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
2012-13 Brian Valencia Yale University PhD Candidate Performance Histories of Nineteenth-Century Extravaganza and Burlesque
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
2011-12 Natalie Deibel George Washington University PhD Candidate 'For Profit, Pleasure, and Sport': Recreation, Culture, and Society in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800
2011-12 Jeffrey D. Groves Harvey Mudd College Professor A Practical Study of the Isaiah Thomas Press at the American Antiquarian Society
2011-12 Amber LaPiana Washington State University PhD Candidate Mapping Literary Regionalism
2011-12 Anne Verplanck Pennsylvania State University Associate Professor The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780-1880
2011-12 Dominique Zino CUNY Graduate Center PhD Candidate 'On a Certain Blindness': The Visionary Aesthetics of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, William James, and Henry James
2011-12 Catherine H. Walsh University of Delaware PhD Candidate in Art History Narrative and Orality in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture
2011-12 Wendy A. Bellion University of Delaware Associate Professor The Space of Iconoclasm: New York and American Historical Memory