2025-26 Awarded Fellowships
R. STANTON AVERY DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
Craig Santos Perez, Adjunct Faculty, Miracosta College
Dr. Craig Santos Perez is an indigenous Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). He is the co-editor of nine creative and critical anthologies, and he is the author of seven books of poetry and the academic monograph, Navigating Chamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization, which received the MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. His research at the Huntington Library will focus on the archives related to Guåhan, Hawai’i, the Marshall Islands, and American Samoa.
FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
Karen Harvey, Professor, University of Birmingham
Karen Harvey is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Birmingham (UK). Her project uses thousands of familiar letters by British men and women to explore the relationships between the physical body, self and social identity. The project puts people’s experiences of their bodies at the centre of the analysis, providing a history of the inhabited body and of inhabitants’ vocabulary for this. It also considers the relationship between letters and the body, exploring why letters contain such detail about bodies and asking how letters changed people’s experiences of the body. Karen has longstanding interests in the body and sexuality, masculinity and material culture, as well as expertise in digital humanities. She also has considerable experience in public engagement, working with a range of partners, from schools to museums. Her books include Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture (CUP, 2004), The Little Republic: Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain (OUP, 2012), and The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England (OUP, 2020). Karen has held fellowships at the Australian Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (University of Adelaide), the Clark Library (UCLA) and the Huntington Library. Her research has been supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust and The Wellcome Trust. She is currently a member of Council of the Royal Historical Society (UK).
ROBERT C. RITCHIE DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
Joshua Piker, Professor, William & Mary
Joshua Piker served as Editor of the William and Mary Quarterly from 2014 to 2024 and is now Professor in the History Department at William & Mary and the Scholarly Communities Coordinator at the Omohundro Institute. As editor, he worked to expand the methodological, temporal, and geographic reach of the field of early American history, while also recruiting a more diverse group of manuscript authors and peer reviewers. Those goals led him to organize joint issues with Journal of the Early Republic (2017), Early American Literature (2018), Hispanic American Historical Review (2023), and Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation (2024). His own published scholarship focuses on the intersection of Indigenous history and early American history, and in particular on using community history and microhistory to center—and develop the implications of—Indigenous people, places, and stories. His two books, Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America and The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler: Telling Stories in Colonial America, were published by Harvard University Press. He is at work on a book with the tentative title of “The Creek Who Went to London with an Eagle and Came Home with a Lion.”
ROGERS DISTINGUISHED FELLOW IN 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY
Willy Bauer, Professor, University of California, Riverside
William (Willy) Bauer is a professor of history at UC Riverside and a citizen of the Round Valley Reservation in northern California. He received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Bauer offers classes on American Indian history, the history of American Indian gaming and the American West. He is also UNLV’s faculty liaison to the Newberry Library’s Consortium on American Indian Studies. Bauer is the author of California Through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History (University of Washington Press, 2016) and “We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here”: Work, Community and Memory on California’s Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). He has also edited the third edition of Major Problems in American Indian History (Cengage, 2015) and published an introduction to a revised edition of John W. Caughey’s McGillivray of the Creeks (University of South Carolina Press), and essays on California Indian history in the Western Historical Quarterly, Native Pathways; American Indian Culture and Economic Change in the Twentieth Century (University of Colorado Press), and A Companion to California History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). Bauer is currently writing a history of California Indians and working on a family biography, based on the life of his great-grandfather.
LOS ANGELES TIMES DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor, University of California Berkeley
Catherine Ceniza Choy is Professor of Ethnic Studies and Affiliated Faculty of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research areas include Asian American history, Philippine and Filipino American studies, history of nursing, and adoption studies. Her most recent book is Asian American Histories of the United States (Beacon Press, 2022). It features the themes of violence, erasure, and resistance in a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the United States. It was named a Best of 2022 Nonfiction Book by Kirkus Reviews and selected as a nonfiction finalist for the 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her first book, Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (Duke University Press, 2003), explored how and why the Philippines became the leading exporter of professional nurses to the United States. Empire of Care received the 2003 American Journal of Nursing History and Public Policy Book Award and the 2005 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award. Choy’s second book, Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption (New York University Press, 2013), unearthed the little-known historical origins of Asian international adoption in the United States beginning with the post-World War II presence of the U.S. military in Asia. An engaged public scholar, she has been interviewed and had her research cited in many media outlets, including ABC 20/20, CNN, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Vox. She serves on the editorial board of the journal Social History of Medicine and as the editor of the Brill book series Gendering the Trans-Pacific World.
DIBNER DISTINGUISHED FELLOW IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Helen Thompson, Professor, Northwestern University
Helen Thompson is a professor of English at Northwestern University, where she teaches and researches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature, especially prose narrative and the history of chymistry (spelled with a “y” to underscore early modern chemistry’s embrace of alchemical or transmutative understandings of matter). She is the author of Ingenuous Subjection: Power and Compliance in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) and Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017). While at the Huntington, she will work on a book, “Artifice: Science and Antirealism, 1665 – 1695,” that explores how experimental chymistry’s capacity to simulate nature complicates the relationship between science and lifelike representation. Her project extends to genres like travel narrative and criminal biography, which base their representational truth-claims on material reality not directly accessible to the senses.
HANNAH & RUSSEL KULLY DISTINGUISHED FELLOW IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN ART
Sandy Rodriguez, Artist
Sandy Rodriguez (b. 1975, National City, CA) is a Los Angeles-based Chicana artist and researcher. Her ongoing series Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón is made up of a collection of maps and paintings about the intersections of history, social memory, contemporary politics, and cultural production. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR; Amon Carter Museum, TX; The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Garden, CA; Denver Art Museum, CO and Mellon Art Collection, NYC and others. She was recently awarded the 2025-2026 Kully Distinguished Fellowship in American Art, 2024 US Latinx Art Fellowship, 2023 Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2023 Hermitage Greenfield Prize, Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Residency 2020, Creative Capital Award 2021. Rodriguez and her work have been featured in BBC News: In The Studio, Hyperallergic, ArtNews, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and others.
CEDARS SINAI/HUNTINGTON LIBRARY POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW
Christin Zurbach, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley
Christin Zurbach is a socio-political historian of medicine and minorities. She received her doctorate from the History Department at the University of California – Berkeley in 2024. Fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, and the Modern Greek Studies Foundation supported her research for her dissertation in Turkey and Greece, along with further grants and seminars. Her dissertation, “Doctoring Society: The Transformation of Late Ottoman Medical Professionalization,” focused in particular on the relationship between changes within Ottoman medical training and practice, socio-political transformations of the “Tanzimat” (lit. reorganization), and intercommunal dynamics amongst Muslim, Greek Orthodox, Armenian, and Jewish medical professionals. At the Huntington and Cedars Sinai, she will be expanding the scope of her dissertation to explore further institutional and interpersonal connections between the Ottoman empire and other states, including but not limited to France, Greece, and the United States.
DIBNER RESEARCH FELLOW IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Scott Doebler, Visiting Assistant Professor, Pomona College
Professor Doebler is a historian of colonial Latin America, ethnohistory, and the environment and received my Ph.D. from Penn State. His research examines Maya societies and tropical forests in lowland Yucatán and Guatemala and their connections to the Caribbean during the 16th and 17th centuries. At the Huntington, he will be working on his first book project, tentatively titled Lure of the Lowlands, which examines how Maya, Spanish, and English groups, along with the tropical forest ecosystems, co-constructed more-than-human communities that offered possibilities for engaging with the early modern world on their own terms. He is looking forward to consulting the library’s English Caribbean and Latin American sources, and scientific materials from the Botanical Library.
DIBNER RESEARCH FELLOW IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Celeste Menchaca, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Celeste R. Menchaca is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern California where she specializes in nineteenth century U.S-Mexico borderlands history. Her scholarship on migrant women, policing, and detention at the U.S.-Mexico border during the first two decades of the twentieth century has appeared in the Pacific Historical Review and Journal of American Ethnic History. Her current book project, The Sciences of Territoriality: Mobilizing a Nineteenth Century U.S.-Mexico Border, explores how state officials, surveyors, naturalists, ethnographers, and engineers of the nineteenth century used science to legitimize their border creations, constituting themselves as experts. The book argues that border production relied on scientific investigation for the purpose of accumulating and moving peoples and goods across indigenous lands. An article related to this project was published in the Western Historical Quarterly.
DANA AND DAVID DORNSIFE FELLOW
Julia Lewandoski, Assistant Professor, University of California – San Diego
Julia Lewandoski is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California San Diego. She is a historian of early Native America. Her research centers Indigenous nations as they engaged with European empires and emerging nation-states, using law and cartography as primary lenses. She was previously Assistant Professor of Early American History at California State University San Marcos, and a Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Digital Humanities at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. in History with a Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
At the Huntington, she is finishing her first book, Land Tenure Survival: Imperial Law and Indigenous Creativity in the Treaty Era, 1763-1891, and a companion digital mapping project, “Landscapes of Indigenous Survival.” Her project follows the stories of Indigenous nations in three places: Abenakis and Sokokis in Quebec, Louisiana’s Petites Nations, and Tongva, Tataviam, and Chumash peoples in the Los Angeles Basin. Because of their prior colonization by French and Spanish empires, these nations were considered “already conquered” by the United States and Canada. Faced with neglect and erasure rather than the targeted techniques of land cession treaties and reservation confinement, they mobilized a common strategy: defending territory and articulating sovereignty through settler land ownership systems. Her work reframes settler legal regimes as long-term sites of Indigenous land negotiation, and reconceptualizes the development of U.S. and Canadian sovereignty as a contested process of accommodation visible on state property maps.
FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION FELLOW
Liza Blake, Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Liza Blake is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, with research interests in early modern literature, science, and philosophy; early modern women’s writing; book history; textual editing; and asexuality studies. She actively maintains two online resources: Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies: A Digital Critical Edition , and The Asexuality and Aromanticism Bibliography. In recent years, she has focused extensively on Margaret Cavendish, publishing on her relationship to science; her natural philosophy; and textual bibliography and book history, including articles on Cavendish’s donations to universities, book bindings, her interactions with printers, and non-uniform hand corrections across different copies of her texts. With Shawn Moore and Jacob Tootalian, she is a General Editor of The Complete Works of Margaret Cavendish, a 20-volume print collection under contract with Punctum Books. As a Huntington fellow, she will conduct the textual research necessary for this complete works project, while putting this research in dialogue with ongoing conversations in feminist bibliography.
KEMBLE FELLOW IN MARITIME HISTORY
Juliet Wiersema, Associate Professor, University of Texas San Antonio
Juliet Wiersema is an art historian whose recent work explores manuscript maps of the Atlantic World, and the western coast of the Americas in particular. She is Professor of Pre-Hispanic and Spanish Colonial Art History at the University of Texas, San Antonio. Her prizewinning book, The History of a Periphery: Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia’s Pacific Lowlands (UT Press 2024), advances our understanding of frontiers in Spain’s vast empire, illuminating how Pacific peripheries were imagined and projected, largely for political and economic reasons. In her book, she argues that map makers from this period were not concerned with creating accurate geographical representations of space. Instead, their maps made arguments about resources, territorial claims, and the need for greater military defense. These same maps—when read across the grain—preserve untold stories about Indigenous and African resilience, resistance, adaptation, entrepreneurship, and survival along remote gold mining frontiers in Spain’s empire.
Her work has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Huntington Library, the John Carter Brown Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, and Fulbright.
Her project at the Huntington examines the cartographic and literary initiatives of English Thames School hydrographer, William Hacke, viewing them as tools of English economic and imperial expansion. Hacke’s 14 lavish presentation-style atlases of the western Pacific Ocean are based on a book of Spanish sea charts, stolen by English pirates in 1681.
MELLON FELLOW
Andrew Konove, Associate Professor, University of Texas San Antonio
Andrew Konove is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research examines the economies of everyday life in Mexico and the Hispanic World. His first book, Black Market Capital: Urban Politics and the Shadow Economy in Mexico City, was published by the University of California Press in 2018. It received the Latin American Studies Association’s Mexico Section prize for the best book in the social sciences and was a finalist for the Business History Conference’s Hagley Prize. While in residence at the Huntington, he will be working on his second book project, titled “Making Change: Money, Economy, and Sovereignty in Mexico,” which examines the history of small change in Mexico in the late colonial and early national periods. Konove’s work has appeared in venues including the Journal of Urban History, The Americas, The Colonial Latin American Review, Zócalo: Public Square, and the San Antonio Express-News. He received his Ph.D. in History from Yale University and his B.A. in History from Haverford College.
MELLON FELLOW
Katarzyna Lecky, Associate Professor, Loyola University of Chicago
Kat Lecky is the Surtz Associate Professor in English at Loyola University Chicago. Her research focuses on the early modern cheap print market to explore how knowledge became common to broad English publics. Her first book, Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in Renaissance England (OUP, 2019), shows how the geographical imaginary fuelling the highly accessible publications of mapmakers and poets shaped the everyday practice of charting the commonwealth. Her second book project, England’s Weedy Renaissance, explores how seventeenth-century botanical studies turned to English weeds to search for the nation’s natural character. She has published essays on seventeenth-century monocropping, naturalization, practices of community care, and vegetable virtue ethics. Her work has earned fellowships from the ACLS and the Mellon Foundation, the NEH, the Renaissance Society of America, the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW-Madison, and the Huntington, Newberry, and Folger Shakespeare Libraries.
MELLON FELLOW
Alaina Morgan, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Alaina M. Morgan is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern California, where she teaches courses on African American and African Diaspora history, Islam, the history of empire, and the carceral state. She is the author of Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora (forthcoming, UNC Press, 2025) which explores the ways that people of African descent embraced Islam as a driver of freedom and liberation movements from the First World War to the end of the twentieth century. At the Huntington, Professor Morgan will be conducting research for her second book, To Infinity and Beyond: A History of Space in the Black Imagination. Her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Marcus Garvey Memorial Foundation, the American Historical Association, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
MOLINA FELLOW IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE & ALLIED SCIENCES
Wendy Kline, Professor, Purdue University
Wendy Kline, Ph.D., Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine at Purdue University, is internationally recognized for her scholarship in the history of medicine, history of women’s health and the history of childbirth. She is the author of four major books focusing on sexuality and reproduction: Exposed: The Hidden History of the Pelvic Exam (Polity Press, 2024); Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth (Oxford University Press, 2019, Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women’s Health in the Second Wave (U. of Chicago Press 2010); and Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom (U. of California Press, 2001). She has appeared in the Netflix documentary, Sex, Explained, as well as the PBS documentary, The Eugenics Crusade. Her research has been funded by major fellowships, including a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar fellowship, a British Academy Fellowship, and a Huntington Fellowship. Kline is also a professional violinist, currently principal second with the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra.
Her book, whose first printing sold out in under a week, has already received widespread interest, with coverage in Ms. Magazine (forthcoming), Marie Claire (forthcoming), Stylist Magazine, The Irish Independent, STAT, JAMA’s Journal of Medical Ethics (forthcoming), MedHum, and several podcasts including America Dissected. She has given talks on the history of the procedure at Northwestern Medical (Ob/GYN); University of Nebraska Medical Center (Emergency Medicine); Henry Ford Hospital (Ob/GYN and women’s health); Indiana University School of Medicine, and the University of Virginia Center for Health Humanities and Ethics, in the School of Medicine.
SIMON AND JUNE LI FELLOW
Wendy Cheng, Professor, University of Southern California
Wendy Cheng is Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. As a scholar and writer, she is interested in how everyday landscapes of power and inequality are produced and the ways in which relational and global approaches to studies of race and ethnicity challenge hierarchies that are often taken for granted. These concerns are interwoven with an ongoing commitment to exploring forms of popular education as well as newer projects that explore migration, ecology, and the more-than-human world. She is the author of Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism (University of Washington, 2023) and The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), and coauthor of A People’s Guide to Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2012). At the Huntington, she will be working on a book of essays that examine histories of plant migration and human relationships to plants as nexuses of both plunder and beauty.
BARBARA THOM POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW
Phillip Emanuel, Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Phillip Emanuel is cultural historian of empire, gender, and slavery in the early modern Atlantic World. He earned his PhD at William & Mary and holds additional degrees from the Universities of Sydney and Cambridge. Between time at these institutions he had a six-year career as an art handler at auction houses on both sides of the Atlantic which allowed him to develop his interest in art and material culture. Phillip’s research has appeared in Slavery & Abolition and the National Trust for England and Wales’s Arts, Buildings and Collections Bulletin and has been supported by the Huntington Library, Beinecke Library, and Folger Shakespeare Library. For the past two years he has been a Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
While at the Huntington Phillip will be working on the manuscript of his book, Familiarising Empire, under advance contract with the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. The book focuses on the ways in which seventeenth-century imperial and trading company administrators in England, the American colonies, and on the West African coast constructed their authority during a period of rapid imperial expansion. It argues that officials must be understood as heads of what he calls ‘administrative households’ in which secretaries or other officeholders were assisted by a cadre of others over whom they exercised authority modelled on the domestic household but rooted in the techniques of administration, including servants of lower social standing, clients, non-European elites, members of kinship networks, women with family ties to the administration, and enslaved children.
BARBARA THOM POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW
Lindsay Wells, Lecturer, University of California Los Angeles
Lindsay Wells is an art historian and Instructor in the Architecture and Interior Design Program at UCLA Extension. Her research and teaching explore the visual culture of imperialism, gardening, botany, and agriculture across nineteenth-century Britain and the former British empire. She earned her PhD in art history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021 and has held recent postdoctoral fellowships at the Getty Research Institute and UCLA. Her essays on horticultural history have appeared in Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Periodicals Review, and Literature Compass. Grounded in the plant humanities, her current book project, “Evergreen Empire,” analyzes the profound yet understudied impact of botanical collecting on British art during the second half of the nineteenth century—a period when thousands of ornamental plants were seized from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and other regions of colonial activity. Focusing on the global roots of both British horticulture and the modern plant trade, this project argues that botanical imagery is essential to understanding how Victorian painting evolved in tandem with colonial bioprospecting.
BARBARA THOM POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW
Che Yeun, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
Che Yeun is Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University, where she teaches courses on the history of science, technology, and medicine in the modern United States. Her first book project, Finishing Touch: Technologies for the Modern American Body, examines the history of personal care and how the business of manufacturing, packaging, and selling “clean feelings” has transformed everyday perceptions of the human body in American life. Investigating the material objects of personal care — and their intimate sensory experiences — highlights an intertwined history of medicine, technology, and consumer culture behind some of the most ubiquitous and beloved consumer products today. This history also explores the uneasy cultural boundaries between medicine and lifestyle, self-care and self-indulgence, necessity and frivolity. In addition to her historical scholarship, Yeun also works as a fiction writer, with her debut novel Tailbone forthcoming in 2026 with Bloomsbury. She received her PhD in History of Science from Harvard University in 2024.
JUNE AND SIMON K.C. LI FELLOW IN EAST ASIAN GARDEN AND LANDSCAPE STUDIES
Feier Ying, PhD Candidate, Brown University
Feier Ying is a PhD Candidate in Chinese Art History at Brown University, specializing in literati painting, travel culture, and regional styles during the long seventeenth century. She previously worked for five years as a curatorial researcher at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, focusing on the Wan-go H.C. Weng Collection of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy. Her proposed dissertation project, “Dwelling in the Waterscape: The Kinesthetic Workspace of Late Imperial Chinese Painters,” investigates how painters around the Yangzi River Delta transformed their interim lodgings and travel hubs into floating studios, elegant gathering venues, and mobile art markets. Emerging with new modes of integration, boats and gardens served as multi-sensory spaces and integral sites for artistic creation, exchange, and dissemination; they also functioned as rhetorically interchangeable concepts — gardens were sometimes named after pleasure boats, and boats were referred to as unattached gardens. At the Huntington, Feier will examine this phenomenon by studying albums of route and panoramic painting – a compact and portable format – alongside the unique cultural practice of the “boat of painting and calligraphy.” Her research highlights the interconnectedness of the painterly ideal and the perception and response within the artist’s alternative workspace, exploring themes of fluidity, mobility, and holistic artistic production in the water-rich landscapes of southern China.
ACADEMIC TERM FELLOW
Esther Cuenca, Assistant Professor, University of Houston Victoria
Esther Liberman Cuenca is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria in Victoria, Texas. Her first book, The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England (Oxford University Press, 2025), examines how customary law in premodern English towns developed over time, from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. She is also an editor of Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World: An Introduction through Film (Fordham Press, 2025), a coursebook for undergraduate students that illuminates the interplay between medieval law and its depiction in cinema from around the world. At The Huntington she will be writing her second monograph, Body Art and Tattooing Customs in the Global Middle Ages, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. She is excited to delve into the early English books and the archival materials on Spanish colonization at The Huntington, where she will explore broader attitudes about body art in the medieval and early modern periods in genres of writing she calls “ethnographies of skin.”
ACADEMIC TERM FELLOW
Sonia Gomez, Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University
Sonia C. Gomez is a historian of the 20th-century United States and an Assistant Professor of History at Santa Clara University. Her research focuses on race and ethnic relations, as well as the intersection of intimacy and migration. Her award-winning first book, Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America (2024), received the Organization of American Historians’ Mary Nickliss Prize for its path-breaking contributions to U.S. women’s and gender history. The book explores how marriage served as a means of legal and social inclusion for Japanese women during periods of racial exclusion. At the Huntington Library, Gomez is working on her second book, Dear Mollie: Friendship, Girlhood, and Wartime Incarceration, which offers a fresh perspective on Japanese American incarceration during World War II. Centering on Mollie Ardelia Wilson—a young Black woman from Boyle Heights—the project uncovers the enduring friendships she maintained with her Japanese American peers, even as they were forcibly incarcerated during World War II. Drawing on over a hundred letters written to Mollie by more than a dozen of her incarcerated Nisei friends, Dear Mollie explores girlhood, interracial female friendship, and the power of letter writing.
SHORT-TERM FELLOWS
Daniel Abdalla, Assistant Professor, University of Liverpool
The Outside: Modernist Drama and the Environment
Two months
E. Peter Mauk, Jr./Doyce B. Nunis Jr. Fellow
Rebecca Adams, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
“Miscellaneous” Evidence of Women’s Literary Culture in Late-Medieval Multi-Text Manuscripts
One month
Erika and Kenneth Riley Fellow
Nikita Agranovskii, Independent Scholar
Transatlantic Art-franchise: Louis Prang’s Russian Connections and American Chromos in Saint Petersburg around 1870
Three months
Chandis Securities Fellow
Diane Ahn, PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Alien Trends” in American Art: Issei Artists, Cultural Performance, and National Belonging (1885–1942)
One month
Diane and Trevor Morris Fellow
David Alcaraz Millán, PhD Candidate, University of Malaga
Reception and Translation of Christopher Isherwood’s Writing in Spain and Latin America: A Comparative Study of the Spanish Translations of ‘Goodbye to Berlin’ (1939)
One month
Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellow
Javier Ardila, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Drawing Outside the Margins: Catholic Missionary Cartography and the Formation of Northern South American Borderlands, 1753–1861
One month
Msgr. Francis J. Weber Fellow
Andrea Ariza Garcia, PhD Candidate, Graduate Center, City of New York
Compulsory Confessions: Anti-superstition Discourse and the Politics of Conversion in Colonial Mexico
One month
Michael J. Connell Foundation Fellow
Moira Armstrong, PhD Candidate, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Queer Turning Points Reconsidered: Aromantic Resonances in United States History
One month
W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow
Paula Asensi Camarasa, PhD Candidate, University of Alicante
Mary Austin’s Private Perspectives on Women Artists
One month
Gloria Ricci Lothrop Fellow
Anthony Bale, Professor, University of Cambridge
History Writing, Current Affairs, and ‘News’: Updating The Fasciculus Temporum in Late-Medieval England and Europe
One month
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Stephen Barber, Professor, Kingston University London
Eadweard Muybridge: Photographic Experiments in Urban Space
Two months
W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow
Kiki Barnes, PhD Candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
The “Hiawatha” Effect: The Great Lakes in the United States Cultural Imagination, 1840–1918
One month
Rogers Fellow in 19th-century American History
Annabel Barry, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley
Elizabeth Bowen’s Feminist Philosophy of Language
One month
W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow
Kabria Baumgartner, Associate Professor, Northeastern University
On the Cusp: Black Youth and Civil Rights in Boston
One month
Shapiro Center for American History and Culture Fellow
Mariah Bender, PhD Candidate, Rice University
Seizing Sovereignty and Mapping Resistance: Palenquero Suzerainty in Tierra Firme and Nueva Granada (1525–1694)
Two months
W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow
Katherine Benton-Cohen, Professor, Georgetown University
Quiet Money: The Family Fortune that Transformed New York, the American Southwest, and the Modern Middle East
One month
Marty and Bruce Coffey Fellow
Daria Berman, PhD Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis
Mosaic Identities, The Portuguese Conversos in Seventeenth-Century Mexico
Two months
W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow
Isabel Bird, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
“People have no trust in glue”: Eve Babitz, Amateurism, and the Art of Collage
Two months
W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow
Mary Bowden, Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
The Arboreal Imagination in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
One month
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Rebecca Bradburn, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford
Humming with the Poets
One month
W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow
Nicholas Brown, Associate Professor, Northeastern University
Trail Relations: An Unorthodox Guide to the Pacific Crest Trail
Two months
Dana and David Dornsife Fellow
Michael Buse, PhD Candidate, UCLA
California Publics: The Native Sons of the Golden West and the Making of California, 1875–1950
Two months
Dana and David Dornsife Fellow
Maria Cannon, Lecturer, University of Portsmouth
Blending the Family: Affection, Obligation and Dynasty in Early Modern English Stepfamilies
One month
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Julia Carlson, Professor, University of Cincinnati
The Correspondence of Thomas Poole and his Circle
One month
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Chase Castle, Adjunct Faculty, University of Delaware
The Gospel in Black and White: Race and Popular Culture in American Hymns
One month
W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow
Mai-Lin Cheng, Associate Professor, University of Oregon
Place and Commonplace in Romanticism and After
One month
W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow
Iván-Nicholas Cisneros, PhD Candidate, Columbia University in the City of New York
From Mexican Ranchos to an American Metropolis: Architectural Transformations of Los Angeles, 1869–1939
Three months
W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow
Patricia Colman, Professor, Moorpark College
Reconstruction in Los Angeles
One month
W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow
Alexander Coupe, Lecturer, University of Liverpool
Bones of Contention: Hilary Mantel, Ireland and the Literary Legacies of Colonialism
One month
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Cassie Crisman, PhD Candidate, Washington State University
“A Woman’s Work is Never Done: Gender and Family in the American West Coast Wave of Communes, 1890–1920”
One month
Gloria Ricci Lothrop Fellow
Marcos Cueto Caballero, Professor, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Fiocruz, Brazil
The Science of Adversity: American and Latin American Physiologists in the Early Twentieth Century
One month
John C. Carson Fellow for the History of Medicine
Hardeep Dhillon, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Birthright Children and America’s Modern Immigrant Family
Three months
Michael J. Connell Foundation Fellow
Paige Donaghy, Fellow, University of Melbourne
After Birth: A History of the Placenta in European Medicine, 1600–1750
Three months
Molina Fellow in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Shannon Draucker, Associate Professor, Siena College
The New Classical Music: How Novelists, Filmmakers, and Influencers are Reimagining the “Most Conservative Performing Art”
One month
W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow
Noah Duell, Independent Scholar, University of Virginia
“Living in a brick-kiln”: Circulation and Evolution at the First Monticello, 1767–1784
One month
Shapiro Center for American History and Culture Fellow
Elodie Edwards-Grossi, Associate Professor, Université Paris Dauphine
Hidden in Plain Sight: Race, Stigma and Environmental Sacrifice in the Age of Petrocapitalism
One month
Marty and Bruce Coffey Fellow
Nicola Estrafallaces, PhD Candidate, University of Glasgow
Towards a Critical Edition of the Middle English ‘Life of Saint Catherine of Siena’
One month
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
Jose Fernandez, Assistant Professor, University of Iowa
A Southwest Made of Words: Early Mexican American Editors and Print Culture, 1850–1970
One month
Visiting Scholars Fellow
Cherelle Findley, PhD Candidate, University of Central Lancashire
Transatlantic Enslavement and Creative Writing through Library Collections
One month
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
John Finkelberg, Fellow, Washington State University
Ready-Made Masculinities: The French Menswear Industry in Transition, 1830–1870
One month
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
Lisa Ford, Professor, George Washington University
Empire of Emergency
Two months
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
Aidan Forth, Associate Professor, MacEwan University
Ocean Voyages: Technology, Mobility, and Global Connectivity, 1815-1914
Two months
Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology
Jill Found, Independent Scholar, University of South Carolina – Columbia
Enslaved Families in the Lieber Family Papers
One month
Rogers Fellow in 19th-century American History
Tim Fulford, Professor, De Montfort University
The Correspondence of Thomas Poole and his Circle
One month
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Delphine Gatehouse, Adjunct Faculty, King’s College
Sites of Entitlement: Landscape, Narrative and the Nimby
One month
Dr. and Mrs. James C. Caillouette Fellow
Wendy Gaudin, Assistant Professor, Xavier University of Louisiana
Barbara Ann: A Creative Biography
Two months
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
Stephen Gee, Independent Scholar
Architects of the Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1890–1930
Two months
Elizabeth B. Motika Fellow/Mellon Fellow
Penelope Geng, Associate Professor, Macalester College
Disabled by Law: Able-Minded Citizenship in Early Modern English Literature and Property Law
Two months
Louise Ritchie Fellow
Baruch Gilinsky, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford
Between Two Fires: Urban Landscapes in Nineteenth Century San Francisco
Two months
Giles W. and Elise G. Mead Foundation Fellow
William Glover, PhD Candidate, Boston University
The Poetics of Colonial Accounting in Early America, 1584-1801
One month
Marty and Bruce Coffey Fellow
Mishuana Goeman, Professor, SUNY Buffalo
Unsettling the Visual Terrains through Indigenous Art
One month
Chris and George Benter Fellow
Olivia Golby-Kirk, PhD Candidate, University of Birmingham
Constructing Masculinity in English Balladry, c1600-1750
One month
Francis Bacon Foundation Fellow
Sara Gonzalez Castrejon, Independent Scholar
Endangered Mission Chapels in Northern Lima (Huayhuash and Western Mountain Ranges): From the Conquest to the Creation of Republican Peru
Two months
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
Benjamin Groth, PhD Candidate, Tulane University
The Black Sacrament: How Baptism Created Race in Spanish New Orleans and the Atlantic World
One month
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, Associate Professor, Cal State University – San Bernardino
“In Defense of National Wellbeing”: Public Health and the Racialization of Disease in California
One month
Molina Fellow in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Regina Hamilton-Townsend, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
Afrofuturism, Speculative Aesthetics, and Black Radical Thought
Two months
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
Sören Hammerschmidt, Associate Professor, Gateway Community College
Author Portraits and Print Markets: Edmund Curll and the Rise of Professional Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Britain
One month
Howard and Dawn Weinbrot Fellow
Emily Hirsch, PhD Candidate, Brown University
Flemish Sculptors and Terracotta, c. 1600-1750
Two months
Robert R. Wark Fellow
Jane Hong, Associate Professor, Occidental College
Beyond Demographic Destiny: How Im/migrants of Color Have Changed American Conservatism and Race
One month
Shapiro Center for American History and Culture Fellow
Asha Hornsby, Fellow, University of St. Andrews
Contagious Crossings: How Marine Medicine Made Waves in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Two months
Molina Fellow in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Isabel Howard, PhD Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Made A Living Soul: Genesis and the Creation of the Soul in Medieval Devotional and Mystic Literature
One month
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
Nicole Hughes, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Dying Forms: Martyrdom Narratives on the Margins of Iberian Empire
One month
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
Christine Hume, Professor, Eastern Michigan University
The Unknown Epilogue: Reproductive and Representative Justice in Joanne Leonard’s Post-Journal Series
One month
Molina Fellow in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Boyda Johnstone, Assistant Professor, Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York
Medieval Dream Manuscripts in The Huntington
One month
Erika and Kenneth Riley Fellow
Claire Jones, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
Inter-Imperial Trade, Commercial Diplomacy, and the Formation of an Anglo-Iberian Atlantic, 1660-1720
Two months
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
Dahi Jung, PhD Candidate, University of Zurich
Valentines and China: Transcultural Artistic Encounters between 1850-1900
One month
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
Amy Kahng, PhD Candidate, SUNY Stony Brooke
From the Frontier to Unrooted Global Citizenship: Landscape in Twentieth Century Asian American Art
One month
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
Rachel Kaufman, PhD Candidate, UCLA
Quería Enseñar: Conversa Transmission, Memory, and Adaptation in Mexico and New Mexico
One month
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
Jamey Keeton, PhD Candidate, University of Rochester
Parallel Aesthetics: On Genre and Multiversal Storytelling Across Media.
One month
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
Carolyn Kellogg, Independent Scholar
The Forgotten Oilman: Charles Canfield and the Birth of Los Angeles
Two months
E. Peter Mauk, Jr./Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. Fellow
Raquel Kennon, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Traveling North: Freeways to Freedom in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Black Latinx Literary Landscapes
One month
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
Linda Kim, Associate Professor, Drexel University
Unassimilable Modernities: Chinese and Japanese American Artists during WWII
Two months
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
Gregory Kneidel, Professor, University of Connecticut
A New Edition of the Poetry of Edward Herbert
One month
William A. Ringler, Jr. Fellow
Belinda Kong, Professor, Bowdoin College
Subaltern Sensoriums of Asian America
One month
Mellon Match Fellow
Brais Lamela Gomez, PhD Candidate, Yale University
Inventing the Commons: Law, Literature, and Political Imagination in the Early Modern Iberian World
Two months
Edward A. Mayers Fellow
Jessica Larson, Lecturer, Cal State University – Los Angeles
Building Black Manhattan: Women, the Architecture of Benevolence, and the Making of the Modern City, 1850-1965
One month
Shapiro Center for American History and Culture Fellow
Heather Martel, Associate Professor, Northern Arizona University
Atlantic Entanglements: Recognizing Indigenous Land Relations in European Colonial Print Culture, 1500-1630
One month
Mellon Match Fellow
Johnette Martin, PhD Student, University of Colorado at Boulder
Unveiling Pacific Histories: Joseph Oliver Carter and the Role of Privy Councilors in Hawaiian Sovereignty
One month
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Nathan Marvin, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Mapping Arkansas Créole: Recovering a Lost Vernacular Landscape
Two months
Security Pacific Fellow
Brigitte McFarland, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
Native Fashion in late 19th Century California
Two months
E. Peter Mauk, Jr./Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. Fellow
Maria McVarish, Independent Scholar
Lasting Imprints: 19th-Century Southern Pacific Railroad Company Land Policies and their Influence Today
One month
Rogers Fellow in the 19th-century American History
Zoe Mercer-Golden, PhD Candidate, Courtauld Institute of Art
Whose Arthur?: The Arthurian Legends and Visual Culture in a Trans-Atlantic Context, 1860 – 1918
One month
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Micaela Miralles Bianconi, PhD Candidate, College of William and Mary
British Entanglements in Rio de la Plata and the South Atlantic, 1760s-1820s
One month
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Dianne Mitchell, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder
Renaissance Women and the Poetics of Erotic Life
One month
Francis Bacon Foundation Fellow
David Morales, PhD Candidate, UC Davis
Attending Conquest: Power and Performance in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1820s-1870s
Two months
Robert L. Middlekauff Fellow
Shane Morrissy, PhD Candidate, Duke University
The Materiality of Print Culture and the Construction of American Modernity, 1890-1920.
One month
Robert L. Middlekauff Fellow
Jennifer Motter, PhD Candidate, College of William and Mary
A Saline Empire: Salt and the Rise of the Dutch Atlantic
Two months
Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology
Alyse Muller, PhD Candidate, Columbia University in the City of New York
Between Land and Sea: French Marine Imagery and Ambitions of Empire 1630-1830
One month
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Grace Murray, Adjunct Faculty, Birkbeck, University of London
Wilful Readers: Misreading Early Modern English Books (1550-1650)
Three months
Francis Bacon Foundation Fellow
Matthew Neufeld, Associate Professor, University of Saskatchewan
Taking Care of Captives: Moral decision making, military virtue, and the welfare of prisoners in Eighteenth century warfare
Two months
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Rafael David Nieto Bello, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
“Tierra Firme Irreducible”: Catholic Human Knowledge and the Shaping of a Diverse Colonial Caribbean (1500–1750)
Two months
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Mairin Odle, Associate Professor, University of Alabama
The Lives of Others: Biography and Moral Reform in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Two months
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Joel Olea-Calixto, PhD Candidate, UC Davis
Elements of Poison: Mining, Pollution, and Disease Outbreaks Along the U.S.-Mexico Divide, 1899-1999
One month
Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology
Suzie Oppenheimer, PhD Candidate, The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York
The Gulf Stream: Visual Culture Between the United States and Caribbean, 1840–1940
One month
Frank Hideo Kono Fellow
Umasankar Patra, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging
Two months
Thomas W. Wilkins Fellow
James Paules, PhD Student, University of Arizona
Empire in the Uplands: Imperialism, Extraction, and Science in the Forests of New Mexico, 1846-1920
Two months
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Olivier Péloquin, PhD Candidate, Rice University
Reconstructing La Nouvelle Orléans: Race, Citizenship and Empire in the French Atlantic World, 1862-1877
One month
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Abdiel Perez, Adjunct Faculty, Emerson College
Yucatán, Texas, and the Limits of US Expansion in the Gulf of Mexico, 1821-1860
One month
Rogers Fellow in 19th-century American History
Yari Perez Marin, Associate Professor, Durham University
Visibility and Vulnerability in Early Modern Iberian Forensics
One month
C. Allan and Marjorie Braun Fellow
Cathryn Piwinski, PhD Candidate, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Border Dwellings: Generic Exchange between Late-Twentieth-Century American Literary and Science Fiction
One month
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Pedro Puentes, PhD Candidate, UC Irvine
Forged Dreams: Anti-Immigrant Politics, Education, and Community Activism in South Central Los Angeles in the late-Twentieth Century
Three months
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Anne-Florence Quaireau, Associate Professor, University of Angers
Children On Board: Reconsidering Lady Annie Brassey’s Family Voyage Round the World
One month
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Megan Renoir, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Land Conflicts and the Development of the American Administrative State, 1849 – 1964
One month
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Xavier Resendez, PhD Candidate, UC Riverside
Indigenous Race and Labor in 19th Century California
Two months
E. Peter Mauk, Jr./Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. Fellow
Camila Reyes, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California
Queering the Early Modern Girl: Youth and Gender Subversion in Early Modern English Literature
One month
Francis Bacon Foundation Fellow
Hannah Reynolds, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University
“Presumed to be with Wife”: Gender and the Political Economy of U.S. Land Policy, 1850-1920
Two months
Gloria Ricci Lothrop Fellow
Elisabeth Rivard, PhD Candidate, University of Virginia
“Let him learn the Art of Design”: The Promise of Professional Drawing in Eighteenth- Century Britain
Two months
Robert R. Wark Fellow
Justin Roberts, Associate Professor, Dalhousie University
Roads and Rebels: Imperialism and the Environment in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
One month
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Lynn Robson, Professor, University of Oxford
The Courtly Maker: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy
One month
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Kevin Rogan, PhD Candidate, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
The World Remade: Land Becomes Real Estate the Antebellum Old Northwest
Two months
Rogers Fellow in 19th-century American History
Amelia Rosch, PhD Candidate, Queen’s University
“Great Brittains Happy Genius”: Recovering the Political Agency of Mary II, 1689-1694
One month
Francis Bacon Foundation Fellow
Matt Ryan, PhD Candidate, Newcastle University
Hidden: A Secret History of Elizabethan Resistance
One month
Mary Robertson Fellow
Audrey Saxton, Fellow, Pennsylvania State University
Richest Dietary: Wellness Culture and Vernacular Health Regimens in Late-Medieval England
One month
Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology
Jesse Schwartz, Professor, LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York
America’s Russia: The Bolshevik Revolution, US Print Culture, and the Concept of Eurasia, 1881-1929
Two months
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Natalie Scola, PhD Candidate, Western University
Cultivated Aesthetics: The Development of 19th-Century Seed Catalogues
One month
Robert L. Middlekauff Fellow
J. Barton Scott, Associate Professor, University of Toronto
The Piercing Virtue: Isherwood’s Guru in Adorno’s Los Angeles
Two months
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Shavagne Scott, Fellow, Ohio State University
Women on the ‘Fringes’: Reimagining Marronage through the Gendered Landscape of Colonial Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone, 1655-1841
One month
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Rebecca Senior, Impact and Evaluation Manager, Courtauld Institute of Art
“Ceaseless and Patient Researches”: Katharine Esdaile and the Historiography of Sculpture in twentieth-century Britain
One month
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Islay Shelbourne, PhD Candidate, University of St. Andrews
The Los Angeles County Medical Association and the Character and Practice of Medicine,1871-1921
Two months
Evelyn S. Nation Fellow
Ryan Sheldon, Assistant Professor, Middlebury College
Ameliorating Fictions: Quantitative Style and Governance in British Atlantic Writing, 1657-1831
One month
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Hiroki Shin, Associate Professor, University of Birmingham
California’s Two Carbon Heritages: Past and Future Legacies in Kern River Oil Field, 1896–present
Two months
Kenneth E. and Dorothy V. Hill Fellow/San Andreas Fellow
Leo Shipp, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Galway
Town Trades, Country Consumption: The Landed Elite and Tradespeople in England, 1700-1800
Two months
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Roberto Silva, Associate Professor, Federal University of Alfenas
Edwin F. Gay and the creation of the Economic History Society
Two months
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Elyse Singer, Adjunct Faculty, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
Theatrical and Mediated Performances in Psychiatric Hospitals Across the Long Nineteenth Century
One month
Louise Ritchie Fellow
Bonnie Soper, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
Vying for Influence Through Suffering: The Discourses of Restoration Martyrology in Eighteenth-Century Scottish and English Politics
One month
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Clifton Sorrell, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
Black Freedom and Sovereignty in the Early Caribbean Frontier: Black Geographies, Colonial Governance and Empire in Spanish Jamaica 1580-1690
Two months
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Margaret Spaulding, PhD Candidate, UCLA
The Land of Sunshine and Shadows: Eugenics and the Making of California
Two months
E. Peter Mauk, Jr./Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. Fellow
Arielle Steimer-Barragan, PhD Candidate, UC Irvine
Binding Text and Power: Women Printers and the Pursuit of Empire, 1550-1698
Two months
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
John Sullivan, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University
Fractious Knowledge: Earthquakes and Engineering in Eighteenth-Century Italy and the Spanish Atlantic
Two months
Trent R. Dames Civil Engineering Fellow/ Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology
Sydney Sweat-Montoya, PhD Candidate, College of William and Mary
Evading Empire: Commercial Networks and Illicit Trade in the Western Circum-Caribbean, 1680-1795
One month
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Diana Taylor, Artist, William Morris Gallery
Reimagining William Morris in a Post-Digital Age
One month
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Hillary Taylor, Fellow, University of Padua
Market Tolls and Economic Culture in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
Two months
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Jennifer Tonkovich, Curator, Morgan Library & Museum
William Blake: Paradise Lost
One month
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Camilo Uribe Botta, Fellow, University of Warwick
Orchidomania in the United States: Arabella Huntington Orchid Collection, A Late Victorian Obsession
Two months
Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology
Dorota Vargova, PhD Candidate, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Queen Anne’s Power Couple – The Dynamics of the Relationship Between the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough in Early 18th Century England
One month
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Dana Velasco Murillo, Associate Professor, UC San Diego
Chichimeca Arc: War, Peace, and Resettlement in Mexico’s First Borderlands
Two months
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Gabriela Villanueva Noriega, Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Witty Spaniards in Early Modern England
Two months
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Laura Villareal, Independent Scholar
Seeds: Poems
One month
E. Peter Mauk, Jr. / Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.
Jane Wessel, Associate Professor, United States Naval Academy
Theatre and the Extra-Illustrated Book: Participatory Reading and Fandoms in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England
One month
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow
Sarah Weston, Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
The Cypher & The Abyss: Zeroes, Ones, and the Romantic Reinvention of Binary
One month
Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology
Lauren White, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California
Speculative Infrastructure: Octavia Butler and The Los Angeles Freeway System
Two months
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Erika Wicky, Assistant Professor, Université Grenoble-Alpes
Perfume: Objects and Gestures (19th-20th century)
One month
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Claire Wolnisty, Associate Professor, Austin College
‘Commanded by a Woman’: Women and the Nineteenth-Century International Trade in Enslaved People
One month
Helen L. Bing Fellow
Smith Yarberry, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University
Trans Impossibilities: The Imaginative Bodies of William Blake
Two months
Henry Zepeda, Associate Professor, Wyoming Catholic College
The Epitome Almagesti of Peurbach and Regiomontanus: The State of Ptolemaic Astronomy in the Mid-15th Century
Three months
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Jie Zhang, PhD Candidate, Arizona State University
Sino-European Encounters: Buddhist-Catholic Exchange in Printed Illustrations, 16th-20th century
One month
John Brockway Huntington Foundation Fellow
Natalie Zhang, PhD Candidate, UCLA
Down at the Dragon’s Den
One month
George and Arlene Cheng Fellow
Reanne Zheng, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Colonial Aspirations in the Pacific: Transimperial Influence from Hong Kong to San Francisco
One month
Ernestine Richter Avery Fellow
Hao Zou, PhD Candidate, UC Davis
When to Return Home in Brocade Robe? The Lives of Rural Chinese Merchants in the American West, 1860s—1920s
One month
Rogers Fellowship in 19th century American History
ALAN JUTZI FELLOW
Carol Anne McChrystal, Independent Scholar
Souvenir: Entangled Objects
Two months
CENTER FOR EAST ASIAN GARDEN STUDIES FELLOW
Christian Tagsold, Professor, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
The Chinese Influence on the Sakuteiki
Three months
TRAVEL GRANTS
Matthew Ayodele, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
Struggles over the Medical Landscape: Yoruba Healers, Nigerian Chiefs, and European Officials and Biomedical Practitioners in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1960
One month
Rachel Himes, PhD Candidate, Columbia University in the City of New York
Black Luxuries: Race, Slavery, and Abolition in French Decorative Art, 1794-1848
One month
Lucas Iberico Lozada, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California
Empires Entombed: A Cultural History of Columbus’s Remains
One month
Nicole Liao, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
“Truth to Nature”: Synthetic Color, Biology and Photo Media in the 19th century
One month
Sydney Sweat-Montoya, PhD Candidate, College of William and MaryEvading Empire: Commercial
Networks and Illicit Trade in the Western Circum-Caribbean, 1680-1795
One month
Smith Yarberry, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University
Trans Impossibilities: The Imaginative Bodies of William Blake
One month
EXCHANGE FELLOWS
University of Birmingham
To Birmingham:
Ibrahim Anoba, PhD Candidate, UC Davis
How Witches Were Made: Islam, Medicine, Law, and Cultural Nationalism in the Evolution of Indigenous African Religions in Nigeria (1800-1980)
One month
From Birmingham:
James Doherty, University of Birmingham
TBD
One month
University of Manchester
To Manchester:
Daria Berman, PhD Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis
Mosaic Identities, The Portuguese Conversos in Seventeenth-Century Mexico
One month
From Manchester:
TBD
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
To Trinity Hall:
Catherine Doucette, PhD Candidate, University of Virginia
Materialities of Blackness in Early Colonial Jamaica, 1655-1850
One month
From Trinity Hall:
Benjamin Gibson, PhD Candidate, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
TBD
One month
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
To Corpus Christi:
Annabel Barry, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley
Maria Edgeworth and Philosophy of Language
One month
From Corpus Christi:
TBD
Jesus College, Oxford
To Jesus College:
Julia Mattison, Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
How French Made English Books: Vernacularity and the Bibliographic Imagination, 1380–1542
One month
From Jesus College:
TBD
Lincoln College, Oxford
To Lincoln College:
Samuel Niu, PhD Candidate, Columbia University in the City of New York
Chinese Labor in the Post-Emancipation United States and British Caribbean, 1838-1888
One month
From Lincoln College:
Frances Wright, Master’s Candidate, Lincoln College Oxford.
TBD
One month
New College, Oxford
To New College:
Elaine Sullivan, Associate Professor, UC Santa Cruz
Selling Saqqara: Millionaires, Museums and the Commodification of Egypt’s Cultural Heritage
One month
From New College:
Christophe Barnabe, Lecturer, New College, Oxford
A Special Relation: Reappraising Wallace Stevens’ Bilingual Correspondence with Anatole and Paule Vidal
One month
Trinity College, Dublin
From Trinity College:
TBD
University of Durham
From Durham:
TBD
JOINT FELLOWS
Florida Atlantic University
Charlotte Biggs, PhD Candidate, UC Riverside
Mobility, Gender, and Continuity: Native Women in La Florida and the Atlantic World
One month
Collin Bonnell, PhD Candidate, Concordia University
TBD
One month
Arya Martinez, PhD Candidate, University of New Hampshire
The Turbulent Confederation: The Bank of North American and the Emergence of a New National Economy
One month
New Chaucer Society
Isabel Howard, PhD Candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Made A Living Soul: Genesis and the Creation of the Soul in Medieval Devotional and Mystic Literature
One month
North American Conference on British Studies
Amelia Rosch, PhD Candidate, Queen’s University
“Great Brittains Happy Genius”: Recovering the Political Agency of Mary II, 1689-1694
One month
Shakespeare Society of America
Jade Standing, Visiting Professor, Queen’s University
TBD
One month
Western History Association
Jamey Jesperson, PhD Candidate, University of Victoria
Re-Storying Trans Indigenous Contact in the Pacific Northwest, 1774-1880
One month