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
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