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
2014-15 Colleen Tripp Brown University PhD Candidate in Afro-American Studies Pacific Sensations: The Beginnings of American Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Popular Culture
2014-15 Douglas Guerra State University of New York, Oswego Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing On the Move: Gaming Models for Literary Theory
2013-14 Caroline Frank Brown University Visiting Scholar Son of Morning: A Chinese Merchant Visits Early Republican America
2013-14 Gordon Fraser University of Connecticut PhD Candidate Transamerican Revolutions: Liberal Nationalism and the Nineteenth-Century Politics of Violence
2013-14 Sarah Gerk Oberlin College Visiting Teacher Irishness in Nineteenth-Century American Music
2013-14 Sonia Hazard Duke University PhD Candidate In and Of the Machine: Religion and Visual Technologies in Antebellum America
2013-14 Robert Lee University of California, Berkeley PhD Candidate Louisiana Purchases: The US-Indian Treaty System in the Missouri River Valley, 1840-1851
2013-14 Christopher Lukasik Purdue University Associate Professor The Image in the Text
2013-14 Brett Mizelle California State University, Long Beach Professor Killing Animals in American History
2013-14 Sarah Perkins Stanford University PhD Candidate Dixie Bound: The Story of an American Literary Movement, 1860-1930