2025-26 Awarded Fellowships

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.

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).