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 Sarah Weicksel University of Chicago PhD Candidate The Fabric of War: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era
2013-14 Mary B. Fuhrer Independent Scholar Tuberculosis and Popular Culture in New England: 1800-1840
2013-14 Zara Anishanslin College of Staten Island Assistant Professor Rebelling Subjects, Revealing Objects: The Material and Visual Culture of Making and Remembering the American Revolution
2012-13 Sarah Beetham University of Delaware PhD Candidate Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865-1917
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 Michael D'Alessandro Boston University PhD Candidate Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Audience in Popular American Literature and Theater, 18230-1870
2012-13 Jessica Linker University of Connecticut PhD Candidate 'It is my best wish to behold Ladies among my hearers': Early American Women and Scientific Practice, 1720-1860
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 Alexandra Socarides University of Missouri Assistant Professor The Lyric Pose: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry and the Problem of Recovery