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
2019-20 Erin Pauwels Temple University Assistant Professor of Art History Napoleon Sarony and the Art of Living Pictures
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
2018-19 Julia Grummitt Princeton University PhD Candidate in History The Great National Work: Visualizing Territory and Race in Nineteenth-Century North America
2018-19 Sarah Gillespie CUNY Graduate Center PhD Candidate in Art History 'One Thing New Under the Sun': The Cross-Currents of Science and Art in the American Daguerreotype, 1839-1850
2018-19 Lucien Holness University of Maryland, College Park PhD Candidate in History Between North and South, East and West: The Anti-Slavery Movement in Southwestern Pennsylvania
2018-19 Emma Newcombe Boston University PhD Candidate in American & New England Studies A Place Rendered Interesting': Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of Middle-Class Tourism
2018-19 Melissa Trafton University of New Hampshire Adjunct Professor of Art History Animals in the Age of Darwin