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
2015-16
Katherine Mintie University of California, Berkeley
PhD Candidate
Legal Lenses: Intellectual Property Laws and American Photography, 1839-1890
2015-16
Kate Silbert University of Michigan
PhD Candidate
'Committed to Memory': Gender, Literary Engagement, and Commemorative Practice, 1780-1830
2015-16
Seth Cotlar Willamette University
Professor
When the Olden Days Were New: A Cultural History of Nostalgia in Modernizing America, 1776-1860
2015-16
Nicole Belolan University of Delaware
PhD Candidate
Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1700-1861
2015-16
Amy Sopcak-Joseph University of Connecticut
PhD Candidate
The Lives and Times of Godey's Lady's Book, 1830-1877
2015-16
Rachel E. Walker University of Maryland
PhD Candidate
A Beautiful Mind: Reading Faces in the Ango-Atlantic World, 1760-1860
2015-16
Christa Vogelius University of Copenhagen
Assistant Professor
Ekphrasis and the Transnational Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
2015-16
William Coleman Washington University in St. Louis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Domestic Bliss: The Artist and the Country House in Nineteenth-Century America
2015-16
Whitney Stewart Rice University
PhD Candidate
Domestic Activism: The Politics of the Black Home in Nineteenth-Century America
2015-16
Clay Zuba University of Delaware
PhD Candidate
Apess' Eulogy, Narrative Visualcy, and the Shpaes of Sovereignty