New England Regional Fellowship Consortium

Tails of books with marbled paper   The Boston Athenæum also participates in the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, a collaboration of seventeen major cultural institutions. 

Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals holding the appropriate U.S. government documents.

Please see the Massachusetts Historical Society’s website for more information and for the application process: http://www.masshist.org/fellowships/nerfc.cfm

 Past Recipients of New England Regional Fellowship Consortium

2011-2012

  • Mazie Harris, Ph.D. candidate, Brown University, “Photography and American Property Law in the 1850s”
  • Robyn McMillin, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, “Science in the American Style, 1680-1815: A School of Fashion and Philosophy, of Liberty and People”

2010-2011 Hayley Glaholt, Ph.D. candidate, Northwestern University, “’Reversing the Chivalry of Christ’: Quaker Women Challenge the ‘Species Line’ of Pacifist Ethics”

2009-2010

  • Sean Harvey, Ph.D. candidate, College of William and Mary, “American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty;"
  • Whitney Martinko, Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia, “Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860;"
  • Amber Moulton-Wiseman, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University, “Marriage Extraordinary: Interracial Marriage and the Politics of Family in Antebellum Massachusetts;”
  • John Wong, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University, “Global Positioning: China Trade and the Hong Merchants of the 18th and 19th Centuries.”

2008-2009

  • James Revell Carr (Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) who is continuing his research for a book titled Hawaiian Music and Dance in New England, 1802-1862
  • Daniel W. Hamilton, Assistant Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, for his project “Emancipation and the Law: Litigating Human Property in the Civil War and Reconstruction,” 
  • Christine N. Reiser, Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Brown University (dissertation: “Rooted in Movement: Community Keeping in 18th  and 19th Century Native Southern New England”).

 2007-2008

  • Rachel Tamar Van, Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University (dissertation, “Great Expectations:  Free Trade Family Values, and the Culture of Early American Capitalism, 1782-1891”).
  • Kanisorn (Kid Wongsrichanalai, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia (dissertation, New England’s Elite:  Young Northerners in the Civil War Era”).

2006-2007

  • Elise M. Ciregna (University of Delaware)"Ornamental Stonework in America, 1780-1850."
  • Margaret A. Lowe (Bridgewater State College), "'Why Must I Be the Only Woman to  Lose my Birthright?' Gender and Modernity in Upper-Class Twentieth Century American Life."
  • Eric C. Stoykovich (University of Virginia), "Live Stock Nation: How Farm Animals Domesticated the Northern United States During the Early Republic, 1794-1876."
  • Lisa M. Tetrault (Carnegie Mellon University), "Memory of a Movement: Re-Imagining Woman Suffrage in Reconstruction America, 1865-1890."

 2005-2006

  • Glenn Grasso (University of New Hampshire), "Fixed in Ocean Reveries:" Antimodernism, the Colonial Revivial, and the Refinement of the Maritime Past."
  • Kimberley A. Hamlin (University of Texas, Austin), "Beyond Adam's Rib: The Impact of Darwin and Evolutionary Discourse on Gender and Feminist Thought, 1870-1925."
  • Marina Moskowitz (University of Glasgow), "Seed Money: The Economies of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America."
  • Katherine Stebbins-McCaffrey (Boston University), "Reading Glasses: American Spectacles from BEnjamin Franklin's Bifocals to the Tillyer Lens."
  • Wendy Warren (Yale University), "African Slavery in New England, 1638-1700."

2004-2005

  • Beverley K. Brandt (Professor, School of Design, College of Architecture and Design, Arizona State).  “The Craftsman and the Critic:  Defining Usefulness and Beauty in Turn-of-the-Century Boston.”
  • Phyllis B. Cole (Professor of English, American Studies, and Women’s Studies, Penn State Delaware County).  “Literary Feminism in Nineteenth-Century New England.
  • Heather Miyano Kopelson (Research Associate, Department of History, University of Vermont, and Ph.D. candidate, University of Iowa).  “Performing Faith:  Religious Practice and Identity in the Puritan Atlantic, 1660-1720.”
  • Amanda Moniz (Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan).  “’Labours in the Cause of Humanity in Every Part of the Globe’:  Transatlantic Philanthropic Collaboration and the Cosmopolitan Ideal, 1760-1815.”

2002-2003

  • Sally E. Hadden (Assistant Professor, Florida State University), “Legal Cultures in an Early American City:  Boston.”
  • Karen L. Jessup (Ph.D. candidate, The Centre for Conservation Studies, DeMountfort University, U.K.), “Searching for the Past:  The New England Domestic Landscape of 1876 to 1917, and the Influence of the British Idyll.”
  • Stephen A. Mihm (Ph.D. candidate, New York University), “Making Money:  Bank Notes, Counterfeiting, and Confidence, 1789-1877.”
  • David Montejano (Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California at Berkeley), “A Red Badge of Cotton?  On the Circulation of Southern Cotton During the American Civil War.

2001-2002 No Fellowships Offered due to Renovation

2000-2001 No Fellowships Offered due to Renovation