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
2020-21 Rebekah Bryer Northwestern University PhD Candidate in Theater National Acts: Performance, Commemoration, and the Construction of National Identity in the Aftermath of the Civil War
2020-21 Robert Caldwell Southwest Louisiana Technical Community College Assistant Professor of History and Geography Indians in their Proper Place: Social Sciences and the Mapping of Native America
2020-21 Ryan Tobler Harvard Divinity School PhD Candidate in Religion American Sacraments: Religion and Ritual in the Early United States
2020-21 Anne Cross University of Delaware PhD Candidate in Art History 'Features of Cruelty Which Could Not Well Be Described by the Pen': The Media of Atrocity in Harper’s Weekly, 1862-1866
2020-21 Alice Crossley University of Lincoln Assistant Professor of English and Journalism Affect and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Valentines
2019-20 Rebecca Rosen Hollins University Visiting Assistant Professor of English Making the Body Speak: Anatomy, Autopsy, and Testimony in Early America, 1639-1790
2019-20 Eran Zelnik California State University, Chico Lecturer in History Republic of Mirth: Humor, Settler Colonialism, and the Making of a White Man’s Democracy, 1750-1850
2019-20 Zachary Bennett Rutgers University Postdoctoral Fellow in History Flowing Power: Rivers and the Remaking of Colonial New England
2019-20 Isabelle Masse McGill University PhD Candidate in Art History Itinerant Portraitists in North America: Mobility, Practice, Transmission, 1776-1812
2019-20 Marissa Grunes Harvard University PhD Candidate in English This Corner in the Wild: Architectural Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century American Literature