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
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