Joyce Tracy Fellowship

The Joyce Tracy Fellowship is for research on newspapers and magazines or for projects using these resources as primary documentation. This award derives from an endowment established in memory of the Society's longtime curator of newspapers and periodicals. Doctoral candidates may apply.

Application Deadline
Contact Person
Nan Wolverton

Fellows

Date Name Affiliation Position
2024-25 Charlotte Brivio Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV PhD Candidate in English Suffragists and the New Departure Strategy in the History of Women's Right to Vote (1868-1876)
2023-24 Kevin McPartland University of Cincinnati PhD Candidate in History The Birthing of a Nation: Confederate Nationalism in the Southern Press
2022-23 Andrew W. Robertson CUNY Graduate Center Associate Professor of History Divergent Political Language North and South
2020-21 Catherine Peters Harvard University PhD Candidate in American Studies A Free Race of Cultivators: Empire, Race, and Nature in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
2018-19 Jordan Wingate University of California, Los Angeles PhD Candidate in English The Periodical Origins of the American Self
2017-18 Dianne Roman Independent Researcher The Boston Olive Branch and Its Woman: Compositors, Editors, and Authors
2016-17 Nalleli Guillen University of Delaware PhD Candidate 'Round the World Every Evening': Panoramic Spectacles, Entertainment Culture, and a Growing Imperial Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century America
2015-16 David Blake State University of New York, Stony Brook Lecturer Between Campus and Community: Popular Music in American College Student Life, 1850-1872
2014-15 James Dun Princeton University Assistant Professor of History Dangerous Neighbors
2013-14 Sarah Salter Pennsylvania State University PhD Candidate Patterns of Recognition and Imagination in Italy and the United States, 1790-1910
2012-13 Brian P. Luskey West Virginia University Assistant Professor Magnificent Rogue: A Swindler, Seducer, and Slaver in the Nineteenth Century
2011-12 Nicolas Barreyre University Paris Ouest Nanterre Assistant Professor Of Gold and Freedman: A Sectional History of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
2010-11 Laura Murray Queen's University Associate Professor What is a Newspaper? Exchange and Citation Practices in Antebellum American Dailies
2009-10 Steven Deyle University of Houston Associate Professor Honorable Men: Isaac Bolton, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and the Murder of James McMillan
2008-09 Benjamin Fagan 'Righteousness Exalteth a Nation': Practices of Black Nationalism, 1827-1860
2007-08 Stacey Robertson Bradley University Associate Professor 'Hearts Beating for Liberty': Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest
2006-07 Edward Rugemer Boston College Postdoctoral Fellow The Problem of Emancipation: The United States and Britain's Abolition of Slavery
2005-06 Michael Cohen New York University PhD Candidate Poetic Discourses in America, 1870-1915
2004-05 Sara Fanning University of Texas, Austin PhD Candidate The Promised Land: African Americans and Haiti from the Haitian Revolution to 1830
2004-05 Sara Fanning University of Texas, Austin PhD Candidate The Promised Land: African Americans and Haiti from the Haitian Revolution to 1830""
2004-05 Peter Baldwin University of Connecticut Assistant Professor American Night: Transforming the Nocturnal City, 1800-1930
2003-04 Faye Dudden Colgate University Professor The Favored Hour: Politics, Culture, and the New York Women's Movement, 1860-1870
2002-03 Daniel R. Mandell Truman State University Assistant Professor Images of Indians in Southern New England, 1760 - 1880
2001-02 James W. Cook Butler University Assistant Professor of History and American Studies Cracks in tbe White Republic
2000-01 Mitchell Snay Denison University Associate Professor A Nation of Our Own: Ethnic Nationalism in the Era of Reconstruction
1999-00 Liam Riordan University of Maine Assistant Professor Newspapers and the Local Meaning of the Nation in the Delaware Valley
1998-99 Robert E. Bonner University of Southern Maine Assistant Professor Newspapers and the Confederate Sphere
1997-98 Jennifer Hynes West Virginia University Visiting Instructor Nineteenth-Century Women and the News: The Case of Elizabeth Stoddard