Current Fellows

2011-2012 Boston Athenæum Research Fellowship Recipients

Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship: Kim Beil, Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Irvine, “Illustrating Contingency: Photographic Reproductions of Art and Film"

Caleb Loring, Jr., Fellowship: Melissa Strong, assistant professor, Northeaster State University, "Bringing the Hospital Home: The United States Sanitary Commission and the Evolution of Professional Nursing" 

The Mudge Teacher Fellowships:

• Karen Crounse, teacher, Codman Academy Charter School, "Using Astronomy for Expeditionary Learning in High School Math"
• Deanna Gallagher, teacher, New School of Boston, "Using Historic New England Maps to Teach Argumentative Writing"

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Susan Wager, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University, "Madame de Pompadour's Indiscreet Jewels: Reproduction, Luxury Consumption, and the Construction of Self in Eighteenth-Centuyr France"

The Washington College Fellowship in Early American History: Alan Pell Crawford, independent scholar, "The Personal Library ofGeorge Washington"

The American Congregational Association-Boston Athenæum Fellowship: Richard Boles, Ph.D. candidate, George Washington University, "Divided Faiths: The Rise of Segregated Northern Churches, 1730-1850"

The Suzanne and Caleb Loring Research Fellowship (Jointly with the Massachusetts Historical Society): Jordan Watkins, Ph.D. candidate, University of Las Vegas, "The Place of the Past in the American Civil War"

The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium: 

• 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