revolution
Assistant Professor of English, Eastern Kentucky University
2024-25 Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship Freedom of the Scenes: Performance Cultures and Black Atlantic Literature, 1750-1830PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
2024-25 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early AmericaProfessor, Institut Agro
2024-25 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship Accounting, Remuneration and Labor Conflicts in 19th American Utopian Communities: A comparison between Northampton Association of Education and Industry and other CommunesProfessor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2024-25 AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship The Afric-American Picture Gallery: Imagining Black Art, circa 1859
Visual 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
Distinguished University Professor of History, University of Denver
2024-25 Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence Maps and Visual Culture in American HistoryIndependent Writer,
2024-25 David Jaffee Fellowship in Visual and Material Culture Thoreau’s Pencil: A New History of Slavery, Abolition, Complicity, a
Professor of English, United States Naval Academy
2024-25 Drawn to Art Fellowship Johnston's The Heavenly Nine and Jacksonian Performance Culture
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 Missouri, Columbia
2024-25 Brown Family Collection Fellowship Spirited Struggles: Race and the Temperance Movement in Nineteenth-Century AmericaProfessor of English, Worcester State University
2024-25 Legacy Fellowship Forty Acres and a Mule: A Legal and Literary HistoryDoctoral Researcher, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg
2024-25 Barbara L. Packer Fellowship Malleability in Antebellum Periodical Cultures
PhD Candidate in English, University of Delaware
2024-25 Stephen Botein Fellowship Reading American Racial Thought in the Memory and Myth of the Underground RailroadAssociate Professor, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
2024-25 Alstott Morgan Fellowship 8000