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
2018-19 Joshua Bartlett State University of New York, Albany PhD Candidate in English The Many Lives of the Charter Oak
2018-19 Lauren Freese University of South Dakota Assistant Professor of Fine Arts A Taste for Images: Depictions of Food and Eating in the American Popular Press
2018-19 Asiel Sepulveda Southern Methodist University PhD Candidate in Art History City Impressions: Lithography and Urban Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Havana
2018-19 Alex Beringer University of Montevallo Assistant Professor of English Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century American Comic Strip
2018-19 Lance Boos Stony Brook University PhD Candidate in History The Development of a British Atlantic Musical Marketplace in the Eighteenth Century
2018-19 Caroline Gillaspie CUNY Graduate Center PhD Candidate in Art History Fueling America: Visual Representations of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Coffee Consumption
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
2017-18 Elizabeth Hopwood Loyola University Chicago Instructor Eating the Atlantic: Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Caribbean Tables and Texts
2017-18 Helen Hunt Tennessee Technological University Professor of English Provoking Pleasure: Erotic Dominance & Submission in Early American Fiction