2024-25 Awarded Fellowships
Long-Term Awards
R. STANTON AVERY DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
Susan Scott Parrish, Professor, English, University of Michigan
Topic: The Talking Woods: Black American Life and Its Forest Materials
Scotti Parrish is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the English Department and the Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan. Since the 1990s, she has been researching and teaching about the intertwined history of environmental transformation and racial formation in North America, with an ongoing focus on the southern plantation complex. In her first book, American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (UNCP, 2006), she analyzed how English colonials, Native Americans, and captive Africans responded to their environmental dislocations in the Americas, and to colonization and slavery, through their interactions with—and knowledge about—the natural world. Her next book continued to examine how American environments and racialized experiences were mutually constituted. The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History (Princeton UP, 2017) investigated how a massive infrastructural catastrophe in the Lower Mississippi Valley unfolded, and took on divergent meanings, as it moved across media platforms, across sectional divides, and across the color line. More recently, she has edited The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and Environment and the Norton Critical Edition of Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! Prompted by contemporary Black artists now reimagining historical Black experiences in U.S. woodlands, she is researching her next book: The Talking Woods: Black American Life and Its Forest Materials. She has received support from the American Antiquarian Society, the NEH, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, and UM’s Institute for the Humanities.
FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
Susan Amussen, Professor, History, UC Merced
Topic: Placing Patriarchy in Early Modern Britain and its Empire
Susan D. Amussen is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California Merced. She is a historian of early modern Britain and its empire. Her works include An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England (1988); Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640-1700 (2007); and Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640 (2017). She serves as co-editor of volume 3 (1500-1750) of the New Cambridge History of Britain, which will be published in 2025. While at The Huntington, she will be working on a project entitled “Placing Patriarchy in Early Modern Britain and its Empire” which is a long-term exploration of how patriarchy functions as a system in early modern England, and how it adapts and evolves in relation to other social systems. During the fellowship year, she will be focusing particularly on interactions between patriarchy and race, particularly through the young boys who appear in late 17th century portraits of noble women.
ROBERT C. RITCHIE DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
Serena Zabin, Professor, History, Carleton College
Topic: American Affections: The Life of Mary Fish Noyes Silliman Dickinson, 1736-1818
Serena Zabin is a Professor of History at Carleton College where she teaches classes in early American and public history. Professor Zabin is the author, most recently, of the prizewinning The Boston Massacre: A Family History (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), which was also named an Amazon Editor’s Choice for History in 2020. She has also written two other books about early America: Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009) and The New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741: Daniel Horsmanden’s Journal of the Proceedings (Bedford St. Martins, 2004). She is currently co-editing a new collection of essays, Underrepresented Voices of the American Revolution. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies among other grants. She is also the Immediate Past President of the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic.
ROGERS DISTINGUISHED FELLOW IN 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY
Megan Kate Nelson, Writer and Historian, Boston
Topic: The Westerners: Creating America’s Most Iconic Region
Megan Kate Nelson is a historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist who writes about the complex histories of American landscapes, and how people have used them to shape local, regional, and national identities. She is the author of Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America (Scribner 2022; winner of the 2023 Spur Award for Historical Non-Fiction) and The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West (Scribner 2020; finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History), as well as Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (Georgia 2012) and Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp (Georgia 2005). During her fellowship year, Dr. Nelson will finish writing a book entitled The Westerners: Creating America's Most Iconic Region (to be published by Scribner in fall 2025). She also writes about the Civil War, the U.S. West, and American culture for The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, Slate, and TIME.
LOS ANGELES TIMES DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
Nayan Shah, Professor, American Studies, University of Southern California
Topic: Asian American Visual Imagination and Belonging
Nayan Shah is Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California. He is a historian whose books uncover how people struggle with migration, illness, incarceration and belonging in the United States and across the globe. He is the author of two award-winning books on Asian American experience in the North American West: Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (California 2001) and Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West (2012). His latest book Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes (University of California Press, 2022) is the first global history of hunger strikes as a tactic in prisons, conflicts, and protest movements. He is working on a new project on migration and art-making and examines the ways that Asian diasporic artists forge relationships of belonging, refuge and vulnerability in the natural world through artistic practices of photography, painting, installation, dance and performance. Shah has received fellowships and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities. He is featured in PBS documentaries on “Asian Americans” (2020) and “Plague at the Golden Gate” (2022). He has worked with the National Park Service, Angel Island Foundation, California Historical Society, and Smithsonian Institution to interpret Asian American past and present. He is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer and a member of the Society of American Historians. He serves on the boards of Los Angeles’ East West Players, and OutHistory, a resource for scholarship and learning in U.S. LGBTQ+ history.
HANNAH AND RUSSEL KULLY DISTINGUISHED FELLOW IN AMERICAN ART
Dr. ShiPu Wang is Professor of Art History and the Coats Family Chair in the Arts at the University of California, Merced. His scholarship has centered around rediscovering and reevaluating the work and legacy of diasporic Asian American artists in the United States, with a special focus on Nikkei artists and their cross-/trans-racial and cultural dialogue and alliances during the Exclusion Era. Winner of the 2018 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Book Prize for his The Other American Moderns. Matsura, Ishigaki, Noda, Hayakawa (Penn State University Press, 2017), Wang was the curator of the retrospective, “Chiura Obata: An American Modern,” which toured internationally to five museums (2018–2020), including a final stop at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM); he also edited its exhibition catalog (University of California Press, 2018). He has since curated another exhibition, “Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo,” an unprecedented survey of artworks by trailblazing American artists of Japanese descent of the pre-World War II generations that is organized by the Japanese American National Museum and touring to five U.S. museums (2024–2027), including a nine-month stop at the SAAM as well. The accompanying exhibition catalog is co-published by the Japanese American National Museum and the University of California Press. In addition to teaching and curating, Wang has served on the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s Board of Commissioners, the editorial board of SAAM’s academic journal, American Art, as a Terra Foundation for American Art Senior Fellow at SAAM (2014), and a Terra Senior Fellow at the Brooklyn Museum (2022).
CEDARS SINAI/HUNTINGTON LIBRARY POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW
Christin Zurbach, Postdoctoral Fellow
Topic: Doctoring Society: The Professionalization of Ottoman Medicine
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 FELLOWS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, Brown University
Topic: Writing the Disabled Self in Early Modern Literature: Petrarch, Montaigne, Cervantes
Alani Hicks-Bartlett is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, French and Francophone Studies, Hispanic Studies, and Affiliated Faculty of Italian Studies at Brown University. She holds a Joint Ph.D. in Medieval Studies and Romance Languages (Spanish & Portuguese) from UC Berkeley, and earned a Doctorate in Modern Languages (Italian) from Middlebury College. Her research focuses on disability, histories of science and medicine, gender, race, and authorship in the premodern period, along with their various intersections. Her recent work has appeared in MLN, European History Quarterly, Bulletin of the Comediantes, I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, and L’Esprit Créateur, among others. At the Huntington, she will be completing her manuscript, Writing the Disabled Self in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Petrarch, Montaigne, Cervantes. The book centers the Medieval and Early Modern connection between physical health, political health, and disability by prioritizing disability, illness, and the attention to autobiography and self-representational techniques that the Humanist and Early Modern authors Petrarch, Montaigne, and Cervantes feature in their works.
DIBNER RESEARCH FELLOWS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Jeannie Shinozuka, Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies, Washington State University
Topic: Model Minority Intelligence: Race, Education & Citizenship, 1910-1965
Jeannie Shinozuka is Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies and the Arnold and Atsuko Craft Professor at Washington State University. Her research interests center on Asian American studies and history, environmental history, and the history of medicine and science. Her first book, Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950 (University of Chicago Press, 2022), received honorable mentions for the interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary studies category from the Association for Asian American Studies, the Frederick Jackson Turner award from the Organization of American Historians and was shortlisted for the International Convention of Asia Scholars: ICAS Book Prize-Humanities. She is currently working on two book projects. Global Biotic Borders: Race and Asian Insect and Plant Migration in an International Context is on recent Asian biological invasions in Europe and Latin America, including the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) and Asian citrus psyllid (Diaphornina citri Kuwayama or ACP). Model Minority Intelligence: Scientific Racism, Education, and Citizenship, 1910-1965 is on the relational racial construction of Asian American and African American students in the early twentieth century in order to better understand the interrelationship between intelligence testing, eugenic racism, and affirmative action both in the US and in a transnational perspective. At the Huntington Library, she will work on Model Minority Intelligence
DANA AND DAVID DORNSIFE FELLOW
Cori Tucker-Price, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Topic: In the Land of Milk and Honey: Democratic Religion and the Forging of Black Resistance in Los Angeles, 1903-1953
Cori Tucker-Price is currently an ACLS Fellow and will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara in January 2026. Her research and teaching focus on African American history, religion and the American West, religion and media, and migration studies. At the Huntington, she will be working on her first book project, In the Land of Milk and Honey: Democratic Religion and the Forging of Black Resistance in Los Angeles, 1903-1953, which traces the historical and social forces that shaped the practices of African American religious institutions in Southern California. Her work has appeared in the Pacific Historical Review and has been supported by various funding bodies, including the Crossroads Project at Princeton University via the Henry Luce Foundation. Prior to her appointment at the Huntington, she held postdoctoral fellow positions at Dartmouth College and the University of Southern California.
FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION FELLOW
Erik Linstrum, Professor, History, University of Virgina
Topic: British Imperial Violence and the Genealogy of Fascism
Erik Linstrum is Professor of History at the University of Virginia, where he teaches courses on modern Britain, imperialism, and decolonization. His current book project explores Britain’s relationship with the twentieth-century world through ideas about space and experiences of place. He is the author of Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire (Harvard University Press, 2016), which won the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association. His research has been recognized with awards from the Forum for History of Human Science and the North American Conference on British Studies and supported by fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Institute of Historical Research in London, and the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.
KEMBLE FELLOW IN MARITIME HISTORY
Adam Domby, Associate Professor, History, Auburn University
Topic: Freedom’s War on the Waters: The Forgotten Story of How African Americans Won the Civil War at Sea and Saved the Union
Adam H. Domby is an award-winning historian of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the American South and an associate professor of history at Auburn University. He is the author of The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory (UVA Press, 2020) which examines the intersection of lies and white supremacy in how white southerners recalled the Civil War. His research and writing have covered a wide range of topics including divided communities during Reconstruction, prisoners of war, guerrilla warfare, southern Jews, and slavery on college campuses. He coedited Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later (Fordham University Press, 2021) and his publications have appeared in a variety of outlets including the Journal of Southern History, Civil War History, Black Perspectives, and the Washington Post. He is currently working on a coauthored history of African Americans at Monocacy Battlefield for the National Park Service. At the Huntington he will be examining the role of African American sailors during the Civil War.
MELLON FELLOW
Patricia Yu, Assistant Professor, History of Art/Architecture, Kenyon College
Topic: Reproducing the Fragmented Body of the Garden of Perfect Brightness
Patricia J. Yu is Assistant Professor of Art History at Kenyon College, where she teaches courses on the arts of Asia, art in cross-cultural translation, the themed landscape, and issues of cultural heritage. Her book project, Reproducing the Fragmented Body of the Garden of Perfect Brightness, extends the study of the afterlives of this imperial garden of the Qing dynasty beyond its original site in Beijing. As a space of ruin, the garden has been reconstituted through acts of architectural and artistic copying that translate its recovered form into alternative spatial contexts. This project addresses the multiple translations of the ruined garden into the spaces of diplomacy, theme park, and art gallery. Before joining Kenyon, she was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute for the “Iconoclasm” Scholar Theme, a curatorial fellow in Asian export art at the Peabody Essex Museum, and a graduate intern with Getty Research Institute Publications. She earned her PhD in art history from the University of California, Berkeley.
MOLINA FELLOW IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE & ALLIED SCIENCES
Jonathan Hsy, Professor, English, George Washington University
Topic: Crafty Mobilities: Disability, Life Writing, and a Global Middle Ages
Jonathan Hsy is Professor of English at George Washington University, where he is Affiliated Faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies. His work often asks how critical theory and cultural analysis reshape our understandings of language, gender, and identity; his current book project at the Huntington explores diverse forms of autobiographical writing about disability, from the Middle Ages to the present. Hsy is the author of Antiracist Medievalisms: From “Yellow Peril” to Black Lives Matter (2021, now open access) and co-editor of A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages (2020). He is a founding Executive Board Member of RaceB4Race (a research and mentorship network led by premodernists who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and he has served on the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession. Hsy’s publications on disability and life writing have appeared in the Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Early Modern Women Journal, Journal of American Ethnic History, and postmedieval. His research has been supported by fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Folger Shakespeare Library, and Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
NEH FELLOWS
Devoney Looser, Professor, English, Arizona State University
Topic: The Stunning Gunnings: Two Generations of Enterprising Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Who Riveted the Public and Transformed Troubled Lives into Bestselling Fiction
Devoney Looser, Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University, is the author or editor of eleven books on women’s writing, most recently Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës (2022). That biography was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEH Public Scholar Award, and a Rockefeller Bellagio Fellowship. Her book Wild for Austen will be published in 2025, to coincide with the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. Looser is also the author of The Making of Jane Austen (2017) and the editor of The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes (2019). Her essays have appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times, Salon, Slate, the TLS, and the Washington Post. Her audio-video lecture series on Austen is available through Wondrium, The Great Courses, and Audible. The project she’ll be at work on at the Huntington is a group biography, The Stunning Gunnings: Two Generations of Enterprising Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Who Riveted the Public and Transformed Troubled Lives into Bestselling Fiction.
NEH FELLOWS
Tara Lyons, Associate Professor, English, Illinois State University
Topic: Her Books: Women’s Libraries in an Age of Rebellion (1640-1660)
Tara L. Lyons is a professor of English at Illinois State University where she teaches early modern English literature, bibliography, and Shakespeare. Dr. Lyons’ research delves into newly uncovered sources that document women’s books and libraries in the British Isles and colonies from 1640 to 1660. In this period, women’s libraries were conceptualized as contained domestic spaces, protected from ongoing military conflicts, political uprisings, and colonial violence. However, documentary evidence from this period reveals that women’s libraries became targets of disorder and violence. Lyons’ research demonstrates how these libraries were affected and how women’s books, literally and figuratively, fueled the fires of the age. By interrogating what we know about women’s libraries, how such knowledge was obscured, and how we can continue to uncover it, Lyons’ project offers well-plied feminist historiographical practices from which richer histories of “her books” can emerge. Lyons’ scholarship on bibliography and early modern literature has been published in Shakespeare Quarterly, PBSA, ELR, Philological Quarterly, and a number of edited collections. Her work has been supported by grants from the Folger and Bodleian Libraries, and she is the Katharine Pantzer Senior Fellow in the British Book Trades for 2024-2025, awarded by the Bibliographical Society of America.
SHAPIRO CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE FELLOW
Alison Hirsch, Associate Professor, Architecture, University of Southern California
Topic: The Other California: Land, Loss, Labor, and Liberated Futures Along Phantom Shores
Alison B. Hirsch is a landscape historian and designer. She is Associate Professor in the USC School of Architecture and Director/Founder of the Landscape Justice Initiative. Dr. Hirsch was the 2017-2018 Prince Charitable Trusts/Rolland Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome and directed the Landscape Architecture + Urbanism program at USC from 2019 to 2023. Author of books and publications primarily on urban landscapes and spatial politics, Alison’s fellowship year at the Huntington Library will be focused on a forthcoming book, titled The Other California: land, labor, and liberated futures along phantom shores, that builds on five years of action research in design, planning, and community history work in the Tulare Lake Basin, the lower third of the Great Central Valley. After fourteen atmospheric rivers hit California in March 2023, as another expression of climate whiplash, Tulare Lake remerged, provoking new imaginaries for the future of its existence and the existence of those who call the lake home. Materially and culturally shaped by the geographic condition of this endorheic basin and its disappeared lake that haunts the land by its periodic reemergence, this narrative is a cultural and environmental history of violence and vast inequality created by 150 years of capitalist agriculture, as well as a story of resistance and how land-based practices of insurgent cultural expression have set the foundation for liberated futures. As a landscape historian and landscape designer, Alison will tell this story as a record of human relations to the uniqueness of this physical landscape and a guide on how to support radical change at a pressing moment, as well as provide broader visibility to processes of land loss, structural violence, critical forms of land-based cultural resistance, and methods of repair that have created conditions for the implementation of more just futures.
BARBARA THOM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Christine Garnier, History of Art and Architecture, UC Santa Barbara
Topic: The American Silverscape: Art, Land, and Extraction
Christine Garnier is an art historian of modern and contemporary North America. Her research investigates how objects recalibrate power relations between Indigenous and settler artists to reveal histories of extraction, transcultural circulation, and ecologies throughout the American West. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in the USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities. At the Huntington, Dr. Garnier will continue to revise her first book manuscript, “The American Silverscape: Art, Land, and Extraction (1848–1905).” This project explores how nineteenth-century silver artworks became flashpoints in debates over land use, natural resources, and Indigenous sovereignty in the United States. A range of silver artworks—presentation vases, exposition monuments, peace medals, soup tureens, and squash blossom necklaces—are resituated within place-based histories of extraction to demonstrate how objects relayed Indigenous protest to land seizure. Short essays on contemporary artworks between historical chapters reveal the legacies of extraction that extend far beyond silver’s decorative forms. By focusing on intersecting histories of aesthetics, ecologies, politics, and value, “The American Silverscape” proposes an art history particular to the mineral foundations of the American West.
BARBARA THOM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Laura Nelson, Fellow, Humanities, University of Southern California
Topic: After School: Radical Experiments in Education and Collective Life
Laura Nelson has a Ph.D. in American Studies from Harvard University and a M.St. in Literature from Oxford University, where she studied on a Rhodes Scholarship. At the Huntington, she will be working on a book, After School: Reimagining Education Through Radical Experiments in Study, which looks at histories radical and experimental education. Over the past seven years, Laura has taught courses on literature, film, cultural history, and education at Harvard, Deep Springs College, and Tidelines Institute. Alongside teaching and research, she organizes experimental spaces of gathering and learning in cities and has been a part of collective projects including the Library of Study, the Oakland Summer School, and Place Settings.
BARBARA THOM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Topic: Copying the Colony: The Pintura del gobernador, alcaldes y regidores de México’s Many Editions
Dominique E. Polanco is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. She is an art historian of Indigenous visual and material culture in Abya Yala. She specializes in amoxtli (books or manuscripts) created by Nahua tlacuiloque (artist-scribes) in sixteenth-century New Spain (colonial Mexico). At the Huntington Library, she will complete revisions for her first monograph tentatively titled Copying the Colony: The Pintura del gobernador, alcaldes y regidores de México’s Many Editions. In it she explores the production, collection, display, and reproduction of the Pintura del gobernador, alcaldes y regidores de México that was completed in 1565. She has published in Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture and along with Nicholas R. Jones and Christina H. Lee, Dr. Polanco is co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Race in the Early Modern Artistic, Material, and Visual Production (forthcoming 2025). Her research has been supported by numerous fellowships and institutions, most recently by the Bibliographical Society of America-Pine Tree Foundation of New York and the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. Dr. Polanco earned her PhD in Art History from the University of Arizona and her MA in Art History at UC Riverside. She is thrilled to return to where she was born and raised for her fellowship, on the ancestral lands of the Gabrieleno/Tongva Nation (part of which is now known as the San Gabriel Valley).
OCCIDENTAL/BILLINGTON VISITING PROFESSOR IN U.S. HISTORY
Damon Akins, Professor, History, Guilford College
Topic: Las Californias: A Brief History Beyond the Missions, 1821-54
Damon Akins is Lincoln Financial Professor of History at Guilford College. He writes and teaches about the history of Indigenous People, settler colonialism, California, and the American West. His current book project is a history of Alta and Baja California during the Mexican period which challenges the emphasis historians have often placed on the struggle between the missions and the Californios. Instead, it takes a place-based spatial history approach to attempt to capture the lived experiences of the diverse Indigenous peoples who constituted the vast majority of the people who lived in the Californias at that time. He is the co-author, with William J. Bauer, Jr., of We Are the Land: A History of Native California (California, 2021).
FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION FELLOW IN THE HUNTINGTON-UC PROGRAM FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE HUMANITIES
Alex Mazzaferro, Assistant Professor, English, UCLA
Topic: The Innovation Prohibition and the New Science of Politics in Colonial America
Alexander Mazzaferro is the 2024-2025 Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow in The Huntington-UC Program for the Advancement of the Humanities. He specializes in colonial American and early U.S. literatures, at the intersection of the history of political thought and the history of science. He is currently at work on a book manuscript that rereads New World settler colonialism and the resistance it met in light of the early modern prohibition on innovation, a pejorative seventeenth-century synonym for rebellion and heresy. The book argues that innovation’s increasing allure, within a culture nominally hostile to it, gave rise to a new way of making knowledge about politics: an experiential mode modelled on empirical natural science that was more amenable to improvisation and experiment than prevailing forms of political reasoning. Colonialism helped to transform innovation into a preeminent Western value—but only through a transgressive remaking of existing lifeways and landscapes that gave anticolonial dissidents of various kinds a surprising ethical high ground in the period. While at The Huntington he will also begin researching a second project on the role that key colonizer technologies like books, guns, and compasses played in scripting settler encounters with Native and African people and shaping early ideologies of racial difference. His research has appeared in Early American Literature, J19, and English Language Notes and has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Mellon Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the University of Chicago’s Institute on the Formation of Knowledge.
FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION FELLOW IN THE HUNTINGTON-UC PROGRAM FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE HUMANITIES
Nydia Pineda de Ávila, Assistant Professor, History, UC San Diego
Topic: Creating Celestial and Terrestrial Environments in the Early Californias.
Nydia Pineda de Ávila is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Associate Director of Latin American Studies and core faculty of the Science Studies Program at UC San Diego. Born in Mexico, she studied a BA in French Literature at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and went on to complete a Masters in Research and a PhD in English at Queen Mary, University of London. She was a post-doctoral fellow in Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas (UNAM), and has held fellowships at the Linda Hall Library, Università Ca’ Foscari (Venice, Italy), and the John Carter Brown Library, where she co-curated with Thomas Haddad the digital exhibition Constellations: Reimagining Celestial Histories in the Early Americas. Nydia works at the intersection of the History of Science, History of the Book, and Visual Studies and her research broadly interrogates the gap between practice, theory and representation in images of space and time in early modernity. Her work is informed by the study of historical archives and libraries, as well as through practice-based research including engraving, filmmaking and digital humanities. Nydia is also the initiator and coordinator of the international and interdisciplinary documentary project “American Skies”, with members in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, the U.S, and Italy. As a returning Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow in the UC-Huntington Program for the Advancement of the Humanities, she will fully revise her book manuscript Paper Moons: the Poetics of Selenography in the Seventeenth Century on the changing values of moon maps as visual experiments, technical instruments and commodities in the early phases of the development of the telescope. She will also develop her second book project that engages with celestial environmental perceptions and representations in the early Californias.
Short-Term
Grace Ali, Assistant Professor, Florida State University
El Dorado Undone
One month
Katherine Anania, Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Devour Everything: Hemispheric Art After Agriculture
One month
Francisca Marcela Andrade Lucena, PhD Candidate, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/National Museum
Imagining Black Agencies in Colonia Cuba Through the Abakuá Society
Two months
Elena Aronova, Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara
From Biological Time to Molecular Clock: Biology and Temporal Imagination from Darwin to Chronobiology
Two months
Rachel Bani, Assistant Professor, Converse College
Scottish Gaelic Song and Popular Reaction to the Highland Clearances
One month
Emma Bartel, Lecturer, Sorbonne Université
The Art of Meditation in Early Modern England (1550-1700)
Three months
Daria Berman, PhD Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis
Mosaic Identities, The Portuguese Conversos in Seventeenth-Century Mexico
Five months
Charlotte Biggs, PhD Candidate, UC Riverside
Las Floridianas: Indigenous Resilience, Gendered Power, and Atlantic Mobility. 1763-1784
One month
Chelsea Bouldin, PhD Candidate, Syracuse University
Pink Notebook, Black Interior: Charting Octavia E. Butler’s Cognitive-Self
Two months
Louisa Brandt, PhD Candidate, UC Davis
A Full Measure of Devotion: California’s Exceptional Commitment to the Union During the Civil War
One month
Dannie Brice, PhD Candidate, Duke University
Imperial Grounds: The British Military Occupation of Saint-Domingue, 1789-1798
Two months
Lucy Burns, Associate Professor, UCLA
Flora of America’s Tropic
Two months
Zheming Cai, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
Transnational Exchange of Chinese Garden Epistemologies, Materials, Techniques, and Labor
One month
Alessandra Caputo Jaffe, Assistant Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
Image and Text in Early Colonial Manuscripts: The Construction of the Caribbean and the Amazon
Two months
Genevieve Carpio, Associate Professor, UCLA
Driving Inequity: Autoinsurance, Race, and Redlining in California
Two months
KJ Cerankowski, Associate Professor, Oberlin College,
Well Kept: The Daring Life of Charley Parkhurst (A Queer Gold Rush Story)
Five months
Olivia Chilcote, Assistant Professor, San Diego State University
Cháam Qéchyam: Reclaiming the San Luis Rey Village in California History
Two months
Thibault Clément, Associate Professor, Sorbonne Université
Shoppingtown, SoCal – LA Ethnic Shopping Centers and the Construction of Ethnic Identities
One month
Corrine Collins, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Promotional Recipes and the Rise of Industrial Food in the U.S.
Three months
Jennifer Comerford, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University
Touching Stories: Hands, Orientation, and Responsibility in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Two months
Nicole Cote, PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Water Ways: Flood Mappings in Public Knowledge and Culture
Two months
Alice Crossley, Associate Professor, University of Lincoln
Valentines: Image, Object, Affect and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Ephemera
One month
Alan Dillingham, Associate Professor, Arizona State University
The Last Song: A Story of Family, Dispossession, and Slavery in Indian Territory
Two months
Freddy Dominguez, Associate Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Robert Persons Writes the Counter-Reformation: Polemics, Ideas, and Political Culture during the Wars of Religion
Two months
Alfredo Escudero, PhD Candidate, Florida International University
The Land is the Laboratory: Indigenous Labor, Land Inspections and the Engineering of the Colonial Andes
Three months
Manoel Domingos Farias Rendeiro Neto, PhD Candidate, UC Davis
Imperial Tides in Afro-Indigenous Rivers: Cultivating Place, Race, and Ethnicity in the Atlantic Amazon (1755-1850)
Three months
Sarah French, Research Associate, University of Sussex
The Life and Collections of Lady Annie Brassey (1839-1887): Nineteenth-Century Exhibition Culture and the Birth of a Museum
Two months
Justine Frerichs, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
Unearthing Lithium: Law, History, and Environmental Justice in the U.S. Renewable Energy Transition
One month
Christopher Gair, Lecturer, University of Glasgow
Jack London's The Call of the Wild and The People of the Abyss: a Critical Edition (Oxford UP)
One month
Isabella Galdone, PhD Candidate, Yale University
Interwoven: Painting, Textile Craft and the Haptics of Gender in Victorian Britain
One month
Meredith Gamer, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Taken from Life: Medicine, Art, and the Reproductive Body in Eighteenth-Century Britain
One month
Abigail Gibson, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California
Fearful Land: Managing Terror in the American West, 1820–1920
Two months
Gabriel Groz, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
The Politics of Restoration Fiscal State-Building, 1660-1688
Two months
Ana Guerrero Gallegos, PhD Candidate, Princeton University
‘Unrecognized Citizens’: Undocumented Families and Immigration Politics, 1952 – 2001
One month
Rudy Guevarra, Professor, Arizona State University
In Service of the King: Joaquin Armas, a Mexican Vaquero in Hawaiʻi
One month
B. Jack Hanly, PhD Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Environmental Professionals: Architecture, Regulation, and the American Landscape
One month
Isaac Harrison Louth, PhD Candidate, Princeton University
Counterpoint: Musical Skill and Literary Craft in Post-Reformation England
One month
Fang He, Assistant Professor, Southwest University
“Golden Lilies” Across the Pacific: Bodies and Paradoxes of U.S. Inclusion in Enforcing the Chinese Exclusion Laws
Three months
Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, Associate Professor, Montana State University – Bozeman
Ina Coolbrith: A Mormon Exile
One month
Amanda Hollander, Independent Scholar, Center for Fiction, Brooklyn
Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man Onstage: Archival Material in Conversation with Opera Adaptation
One month
Lynne Horiuchi, Lecturer, UC Berkeley
Excavating the Architecture of the Santa Anita Reception Center and Other Related Topics
Three months
Jessica Horton, Associate Professor, University of Delaware
Fire Oppression: Burning and Weaving in Indigenous California
One month
Gordon Hughes, Associate Professor, Rice University
Seeing Red: Murder, Monstrosity, Law (from Hogarth to Sickert)
Two months
Joshua Iaquinto, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney
Imperfect Parts: The Manuscript Fragment in American Verse, 1840-1900
One month
Jason Irving, PhD Candidate, University of Kent
Sarsaparilla, Syphilis and Slavery in Jamaica - The Politics of Medicinal Plant Knowledge on the Plantation and across the Atlantic World
Two months
Minseok Jang, PhD Candidate, University at Albany (SUNY)
Monopoly and the Professional Class: How Kerosene Shaped the Antitrust Movement Against Standard Oil, 1846-1911
Two months
Leland Jasperse, Fellow, University of Chicago
Anaesthetic Aesthetics: Writing the Cancerous Self
Two months
Jenell Johnson, Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Merchants of Wonder: Reimagining NASA after Apollo
One month
Jeffrey Jones, PhD Candidate, University of Florida
Ancient Obligations: British Imperial Subjecthood and Sovereignty in Belize and the Caribbean Basin, 1763—1862
Four months
Lauren Kelly, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California
Troubled Waters: A Post-1930 Environmental History of the Owens Valley
One month
Sarah Keyes, Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
Citizens in Place: An Environmental History of Women's Suffrage
Two months
Frederick Knight, Professor, Morehouse College
Black Belt Slavery: Land, Law, and Labor in the Deep South
One month
Emily Lampert, PhD Candidate, Rice University
The Virginian Atlantic: Virginia in the Caribbean Imagination during the Age of Amelioration
Two months
You Lan, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Making of Heteronormativity and the Chinese Diaspora in California and Guangdong, 1900s-1940s
One month
Sarah Lancaster, PhD Candidate, University of Nottingham
What then do I love, when I love my God?: Divine Personae and the Human Subject in the Devotional Culture of Late Fourteenth-Century Yorkshire
One month
Ryan Langton, PhD Candidate, Temple University
Negotiating the Endless Mountains: Networked Diplomacy along the Eighteenth-Century Trans-Appalachian Frontier
One month
Chrissy Lau, Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University
Afro-Asian Feminist Solidarities
One month
Edan Lepucki, Independent Scholar
Mesa: A Novel
Two months
Charles Levillain, Professor, Université Paris Cité
William III: The First European
One month
Dwight Lewis, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Butler: On Masculinities and Philosophy
Two months
Joseph Litts, PhD Candidate, Princeton University
Natural Disaster in the Atlantic World: Aesthetics, Delight, and Risk During the Long Eighteenth Century
Two months
Mary Long, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Critical edition of A Trewe Reporte of the Life and Marterdome of Mrs Margarete Clitherowe
One month
Edward Mair, Lecturer, University of York
Primitivism And Abolitionism: Uses and Abuses Of Native Americans In Antislavery Debates, 1830-1860
One month
Alan Malfavon, Assistant Professor, Washington State University
Men of the Leeward Port: Veracruz’s Afro-Descendants in the Making of Mexico
One month
Cole Manley, PhD Candidate, UC Davis
California Maritime History, Race, and Modernity
One month
Alba Menéndez Pereda, PhD Candidate, UCLA
Making and Experiencing Inca Sacredness: The Architecture of the Coricancha from the Inca Empire to the Viceroyalty of Peru
Three months
Piper Milton, PhD Candidate, UC Santa Cruz
Divine Weather: Climate, Evangelization, and the Senses in Colonial Sonora
One month
Chantelle Mitchell, PhD Candidate, University of Denver
Black Women in Science Fiction
One month
Chamara Moore, Assistant Professor, Queen’s College (CUNY)
Black Speculation: Black Imaginaries, Speculative Fiction and other Black Feminist Futures
Two months
David Morales, PhD Candidate, UC Davis
Attending Conquest: Power and Performance in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1820s-1880s
Three months
Rebecca Morrison, PhD Candidate, Queen Mary University of London
Early Dressmakers as Designers: The Nascent Professionalization of Theatrical Costume Makers and Fashionable Dressmakers in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
One month
Patrick Moser, Professor, Drury University
Post World War II California Beach Culture
One month
Marina Moskowitz, Professor, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Seed Exchange: Horticultural Communications in Nineteenth Century America
One month
Aaron Moulton, Associate Professor, Stephen F. Austin State University
A Dominican Dictator in Washington: Rafael Trujillo and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Relations
One month
Johanna Ines Mueller, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
Becoming American in God’s Global Kingdom: Identity, Christian Civilization, and the ‘Heathen’ Other in the Early Foreign Missions Movement
Two months
Ross Nedervelt, Adjunct Faculty, Florida International University
The Border-Seas of a New British Empire: Security, Imperial Reconstitution, and the British Atlantic Islands in the Age of the American Revolution
Two months
Rachel Newman, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California
Anxious Plotting: Fin de Siècle Female-Focused Fiction, Form, and Anxiety
One month
Marissa Nicosia, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Shakespeare in the Kitchen: Investigating mssHM 60413, a Commonplace book with recipes and quotations from Othello
One month
Rosemary O’Day, Professor Emeritus, Open University
Edition of Selection of Temple Family Papers from The Huntington Library, 1638-1697, Volume 1
Three months
Halley O’Malley, Assistant Professor, University of Iowa
A Film History of Her Own: Octavia Butler and the Moving Image
One month
Mark Ocegueda, Assistant Professor, Brown University
Sol y Sombra: Mexicans, Race, and Culture in the Making of San Bernardino and the Inland Empire
One month
Camila Ordorica, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
Mexico’s House of Memory: The Birth of the National General Archive, 1790-1876
One month
Julie Park, Professor, Pennsylvania State University
18th-Century Extra-Illustrated Books and the Art of Writing
One month
Rowan Powell, PhD Candidate, UC Santa Cruz
Trans*planting Empire; Cultivation, Acculturation and Racial Crossings
Two months
Nathaniel Racine, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M International University
Jack London's Geographies: From the Yukon Territory to the Gulf of Mexico
Two months
Haley Rains, PhD Candidate, UC Davis
We Are Not Your Savages: Deconstructing the Myth of the American Frontier through Native American Visual Sovereignty
Two months
Javier Eduardo Ramírez López, PhD Candidate, El Colegio de México
The Great American Bibliographer: The Formation and Dispersion of Henry Wagner's Mexican Collection
Five months
Pilar Ramirez Restrepo, PhD Candidate, UC Santa Barbara
Unraveling the Orinoco's “Labyrinth of Languages”: Linguistic Knowledge and Jesuit Missions in the Margins of the Spanish Empire, 1660-1784
Three months
Natalia Reyes, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
The Form of Brown: Syncopated Race in Late 19th and Early 21st Century American Ethnic Literatures
Two months
Joshua Rhodes, Assistant Professor, Durham University
Agrarian Roots of Capitalism in England, c. 1550-1850
Two months
Claire Richie, PhD Candidate, University of Miami
‘This printing-blood’: Reproductive Materialities in Early Modern English Literature
Two months
Taylor Rose, PhD Candidate, Yale University
Making No Man’s Land: Mining Infrastructure and Military Conquest in Nevada, 1860–1930
One month
Joseph Rosenberg, Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
Undone: Modernism, Failure, and the Aesthetics of Incompletion
One month
Natalie Santizo, Assistant Professor, San Diego State University
Mexican Foodways in the San Gabriel Valley: Racial Formation, Regional Identity, and Placemaking, 1900-1950
Two months
Nicole Seymour, Professor, California State University – Fullerton
The Cal States, Christopher Isherwood, and the Campus Novel
One month
Kimia Shahi, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Uncertain Contours: Coastlines and Visual Knowledge in Nineteenth Century America
Two months
Blake Smith, Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, Sofia Bulgaria
Joseph Hansen and His World
Three months
Giulia Smith, Lecturer, University of Oxford
El Dorado Undone: A Journey from Guyana to the Rest of the World
One month
Jessica Somers, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California
‘Keeping house’ in the British Empire: the Colonial Home in Global Anglophone Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
One month
Cristina Soriano, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Imperial Ruptures: Colonial Experiments in Trinidad During the Age of Revolutions.
Two months
Rachel Stephens, Associate Professor, University of Alabama
Race and Removal: Visualizing Indigeneity, Slavery, and Freedom in the mid-South
Two months
Wojciech Stępień, Assistant Professor, The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice
Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man Onstage: Archival Material in Conversation with Opera Adaptation
One month
Audrey Storm, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California
ThroughLine: Painting Abstraction in the Transpacific Northwest
One month
Hannah Straw, Fellow, University of Warwick & University of Loughborough
Remembering the Restoration: Extra-Illustrated Restoration Histories
Two months
Ianick Takaes de Oliveira, PhD Candidate, Columbia University
A Most Severe Judgment to All Peoples: On the Circulation of Philippe Thomassin’s Last Judgement (1606) in the Early Modern Iberian World
Three months
Damian Taylor, Adjunct Faculty, Oxford University
Constable as a Voyage of Discovery
One month
Laura Voisin George, PhD Candidate, UC Santa Barbara
Becoming Los Angeles, 1835-1882: Its transformation from Ciudad to U.S. Metropolis Through its Buildings and Built Environment
One month
Ashley Walsh, Lecturer, Cardiff University
Loyal Papists? Roman Catholicism and Civil Religion in Ireland, 1778-1801
One month
Morton Wan, PhD Candidate, Cornell University
Hearing the Bubble: Music and the Rise of Finance in the Age of Handel
One month
Christy Wang, Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Bible College
Providence, Prophecy, and Profit: A Case Study of Lucy Hastings’ Interior Spirituality
One month
Madeline White, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford
Systems of Trust, Networks of Knowledge: The Use of Letter Bearers for Scientific Correspondence and Protecting Priority in the Early Royal Society
Two months
Nicole Wood, PhD Candidate, UCLA
Archives as Proxy Data: Studying California's Rainfall Conditions through the Human Record
Five months
Amy Woodson-Boulton, Professor, Loyola Marymount University
Out of Nature: Anthropology, Evolution, and Art in Imperial Britain
Three months
Shinya Yoshida, PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Between an Alien Race and American Citizens: Chinese Americans’ Reactions to Japanese American Incarceration during World War II
One month
Sarita Zaleha, Adjunct Faculty, Scripps College
In the Arroyo Seco
Three months
Maria Zazzarino, PhD Candidate, UC Santa Barbara
Imperial Metabolisms: Literatures of Extraction and the Poetics of Energy in the Caribbean Archipelago
Two months
Yutong Zhan, PhD Candidate, UC Davis
Rice Relations: Indigenous and Chinese Interactions from Hawai'i to California, 1850-1930
One month
ALAN JUTZI FELLOW
Margaretta Frederick, Independent Scholar, Delaware Art Museum
Collected Letters of May Morris
One month
MARY ROBERTSON FELLOW IN TUDOR STUDIES
Lucy Wooding, Fellow and Tutor, University of Oxford
Performances of Faith and Doubt: Elizabethan Drama and the Religion of the People
One month
NEW CHAUCER SOCIETY FELLOW
Charlotte Ross, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford
A Circulation, Transmission, and Reception History of Thomas Hoccleve’s The Regiment of Princes
One month
Joint Fellows
Florida Atlantic University
Katharine Beene, PhD Candidate, University of Connecticut
Women’s Acquisition and Transmission of Knowledge in Early Modern England
Elizabeth Hines, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
Anglo-Dutch Commerce, Religion, and War, 1634-1652
Courtney MacPhee, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
Imperial Apocalypse: Millenarian Visions for the British Atlantic World, c. 1630-1660
North American Conference on British Studies
Courtney MacPhee, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
Imperial Apocalypse: Millenarian Visions for the British Atlantic World, c. 1630-1660
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
Jennifer Topale, PhD Candidate, University of Denver
Exiles, Knowledge, and Power: Utopian and Dystopian Worlds in Early Modern England
Shakespeare Association of America
Yunah Kae, Assistant Professor, College of Charleston
Distinguishing Race: Performing Knowledge in Early Modern Comedy
One month
Western History Association
Kai Werner, PhD Candidate, College of William & Mary
A Thousand Approaches to the Kingdom of New Mexico: Contesting Geographies in the Greater Southwest
One month
EXCHANGE FELLOWS
CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE
From Corpus Christi:
Jesse Lockard, Fellow, Corpus Christi College
Riegl's Pattern Book: Stilfragen, Islamic Art, and the Crafting of Art History
To Corpus Christi:
Shaibal Dev Roy, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California
Radical Transits, Anti-Imperial Networks: South Asian-American Literary Encounters
DURHAM UNIVERSITY
From Durham:
TBD
To Durham:
Tanner Ogle, PhD Candidate, Texas A&M University
The ’45 in 75: Policy, Conspiracy, and Jacobitism in the American Revolution, 1760-1780
JESUS COLLEGE OXFORD
From Jesus:
Camille Gontarek, PhD Candidate, Jesus College
Acoustemological Approaches to Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1650
To Jesus:
Benjamin Card, PhD Candidate, Yale University
Reading for Belief in the Library of Thomas Barlow
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
From Manchester:
TBD
To Manchester:
Janet Hammond, PhD Candidate, George Mason University
Polite Children: Children’s Education in the Early Modern British Atlantic
LINCOLN COLLEGE OXFORD
From Lincoln:
Joseph da Costa, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Lincoln College
Cartography, Humanism, and Formations of Race in Sixteenth Century Portugal
To Lincoln:
Nicole Lobdell, Assistant Professor, Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Stranger than Fiction: The First Biography of Mary Shelley
NEW COLLEGE OXFORD
From New:
Alexander Laar, PhD Candidate, New College
Chancery, the Nobility, and the Reformed Tradition in Early Seventeenth-Century England
To New:
Taylor Prescott, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Cooperation, Contestation, and Identity Formation: A History of Interethnic Exchange in Sierra Leone (1775-1850)
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
From Trinity College Dublin:
Annie Williams, PhD Candidate, Trinity College Dublin
Exploring Reproductive Health in Early Twentieth Century British and Irish Literature
To Trinity College Dublin:
Christopher Gillett, Assistant Professor, University of Scranton
Catholicism and Revolution in the English World, 1625-1673
TRINITY HALL CAMBRIDGE
From Trinity Hall:
Jake Bransgrove, PhD Candidate, Trinity Hall
The Associational World of Sir Joseph Banks: Late-Georgian Social Networks in Action, c. 1760-1820
To Trinity Hall:
Clarissa Chenovick, Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University
“Let My Lips from Kissing Not Remove”: Touch, Taste, and Desire in William Alabaster’s Passion Poetry
TRAVEL GRANTS
Trish Bredar, Fellow, Northwestern University
“A cry of… houselessness”: Unsheltered Voices in the Victorian Press
Carter Jackson, PhD Candidate, Boston University
The Architecture of Britain’s Imperial Institutes and the Misgivings of Empire
Kevan Malone, Fellow, Texas Tech University
Borderline Unsustainable: Urbanization and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary
KC O’Hara, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Faunal Foundations: Entangled Human-Herd Relationships in the Colonial Andes, 1500-1700
Lydia Epp Schmidt, PhD Candidate, University of Kansas
To Be a Dandelion: How Ecologies of Care Refuse Settler Colonialism
Courteney Smith, PhD Candidate, Boston University
Place, Space, and Identity in the Women’s Movement in Britain
AHRC FELLOWS
Jiayao Jiang, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
Southern California and the architectural Americanization in post-war Italy
Three months
Anna McKay, Early Career Fellow, University of Liverpool
‘Global Prisoners of War, 1775-1815' at the Huntington Library
Two months
Shakshi Singh, PhD Candidate, Queen’s University Belfast
Women Building
Three months
Hannah Young, Lecturer, University of Exeter
The Absentee Duchesses: Gender, Family and British Slave-ownership
Three months
Octavia Young, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
Morris & Co. Beyond Morris at The Huntington Library and Art Museum
Three months