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. The awards are funded from the gift of Jay and Deborah Last.
Application Deadline
January 15, 2025 - 12:00pm
Date
Name
Affiliation
Position
2022-23
Alexander David Clayton University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
PhD Candidate in History
The Living Animal: Biopower and Empire in the Atlantic Menagerie, 1760-1890
2022-23
Julia Carroll 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
2022-23
Alexandra Macdonald College of William and Mary
PhD Candidate in History
The Social Life of Time in the Anglo-Atlantic World, 1660-1830
2022-23
Julia Rosenbaum Bard College
Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture
Unruly Bodies?: Portraying Science and Citizenry in Post-Civil War America
2022-23
John Patrick M. Fetherston University of Maryland, College Park
PhD Candidate in History
Taverns, African Americans, and the American Public in the Age of Revolutions
2022-23
Merav Schocken University of California, Santa Barbara
PhD Candidate in English
Material Faith: The Business of Death and the Afterlife in Nineteenth-Century America
2022-23
Ben Wright University of Texas, Dallas
Associate Professor of Historical Studies
Empires of Souls: The United States, Britain, and West African Colonization
2022-23
Anders Bright University of Pennsylvania
PhD Candidate in History
Luck’s Metropolis; Lotteries, Finance, and Class in New York, 1780-1830
2020-21
Rebekah Bryer Northwestern University
PhD Candidate in Theater
National Acts: Performance, Commemoration, and the Construction of National Identity in the Aftermath of the Civil War
2020-21
Anne Cross University of Delaware
PhD 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