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
2013-14 Robert Lee University of California, Berkeley PhD Candidate Louisiana Purchases: The US-Indian Treaty System in the Missouri River Valley, 1840-1851
2013-14 Caroline Frank Brown University Visiting Scholar Son of Morning: A Chinese Merchant Visits Early Republican America
2012-13 Sarah Beetham University of Delaware PhD Candidate Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865-1917
2012-13 Alexandra Socarides University of Missouri Assistant Professor The Lyric Pose: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry and the Problem of Recovery
2012-13 Justin Clark University of Southern California PhD Candidate Training the Eyes: Romantic Vision and Class Formation in Boston, 1830-1870
2012-13 Frances Clarke University of Sydney Lecturer Minors in the Military: A History of Child Soldiers from the Revolution to the Civil War
2012-13 Brett Grainger Harvard University PhD Candidate The Vital Landscape: Evangelicals and Nature in America, 1740-1870
2012-13 Mazie Harris Brown University PhD Candidate Selling Photography on Broadway, 1839-1884
2012-13 Mairin Odle New York University PhD Candidate Stories Written on the Body: Cross-Cultural Markings in the North American Atlantic, 1600-1830
2012-13 Brian Valencia Yale University PhD Candidate Performance Histories of Nineteenth-Century Extravaganza and Burlesque