Fellowships 2009-10: Jay and Deborah Last FellowshipProject: 'Thoughts Bodied upon the State': Sensationalism and Reform in Nineteenth-Century America, 1842-1867 2015-16: AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term FellowshipProject: An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century America Books Based on Fellowship Research A Player and a Gentleman: The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century U.S. American ActorUniversity of Michigan Press, 2018 Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century AmericaUniversity of Michigan Press, 2012 Public Programs Spectacle and Reform in Nineteenth-Century AmericaMay 9, 2013Watch on YouTube