Long-Term Fellowships
Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American Art History
Samuel Truett
Associate Professor of History, University of New Mexico
Old New Worlds: Ruins, Borderlands, and Empire in America
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows in the Humanities
Renzo Baldasso
Independent Scholar
Erhard Ratdolt and the Visual Dimension of Early Printed Books
Natalie Rothman
Assistant Professor of History, University of Toronto
The Dragoman Renaissance: Venetian-Ottoman Diplomatic Interpreters in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Monticello College Foundation Fellow
Kristin Huffine
Assistant Professor of History, Northern Illinois University
Producing Christians for Half-Men and Beasts: Jesuit Ethnography and Guarani’ Response in the Colonial Paraguayan Missions, 1609-1790
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows
Holly Crawford Pickett
Assistant Professor of English, Washington and Lee University
The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England
Edward Muir
Professor of History, Northwestern University
The Unkowns: Skepticism in Early Modern Venice
Carmen Nocentelli
Assistant Professor of English, University of New Mexico
Islands of Love: Race, Sexuality, and the Euro-Asian Encounter
Terra Foundation for American Art Fellow in American Art History
Sarah Burns
Professor of History of Art, Indiana University
Looking into the Shadows of the Modern
Long-Term Faculty Fellowships
Associated Colleges of the Midwest Faculty Fellows
Ellen Joyce
Associate Professor of History, Beloit College
Community and Memory: Texts, Images and Monuments
Hannah Schell
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Monmouth College
Community and Memory: Texts, Images and Monuments
Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar Faculty Fellows
New Nation/New Culture: the United States in the Age of the Early Republic, 1770-1850
Diane Dillon
Assistant Director of Research and Education, Newberry Library
Larry Howe
Associate Professor of English, Roosevelt University
Short-Term Fellowships
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Lauren Clay
Assistant Professor of History, Texas A&M University
The Culture of Commerce in Eighteenth-Century France
Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Fellow
Rita Costa-Gomes
Assistant Professor of History, Towson University
A Lost City: Ribeira Grande (Santiago) before Drake’s Conquest
Committee on Institutional Cooperation Graduate Student Fellows
Anne Peterson
Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of Iowa
The Rhetoric of Sovereignty in Native American Periodicals, 1828-1917
Erik Redix
Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Minnesota
Sovereignty under Attack: The History of the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation, 1854-1923
Frances C. Allen Fellow
Danica Sterud
Ph.D. Candidate in English, Fordham University
D’Arcy McNickle adn the (Post)Colonial State of Indian Country
Institute for the International Education of Students Faculty Fellow
Josep Grau
Professor of History, IES Barcelona and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
American Sources on Contemporary Spain
Irina Podgorny
Professor of History, CONICET—Museo de la Plata
Elephants, Archaeologists, and Engineers: A Research Project on Jean Frederic Waldeck’s Manuscripts and Drawings Stored in the Ayer Collections of the Newberry Library
Lester J. Cappon Fellow in Documentary Editing
Brian Dolinar
Lecturer in English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Negro in Illinois
Midwest Modern Language Association Fellow
Manushag Powell
Assistant Professor of English, Purdue University
The Performance of Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals
Newberry Library Short-Term Resident Fellows
Andrea Giaime Alonge
Associate Professor of Art History, University of Turin
Writing in the Water: Ben Hecht and the Craft of Scriptwriting in Classical Hollywood
David Beck
Professor History, University of Montana
American Indians in Chicago before World War II
Michael Benedict
Professor of History, Ohio State University
The Favored Hour: The Constitutional Politics of Reconstruction, 1865-1896
Peter Bennett
Assistant Professor of Music, Case Western Reserve University
The Cult of Saint Denis during the Reign of Louis XXIII
Giles Bergel
Lecturer in English, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Influence of Kimball and Stone’s Chap Book on Modernist Magazines
Mark Blackwell
Associate Professor of English, University of Hartford
Personable Properties: It-Narrative, the Novel, and the British Traffic in Identity, 1740-1815
Rebecca Boone
Assistant Professor of History, Lamar University
The Renaissance in the Cabinet: Politics as a Private Matter in Early Modern Europe
Costica Bradatan
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Texas Tech University
“To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die”: Philosophy and Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe
Tobias Brinkmann
Lecturer in History, University of Southampton
Sundays at Sinai: A History of an Urban Jewish Congregation, Chicago Sinai Congregation, 1861-2000
Michael Catto
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute Italiano Scienze Umane
Jesuits in China: Syncretism and Accommodatio
Michael Cox
Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of California, Riverside
The Sandusky Wyandots: A Persistent People, 1795-1843
Deniz Ertan
Leverhulme Research Fellow, University of Nottingham
Bearing News, Born Music: The Making of Musical Modernism in the U.S., 1908-27
Christine Ferdinand
Fellow Librarian, Magdalen College, University of Oxford
The Economics of the Book Trade in Eighteenth-Century England
Linda Frey and Marsha Frey
Professor of History, University of Montana; Professor of History, University of Kansas
Culture of French Revolutionary Diplomacy
Susan Gaylard
Assistant Professor of Italian, University of Washington
Material Men: Public Image and Authority in Early Modern Italy
Carolyn Gilman
Special Projects Historian, Missouri Historical Society
The American Revolution in the West
Kenneth Gouwens
Associate Professor of History, University of Connecticut
Human Exceptionalism in the Renaissance
Kimberly Hossain
Assistant Professor of History, Western Washington University
Spanish Inquisition and an Orthodox Republic of Letters
Laura Johnson
Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Delaware
Cloth as Metaphor in the Early American Atlantic World, 1550-1750
Amelia Katanski
Assistant Professor of English, Kalamazoo College
Writing the Living Law: American Indian Literature as Law
Jean-Francois Lozier
Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Toronto
In Each Others’ Arms: The St. Lawrence Mission Villages and France at War, 1630-1760
Stephen Martin
Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Oklahoma
Native Diaspora: Shawnee and Delaware Communities in the Mississippi Valley, 1779-1825
Susan Vida Muse
Ph.D. Candidate in English, Marquette University
Passion, Politics, Money, and Virtue: Eliza Haywood in Historical Context
Monique O’Connell
Assistant Professor of History, Wake Forest University
Renaissance Republicanism and Venetian Empire
Chris Parsons
Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Toronto
Plants and Peoples in French North America
Dawn Peterson
Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies, New York University
Unusual Sympathies: Race, Family, and Servitude in Jacksonian Politics
Carmen Ripolles
Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Constructing the Artistic Subject in Golden Age Spain
Yael Sela
Ph.D. Candidate in Music, St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford
Music, Women, and Domesticity in Early Modern England
Marco Sioli
Professor of History, University of Milan
Indians as Pirates: Barbarity in the Age of Lewis and Clark
Jessica Straley
Assistant Professor of English, University of Utah
How the Child Lost Its Tail: Evolutionary Theory, Victorian Pedagogy, and the Development of Children’s Literature, 1860-1920
Ruth Watson
Doctoral Studies Programme Leader, Fine Arts, University of Auckland
A Heart-Shaped World: Codiform Maps of the Sixteenth Century
Northeast Modern Language Association Fellow
Mary Beth Winn
Professor of French Studies, State University of New York at Albany
The Editions of Anthoine Verard (1485-c.-1512): Census and Study
Poetry Foundation/Newberry Library Fellows in American Poetry
David Krump
Adjunct Literature and Composition Instructor, Viterbo University
The Livelong Day: Poems
Kimberly Lojek
M.S. Candidate in Historic Preservation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Plan of Chicago
Short-Term Fellows in the History of Cartography
Ted Mitchell
Ph.D. Candidate in History, Michigan State University
Connecting a Nation, Dividing a City: How Railway Development Shaped Urban Space and Affected People in Nineteenth-Century Chicago
Molly Robey
Ph.D. Candidate in English, Rice University
Sacred Geographies: Religion, Race, and the Holy Land in American Literature, 1819-1920
Andrew Sturtevant
Ph.D. Candidate in History, College of William and Mary
Onontio’s Children: French Detroit’s Native Population, 1701-1763
Susan Kelly Power and Helen Hornbeck Tanner Fellow
Erik Redix
Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Minnesota
Sovereignty under Attack: The History of the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation, 1854-1923
Special Awards and Fellowships
British Academy Exchange Fellows
Kathryn Gucer
Lecturer in English, Northwestern University
Revolution across the Channel
Daniel Terkla
Professor of English, Illinois Wesleyan University
The Hereford Mappa Mundi: Placement, Reception, and Perception
École des Chartes Exchange Fellow
Sarah Smith
Lecturer in History, Indiana University
Inventing Natural Magic: Ethnography of Popular Belief, Scholasticism, and the Occult in William of Auvergne
Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbutten Fellow
Mary Beth Winn
Profesor of French Studies, State University of New York at Albany
The Editions of Anthoine Verard (1485 c.-1512): Census and Study
Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award
Suzanne Cusick
Associate Professor of Music, New York University
Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power
Shelley Perlove
Professor of Art History, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Larry Silver
Professor of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Rembrandt’s Faith: Church and Temple in the Dutch Golden Age