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Jay and Deborah Last Fellows

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.

			Fellowship	Affiliation	Position	Project
Anderson	Anne	2014-15	Last	Exeter University	PhD candidate in English	The Morse Collection
Anishanslin	Zara	2013-14	Last	College of Staten Island	assistant professor	Rebelling Subjects, Revealing Objects: The Material and Visual Culture of Making and Remembering the American Revolution
Athens	Elizabeth	2014-15	Last	Yale University	Ph.D. candidate in art history	Figuring a World: William Bartram's Natural History
Bachman	Ryan	2022-23	Last	University of Delaware	PhD candidate in history	'Done in Canton': Chinese Export Waxworks in American Museums
Bak	Meredith	2010-11	Last	University of California, Santa Barbara	Ph.D. candidate	Perception and Playthings: Optical Toys as Instruments of Science and Culture
Barbeau	Lauren	2014-15	Last	Washington University in St Louis	Ph.D. candidate in English	'Worth of a Happier Domestic Fate': Domesticity as the Property of White Women
Bartlett	Joshua	2018-19	Last	State University of New York, Albany	Ph.D. candidate in English	The Many Lives of the Charter Oak
Beetham	Sarah	2012-13	Last	University of Delaware	Ph.D. candidate	Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865-1917
Bellion	Wendy	2011-12	Last	University of Delaware	associate professor	The Space of Iconoclasm: New York and American Historical Memory
Belolan	Nicole	2015-16	Last	University of Delaware	Ph.D. candidate	Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1700-1861
Bennett	Zachary	2019-20	Last	Rutgers University	postdoctoral fellow in history	Flowing Power: Rivers and the Remaking of Colonial New England
Beringer	Alex	2018-19	Last	University of Montevallo	assistant professor of English	Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century American Comic Strip
Bernstein	Robin	2008-9	Last	Harvard University	assistant professor	"Racial Innocence: The Uses of Childhood in U.S. Racial Formation 1852-1930."
Blandford	AJ	2016-17	Last	Rutgers University	PhD candidate	Labor and the Visualization of Knowledge in American Geological Surveys
Boos	Lance	2018-19	Last	Stony Brook University	Ph.D. candidate in history	The Development of a British Atlantic Musical Marketplace in the Eighteenth Century
Bright	Anders	2022-23	Last	University of Pennsylvania	PhD candidate in history	Luck’s Metropolis; Lotteries, Finance, and Class in New York, 1780-1830
Bryer	Rebekah	2020-21	Last	Northwestern University	Ph.D. candidate in theater	National Acts: Performance, Commemoration, and the Construction of National Identity in the Aftermath of the Civil War
Caison	Gina	2011-12	Last	University of California, Davis	Ph.D. candidate	'To the Dear Reader': Rhetorical Audiences and Histories in Boudinot, Simms, and the Antebellum Newspaper
Caison	Gina	2016-17	Last	Georgia State University	associate professor of English	Feather
Caldwell	Robert	2020-21	Last	Southwest Louisiana Technical Community College	assistant professor of history and geography	Indians in their Proper Place: Social Sciences and the Mapping of Native America
Carroll	Julia	2022-23	Last	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
Carter	Sarah	2007-8	Last	Harvard University	Ph.D. candidate	"Object Lessons in Nineteenth-Century America"
Cheng	Irene	2017-18	Last	California College of Arts	assistant professor	The Shape of Utopia
Clark	Justin	2012-13	Last	University of Southern California	Ph.D. candidate	Training the Eyes: Romantic Vision and Class Formation in Boston, 1830-1870
Clarke	Frances	2012-13	Last	University of Sydney	lecturer	Minors in the Military: A History of Child Soldiers from the Revolution to the Civil War
Clayton	Alexander David	2022-23	Last	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	PhD candidate in history	The Living Animal: Biopower and Empire in the Atlantic Menagerie, 1760-1890
Clytus	Radiclani	2009-10	Last	Tufts University	assistant professor	Envision Slavery: American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual
Cohen	Joanna	2007-8	Last	University of Pennsylvania	Ph.D. candidate	"'Millions of Luxurious Citizens': Consumption and citizenship in New York and Philadelphia, 1815-1876"
Coleman	William	2015-16	Last	Washington University in St. Louis	postdoctoral fellow	Domestic Bliss: The Artist and the Country House in Nineteenth-Century America
Collier	Jessica	2010-11	Last	University of California, Irvine	Ph.D. candidate	The Transcendental Classroom: Childhood Education and Literary Culture in Antebellum America
Cotlar	Seth	2015-16	Last	Willamette University	professor	When the Olden Days Were New: A Cultural History of Nostalgia in Modernizing America, 1776-1860
Cross	Anne	2020-21	Last	University of Delaware	Ph.D. candidate in art history	'Features of Cruelty Which Could Not Well Be Described by the Pen': The Media of Atrocity in Harper’s Weekly, 1862-1866
Crossley	Alice	2020-21	Last	University of Lincoln	assistant professor of English and journalism	Affect and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Valentines
D'Alessandro	Michael	2012-13	Last	Boston University	Ph.D. candidate	Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Audience in Popular American Literature and Theater, 18230-1870
Deibel	Natalie	2011-12	Last	George Washington University	Ph.D. candidate	'For Profit, Pleasure, and Sport': Recreation, Culture, and Society in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800
Depkat	Volker	2010-11	Last	University of Regensburg	professor	The Visualization of Legitimacy
Duffy	Kathrinne	2017-18	Last	Brown University	Ph.D. candidate	Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Duquette	Elizabeth	2018-19	Last	Gettysburg College	associate professor of English	Napoleonic Codes: Tyranny and Ubiquity in Nineteenth-Century America
Eastman	Carolyn	2008-9	Last	University of Texas	assistant professor	"Learning to See: Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World."
Fess	Paul	2016-17	Last	City University of New York Graduate Center	Ph.D. candidate	Resonant Texts: The Politics and Practices of Nineteenth-Century African American Music and Print Culture
Fetherston	John Patrick M.	2022-23	Last	University of Maryland, College Park	PhD candidate in history	Taverns, African Americans, and the American Public in the Age of Revolutions
Fielder	Brigitte	2011-12	Last	Cornell University	Ph.D. candidate	Animal Humanism: Abolitionists and Animals in the American Nineteenth Century
Fox-Amato	Matthew	2011-12	Last	University of Southern California	Ph.D. candidate	Exposing Humanity: Photographic Dimensions of American Slavery, Antislavery, and Emancipation, 1840s to 1870s
Frang	Joanna	2007-8	Last	Brandeis University	Ph.D. candidate	Becoming American on the Grand Tour, 1750-1830
Frank	Caroline	2013-14	Last	Brown University	visiting scholar	Son of Morning: A Chinese Merchant Visits Early Republican America
Franzino	Jean	2016-17	Last	Macalester College	visiting assistant professor of English	Freak Show Aesthetics
Fraser	Gordon	2013-14	Last	University of Connecticut	Ph.D. candidate	Transamerican Revolutions: Liberal Nationalism and the Nineteenth-Century Politics of Violence
Freese	Lauren	2018-19	Last	University of South Dakota	assistant professor of fine arts	A Taste for Images: Depictions of Food and Eating in the American Popular Press
Fuhrer	Mary	2013-14	Last		independent scholar	Tuberculosis and Popular Culture in New England: 1800-1840
Fuhrer	Mary	2014-15	Last	independent scholar		Tuberculosis and Popular Culture in New England, 1820-1840
Fulton	Allison	2022-23	Last	University of California Davis	PhD candidate in English	Disciplining Craft: The Gendered Making of Nineteenth-Century American Science
Garrison	J.	2014-15	Last	University of Delaware	professor in the Winterthur Program in American material culture	Freight and the Commercial Landscapes of the Atlantic World, 1650-1860
George	Angela	2007-8	Last	University of Maryland	PhD candidate	"The Old World: Unearthing Mesoamerican Antiquity in the Art and Culture of the United States, 1839-1893"
Gerk	Sarah	2013-14	Last	Oberlin College	visiting teacher	Irishness in Nineteenth-Century American Music
Gillaspie	Caroline	2018-19	Last	CUNY Graduate Center	Ph.D. candidate in art history	Fueling America: Visual Representations of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Coffee Consumption
Gitelman	Lisa	2007-8	Last	Catholic University	associate professor	Early Photographs of Words Backwards
Gladman	Lisa	2007-08	Last	Catholic University	associate professor	Early Photographs of Words Backwards
Gonzalez	Aston	2011-12	Last	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Ph.D. candidate	Kneeling and Fighting: African American Artists' Depiction of Black Humanity
Gould	Sarah	2008-9	Last	University of Michigan	Ph.D. candidate	Seeing American: The Visual Representation of Race in Early American Children's Literature and Games
Grainger	Brett	2012-13	Last	Harvard University	Ph.D. candidate	The Vital Landscape: Evangelicals and Nature in America, 1740-1870
Green	Nathaniel	2019-20	Last	Northern Virginia Community College	associate professor of history	The Man of the People: Political Dissent and the Making of the American Presidency
Groves	Jeffrey	2011-12	Last	Harvey Mudd College	professor	A Practical Study of the Isaiah Thomas Press at the American Antiquarian Society
Grummitt	Julia	2018-19	Last	Princeton University	Ph.D. candidate in history	The Great National Work: Visualizing Territory and Race in Nineteenth-Century North America
Guerra	Douglas	2014-15	Last	SUNY, Oswego	assistant professor of English and creative writing	On the Move: Gaming Models for Literary Theory
Harris	Mazie	2012-13	Last	Brown University	Ph.D. candidate	Selling Photography on Broadway, 1839-1884
Hazard	Sonia	2013-14	Last	Duke University	Ph.D. candidate	In and Of the Machine: Religion and Visual Technologies in Antebellum America
Hazard	Sonia	2017-18	Last	Duke University	Ph.D. candidate	The Touch of the Word: Evangelical Cultures of Print in Antebellum America
Hernandez	Melanie	2019-20	Last	California State University, Fresno	assistant professor of English	Drawing the Border: Mexicans and Mexicanness in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Visual Culture
Holness	Lucien	2018-19	Last	University of Maryland, College Park	Ph.D. candidate in history	Between North and South, East and West: The Anti-Slavery Movement in Southwestern Pennsylvania
Holt	Keri	2010-11	Last	Utah State University	assistant professor	Reading the Federal Republic: Considering the Place of the States in the Early U.S.
Hopwood	Elizabeth	2017-18	Last	Loyola University Chicago	instructor	Eating the Atlantic: Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Caribbean Tables and Texts
Hughes	Amy	2009-10	Last	Brooklyn College	PhD candidate	'Thoughts Bodied upon the State': Sensationalism and Reform in Nineteenth-Century America, 1842-1867
Hughes	Jennifer	2007-8	Last	Emory University	Ph.D. candidate	"Telling Laughter: A Cultural History of American Humor, 1830-1900"
Hunt	Helen	2017-18	Last	Tennessee Technological University	professor of English	Provoking Pleasure: Erotic Dominance & Submission in Early American Fiction
Johnston	Patricia	2007-8	Last	Salem State College	professor	"Martyrs, Riots, Nuns, and Peasants"
Jung	Sandro	2018-19	Last	Herzog August Library	fellow	A Transnational History of American Book Illustration
Katz	Wendy	2008-9	Last	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	associate professor	The Politics of Art Criticism in the Penny Press, 1833-1862
Klaum	Alison	2010-11	Last	University of Delaware	PhD candidate	Pressing Flowers: American Floral Prints and Preserving Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Knutson	Andrea	2020-21	Last	Oakland University	associate professor of English	Barbados’s Plantation History at the Intersection of Slavery and Ecocide
Komanecky	Michael	2007-8	Last	independent scholar		Carleton Watkins' Photographs of the California Missions
Kopelson	Heather	2014-15	Last	University of Alabama	assistant professor of history	Idolatrous Processions: The Production of Peoples and Places in the Atlantic World
LaPiana	Amber	2011-12	Last	Washington State University	PhD candidate	Mapping Literary Regionalism
Lee	Robert	2013-14	Last	University of CA, Berkeley	Ph.D. candidate	Louisiana Purchases: The US-Indian Treaty System in the Missouri River Valley, 1840-1851
Lewis	Daniel	2010-11	Last	Northern Virginia Community College	assistant professor	The Popularity of 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' Prints in the Literary Marketplace, 1853-1861
Linker	Jessica	2012-13	Last	University of Connecticut	Ph.D. candidate	'It is my best wish to behold Ladies among my hearers': Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720-1860
Luarca-Shoaf	Nenette	2009-10	Last	University of Delaware	Ph.D. candidate	The Place of the Mississippi River in Antebellum Visual Culture and Imagination
Lukasik	Christopher	2013-14	Last	Purdue University	associate professor	The Image in the Text
Lyons	Maura	2014-15	Last	Drake University	associate professor of art history	Popular Depictions of the 'Natural' Body of the Union Soldier
Macdonald	Alexandra	2022-23	Last	William & Mary	PhD candidate in history	The Social Life of Time in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1660-1830
Mansouri	Leila	2014-15	Last	University of CA, Berkeley	Ph.D. candidate in English	Constituent Characters
Martinko	Whitney	2009-10	Last	University of Virginia	Ph.D. candidate	Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860
Masse	Isabelle	2019-20	Last	McGill University	Ph.D. candidate in art history	Itinerant Portraitists in North America: Mobility, Practice, Transmission, 1776-1812
McAbee	Leslie	2017-18	Last	Univeristy of North Carolina - Chapel Hill	Ph.D. candidate	Exotic Animals and the American Conscience, 1840-1900
McDermott	Shawna	2016-17	Last	University of Pittsburgh	Ph.D. candidate	Reading Race: Visual Literacy in Nineteenth-Century American Children's Periodicals
McIntosh	Hugh	2010-11	Last	Northwestern University	Ph.D. candidate	Civil War Advertising and the Popular Novel
Michelon	Christina	2016-17	Last	University of Minnesota	Ph.D. candidate	Interior Impressions: Printed Material in the Nineteenth-Century American Home
Miller	Daegan	2010-11	Last	Cornell University	Ph.D. candidate	Witness Tree: Nature, Culture, and Progress in Nineteenth-Century America
Miller	Hilary	2014-15	Last	Penn State University, Harrisburg	Ph.D. candidate in American studies	The National Road and the Expansion of American Culture, 1811-1850
Miller	Rachel	2017-18	Last	University of Michigan	Ph.D. candidate	Capital Entertainment: Creative Labor and the Modern State, 1860-1910
Mintie	Katherine	2015-16	Last	University of California, Berkeley	Ph.D. candidate	Legal Lenses: Intellectual Property Laws and American Photography, 1839-1890
Mizelle	Brett	2013-14	Last	CSU, Long Beach	professor	Killing Animals in American History
Monteiro	Lyra	2009-10	Last	Brown University	Ph.D. candidate	Racializing the Ancient World: Ancestry and Identity in the Early United States, 1760-1860
Morgan	Jo-Ann	2007-8	Last	Coastal Carolina University	assistant professor	"Mammies, Mulattos, and Matriarchs: African American Women in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture"
Muller	Kevin	2008-9	Last	University of California at Berkeley	lecturer	"An Undergraduate Course on Visual Culture in American Life, 1600-1900"
Murokh	Dina	2019-20	Last	University of Southern California	Ph.D. candidate in art history	'A Sort of Picture Gallery': The Visual Culture of Antebellum America
Nelson	Megan	2008-9	Last	California State University, Fullerton	assistant professor	Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War
Odle	Mairin	2012-13	Last	New York University	Ph.D. candidate	Stories Written on the Body: Cross-Cultural Markings in the North American Atlantic, 1600-1830
Oliver	Christopher	2010-11	Last	University of Virginia	Ph.D. candidate	Civic Visions: The Panorama and Popular Amusement in American Art and Society, 1845-1870
Patterson	Cynthia	2008-9	Last	University of South Florida, Lakeland	assistant professor	'Exclusively from Original Designs': The Philadelphia Pictorials and the Graphic Arts.
Pauwels	Erin	2019-20	Last	Temple University	assistant professor of art history	Napoleon Sarony and the Art of Living Pictures
Pierce	Jennifer	2009-10	Last	The University of Iowa	assistant professor	The Reign of Children: Games and Toys in American Public Libraries
Pottroff	Christy	2016-17	Last	Fordham University	Ph.D. candidate	The Mail Gaze: Early American Literature, Letters, and the Post Office
Ridner	Judith	2017-18	Last	Mississippi State University	associate professor	Clothing the Babel: The Material Culture of Ethnic Identity in Early America
Robles	Whitney	2017-18	Last	Harvard University	Ph.D. candidate	Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History, 1700-1820
Rosen	Rebecca	2019-20	Last	Hollins University	visiting assistant professor of English	Making the Body Speak: Anatomy, Autopsy, and Testimony in Early America, 1639-1790
Rosenbaum	Julia	2022-23	Last	Bard College	associate professor of art history and visual culture	Unruly Bodies?: Portraying Science and Citizenry in Post-Civil War America
Ross	Kelly	2009-10	Last	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Ph.D. candidate	Marks and Traces: The Prehistory of the Detective Story
Roth-Reinhardt	Anne	2010-11	Last	University of Minnesota	Ph.D. candidate	'Retouching' American History: Narrative and Graphic Illustrations within Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction
Roylance	Patricia	2008-9	Last	Syracuse University	assistant professor	Eclipse of Empire
Schneider	Erika	2017-18	Last	Framingham State University	associate professor	Lost in Translation, Found in Print: American Gift Books
Schocken	Merav	2022-23	Last	University of California, Santa Barbara	PhD candidate in English	Material Faith: The Business of Death and the Afterlife in Nineteenth-Century America
Schuetze	Sarah	2016-17	Last	University of Wisconsin-Green Bay	assistant professor of English	Calamity Howl
Senchyne	Jonathan	2009-10	Last	Cornell University	PhD candidate	'Bottles of Ink, and Reams of Paper': Racial Mixture and Legibility in Antebellum Illustration
Sepulveda	Asiel	2018-19	Last	Southern Methodist University	Ph.D. candidate in art history	City Impressions: Lithography and Urban Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Havana
Sharifian	Hesam	2017-18	Last	Tufts University	Ph.D. candidate	Americanizing Shakespeare in Print
Siegel	Nancy	2008-9	Last	Juniata College	assistant professor	Bodily Functions as Body Politic: Scenes of Protest in Eighteenth-Century Prints.
Silbert	Kate	2015-16	Last	Univeristy of Michigan	Ph.D. candidate	'Committed to Memory': Gender, Literary Engagement, and Commemorative Practice, 1780-1830
Slonimsky	Nora	2016-17	Last	City University of New York Graduate Center	Ph.D. candidate	'The Engine of Free Expression'[?]: The Political Development of Copyright in the Colonial British Atlantic and Early National United States
Smoak	Katherine	2014-15	Last	Johns Hopkins University	Ph.D. candidate in history	Circulating Counterfeits: Making Money and Its Meanings in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic
Socarides	Alexandra	2012-13	Last	University of Missouri	assistant professor	The Lyric Pose: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry and the Problem of Recovery
Sopcak-Joseph	Amy	2015-16	Last	University of Connecticut	PhD candidate	The Lives and Times of Godey's Lady's Book, 1830-1877
Sperling	Juliet	2016-17	Last	University of Pennsylvania	Ph.D. candidate	Animating Flatness: Seeing Moving Images in American Painting and Mass Visual Culture, 1800-1895
Stagg	Allison	2009-10	Last	University College, University of London	PhD candidate	American Political Caricatures: 1787-1825
Stern	Arden	2009-10	Last	University of California, Irvine	PhD candidate	Slanted, Shredded, and Simulated: A Cultural History of the Unruly Typeface
Stewart	Whitney	2015-16	Last	Rice University	Ph.D. candidate	Domestic Activism: The Politics of the Black Home in Nineteenth-Century America
Stubenrauch	Joseph	2008-9	Last	Indiana University	PhD candidate	Faith in Goods: Religion and the Consumer Revolution
Szantyr	Rebecca	2019-20	Last	Brown University	Ph.D. candidate in history of art & architecture	Nicolino Calyo: A Wider View of American Art, 1833-1855
Tobler	Ryan	2020-21	Last	Harvard Divinity School	Ph.D. candidate in religion	American Sacraments: Religion and Ritual in the Early United States
Trafton	Melissa	2018-19	Last	University of New Hampshire	adjunct professor of art history	Animals in the Age of Darwin
Tripp	Colleen	2014-15	Last	Brown University	Ph.D. candidate in Afro-American studies	Pacific Sensations: The Beginnings of American Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Popular Culture
Troutman	Phillip	2010-11	Last	George Washington University	assistant professor	Abolition Comix: Visual Semiotics in Antislavery Materials
Valencia	Brian	2012-13	Last	Yale University	Ph.D. candidate	Performance Histories of Nineteenth-Century Extravaganza and Burlesque
Valsania	Maurizio	2007-8	Last	University of Torino, Italy	associate professor	The Curse of History: Leaders' Distrust of American History, 1783-1828
Verplanck	Anne	2011-12	Last	Penn State University	associate professor	The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780-1880
Vogelius	Christa	2015-16	Last	University of Copenhagen	assistant professor	Ekphrasis and the Transnational Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
Walker	Rachel	2015-16	Last	University of Maryland	Ph.D. candidate	A Beautiful Mind: Reading Faces in the Ango-Atlantic World, 1760-1860
Walker	Rachel	2018-19	Last	University of Maryland, College Park	Ph.D. candidate in history	A Beautiful Mind: Faces, Beauty, and the Brain in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1780-1870
Weicksel	Sarah	2013-14	Last	University of Chicago	Ph.D. candidate	The Fabric of War: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era
Wright	Ben	2022-23	Last	University of Texas at Dallas	associate professor of historical studies	Empires of Souls: The United States, Britain, and West African Colonization
Young	Rosetta	2020-21	Last	Haverford College	visiting assistant professor in the writing program	The Game of Human Life: Modern cultures of Childhood and Professional Society
Zelnik	Eran	2020-21	Last	University of California, Chico	lecturer in history	Republic of Mirth: Settler- Humor and the Making of a White Man’s Democracy, 1750-1850
Zino	Dominique	2011-12	Last	CUNY Graduate Center	Ph.D. candidate	'On a Certain Blindness': The Visionary Aesthetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, William James, and Henry James
Zuba	Clay	2015-16	Last	University of Delaware	Ph.D. candidate	Apess' Eulogy, Narrative Visualcy, and the Shpaes of Sovereignty
Zundo	Mary	2007-8	Last	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Ph.D. candidate	"Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth-Century American Art of the Frontier"

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