2013–14 Awarded Fellowships

Long-Term Awards

R. STANTON AVERY DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
Theresa Kelley, Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Romantic Futures

DIBNER DISTINGUISHED FELLOW IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Valerie Traub, Professor, University of Michigan
Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: Anatomy, Cartography, and the Prehistory of Normality

FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
James Simpson, Professor, Harvard University
Taking Liberties: How and Why “Liberties” became Liberty in Early English Modernity

LOS ANGELES TIMES DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
Frederick E. Hoxie, Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Pacific Cosmopolitans: Indigenous Leaders in an Imperial Age

ROBERT C. RITCHIE DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
Alison Games, Professor, Georgetown University
Beyond Butterbox and Tailman: Anglo-Dutch Relations in the 17th-Century World

ROGERS DISTINGUISHED FELLOW IN 19th-CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY
Joan Waugh, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
We are Union Men: Harvard Officers in the Civil War

DIBNER RESEARCH FELLOWS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Eric Ash, Associate Professor, Wayne State University    
Draining the Fens: Projectors, Popular Politics, and the English State
 
Sarah Grossman, Acquisitions Assistant, Cornell University Press
Capital Mediators: Mining Engineers in the Southwest and Mexico, 1860–1914

DANA AND DAVID DORNSIFE FELLOW
Matthew Babcock, Assistant Professor, University of North Texas, Dallas
Relocation and Resilience: Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule in the Southwest Borderlands

FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION FELLOW
Paul Hammer, Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
Politics and Treason in Renaissance England: Reinterpreting the Essex Rising

MELLON FELLOW
Julie Orlemanski, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Signs, and Narratives in Late Medieval England
    
NEH FELLOWS
Rob Harper, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Politics Ungoverned: Violence and State Formation on a Revolutionary Frontier

Joanna Picciotto, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
“Union without End”: The Physico-Theological Vision

Isaac Stephens, Assistant Professor, Saginaw Valley State University

“The Whole English Church Drinks a Bitter Cup”: Popular Politics, Parliament, and the Public Sphere in Civil War London

BARBARA THOM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Niklas Frykman, Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College
The Marine Republic: Maritime Radicalism and the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1789–1805

Rupali Mishra, Assistant Professor, Auburn University
A Business of State: The East India Company and Early Stuart Politics

ACLS/BURKHARDT FELLOWS
Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Cultures of Climate Change: Global Island Literature and the Environment

Lyle Massey, Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
Woman Inside Out: Gender, Dissection, and Representation in Early Modern Europe

FELLOWS IN THE CALTECH-HUNTINGTON PROGRAM FOR THE STUDY OF MATERIALITIES, TEXTS, AND IMAGES
Stefanie Sobelle, Assistant Professor, Gettysburg College
The Architectural Novel: Literary Construction Sites in American Fiction

Alexander Wragge-Morley, Lecturer, Somerville College, University of Oxford
Medical Knowledge and Connoisseurship in England, 1700–1750

EUROPEAN COMMISSION RESEARCH EXECUTIVE AGENCY MARIE CURIE FELLOW
Sandra Rebok, Research Associate, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Alexander von Humboldt and the Globalization of Science: Networks of Knowledge between Germany and the United States in the 19th Century

ELEANOR SEARLE VISITING PROFESSOR IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AT CALTECH AND THE HUNTINGTON
Peter Westwick, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
A History of the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-2013

Short-Term Awards

Rafaela Acevedo-Field, Assistant Professor, Whitworth University
Portuguese and Spanish Crypto-Jewish Families before the Inquisition in 17th-Century Mexico
One month



Maria Jose Afanador-Llach, Doctoral candidate, University of Texas, Austin

The Geographical Imagination of Imperial Dissolution: Discourses of Political Economy and Knowledge about Nature in New Granada, 1780–1830

One month



David Alworth, Assistant Professor, Harvard University

Site Reading: Postwar Fiction, Visual Art, and Social Form

One month



Zara Anishanslin, Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island
Rebelling Subjects, Revealing Objects: The Material and Visual Culture of Making and Remembering the American Revolution
One month



Seth Archer, Doctoral candidate, University of California, Riverside
Sharks upon the Land: Epidemics and Culture in Hawai’i, 1778–1865
Two months

Ian Beckett, Professor, University of Kent

An Edition of the Buckinghamshire Papers of Richard, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, 1846–89

One month



Michael Bernath, Associate Professor, University of Miami

In a Land of Strangers: Northern Teachers in the Old South and the Emergence of American Sectional Identity, 1790–1865

One month



Alexander Bevilacqua, Doctoral candidate, Princeton University
Islamic Culture in the European Enlightenment
One month

R. Scott Bevill, Doctoral candidate, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The Lost Books of Antiquity: Antiquarianism as Identity in Pre-Modern England
One month

Andrew Biswell, Principal Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
In Search of Early Isherwood and Auden
Two months

Kevin Bourque, Mellon Fellow, Southwestern University
Seriality, Singularity, and Celebrity: Pictures in Motion from 1680 to 1810
Five months

Charles Bradford Bow, IASH Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh

The Ethics of War in the Age of Revolution: Enlightenment and Violence in the Thought of Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Stanhope Smith, 1775–1815

Three months



Cali Buckley, Doctoral candidate, Penn State University

Paper and Ivory: Female Anatomical Models and the Control of Knowledge from the 16th to 18th Centuries

One month



Michael Calabrese, Professor, California State University, Los Angeles
Editing HM 143 for the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
Three months

William Campbell, Assistant Professor, California State University, Chico
Quill and Conquest: Reconsidering “the Treaty” in Early North America
One month

Ernesto Capello, Associate Professor, Macalester College
Inventing Equatorial Pyramids: Commemorative French Geodesy in Ecuador, 18th-21st Centuries
One month



Margaret Carlyle, Doctoral candidate, McGill University
Cultures of Anatomy in Enlightenment France (ca. 1700–1795)
Two months



Richard Carwardine, President, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford

Abraham Lincoln’s Sense of Humor
One month

Cindy I-Fen Cheng, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Rebuilding California’s Skid Row Neighborhoods: Southeast Asian and Central American Refugees and the Growth of the Homeless Population
Two months



Ruma Chopra, Associate Professor, San Jose State University
Enemies of Britain in the Atlantic, 1750–1800
One month

Alexis Cohen, Doctoral candidate, Princeton University

The Neoclassical Line in Use: The Outline Drawing in British and French Architectural and Decorative Arts Publications, 1762–1817

One month



Jon Coleman, Professor, University of Notre Dame

By Force I Go Free: Movement in Preindustrial America
One month

Viccy Coltman, Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
Protean Scots: Fashioning Identity for a Global Nation, 1745–1832
Two months

Megan Cook, Postdoctoral Fellow, Bowdoin College
Chaucerian Exceptionalism: The Medieval Author and the Rise of Literary History, 1532–1635
One month



Erin Corrales-Diaz, Doctoral candidate, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Remembering the Veteran: Trauma, Disability, and the American Civil War, 1861–1915
One month



Oliver Cox, Doctoral candidate, University College, University of Oxford

Horse Racing in the British Atlantic World during the Long 18th Century
Two months

Katelyn Crawford, Doctoral candidate, University of Virginia
Transient Painters, Traveling Canvases: Portraiture and Mobility in the British Atlantic, 1750–1780
Two months



Nicholas Crawford, Doctoral candidate, Harvard University
Feeding Slavery: Scarcity, Subsistence, and the Political Economy of the British Caribbean, 1783–1833
Two months



Ivano Dal Prete, Associate Research Scholar, The Italian Academy, Columbia University

“Being the World Eternal”: The Age of the Earth in Early Modern Europe
Two months

Gregory Dart, Senior Lecturer, University College London
Edition of the Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb
Three months



Huw Davies, Lecturer, King’s College London

The Rise of British Military Power, 1750–1850
Two months

Jessica Davies, Director of Education and Special Projects, SOMA
Repugnant Nature: The Art of Biological Mimicry in the Victorian Age of Empire
Three months

Paul Davis, Doctoral candidate, Princeton University

Historical Culture in the British Atlantic, ca. 1730–76

Two months



Eoin Devlin, Affiliated Lecturer, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
Anglo-European Sociability and Cultural Exchange: Diplomatic Encounters, 1660–1720
One month



D. H. Dilbeck, Doctoral candidate, University of Virginia

War in Earnest: Just War Theory and Union Military Policy in the American Civil War
One month

Thomas Dodman, Assistant Professor, Boston College
Nostalgia: The History of a Deadly Emotion
One month

Gregory Downs, Associate Professor, City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York

The Ends of the War: Fighting the Civil War after Appomattox
One month

Sonja Drimmer, Lecturer, Columbia University

Standard Deviations: The Politics of Literary Illumination in Late Medieval England
One month

Justin DuRivage, Doctoral candidate, Yale University

Taxing Empire: Political Economy and the Origins of the American Revolution
Two months

Richard Dutton, Humanities Distinguished Professor, Ohio State University
Revision of the Revels Plays Edition of Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist
One month

John Fagg, Lecturer, University of Birmingham

Re-envisioning the Everyday: American Genre Scenes, 1900–1940
One month

Katherine Fama, Doctoral candidate, Washington University in St. Louis
Novel Women at Novels’ Ends: The Architecture of Singleness in American Fiction, 1880–1929
Two months



Michael Farrell, Professor, University at Buffalo
Collaborative Circles in the Pre-Raphaelite Network
One month

Kendra Field, Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside
Growing Up with the Country: A Family History of Race and American Expansion
One month

Erin Forbes, Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
Social Life after Civil Death: Spiritualism and African American Writers, 1850–1910
Two months

Jessica Fowler, Doctoral candidate, University of California, Davis

The Productive Inquisition: Formulating Knowledge and Heresy in the Spanish Empire

Two months



Karrie Fuller, Doctoral candidate, University of Notre Dame
Reading Beyond the Borders: Visions of Christendom and the Shared Reception of Piers Plowman and The Book of Sir John Mandeville
One month



Michael Gamer, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Staged Conflicts: A History of English Theater, 1642–1843
Three months

Michael Genovese, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
Sociable Profit: Feeling and Finance in 18th-Century Literature
Two months

Brett Goodin, Doctoral candidate, Australian National University
Victims of American Independence: A Collective Biography of Barbary Captives and American Nation Building, 1770–1840
One month



Arielle Gorin, Doctoral candidate, Yale University

Borders Crossed, Bridges Burned, Balances Shifted: The Mid-19th Century Pacific Northwest and the World

Two months



Cassandra Gorman, Doctoral candidate, University of Cambridge
Women, Poetics, and Philosophy, 1650–1760
Two months

Melinda Gough, Associate Professor, McMaster University
Revels Plays Edition of Unknown, Swetnam the Woman-Hater Arraigned by Women (ca. 1620)
One month



Aaron Graham, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Jesus College, University of Oxford

The Imperial State: War, Finance, and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1754–83
Two months

Samuel Gras, Doctoral candidate, University of Lille 3

Two Manuscripts in The Huntington Library for One Workshop: Jean Fouquet and His Disciples

One month



Jane Grogan, Lecturer, University College Dublin

A Critical Edition of the First English Translation of Xenophon’s Cyropaedia

Two months



Eunsun Han, Doctoral candidate, Brown University

Felling Jericho: Reconstruction and the Struggle for Equality in Multiracial California, 1848–1906

One month



Steven Harris-Scott, Doctoral candidate, George Mason University
Beyond the Transition Debate: Indentured Servitude, African Slavery, and Other Bound Labor in Virginia’s Northern Neck, 1650–1750
One month



Joe Hawkins, Head of Landscape, Hagley Hall

The Restoration of Hagley Park
One month

John Hay, Doctoral candidate, Columbia University

The Postapocalyptic American Frontier
One month

Ariane Helou, Doctoral candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz
Figures of Voice in Early Modern Europe
One month

Roze Hentschell, Associate Professor, Colorado State University

The Cultural Geography of St. Paul’s Precinct in Early Modern London
One month

Ruth Herndon, Associate Professor, Bowling Green State University
Children of Misfortune: Growing Up Poor in Early New England
One month



Mukaram Hhana, Doctoral candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Commandeering Empires: Tripoli, Tunis in the Age of Revolutions, 1789–1835
Two months

Greg Hise, Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Property Rights and Civil Rights: Loren Miller’s Quest for Open Housing
Three months

Sylvia Houghteling, Doctoral candidate, Yale University

The Chameleon-like History of Indian Chintz in Britain and Europe, 1630–1730
Two months

Katherine Hunt, Doctoral candidate, Birkbeck, University of London
“Clean cards here”: The Visual and Material Culture of Chance in Early Modern British Literature
Two months



Christopher Hunter, Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology

A New and More Perfect Edition: Reading, Editing, and Publishing Autobiography in America, 1787–1850

One month



Laura Igoe, Doctoral candidate, Temple University

The Opulent City and the Sylvan State: Art and Environmental Embodiment in Early National Philadelphia

One month



Lise Jaillant, Doctoral candidate, University of British Columbia
Too Dusty for a Lady? Women and Fine Editions in America, 1890–1940

One month



Amy Johnson, Doctoral candidate, Brown University

Brokering Cultures, Brokering Race: Charley Ah Him, Chinatown, and the Construction of Los Angeles

One month



Erin Kelly, Assistant Professor, University of Victoria
Religious Conversion in 16th-Century English Drama
One month

Emily Kinney, Doctoral candidate, University of Texas, Austin

”If the right kind of people were to settle in this country”: U.S. American Migrant Settlements in Mexico

Two months



András Kiséry, Assistant Professor, City College of New York
Hamlet’s Moment: English Renaissance Drama and the Socialization of Political Competence
Two months



Shana Klein, Doctoral candidate, University of New Mexico

The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in American Still-Life Representation, 1865–1900

Two months

Nanami Kobayashi, Doctoral candidate, Doshisha University

The Tithe Controversy in Milton’s England
One month

Berthold Kress, Academic Assistant, The Warburg Institute
Illustrating the New Testament in 16th-Century Germany
Two months

Allison Lange, Doctoral candidate, Brandeis University

Pictures of Change: Transformative Images of Gender and Politics in the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1776–1920

One month



Jacob Lee, Doctoral candidate, University of California, Davis
Imaginary Empires: Kinship, Rivers, and Power in the Illinois Country, 1550–1840
One month



Robert Lee, Doctoral candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Louisiana Purchases: The U.S.-Indian Treaty System in the Missouri River Valley
One month

Marc Lerner, Associate Professor, University of Mississippi
The International William Tell: A Republican Symbol in the Age of Revolution
Two months

Brian Lynch, Independent scholar

Vincenzo Valdre (1740–1814), Artist and Architect in Residence at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire

One month



J. Vanessa Lyon, Assistant Professor, Grinnell College
Reynolds after Rubens: Femininity and Flemish Painting in 18th-Century British Art
Two months



Noam Maggor, Postdoctoral Scholar, Vanderbilt University
Brahmin Capitalism: Gentlemanly Bankers, Urban Populists, and the Origins of the Modern American Economy
One month



Jean-Christophe Mayer, Research Professor, French National Centre for Scientific Research

Reading Shakespeare’s Readers: A Cultural History of Reading Shakespeare from the 16th to the 18th Century

Two months



Carla Mazzio, Associate Professor, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Counting on England: Numbers, Nations, and the Drama of Mathematics in the Age of Shakespeare
Five months



Thomas McGeary, Independent scholar

Opera and Cultural Politics in Britain, 1700–1742

One month



Mary Mendoza, Doctoral candidate, University of California, Davis

If We Build It, They Won’t Come: The Physical Manifestation of the U.S.-Mexico Border

One month



Lauren Miller, Doctoral candidate, Indiana University

Refugee-Nation: The Origins of Practicing English Toleration, ca. 1680–1732

One month



Christopher Minty, Doctoral candidate, University of Stirling
“Dose this constitute me an Enemy to my Cuntry?” Loyalism in Revolutionary New York, ca. 1763–83
Two months



Matthew Mitchell, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Goods, Guineas, and Slaves: The Trading World of the Royal African Company
One month

Lindsay O’Neill, Lecturer, University of Southern California
“Barbarous Country”: The Global Reformation of Sir John Perceval, 1683–1748
Two months

Stephanie O’Rourke, Doctoral candidate, Columbia University
Bodies of Knowledge: Fuseli, Girodet, and Spectatorship at the Turn of the 19th Century
One month



Kendrick Oliver, Reader in American History, University of Southampton
America’s “Big Bang”: A Social and Cultural History of the Birth of the Universe
One month

Liza Oliver, Doctoral candidate, Northwestern University
Mercantile Aesthetics: Art, Science, and Diplomacy in French India (1664–1757)
One month

Susan Oliver, Senior Lecturer, University of Essex

Arbiters of Opinion: Transatlantic Periodical Culture 1790–1860
Two months

Victoria Osborne, Curator, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Pre-Raphaelite Twilight: The Art of Edward Robert Hughes (1851–1914)
One month

Myrna Perez, Doctoral candidate, Harvard University

Stephen Jay Gould and His Publics: Evolutionary Expertise, Public Intellectualism, and American Creationism, 1974–2002

One month



Marina Peterson, Associate Professor, Ohio University
Littoral Los Angeles: Coastal Infrastructures, 1897 to the Present
Two months

Paul Pickering, Professor, Australian National University
Biography from Below: The Prison Life of Richard Carlile
One month

Fiona Price, Reader in English Literature, University of Chichester
Reinventing Liberty: Jane Porter, Nation, and the 18th-Century Historical Novel
One month



Elizabeth Pryor, Independent scholar
Democracy and its Demons: Six Striking Encounters with Abraham Lincoln
Two months

Mark Rankin, Assistant Professor, James Madison University
William Tyndale’s Practice of Prelates (1530) and the Nature of Reading in Renaissance England
Two months



Lucy Razzall, Doctoral candidate, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge

Printed Repositories in Early Modern England
Two months

Benjamin Reed, Doctoral candidate, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Oratorian Devotion in Mexico City, 1659–1821: A Political Culture of Religious Identity
Three months



Alyssa Reichardt, Doctoral candidate, Yale University

A New War: French, British, and Iroquois Imperial Communication Networks and the Contest for the Ohio Valley, 1737–1768

One month



Peter Remien, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming

The Oeconomy of Nature

One month



Daniel Robert, Doctoral candidate, University of California, Berkeley

The Political Economy of Electric Power in California, 1879–1929
Two months

Gregory Rosenthal, Doctoral candidate, Stony Brook University
Work, Body, and Environment in the Hawaiian Diaspora, 1786–1876
One month



Marjorie Rubright, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

A World of Words: Language, Globalization, and the English Renaissance
Four months

Jennifer Schnepf, Doctoral candidate, Brown University
Humming Queerly to Oneself: The Intimacy of Communicating Otherwise in Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man
One month



Sarah Seekatz, Doctoral candidate, University of California, Riverside

Blind Date: The Cultivation of an Arabian Fantasy in the Deserts of Southern California

One month



Samantha Seeley, Doctoral candidate, New York University
Freedom, Race, and Forced Migration in the Early American Republic
Two months

Caitlin Silberman, Doctoral candidate, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“I believe we shall be crows”: Thinking with Birds in British Art and Visual Culture, 1840–1900
Three months



Tom Sitton, Curator Emeritus, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County and Its Government, 1950–2010
Two months

Stacey Smith, Assistant Professor, Oregon State University

An Empire for Freedom: Transcontinental Abolitionism and the Black Civil Rights Struggle in the Pacific West

One month



Adam Smyth, Senior Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London
Cutting Books in Early Modern England
One month

Alexandra Socarides, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri

The Lyric Pose: Antebellum American Women’s Poetry and the Problem of Recovery
One month

Michele Speitz, Assistant Professor, Furman University

To “build castles in the air” and “A bending line suspended”: Robert Southey, Poet Laureate, and Thomas Telford, the Father of Civil Engineering

Two months



Justina Spencer, Doctoral candidate, Linacre College, University of Oxford
Peeping In, Peering Out: Monocularity and Early Modern Vision
Two months

Roger Swearingen, Independent scholar

Robert Louis Stevenson’s The South Seas: A Complete Edition from the Manuscripts
One month

Sara Taglialagamba, Post Doctoral, École Pratique des Hautes Études
Hydraulic Devices and Fountains by Leonardo da Vinci
One month

Adam Thomas, Doctoral candidate, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

The Spectral Imagination: American Art between Science and Superstition in the Late Nineteenth Century

One month



David Torres-Rouff, Assistant Professor, University of California, Merced
Chinese Voices: Self-representation and Immigrant Identity in Los Angeles’ Courts, 1860–1895
One month



John Tresch, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Edgar Allan Poe’s Experiments
Two months

Elly Truitt, Assistant Professor, Bryn Mawr College
Medieval Robots: Automata, 800–1450
One month

Michael Ursell, Instructor, University of California, Santa Cruz

The Muses’ Anvil: Inspiration, Bookmaking, and the Renaissance Lyric

One month



Arianne Urus, Doctoral candidate, New York University
Troubled Water: International Order and Conceptions of Nature in the North Atlantic Fisheries, 1670–1815
Three months



Jessica Walker, Doctoral candidate, Johns Hopkins University

The Daughter of Time: Contemporary Representations of Mary Tudor as Female Regnant and Sacred Monarch in England, Ireland, and Spain

One month



Katherine Walker, Sessional Instructor, St. Jerome’s University

The Reading Public of Early Modern England and the Languages of Pain, 1600–1740

One month



Marsha Weisiger, Associate Professor, University of Oregon

The River Runs Wild
Two months

Olivia Weisser, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Ill Composed: Patients, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
Two months

Heather Welland, Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
Interest Politics and the Shaping of the British Empire, 1688–1840
One month



Jennifer Wells, Doctoral candidate, Brown University

Prelude to Empire: State-Building in Cromwellian Ireland and Scotland, 1649–1660
Three months

Elizabeth Williamson, Associate, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, University College London

The Afterlives of Letters: Thomas Egerton, Francis Thynne, and the Creation of History

One month



Heather Wolfe, Curator of Manuscripts, Folger Shakespeare Library
Rethinking the Price, Quality, and Social Significance of Writing Paper in Early Modern England
Two months



Justin Wolfe, Associate Professor, Tulane University

On Equal Grounds: Race and Empire in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1848–1858

One month



Zohra Wolters, Doctoral candidate, Claremont Graduate University
Almanacs, Medicine, and Print Controls
One month

Erika Wright, Instructor, University of Southern California

Taking Advice: Professionalism, Confidentiality, and the Victorian Novel
Two months

Matthew Wyman-McCarthy, Doctoral candidate, McGill University

The Emergence of Abolition: Rethinking the British Empire, ca. 1776–1800
One month

Leanne Zalewski, Assistant Professor, Randolph College

The Postbellum Painting Craze: Art in New York 1867–1893

One month

ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL–HUNTINGTON FELLOWS

Natalie Cox, Doctoral candidate, University of Warwick
Traveling through Text with Burton: A Study in Geographical Practice from the Works of the Hakluyt Society Held in the Burton Library
Three months

Matthew Harle, Doctoral candidate, Birkbeck, University of London
Narratives of Abandonment: Tracing the Ghost Town in the Huntington Library
Three months

Joan Redmond, Doctoral candidate, University of Cambridge
Exploring 17th-Century Irish Social and Religious Conflict and Change through the Hastings and Ellesmere Irish Papers
Four months

Matthew Salway, Doctoral candidate, University of Leeds
The Phenomenology of Rapture in 19th-Century U.S. Revivalism
Four months

Imogen Sutton, Doctoral candidate, University of Cambridge
Colonial Governance and Provincial Culture in the Early Spanish Colonial Epic
Three months

Primrose Young, Doctoral candidate, University of Birmingham
A Comparative Investigation of Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg (1924) and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922)
Two months 

CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE EXCHANGE FELLOWS

From Corpus Christi:
Stephen Tuffnell, Doctoral candidate, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Empire in Britain’s American Expatriate Community, ca. 1830–1914

To Corpus Christi:
Lauren Griffin, Doctoral candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Battle for Bede: Historia Sacra and Religious Identity in Early Modern England

LEEDS HOBAN LINACRE/HUNTINGTON EXCHANGE FELLOWS

From Linacre:
Edward Sugden, Doctoral candidate, Linacre College, University of Oxford
American Literature and Global Time, 1812–59

To Linacre:
Zohra Wolters, Doctoral candidate, Claremont Graduate University
Almanacs, Medicine, and Print Controls

LINCOLN COLLEGE EXCHANGE FELLOWS

From Lincoln:
Anne-Claire Michoux, Doctoral candidate, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
“She does not shine in the tender feelings”: Jane Austen and 18th-Century Acting Theory

To Lincoln:
Sarah Noonan, Assistant Professor, Lindenwood University
The Book in Parts: Selective Reading Practices in Late Medieval England

TRAVEL GRANTS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM

Catherine Chou, Doctoral candidate, Stanford University
The Secret Life of the Elizabethan Parliaments: A History of the Late Tudor Parliaments Out of Session

Amanda Herbert, Assistant Professor, Christopher Newport University
Spa: Faith, Health, and Politics in Early Modern Britain

Douglas Kanter, Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University
Gladstone and Ireland, 1825–94

Stephanie McBride-Schreiner, Doctoral candidate, Arizona State University
Medicalizing Childhood: The Convergence of Pediatrics, Public Health, and Child Welfare in 19th-Century France and Great Britain

Colette Moore, Associate Professor, University of Washington
Textual Organization in English Medieval Devotional Texts

Eleanor Pettus, Doctoral candidate, University of Notre Dame
Creating the English Grammar School: The English Reformation and the Transformation of Humanist Education