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
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 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
2010-11 Jessica Collier University of California, Irvine PhD Candidate The Transcendental Classroom: Childhood Education and Literary Culture in Antebellum America
2010-11 Volker Depkat Professor The Visualization of Legitimacy
2010-11 Alison Klaum University of Delaware PhD Candidate Pressing Flowers: American Floral Prints and Preserving Culture in the Nineteenth Century
2010-11 Daniel Lewis Northern Virginia Community College Assistant Professor The Popularity of 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' Prints in the Literary Marketplace, 1853-1861
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 Anne Roth-Reinhardt University of Minnesota PhD Candidate 'Retouching' American History: Narrative and Graphic Illustrations within Nineteenth-Century Historical Fiction