Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship

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
Contact Person
Nan Wolverton

Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
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 Ryan Bachman University of Delaware PhD Candidate in History 'Done in Canton': Chinese Export Waxworks in American Museums
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 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 Allison Fulton University of California, Davis PhD Candidate in English Disciplining Craft: The Gendered Making of Nineteenth-Century American Science
2022-23 Anders Bright University of Pennsylvania PhD Candidate in History Luck’s Metropolis; Lotteries, Finance, and Class in New York, 1780-1830
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 Alexander David Clayton University of Michigan, Ann Arbor PhD Candidate in History The Living Animal: Biopower and Empire in the Atlantic Menagerie, 1760-1890
2020-21 Ryan Tobler Harvard Divinity School PhD Candidate in Religion American Sacraments: Religion and Ritual in the Early United States
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