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 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 Sarah Beetham University of Delaware PhD Candidate Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865-1917
2011-12 Gina Caison University of California, Davis Associate Professor of English 'To the Dear Reader': Rhetorical Audiences and Histories in Boudinot, Simms, and the Antebellum Newspaper
2011-12 Brigitte Fielder Cornell University PhD Candidate Animal Humanism: Abolitionists and Animals in the American Nineteenth Century
2011-12 Jeffrey D. Groves Harvey Mudd College Professor A Practical Study of the Isaiah Thomas Press at the American Antiquarian Society
2011-12 Matthew Fox-Amato University of Southern California PhD Candidate Exposing Humanity: Photographic Dimensions of American Slavery, Antislavery, and Emancipation, 1840s to 1870s
2011-12 Aston A. Gonzalez University of Michigan, Ann Arbor PhD Candidate Kneeling and Fighting: African American Artists' Depiction of Black Humanity
2011-12 Anne Verplanck Pennsylvania State University Associate Professor The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780-1880
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 Amber LaPiana Washington State University PhD Candidate Mapping Literary Regionalism