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
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 Gordon Fraser North Dakota State University Assistant Professor of English The Hawaiian Creation Chant and the Firm of Lee & Shepard
2018-19 Seth Perry Princeton University Assistant Professor of Religion Lorenzo Dow and the Origins of American Religious Celebrity
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