Past Recipients of New England Regional Fellowship Consortium
2019-2020
- Emily Clark, Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins University, “Renouncing Motherhood: Women's Sexualities and Labors in Eighteenth-Century New England”
- Amber Hodge, Ph.D. candidate, University of Mississippi, "The Meat of the Gothic: Animality and Social Justice in United States Fiction and Film of the Twenty-First Century
- Matthew Marsh, Ph.D. candidate, University of North Dakota,"Open Source ebook project: Byzantium in the Long Late Antiquity"
- Peter Wirzbicki, Assistant Professor, Princeton University, "The Abolitionist Nation: An Intellectual History of Nation, Democracy, and Race during Reconstruction, 1863-1877"
2018-2019
- Christina Casey, independent scholar, “Lady Governors of the British Empire”
- David Faflik, Associate Professor of English, University of Rhode Island, “Passing Transcendental: Harvard, Heresy, and the Modern American Origins of Unbelief”
- Kate McIntyre, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University, “Maroon Ecologies: Albery Allson Whitman and the Place of Poetry”
- Gwenn Miller, Associate Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross, “’You Will Bring Opium to Canton’: John Perkins Cushing and Boston’s Early China Trade”
- Ian C. Stevenson, Ph.D. candidate, Boston University, “The Summer-Home of the Survivors": The Civil War Vacation in Architecture and Landscape, 1878-1918”
- Kari Winter, Professor, State University of New York, Buffalo, “Fourteenth: Vermont’s Struggle For and Against Democracy, 1775-1875”
2017-2018
- Chris Babits, Ph.D. candidate, University of Texas at Austin, “To Cure a Sinful Nation: A Cultural History of Conversion Therapy and the Making of Modern America, 1930 to the Present Day”
- Laura McCoy, Ph.D. candidate, Northwestern University, “In Distress: Family and a Marketplace of Feeling in the Early American Republic”
- Tyler Sperrazza, Ph.D. candidate, Pennsylvania State University, “Defiant: African American Cultural Responses to Northern White Supremacy, 1865-1915”
- Donald Yacovone, Associate, lifetime, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, "The Liberator's Legacy: Memory, Abolitionism, and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1865-1965”
2016-2017
• Louis Gerdelan, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University, "Calamitous Knowledge: Understanding Disaster in the British, Spanish, and French Atlantic Worlds, 1666-1755"
• Jonathan Lande, Ph.D. candidate, Brown University, "Disciplining Freedom: Union Army Slave Rebels and Emancipation in the Civil War Courts-Martial"
• Rachel Miller, Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan, "Capital Entertainment: Creative Labor and the Modern Stage, 1860-1930"
• Alexandra Montgomery, Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania, "Projecting Power in the Dawnland: Colonization Schemes, Imperial Failure, and Competing Visions of the Gulf of Maine World, 1710-1800"
2015-2016
- Amy Sopcak-Joseph, Ph.D. candidate, University of Connecticut, "The Lives and Times of Godey's Lady's Book, 1830-1877"
- Emily Torbert, Ph.D. candidate, University of Delaware, "Going Places: The Material and Imagined Geographies of Prints in the Atlantic World, 1770–1840"
2014-2015
- Christina Groeger, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University, "Paths to Work: The Rise of Credentials in American Society 18-70-1940"
- Rachel Trocchio, Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Berkley, "The Partisan Sublime"
- Sean Moore, Associate Professor of English, University of New Hampshire, "Slavery and the Making of the Early American Library: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade"
2013-2014
- Anna Bonewitz, Ph.D. Candidate, University of York (UK), "Fashioning the British Empire: Fashion, Imagery and Colonial Exchange in Eighteenth-Century New England"
- Marian Desrosiers, Adjunct Professor, Salve Regina University, "John Banister and the Influence of a Colonial Newport Merchant on the Economy of Pre-Revolutionary America"
- Russell Fehr, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Riverside, "Anxious Electorate: City Politics in Mid-1920s America"
- Ashley Smith, Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell University, "'We Have Never Not Been Here': Place, History, and Belonging in Native New England"
2012-2013
- Justin Clark, Ph.D. candidate, University of Southern California, “Training the Eyes: Romantic Vision and Class Formation in Boston, 1830-1870”
- Jared Hardesty, Ph.D. candidate, Boston College, “The Origins of Black Boston”
- Allison Lange, Ph.D. candidate, Brandeis University, “Pictures of Change: Transformative Images of Woman Suffrage, 1776-1920”
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.”<.li>
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, Columbia University, “Great Expectations: Free Trade Family Values, and the Culture of Early American Capitalism, 1782-1891”
- Kanisorn Kid Wongsrichanalai, Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia 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"L/li>
- 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