Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship

Baron Fellowships 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 
  • TWO CONTACTS OF REFERENCE 

Apply Online

Application Deadline
Contact Person
Nan Wolverton

Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
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 Catherine Sasanov Jamaica Plain, MA Poet Markd Y (Archives and Invocations)
2016 Matt Dellinger Brooklyn, NY Non-fiction Writer and Digital Artist The Brooklyn 14th Regiment
2015 Jeanne Schinto Andover, MA Independent Writer Research for 5-part series about the Walpole Society
2015 Sara Smith Greenfield, MA Choreographer Florence Rice Hitchcock and the Theory of The Soft Earth: A multimedia dance project
2014 Holly Wendt Annville, PA Novelist Holystone: A novel based on the early eighteenth century pirate Captain Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy