American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship

The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship is offered in conjunction with the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies to use the Boston Athenæum’s holdings relevant to the 18th century and comes with 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. This fellowship requires membership in the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/ 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 an ASECS Fellowship

2011-2012 Susan Wager, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University, “Madame de Pompadour's Indiscreet Jewels: Reproduction, Luxury Consumption, and the Construction of Self in Eighteenth-Century France”

2010-2011 Laura Adderley, professor, Tulane University, “The Routine ‘Horrors’ of Slave Ship Rape: Interpreting Sexual Violence in the Atlantic Slave Trade”

2009-2010   Brooke Barbier, instructor, Stonehill College, “Daughters of Liberty: Young Women’s Culture in Early National Boston.”

2008-2009   Andrew M. Wehrman, Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University, for his dissertation research “Sore Spots: Disease, Empire and Revolution in Salem and Marblehead, Massachusetts.”

2007-2008 Dr. Jeremy Gregory of the University of Manchester (England) for his book project, “Refashioning Puritan New England:  The Church of England and Religious Identity in Colonial North America, ca. 1680-ca. 1780.”

2006-2007 Thomas E. Conroy (Stonehill College), "Patronage, Party, and Plaster: The Building of Federal Boston."

2005-2006  Caroline Breashears (St. Lawrence University),project on memoirs of unconventional women in the long eighteenth century, 1660-1830 .

2004-2005 Chernoh M. Sesay, Jr. (Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University), to work on his dissertation, “’all things are changeable’:  The World of Prince and Hall and the Development of Black Atlantic Identities, 1760-1820.”

2003-2004 Martha Elena Rojas (Sweet Brian College) for revising for publication her Stanford dissertation “Diplomatic Letters:  The Conduct and Culture of U.S. Foreign Affairs in the Early Republic.”