Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellowship

Tails of books with marbled paper   A Caleb Loring, Jr. Fellowship is available for research on topics concerning the Confederate States and the Civil War. It offers a stipend of $1,500 for a residency of twenty days and includes a year’s membership to the Boston Athenæum. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals holding the appropriate U.S. government documents. Applications are due by April 15 every year.

Applicants must submit a curriculum vitae and letter of intent describing the proposed project and citing specific materials from the Boston Athenæum’s collections. Graduate students must also include a letter of recommendation from their faculty advisor. Candidates will be notified by May 15.

Mail applications to: Boston Athenæum, 10 ½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108 or email applications to: warnement@bostonathenaeum.org 

Past Recipients of a Calel Loring, Jr. Fellowship

2011-2012 Melissa Strong, assistant professor, Northeastern State University, “Bringing the Hospital Home: The United States Sanitary Commission and the Evolution of Professional Nursing”

2010-2011 Vanessa Steinroetter, Ph.D. candidate, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “Representations of Readers and Scenes of Reading in American Literature of the Civil War”

2009-2010 Daniel Flook, Ph.D. candidate, University of Florida,“Seeking Support from the People.”

2008-2009  Crystal Feimster, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (research project: “Sexual Warfare: Rape during the American Civil War”).

2007-2008 Clay M. Smith, M.F.A. candidate at the University of Chicago, for a performance project recreating and re-evaluating the visual and cultural texture of the lives of Confederates imprisoned in the North.

2006-2007 James K. Hogue (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), "Black Confederates in History and Memory."

2005-2006 Renée L. Bergland (Simmons College), "The Resurrection of John Wise--Mobilization of Ordinary New Englanders in the Revolutionary Movement, 1772-1775."

2004-2005 Coleman Hutchinson (Ph.D. candidate, Northwestern University), to conduct research for his dissertation, “Region, Revision, and the American Civil War Text.”

2003-2004 Daniel Hamilton, for revising for publication his Harvard dissertation “The Limits of Sovereignty:  Legislative Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy.”

2002-2003 Patrick Brennan (Ph.D. candidate, University of Missouri at Columbia), “Fevers and Fists:  Forging and Irish Legacy in New Orleans, 1853-1866.”

2001-2002 No Fellowships offered due to renovation

2000-2001 No Fellowships offered due to renovation

1999-2000 JoAnne Thomas (Doctoral candidate, Western Michigan University), to research popular music of the Civil War era.