2024-2025 Fellows
The following fellows are in residence during the 2024-2025 academic year.
PhD Candidate in English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2024-25 Brown Family Collection Fellowship The Queer Genealogies of Black Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century
PhD Candidate in English, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV
2024-25 Joyce Tracy Fellowship Suffragists and the New Departure Strategy in the History of Women's Right to Vote (1868-1876)
PhD Candidate in English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2024-25 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship (Un)Veiling Disease: Women’s Breast Cancer and Concealed Diagnoses
PhD Candidate in History, University of Delaware
2024-25 Kate Van Winkle Keller Fellowship for Research in Early American Music and Dance Sensory Performance of National Identity in 19th Century American Tourism
Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, Northeastern University
2024-25 Stephen Botein Fellowship Wild Science: Radical Politics and Rejected Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Assistant Professor, University of North Texas
2024-25 AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship Music’s Long Anthropocene: The Climate of Empire and the Sound of Ecological Disaster
Poet, Edmonton, AB
2024 Hearst Foundations Fellowship Research on Harriet E. Wilson for a historical fiction trilogy
PhD Candidate in English, Indiana University, Bloomington
2024-25 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship Narrating Abolition: Scissors-and-Paste Reform in the Emerging Anglosphere
PhD Candidate in World History, Northeastern University
2024-25 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship Labor and Race in the Global Textile Industry: Lowell, Concord and Monterrey in the Early 19th Century
Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M University
2024-25 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship The Millican Massacre: Newspaper Transmission and Extension of Reconstruction Racial Violence
PhD Candidate in History, Carnegie Mellon University
2024-25 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship Private Wrongs: A Hidden History of the American Civil War’s First Black Union Regiment
Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2024-25 Kate Van Winkle Keller Fellowship for Research in Early American Music and Dance Border Crossings: Latin U.S. History We Weren’t Taught
Assistant Professor of English, North Dakota State University
2024-25 Reese Fellowship Bodies of Believers
Professor, National Chengchi University
2024-25 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship Racial and Ecological Intimacies in the Mid-nineteenth-century Atlantic Silk Imagination
Professor, Binghamton University
2024-25 Lapides Fellowship in Pre-1900 Juvenile Literature and Ephemera School Children: A New History of US Public Education, 1790-1860
Associate Professor of History, University of South Dakota
2024-25 Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship Leg Show: Ballet, Burlesque, and Female Spectacle in the Civil War Era and Gilded Age
Visiting Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
2024-25 AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship Hostile Love: Rage, Race, and Gender in American Children’s Literature, 1850-1900
Director, Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth Century Studies, Lehigh Univeristy
2024-25 AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship "Butchered after the most barbarous manner”: Violence in the Tuscarora War
Visiting Researcher in History, Georgetown University
2024-25 Diana Korzenik Virtual Research Fellowship The Sultan of New York: Armenians and Turks in Nineteenth-Century America
PhD Candidate in History, Princeton University
2024-25 Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship A Valley Between Worlds: Slavery, Dispossession, and the Creation of a Settler-Colonial Society in the Hudson Valley, 1674-1766
PhD Candidate in the School of Information, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2024-25 Reese Fellowship A Most Familiar Form(e): Textual and Visual Knowledge Transmission in the Cultural Astronomy of Colonial North America
Inter/Multi/Anti-disciplinary Poet, Artist, and Scholar, Hillsboro, OR
2024 Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship Research for “Red-Acted” a collection of Indigenous erasure poetry
PhD Candidate in English and African American Studies, Pennsylvania State University
2024-25 Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship The Hold: Black Femme Formations of Space, Text, and Being in the Long Nineteenth Century
Adjunct Professor, Florida International University
2024-25 AAS-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship Security, Imperial Reconstitution, and the British Atlantic Islands in the Age of the American Revolution
Assistant Professor of English, Eastern Kentucky University
2024-25 Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship Freedom of the Scenes: Performance Cultures and Black Atlantic Literature, 1750-1830
PhD Candidate in History, University of Pennsylvania
2024-25 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship Undone Bodies: Women and Disability in Early America
Professor, Institut Agro
2024-25 Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship Accounting, Remuneration and Labor Conflicts in 19th American Utopian Communities: A comparison between Northampton Association of Education and Industry and other Communes
Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2024-25 AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship The Afric-American Picture Gallery: Imagining Black Art, circa 1859
Visual Artist and Senior Lecturer, College of the Holy Cross
2024 Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship Investigation into the history of American lacemaking in past centuries
Distinguished University Professor of History, University of Denver
2024-25 Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence Maps and Visual Culture in American History
Independent Writer,
2024-25 David Jaffee Fellowship in Visual and Material Culture Thoreau’s Pencil: A New History of Slavery, Abolition, Complicity, and Justice
Professor of English, United States Naval Academy
2024-25 Drawn to Art Fellowship Johnston's The Heavenly Nine and Jacksonian Performance Culture
Documentary Filmmaker, Narrowsburg, NY
2024 Hearst Foundations Fellowship Research for her historical film about the life, work, and massive influence of artist Frances Flora “Fanny” Palmer (1812-1876)
PhD Candidate in History, University of Missouri, Columbia
2024-25 Brown Family Collection Fellowship Spirited Struggles: Race and the Temperance Movement in Nineteenth-Century America
Professor of English, Worcester State University
2024-25 Legacy Fellowship Forty Acres and a Mule: A Legal and Literary History
Doctoral Researcher, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg
2024-25 Barbara L. Packer Fellowship Malleability in Antebellum Periodical Cultures
Mellon Data Fellow, Cornell University
2024-25 Diana Korzenik Virtual Research Fellowship "Git in the Woods”: Enslaved Women’s Epistemologies of Self, Community and World
PhD Candidate in English, University of Delaware
2024-25 Stephen Botein Fellowship Reading American Racial Thought in the Memory and Myth of the Underground Railroad
Professor of English, Lorian County Community College
2024-25 Diana Korzenik Virtual Research Fellowship (Re)Constructing Black Childhood: Young Readers and Contributors of Black Newspapers
Associate Professor, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
2024-25 Alstott Morgan Fellowship 8000