Upcoming Awards

Upcoming Fellowship Awards June 1, 2025 - May 31, 2026

Walter O. Evans Fellowship for the Study of Slavery or Race

Shelby Sinclair: “Your Daughters Martyred”: Black Women Workers and the U.S. Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934

Short-term Research Fellowships

Younes Ajoun: Hanbalism and the Turn toward Rationalism in Islam

Rodrigo Cacho: Poets of the New World: Literary Communities in Early Modern Spanish America

Sara Doan: Visualizing Pandemics: Disease Charts across Four Epidemics

Christopher Gillett: Catholicism and Revolution in the British World, 1630-1673

Angela Hudson: Western American Indians in the Jim Crow South

Angelika Joseph: Red Power Takeover: Native American Activists, Colonial Landscapes, and the Design of Sovereignty

Yakov Klots: The Fifth Wave: A Century of Russian Culture and Opposition Abroad

Laura Kolb: Women’s Tricks: Gender, Power, and Dissimulation in Early Modern England

Lionel Larré: History of Native American Intellectual Activism

Weishun Lu: Seed Time: Asian American and Indigenous Poetics in the US Southwest

Dipanjan Maitra: “Mechanically Alert”: The Press-Cutting Agency as a Modernist Institution

Barry Nevin: Gender, Class and the Erotic Gaze in the Films of Marc Allégret

Janice Nimura: Knowing Her Place: Rachel Carson and the Women Who Came Before Her

Anna O’Meara: “Machines with Human Faces”: The Strasbourg Scandal as Resistance to Technocracy, 1965-1968

Hunter Plummer: Building Community in the Work of Harvey Fierstein

Iain Quinn: Complete Sacred Choral Music of Horatio Parker - Critical Edition

Ryan Quintana: “We Do Not Want to be Slaves”: Empire and Development in the Age of Emancipation

Nathan Reeves: Musicians in Carceral, Military, and Punitive Spaces of the Early Modern Mediterranean in the Beinecke Library

Lisa Sammut: A Circular Logic: The Shape of Time in Medieval Cosmic Imagery

Ignacio Sánchez: Ink in the Margins: Tracts and Notes on Ink Manufacture in Landberg MSS 379

Wallace Teska: Yerkes in Guinea: French Colonialism, Race Science, and the Birth of American Primatology

Aaron Andrew Valdez: From Seed to Resurgence: Xinatchli’s Creative Role in Coahuiltecan Retribalization

Fabián R. Vega: Jesuit Print Culture, Indigenous Languages, and the Circulation of Knowledge in South America

Graduate Student Research Fellowships

Sarah Baber, University of Notre Dame: Musical Misfires: Harmony and Distortion in Early Modern England

Amy Barenboim, Columbia University: Shadow Internationalisms: African Diasporic Literature and the “Jewish Question”

Killian Beashel, University College London: Artists’ Books and Artists’ Publishing in Ireland, 1987-2022: Aesthetics, Networks and Economics

Tessa Bolsover, Duke University: The Acoustic Palimpsests of H.D. and Susan Howe

Tyler Campbell, Yale University: Unveiling the Radical Black Poetics: Tracing Black Poetry Movements from the 1970s to the Early 2000s

Sebastián Eddowes-Vargas, Yale University: The Theater in the Americas Festival (1979)

Mia Gonan, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna: Gianfranco Sanguinetti Papers

Mich Ling, Rutgers University: Race for the Pacific: Networks of Japanese and U.S. Settler Colonialism in the 19th Century

Jason Lipeles, University of Denver: Drafts, Correspondences, and Diaries: Koestenbaum’s Emotional and Intellectual Life as a Queer Jewish Writer During the AIDS Crisis

Angeliki Megariti, Trinity College Dublin: Reading with Hands and Eyes: Tracing Children’s Interaction with Books across Continents

Ryan Metz, Ohio State University: Destination Havana: The Making and Shaping of a Popular U.S.-Cuba Diplomacy, 1979-2001

Boshra Moossavi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Perception of Heritage in Nineteenth-Century Iran: The Other Narrative

Allison Morgan, Yale University: Draping the Diva: The Evolution of Operatic Costume Design from the 17th Century to the Present

Esra Nalbant, Binghamton University: Illuminating the Uncharted Waters: Hydrography Practice and Lighthouse Building in Nineteenth Century

Rosalind Rothwell, Duke University: Intoxicating Things: Global Material Culture on British and French Coromandel, 1670-1757

Avni Sejpal, University of Pennsylvania: Forms of Entropy: Afro-Asian Literary Internationalism after Bandung

Tugba Silahtar Subasi, Brandeis University: Where the City Begins: Walls, Access, and Urban Mobility in Fifteenth-Sixteenth Century Constantinople

Connor Spencer, Columbia University: Doll Genealogies: Trans Feminine Subjectivities and Border Tensions, Past and Present

Jamin Stortz, Warren Wilson College: The Pacific Stories: Creating Interconnected Short Fiction Across Time and Place

Irene Van Eldere, Leiden University: Middle Dutch Books of Hours in the Beinecke Library: Tracing Production and Reception

Dennis Webster, Dartmouth College: Segregation’s Canopy: Trees and the Making of Inequality in Johannesburg, South Africa

Allison Westerfield, University of Florida: Queen of Pentacles: Women Surrealists & the Tarot of Pamela Colman Smith

Emily White, Florida State University: Visual Surgery: Printing Reproductions in Early Modern Europe