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 | |||
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Anderson | Anne | 2014-15 | Last | Exeter University | Ph.D. candidate in English | The Morse Collection |
Andrews | Mathilde | 2020-21 | Last | University of California, Berkeley | Ph.D. candidate in art history | Winslow Homer and Evolutionary Thought |
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 |
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 | Ph.D. 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 |
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 | 2016-17 | Last | Georgia State University | associate professor of English | Feather |
Caison | Gina Marie | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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." |
Elder | Nika | 2020-21 | Last | American University | assistant professor of art | John Singleton Copley and the Culture of Slavery |
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 |
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 | |
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 | Ph.D. 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 | Kerin | 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 | Ph.D. 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 |
Johnson | Donald | 2019-20 | Last | North Dakota State University | assistant professor of history | Thirteen Clocks: Popular Statecraft and the Coming of American Independence |
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 | Ph.D. 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 | Ph.D. 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 |
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 |
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 |
Schuetze | Sarah | 2016-17 | Last | University of Wisconsin-Green Bay | assistant professor of English | Calamity Howl |
Senchyne | Jonathan | 2009-10 | Last | Cornell University | Ph.D. 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 | Ph.D. 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 | Ph.D. candidate | American Political Caricatures: 1787-1825 |
Stern | Arden | 2009-10 | Last | University of California, Irvine | Ph.D. 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 | Ph.D. 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 |
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" |