Upcoming Awards

Upcoming Fellowship Awards June 1, 2026 - May 31, 2027

Short-term Research Fellowships

Jeffrey Ahlman: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Africa: History, Theory, and the Politics of Knowledge

Polina Barskova: The Novel of the Displaced Self (1944-1964): Towards the Study of Literature of the Second Wave of Russian Emigration

Kenneth Bilby: A New Look at the Work of a Pioneering Ethnomusicologist: Bringing Helen Heffron Roberts’ “Lost” Book Manuscript to Light

Marc Carpenter: Snake Wars and Civil Wars: Settlers, Soldiers, and Serial Killers in the Mid-1800s American West

Ryan Carr: Selected Writings of Samson Occom

Hayri Dortdivanlioglu: Situated Abstractions: The Jacquard Loom as an Epistemic Model

Rebecca Henson: Springsong Museum Exhibit and Programming Research

Zakhar Ishov: Dangerous Poets: The Case of Natalya Gorbanevskaya and Joseph Brodsky – Poetry as Political Resistance

Matthew Leifheit: Photographs by Lance Loud

Kirsten Macfarlane: American Hebraism 1640-1800

Jordan Modell: The Spirit in the Ink: George MacDonald’s Letters to Ruskin, Carroll, and Twain at the Beinecke Library

Anna Nakai: Translating Early Postwar Dilemma: Revisiting Czesław Miłosz’s The Seizure of Power Through Archival Collections

Jonathan O’Neill: George Cecil Ives and The Order of Chaeronea Heritage Project

So Park: Laurence Binyon on Asian Art

Anthony Petro: A Dedicated Life: Kathryn Hulme’s Twentieth Century

Pritika Pradhan: Modernity’s Marks: Details in Victorian Literature and Modernist Aesthetics

Jillian Rogers: Radio Women: Politics, Trauma, and Technology in 20th-Century France

Sian Round: The Harlem Renaissance and the Southern Tour

Alyssa Sepinwall: What’s Un-American? Antiracist Jews, Hollywood and the Blacklist

Timothy Shannon: “Kill the Indian”: The Carlisle School and Native America

Claire Solomon: Poets, Spies, and the Latin American Boom: How Translation and Tradecraft Shaped World Literature during the Cold War

Melis Taner: Materia Medica on the Move in the Early Modern Mediterranean

György Tóth: Richard Erdoes: A Red Power Ally Biography

Meike Werner: Pantheon Books. Kurt and Helen Wolff’s American Years, 1941/42 to 1959/60

Graduate Student Research Fellowships

Keziah Anderson, Harvard University: Disabled Afro-Indigenous Women’s Lives and Imaginaries in Jim Crow Oklahoma

Claire Aniel-Buchheit, Sorbonne Université: “Yours for Freedom”: The Anarchists’ Defense against the State, 1880-1919, United States, France, Italy, United Kingdom

Juan Cruz Aponiuk, University of Buenos Aires: Of Pneumophantasmology: The Metaphysical Foundations of Giorgio Agamben’s Philosophy

Joshua Baldelomar, University of California, Santa Barbara: Traveling Impressions: Brain Research, Pathologies, and a Media History of the Brain and Mind Sciences, 1885–1955

Christopher Catanese, Duke University: Georgic Ecologies: Nature, Poetry, and Ideology in an Age of Improvement.

Mónica Cerda Campero, Columbia University: Chichimeca: Becoming the Body of Violence (1521–1590)

Michelle Chow, Yale University: Asian/American Ecopoetics and The Papers of Arthur Sze and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge.

Johanna Garzón Córdoba, Brown University: Regiomontanus’s Kalendarium and the Hybridization of Astronomical Knowledge in Late Fifteenth-Century Europe

Lina Gonan, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna: Gianfranco Sanguinetti Papers & Mustapha Khayati Papers.

Lily Hart, University of British Columbia: “Perpetuating” Memory in the Pacific Northwest: Telling History in a Settler Colonial Region, 1880-1930

Meredith Ivey Santaus, Boston University: H.D.’s Materialism: The Nature of Books in and out of POOL

Julia Lückl, University of Vienna: German Creative Writing Workshops in U.S. Re-education Programs (1944–1946) and Their Impact on the Literary Field in Germany

Laura Martin, Southern Methodist University: Divine Intimacy: Sexuality and Spirituality in the Early Modern Hispanic World

Calliope Michail, King’s College, London: “Urging for the Forgiving Margins”: Archival Recovery of Iliassa Sequin’s Work.

Harrison Mmerenu, Texas Tech University: The Farafina Era: Literary Public, Value and Agency in Postcolonial Nigeria Publishing

Fallon Murphy, Boston University: Poetical and Rhetorical Restorations of Black American Archives in the United States, 1940-2010

Sarah Penn, New York University: Ann Lemoine and the Hidden History of Women in Print

Daniel Ramos Matos, Lehigh University: Black Maritime Mobility in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean Borderlands

Gleb Redko, University of Portsmouth: God Save Brutalism: British punk, Situationist Psychogeography, and the Modernist City

Hannah Reynolds, Northwestern University: Gendering Settler Property: Women, Families, and the Political Economy of the Homestead Act, 1850-1910

Mina Rigby-Thompson, London School of Economics and Political Science: Between Two Allies: US Policy Towards Greece and Turkey During the 1974 Cyprus Crisis

Mariana Rodríguez Barreno, University of Oxford: Ruth Stephan and Hemispheric Indigenismo: From Peru to The Tiger’s Eye

Beril Sarısakal Erkent, Columbia University: Ernst Jäckh and the Deutscher Werkbund in the Ottoman Empire, 1907-1918

Eman Selim, Ain Shams University: Study and Investigation of Greek Papyri from the Roman Period

Taylor Thompson, Yale University: Banking Theater and the Choreography of Capital: A Performance History of 19th Century Black Political Economy