Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship

Baron Fellowships are fellowships for creative and performing artists and writers. They support historical research by creative and performing artists, writers, film makers, journalists, and other persons whose goals are to produce imaginative works dealing with pre-twentieth-century American history, literature, and culture.

Application Procedure

All applicants are considered for both the Hearst Foundations Fellowship and Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship. 

In addition to completing the online application form, the elements listed below are required for the completion of your application. Information about the required elements is given within the online form.

  • STATEMENT
  • CURRENT RÉSUMÉ
  • WORK SAMPLES and REVIEWS 
Application Deadline
Contact Person
Nan Wolverton

Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2025 Rachel Maeve Providence, RI Photographer Tintypes as Artifacts of Intimacy and Memory: Exploring Radical Relationships Through Photography
2025 Katie Moulton Baltimore, MD Author Research for Hannah: An Untelling of an American Myth
2024 Jessica Mehta Hillsboro, OR Inter/Multi/Anti-disciplinary Poet, Artist, and Scholar Research for “Red-Acted” a collection of Indigenous erasure poetry
2024 Leslie Schomp College of the Holy Cross Visual Artist and Senior Lecturer Investigation into the history of American lacemaking in past centuries
2023 Monique Celeste Hayes Fort Washington, MD Historical Novelist Research for “Sally Forth,” on African-American experience during the American Revolution from the years 1771-1785
2023 Kristina Martino Poet and Visual Artist Research for “The Avian Kingdom,” a project that concerns reinventing the pastoral poem and fusing human consciousness with that of the landscape, as well as various environmental and health crises
2022 Darlene R. Taylor Howard University Writer Research for novel that follows the lives of two people fighting for freedom and trying to restore their lives after the Civil War
2022 Maureen Egan Richmond, VA Creative Writer Research for Non-Fiction picture book for school-aged children about the life and work of Ruth Henshaw Bascom, 19th-century folk artist
2022 Mary Eileen Fouratt Richmond, VA Creative Writer Research for non-fiction picture book for school-aged children about the life and work of Ruth Henshaw Bascom, a 19th-century folk artist
2020 Diane Glancy Shawnee Mission, KS Poet Quadrille: A poetry manuscript that explores the effect of Christianity on the Native American
2020 Eireann Lorsung Farmington, ME Writer Non-Fiction work that examines the history of gardens in Europe and the U.S.
2019 Laurie McCants Bloomsburg, PA Actor Solo performance about Frances Slocum, who in 1778 was abducted by the Lenape at 5 years of age
2019 Trudy Williams Leeds, MA Playwright Complex Harmony: Music, Walt Whitman, and the Railroads
2018 TaraShea Nesbit Oxford, OH Writer Beheld: The story of the Mayflower pilgrims told through the eyes of two women, Alice Bradford, a puritan, and Eleanor Billington, an indentured servant
2018 Leila Philip Woodstock, CT Writer Non-fiction book about the experiences of contemporary New England fur trappers, offering a compelling, if startling window through which to reconsider environmentalism
2017 Erik Rodgers Los Angeles, CA Fiction Writer Research for a novel entitled “The Broken World”
2017 Linwood Rumney Cincinnati, OH Poet Research for a collection of poems entitled “Discrepant Means”
2016 Matt Dellinger Brooklyn, NY Non-fiction Writer and Digital Artist The Brooklyn 14th Regiment
2016 Catherine Sasanov Jamaica Plain, MA Poet Markd Y (Archives and Invocations)
2015 Sara Smith Greenfield, MA Choreographer Florence Rice Hitchcock and the Theory of The Soft Earth: A multimedia dance project
2015 Jeanne Schinto Andover, MA Independent Writer Research for 5-part series about the Walpole Society
2014 Holly Wendt Annville, PA Novelist Holystone: A novel based on the early eighteenth century pirate Captain Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy
2014 Margaret Rozga Milwaukee, WI Poet Pestiferous Questions: A collection of poems inspired by the life of Jessie Benton Fremont
2013 Lynn Thomson New York, NY Dramaturg, Theater Director The Time Traveler's Trip to Niagara Falls
2013 Melissa Range Columbia, MO Poet Poetry project about the abolitionist movement
2012 Deborah Brevoort North Bergen, NJ Playwright Research for a historical play about George and Martha Washington and the role of fashion in shaping American identity
2012 Catherine Reid Asheville, NC Writer Research for extended work of creative nonFiction tentatively titled "13 Travels with William Bartram" on the life and writings of William Bartram (1739-1823).
2011 Lisa Hayes Bowie, MD Playwright Research on colonial America just before the Revolutionary War to be used in writing two museum theater plays for the Accokeek Foundation's Natonal Colonial Farm
2011 Cam Terwilliger Somerville, MA Fiction Writer The Counterfeiter: A novel set in New York and Québec during the French and Indian War (1754–1763)
2010 Wendy Call Seattle, WA Non-Fiction Writer Series of literary essays about the grieving process
2010 Suzanne Rivecca San Francisco, CA Fiction Writer Novel about Walt Whitman's sojourn by boat to New Orleans with his teenage brother, Jeff
2009 Lauren Yee San Francisco, CA Playwright interdisciplinary play exploring the concept of "performing racial identity in America"
2009 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Norman, OK Poet Research for book of poems whose centerpiece is a series about Phillis Wheatley, which imagines her interior life
2008 Martha Carlson-Bradley Hillsborough, NH Poet Research for a collection of poems inspired by the 1727 New England Primer titled, Begin with Trouble
2008 Debra Gwartney Oregon Non-Fiction Writer I am a Stranger Here Myself: A memoir and history of Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and womanhood in the patriarchal American West
2007 Heidi Durrow Los Angeles, CA Fiction Writer Research for novel about Miss Lala, famous strongwoman, circus aerialist and acrobat of the Victorian era
2007 Gino DiIorio New York, NY Playwright Research into life of Edmund Ross, southern politician who cast the deciding vote, insuring that President Andrew Johnson would be spared impeachment
2006 R. Sikoryak New York, NY Cartoonist Comic strip adaptation of Moby Dick
2006 Robert Shuster Westchester County, NY Writer The Indestructible Soldier: A non-Fiction book on America's culture of war and the military in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
2006 Tess Taylor El Cerrito, CA Poet Book of poems titled The Family Chest
2006 Ginger Strand New York, NY Non-Fiction Writer Inventing Niagara: A non-fiction work on Niagara Falls
2005 Charles Hirshberg New York, NY Writer Vistas of Destiny: Thomas Wentworth Higginson in Worcester
2005 Amy Brill Brooklyn, NY Writer Movement of the Stars: A fictional account of a female astronomer in the early 1800s Nantucket
2004 James Thomas Stevens Fredonia, NY Poet Alphabets of Letters: A poem that explores propaganda found in Native American children's primers
2004 Joanne Dobson Writer The Kashmiri Shawl: A historical novel set in New York City, 1860
2003 Britta Sjogren San Francisco, CA Filmmaker A Chain of Windows
2003 David Roderick Berkeley, CA Poet Blue Colonial: A collection of poems on the cultural interaction between the colonists and the Wampanoag tribe in the early seventeenth-century
2001 Emily Laurance Chapel Hill, NC Musician, Harpist Sacred Music and Theatrical Songs in Early Nineteenth Century America
2000 Joann Mazzio Pinos Altos, NM Writer Fremont Expeditions in the 1840's