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
January 15, 2025 - 12:00pm
Date
Name
Affiliation
Position
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
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
2010-11
Meredith Bak
University of California, Santa Barbara
PhD Candidate
Perception and Playthings: Optical Toys as Instruments of Science and Culture
2010-11
Jessica Collier
University of California, Irvine
PhD Candidate
The Transcendental Classroom: Childhood Education and Literary Culture in Antebellum America
2010-11
Keri Holt
Utah State University
Assistant Professor
Reading the Federal Republic: Considering the Place of the States in the Early U.S.
2010-11
Christopher Oliver
University of Virginia
PhD Candidate
Civic Visions: The Panorama and Popular Amusement in American Art and Society, 1845-1870
2010-11
Phillip Troutman
George Washington University
Assistant Professor
Abolition Comix: Visual Semiotics in Antislavery Materials
2010-11
Hugh McIntosh
Northwestern University
PhD Candidate
Civil War Advertising and the Popular Novel
2010-11
Alison Klaum
University of Delaware
PhD Candidate
Pressing Flowers: American Floral Prints and Preserving Culture in the Nineteenth Century