2026-2027 Fellows
The following fellows are in residence during the 2026-2027 academic year.
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
Letters from Lowell
Hearst Foundations Fellowship
[Adinkra]/farewell
Stephen Botein Fellowship
Socialist Form and Literary Experiment in the American Age of Fourier
Barnes and Helen Riznik Fellowships
Incendiary Print: Radical Cheap Print in the American South, 1804-1865
American Historical Print Collectors Society Fellowship
David Cusick’s Images of Ecological Transformation
Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship
Steeped
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
‘Tears Over Fallen Hungary’: Transnational Questions of Region, Repair, and Belonging
Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship
Album Logic: Assembling and Arranging America in Nineteenth-Century Art
Kate Van Winkle Keller Fellowship for Research in Early American Music and Dance
Painting Preservation: Eastman Johnson, Race, and National Memory
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
Singing Books
Stephen Botein Fellowship
Circulating Imperialism: Jacksonian Readers and Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales in Print Culture, 1820-1840
Justin G. Schiller Fellowship
The Revolutionary Curriculum War: Knowledge & Power in Early America
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
Sustaining Slavery: White Women, Household Power, and Bondage in Massachusetts, 1620-1790
Barnes and Helen Riznik Fellowships
Power and Politics in the Archives of Abolition
Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship
Circulating Contagion, Collective Forms: Microbial Lives in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
Black Emigration and Early Afrofuturist Thought
Brown Family Collection Fellowship
Black Women and the Making of Modern Welfare in the United States
AAS-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship
A Right to Seize: Sheriffs, Property, and Power in the Early Republic
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
Further than Firsts: Theatre History and Early Asian Diasporic Performances
Reese Fellowship
Bibliomania: A History
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
No Half Measures: Radical Non-Resistance and the Theory of Abolition
Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship
Text and Image on the Move: Transnationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Press
Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Diplomacy & Constitutions in the Early United States and Haiti
Charlotte Cushman Fellowship
'If women are curious, women like also to speak': Unmarried Women, Sexual Knowledge, and Female Mentorship in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Atlantic
Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship
The View from the Stage: America's Identity Performed
David Jaffee Fellowship in Visual and Material Culture
Materializing Futurity: Networks of Native Women's Organizing in the Northeast
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
An Environmental and Energy History of the New Jersey Meadowlands
Lapides Fellowship in Pre-1900 Juvenile Literature and Ephemera
African American Children, Their Caretakers, and the State in and around the Civil War’s Refugee Camps
Barnes and Helen Riznik Fellowships
'Publik Manners’ and ‘Brotherly Love’: Black-Activist Performance, Organizational Labor, and Printed Matter in the Early United States
Alstott Morgan Fellowship
The Politics of Modern Literary Taste in Postcolonial Northern Andes
Lapides Fellowship in Pre-1900 Juvenile Literature and Ephemera
By Force or By Fire: African American Youth and Their Kin’s Resistance Against Apprenticeship During Reconstruction
Joyce Tracy Fellowship
For God and the Slave: The Abolitionist Life of Reverend John W. Lewis
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
An Empire of Readers: Tracing Literary Networks in the Anglo-Caribbean World
Hearst Foundations Fellowship
Pottery for Native Nutrition and Herbal Medicines
Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship
Pharmacoepic Vision: A Critical Disability Studies Lens on Nineteenth-Century America
Christoph Daniel Ebeling Fellowship
Publication Politics in Early American Women’s Writing
Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
‘Inspire everyone with a confidence in the laws’: Territorial Law and Indigenous claims in the Western Great Lakes, 1815-1850
Stephen Botein Fellowship
Manuals of Erasure and Survival
Ken Karmiole Fellowship
Embattled Hearts: Black Men, Family, and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America
Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship
Black (Type)
Barbara L. Packer Fellowship
Our Fatal Shadows: The Transcendentalist Child
