Reese Fellowship

The Reese Fellowship supports research in American bibliography and projects in the history of the book in America. Funding for this award is provided by the William Reese Company, New Haven, Connecticut.

Application Deadline
Contact Person
Nan Wolverton

Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2024-25 Jeremy L. McLaughlin University of Wisconsin, Madison PhD Candidate in the School of Information A Most Familiar Form(e): Textual and Visual Knowledge Transmission in the Cultural Astronomy of Colonial North America
2024-25 Amy Gore North Dakota State University Assistant Professor of English Bodies of Believers
2023-24 Shaibal Dev Roy University of Southern California PhD Candidate in English Publishing Americans in Nineteenth-Century India
2023-24 Alice Martin Rutgers University PhD Candidate in English Playing with Scripted Intimacy: The Uptake of American Autograph Albums, 1820-1860
2022-23 Theodore Delwiche Yale University PhD Candidate in History The Contested Classics
2022-23 Sonia Di Loreto Universita di Torino Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature Cristina di Belgiojoso and the New York Daily Tribune: Asia Minor and Cosmopolitan Utopianism in American Periodical Publications, 1840-1860
2020-21 John Bidwell The Morgan Library & Museum Astor Curator and Department Head, Printed Books & Bindings The Declaration of Independence: Prints, Broadsides, and Facsimiles
2020-21 Daniel Diez Couch United States Air Force Academy Assistant Professor of English American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Literary Ruins in the Early Republic
2019-20 Patrick Erben University of West Georgia Professor of English The German Pietist Origins of the American Self
2019-20 Emily Gowen Boston University PhD Candidate in English and American Literature Defoe’s American Readers
2019-20 Eric Lamore University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Professor of English Abagail Field Mott’s 1829 Abridged Edition of Olaudah Equiano’s ‘Interesting Narrative’: A Critical Edition
2018-19 Seth Perry Princeton University Assistant Professor of Religion Lorenzo Dow and the Origins of American Religious Celebrity
2018-19 Gordon Fraser North Dakota State University Assistant Professor of English The Hawaiian Creation Chant and the Firm of Lee & Shepard
2017-18 Kristina Garvin Saint Joseph's University Visiting Assistant Professor Past and Future States: Institutional Time and the Early American Serial, 1780-1820
2017-18 Samantha Sommers University of California, Los Angeles PhD Candidate Reading in Books: Theories of Reading from Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
2016-17 Kimberly Armstrong Metropolitan Community College, Omaha Instructor 'The Plague is Just as Great Today': Selling the Subscription Book in Postbellum America
2015-16 Hunter Price Western Washington University Visiting Assistant Professor The Traveling Connexion: Religion, Capital, and the Origins of the South Middle Class, 1760-1830
2015-16 Leonard von Morzé University of Massachusetts, Boston Associate Professor Contextualizing Christian Jacob Hutter: German-American Printing and Book Distribution in the Atlantic World
2014-15 Jonathan Yeager University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Assistant Professor of History Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture
2013-14 Patricia Pender University of Newcastle Associate Professor Anne Bradstreet's Publication History, 1650-1867
2013-14 Steffi Dippold Stanford University Lecturer Plain as in Primitive
2012-13 Christopher Hunter California Institute of Technology Assistant Professor A New and More Perfect Edition: Reading, Editing, and Publishing Autobiography in America, 1787-1850
2012-13 Claire Parfait Universite de Paris 13 Professor African American Historians, 1830s-1930s: Book History and Historiography
2011-12 Adam Shapiro University of Wisconsin, Madison Postdoctoral Fellow William Paley and the Natural Theology Tradition in America
2011-12 Steven Smith University of Missouri PhD Candidate A World the Printers Made: Print Culture in New York, 1730-1830
2010-11 Melissa J. Homestead University of Nebraska, Lincoln Associate Professor E.D.E.N. Southworth's Serial Fiction
2010-11 Sarah Arndt Trinity College, University of Dublin PhD Candidate The Book Trade and Print Culture: A Comparative Analysis of Belfast and Baltimore, 1760-1825
2009-10 Seth Perry University of Chicago PhD Candidate The Bible and Religious Authority in Early-National America, 1770-1850
2009-10 Ursula Crosslin Ohio State University PhD Candidate The Institution of the American Church Choir in Philadelphia, 1760-1860
2008-09 Catherine Parisian Independent Scholar A Publication History of the Works of Frances Burney
2008-09 Courtney Weikle-Mills University of Pittsburgh Assistant Professor Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Making of a U.S. Literary Public, 1700-1852
2007-08 Nikos Pappas University of Kentucky PhD Candidate "Sacred Music Tune Index of Southern and Western Source Material (1760-1870)
2007-08 Elizabeth Petrino Fairfield University Associate Professor "'Kitchen in Parnassus': Lydia Sigourney as Poet, Activist, and Historian"
2006-07 Joanne van der Woude University of Virginia PhD Candidate Towards a Transatlantic Aesthetic: Immigration, Translation, and Mourning in the Seventeenth Century
2005-06 Kyle B. Roberts University of Pennsylvania PhD Candidate Writing the Evangelical Subject: Religious Periodicals and Biographies in New York City, 1830-1860
2004-05 Hester Blum Pennsylvania State University Assistant Professor The View from the Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narrative and the Maritime Imagination
2003-04 Michael Everton University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill PhD Candidate Moral Vampires and the Blood of Genius: Vocational Ethics in Early American Literary Culture
2002-03 E. Haven Hawley Georgia Institute of Technology PhD Candidate American Publishers of Indecent Books, 1840 - 1890
2001-02 Michael H. Hoeflich University of Kansas School of Law Professor The Material Culture of the Nineteenth Century
2000-01 Eric Altice University of California, Los Angeles PhD Candidate Taking the Heathen to the Countryside: Missionary Publication and the Representations of the 'Exotic' in Antebellum America
1999-00 Thomas Augst University of Minnesota Assistant Professor Making Society Out of Books: Character, Composure, and the Rhetoric of Market Culture