Stephen Botein Fellowship

Stephen Botein Fellowships are for research in the history of the book in American culture. Funding is derived from an endowment established by the family and friends of the late Stephen Botein. Doctoral candidates may apply.

Application Deadline
Contact Person
Nan Wolverton

Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2024-25 Darbyshire Witek University of Delaware PhD Candidate in English Reading American Racial Thought in the Memory and Myth of the Underground Railroad
2024-25 Max Chapnick Northeastern University Postdoctoral Teaching Associate Wild Science: Radical Politics and Rejected Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
2023-24 Gordon Fraser University of Manchester Lecturer in English, American Studies, and Creative Writing Engineering Peace
2023-24 Avery Blankenship Northeastern University PhD Candidate in English Kitchen Ventriloquisms
2022-23 Sarah Salter Texas A&M University Assistant Professor of English Sex in Pages: A Theoretical History of Periodical Sexualities
2022-23 Kristofer Stinson George Mason University PhD Candidate in History Shadows and Solid Things: Religion and Archaeology in the Atlantic World
2020-21 Kandice Sharren Simon Fraser University Instructor of English Politics, Paratexts, and Transatlantic Fiction, 1790-1840
2019-20 Nicole Mahoney University of Maryland, College Park PhD Candidate in History Liberty, Gentility, and Dangerous Liaisons: French Culture and Polite Society in Early National America, 1770-1825
2019-20 Madeline Zehnder University of Virginia PhD Candidate in English Pocket-Sized Nation: Cultures of Portability in America, 1790-1840
2018-19 Magdalena Zapedowska University of Massachusetts, Amherst PhD Candidate in English Black Dissent and Black Freedom: Revolution, Emigration, Reform, 1850-1870
2018-19 Chip Badley University of California, Santa Barbara PhD Candidate in English Aesthetic Sociality and Nineteenth-Century America
2017-18 Clare Mullaney University of Pennsylvania PhD Candidate American Imprints: Disability and the Material Text, 1858-1932
2017-18 Thora Brylowe University of Colorado, Boulder Assistant Professor Impressions and Folds: The Ecology of Romantic-Era Paper
2016-17 D. Berton Emerson Pomona College Visiting Assistant Professor of English Local Rules: Vernacular Aesthetics and Alternative Democracies in Antebellum Print Culture
2016-17 Justine Oliva University of New Hampshire PhD Candidate Anne C. L. Botta and the Business of Friendship
2015-16 Joseph Rezek Boston University Assistant Professor Transatlantic Currents, 1820-1860, for The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture
2015-16 Jim Casey University of Delaware PhD Candidate Editing a Revolution in Newspaper Printing, 1847-1849
2014-15 Katy Chiles University of Tennessee Assistant Professor of English Raced Collaboration: The Idea of Authorship and Early African American and Native American Literature
2014-15 Kathleen Walkup Mills College Professor of Book Arts Printing at the Margins
2013-14 Faith Barrett Lawrence University Associate Professor Poems and Parodies: Voice-Effects and the Profession of Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America
2013-14 Lindsay DiCuirci University of Maryland Assistant Professor History's Imprint: The Colonial Book and the Writing of American History, 1790-1855
2012-13 Scott McLaren University of York Associate Professor Nurseries of Faith: The New York Methodist Book Concern and the Growth of Methodist Sunday Schools in Upper Canada, 1815-1850
2012-13 Kristen Doyle Highland New York University PhD Candidate At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York City
2011-12 Lara Langer Cohen Wayne State University Assistant Professor Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature
2011-12 J. Brenton Stewart University of Wisconsin, Madison PhD Candidate Informing the City: On the Print Culture of Antebellum Augusta, Georgia
2011-12 Anna Stewart University of Texas, Austin PhD Candidate Slave Narratives and Freedmen's Education
2010-11 Caitlin Rosenthal Harvard University PhD Candidate Accounting for Control: Book-keeping in early Nineteenth-Century America
2010-11 T.J. Tomlin University of Northern Colorado Assistant Professor A Faith for All Persuasions: Almanacs and American Religious Life, 1730-1820
2009-10 Mark Alan Mattes University of Iowa PhD Candidate Letter Interception and Publication during the Era of Good Feelings
2009-10 Lynn Casmier-Paz University of Central Florida Associate Professor Slave Literacy, Children's Textbooks, and Antebellum Education
2008-09 Lara Langer Cohen Wayne State University Assistant Professor Notes from Underground: Nineteenth-Century American Print Subcultures
2008-09 Betsy Klimasmith University of Massachusetts, Boston Associate Professor Cities and Seductions: Sex and Early American Urban Fiction
2007-08 Joseph M. Adelman Johns Hopkins University PhD Candidate The Business of Politics: Printers and the Emergence of Political Communications Networks, 1765-1789
2007-08 Lynda Yankaskas Brandeis University PhD Candidate Borrowing Culture: Social Libraries and the Shaping of American Civic Life, 1731-1851
2006-07 Hannah Carlson Boston University PhD Candidate In the Company of Books: Reading the Pocket Companion
2006-07 Faith Barrett Lawrence University Assistant Professor 'To fight aloud is very brave': American Poetry and the Civil War
2005-06 Michael Carter University of Southern California PhD Candidate Mathew Carey and the Public Emergence of Roman Catholicism in the United States, 1789-1839
2005-06 Coleman Hutchison Northwestern University PhD Candidate Occasioning Verse and Volume
2004-05 Alexandra Socarides Rutgers University PhD Candidate Lyric Contexts: Emily Dickinson and the 19th Century Extended Poetic Project
2004-05 James Andrew Secord Cambridge University Professor "Nature as News: Reporting Science in the Antebellum American Illustrated Press"
2003-04 Susan Scott Parrish University of Michigan Assistant Professor Colonial and Early National American Almanac
2003-04 Richard Bell Harvard University PhD Candidate Newspapers and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830
2002-03 Ann Johnson Fordham University Assistant Professor Engineering Handbooks as Carriers of Knowledge into the Field
2002-03 Steven Harthorn University of Tennessee, Knoxville PhD Candidate James Fenimore Cooper and the American Literary Market, 1838-1851
2001-02 Cynthia Van Zandt University of New Hampshire Assistant Professor Brothers among Nations: Kinship and Alliance in Early America
2000-01 Richard Stillson Johns Hopkins University PhD Candidate Communication and Information Dispersal in the California Gold Rush
2000-01 Louise L. Stevenson Franklin & Marshall College Professor Women's intellectual Life, 1750-1820
1999-00 Anne Baker Reed College Visiting Assistant Professor Geography Schoolbooks and Nation Formation in the Antebellum United States
1999-00 Mark A. Peterson University of Iowa Assistant Professor The Mather Family and the Construction of an Atlantic Protestant International
1998-99 Jen A. Huntley University of Nevada, Reno PhD Candidate The Genius of Civilization: The Publishing Industry and the Creation of Western Regional Identity,1848-1900
1998-99 Ann Fidler Ohio State University Assistant Professor A Cultural History of the American Law Book, 1700-00
1997-98 Burton Bledstein University of Illinois, Chicago Associate Professor By the Book: Reference and Information as Authority in 19th-Century America
1997-98 Susan S. Williams Ohio State University Associate Professor Writing Home: Female Authorship and Print Culture in America, 1820-00
1996-97 David Paul Nord Indiana University, Bloomington Professor The Religious Roots of Mass Media in America, 1800-1860
1996-97 John Evelev Duke University PhD Tolerable Entertainment: Herman Melville, the Literary Profession, and the Cultural Life of Antebellum New York
1995-96 Karen Weyler University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill PhD Candidate Issues of Privacy and Publicity in the Early American Novel
1995-96 Alice E. Fahs University of California, Irvine Assistant Professor Publishing the Civil War: Northern Publishers and the Literary Marketplace of War
1994-95 Fredrika J. Teute Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Editor of Publications Writing a Woman's Life in the Early Republic
1994-95 Ann V. Fabian Yale University Associate Professor Selling Experience: Amateur Authors and Pamphlet Publication in the Nineteenth-Century US
1993-94 Grantland Rice Brandeis University PhD Candidate The Transformation of Authorship in Early America
1993-94 David Rawson College of William and Mary PhD Candidate The Print Distribution and Consumer Nexus in Piedmont Virginia, 1760-1810
1992-93 Daniel A. Cohen Florida International University Assistant Professor Beyond Domesticity: Literary Images of Working-Class Women, 1790-1860
1991-92 Bernell Tripp University of Alabama PhD Candidate The Nineteenth-Century Black Press
1990-91 Amy Thomas Duke University PhD Candidate Reading in the Antebellum South
1989-90 James N. Green Library Company of Philadelphia Associate Librarian The Transformation of the American Book Trade, 1785-1825