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News from the Director of Research
April 2024 - I am delighted to announce the 2024–25 roster of scholars who have been awarded Long-Term Fellowships, Short-Term Fellowships, and Travel Grants. This year’s cohort of Long-Term Fellows features scholars who work across the globe in multiple disciplines, from the late medieval period to the present.
Also in this issue:
- Fellows Exploring Southern California
- Conferences and Lectures
This year, The Huntington has awarded long-term research fellowships to 13 individuals, including (from left) Serena Zabin (Carleton College), Jonathan Hsy (George Washington University), writer and historian Megan Kate Nelson, Susan Amussen (University of California, Merced), Nayan Shah (USC), Alison Hirsch (USC), and Susan Scott Parrish (University of Michigan). | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Welcoming the 2024–25 Huntington Research Fellows
The Huntington annually welcomes approximately 150 long- and short-term research fellows, selected through a competitive, peer-review process that provides $1.4 million in awards. These fellows are among the roughly 2,000 scholars in the fields of history, literature, botanical science, art history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine who come from around the world each year to conduct academic research in The Huntington’s collections.
Fellowships
The Huntington Library awards over 150 research fellowships annually. Applicants for long-term (yearlong) fellowships must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. at the time of application. Short-term fellowships (five months or less) and travel grants/exchange fellowships (for study abroad) are open to both doctoral candidates who have advanced to candidacy (ABD) at the time of the application deadline and to faculty members and other postdoctoral scholars.
Academic Conferences and Lectures
The Huntington hosts academic conferences and lectures every year open to the public. Program details are available approximately two months prior to the conference date on the calendar.
Upcoming and Recorded Events
Awarded Fellowships
Meet the current long-term fellows and learn about their research projects at The Huntington.
R. STANTON AVERY DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
Susan Scott Parrish, Professor, English, University of Michigan The Talking Woods: Black American Life and Its Forest Materials
FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED FELLOW Susan Amussen, Professor, History, UC Merced Placing Patriarchy in Early Modern Britain and its Empire
ROBERT C. RITCHIE DISTINGUISHED FELLOW Serena Zabin, Professor, History, Carleton College American Affections: The Life of Mary Fish Noyes Silliman Dickinson, 1736-1818
ROGERS DISTINGUISHED FELLOW IN 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY Megan Kate Nelson, Writer and Historian, History The Westerners: Creating America’s Most Iconic Region
LOS ANGELES TIMES DISTINGUISHED FELLOW Nayan Shah, Professor, American Studies, University of Southern California Asian American Visual Imagination and Belonging
HANNAH AND RUSSEL KULLY DISTINGUISHED FELLOW IN AMERICAN ART Dr. ShiPu Wang, Professor of Art History and the Coats Family Chair in the Arts at the University of California, Merced
CEDARS SINAI/HUNTINGTON LIBRARY POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW Christin Zurbach, PhD Candidate, History, UC Berkeley Doctoring Society: The Professionalization of Ottoman Medicine
DIBNER RESEARCH FELLOWS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, Brown University Writing the Disabled Self in Early Modern Literature: Petrarch, Montaigne, Cervantes
DIBNER RESEARCH FELLOWS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Jeannie Shinozuka, Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies, Washington State University Model Minority Intelligence: Race, Education & Citizenship, 1910-1965
DANA AND DAVID DORNSIFE FELLOW Cori Tucker-Price, Fellow, Religious Studies, University of Southern California In the Land of Milk and Honey: Democratic Religion and the Forging of Black Resistance in Los Angles, 1903-1953
FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION FELLOW Erik Linstrum, Associate Professor, History, University of Virgina Futurelands: Britain, Europe, and the World at the End of Empire
KEMBLE FELLOW IN MARITIME HISTORY Adam Domby, Associate Professor, History, Auburn University Freedom’s War on the Waters: The Forgotten Story of How African Americans Won the Civil War at Sea and Saved the Union
MELLON FELLOW Patricia Yu, Assistant Professor, History of Art/Architecture, Kenyon College Reproducing the Fragmented Body of the Garden of Perfect Brightness
MOLINA FELLOW IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE & ALLIED SCIENCES Jonathan Hsy, Professor, English, George Washington University Crafty Mobilities: Disability, Life Writing, and a Global Middle Ages
NEH FELLOWS Devoney Looser, Professor, English, Arizona State University 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 Her Books: Women’s Libraries in an Age of Rebellion (1640-1660)
SHAPIRO CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE FELLOW Alison Hirsch, Associate Professor, Architecture, University of Southern California The Other California: Land, Loss, Labor, and Liberated Futures Along Phantom Shores
BARBARA THOM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS Christine Garnier, Fellow, History of Art/Architecture, University of Southern California The American Silverscape: Art, Land, and Extraction
BARBARA THOM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS Laura Nelson, Fellow, Humanities, University of Southern California After School: Radical Experiments in Education and Collective Life
BARBARA THOM POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS Dominique Polanco, Assistant Professor, Religion and Culture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Copying the Colony: The Pintura del gobernadora, alcaldes y regidores de México’s Many Editions Manuscript
OCCIDENTAL/BILLINGTON VISITING PROFESSOR IN U.S. HISTORY Damon Akins, Professor, History, Guilford College Las Californias: A Brief History Beyond the Missions, 1821-54
FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION FELLOW IN THE HUNTINGTON-UC PROGRAM FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE HUMANITIES Alex Mazzaferro, Assistant Professor, English, UCLA The Innovation Prohibition and the New Science of Politics in Colonial America
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 TBD
209 Books Published by Fellows
Huntington fellowships support quality research that advances scholarship in the humanities and makes use of The Huntington’s extensive archival and rare book collections. Since 1995, there have been 209 books published by long-term fellows.