2018-19

Newberry Long-Term Fellows

Katherine Bank
Early Career Researcher
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
A New Fa-La: Musical Meaning in Early Modern English Non-Lexical Vocables

Jodi Bilinkoff
Professor of History at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
John of the Cross (1542-1591): The History, Mystery, and Memory of a Spanish Saint

Christine DeLucia
Associate Professor, History at Mount Holyoke College
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Monticello College Foundation Fellow
The Itineraries: Seasons of History in the Native Northeast and Ezra Stiles’ New England

Jamie Forde
Curatorial Assistant, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
Ruination and Renewal: The Lives and Afterlives of Sacred Space at San Miguel Achiutla

Christine Göttler
Professor Emerita of Art History at University of Bern, Institute of Art History
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Gold in a Golden Age: Imaginaries of a Metal in Netherlandish Art, c. 1600

Carmen Hsu
Associate Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
National Endowment for the Humanities and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow
Asia in the Making of Early Modern Spain

Doug Kiel
Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University
Newberry Consortium for American Indian Studies Faculty Fellow
Unsettling Territory: Oneida Indian Resurgence and Anti-Sovereignty Backlash

Anne Koenig
Independent Scholar, History
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
Flesh and Blood: The Body and Popular Health in Late Medieval Germany

Cynthia Nazarian
Associate Professor, French and Italian Literature at Northwestern University
Monticello College Foundation Fellow
Violent Sympathies: Literature, Sovereignty and the Hazards of Fellow Feeling

Brian O’Camb
Associate Professor of Literature at Indiana University Northwest
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
Scribes, Proverbs, and the Making of Early English Poetry

Iain Quinn
Assistant Professor of Organ and Coordinator of Sacred Music at College of Music at Florida State University
Rudolph Ganz Fellow
Rudolph Ganz – Communicating with an Audience

Tatiana Seijas
Associate Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
First Routes: Indigenous Trade and Travel in Early North America

Newberry Short-Term Fellows

Benjamin Benus
Assistant Professor of Art History at Loyola University, New Orleans
Arthur and Janet Holzheimer Fellow in the History of Cartography
Mapping the Modern World: Atlas Design at Container Corporation of America

Scott Berthelette
PhD Candidate in History at the University of Saskatchewan
Newberry Library-Jack Miller Center Fellow
Between Sovereignty and Statecraft: New France and the Contest for the Hudson Bay Watershed, 1663-1774

Anne Boemler
PhD Candidate in Literature at Northwestern University
Lawrence Lipking Fellow at the Newberry
Sion’s Muse: Literary Communities in Renaissance Devotional Verse

Wouter Wim Elie Bracke
Professor of Classics at the Université libre de Bruxelles – Royal Library of Belgium – Accademia Belgica
Charles Montgomery Gray Fellow
Tamquam penicillo picta: Erycius Puteanus and the Relationship between Text and Image in the Early modern period.

Molly Brookfield
PhD Candidate in History and Women’s Studies at University of Michigan
Newberry Library Short-Term Fellow
Watching the Girls Go By: Citizenship and Sexual Harassment in the American Street, 1850-1980

Camden Burd
PhD Candidate in History at the University of Rochester
Newberry Library-American Society for Environmental History Fellow
The Ornament of Empire: Nurserymen and the Making of the American Landscape

Tony Burroughs
Genealogist, FUGA (Fellow Utah Genealogical Association)
Arthur and Lila Weinberg for Independent Researchers Fellow
Slave Schedule Study

Margaret Butler
Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Florida
Newberry Library-American Musicological Society Fellow
The Operatic Prima Donna and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1790

Zainab Cheema
PhD Candidate in Literature at the University of Texas at Austin
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium Graduate Student Fellow
Anglo-Spanish Marriage in Renaissance Romance: Examining Circulations of Maurophilia in England and Spain’s Nation-Formation, 1603-1625

Edwina Christie
Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
Charles Montgomery Gray Fellow
Reading Seventeenth-Century Romance

Owen Clayton
Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Lincoln
Newberry Short-Term Resident Fellow for Individual Research
T Bone Slim’s Radical Satire

Daniela D’Eugenio
Senior Lecturer, Literature in Vanderbilt University
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium Faculty Fellow
Didactic Visualization of Proverbs: A Study of Proverbial Expressions in Italian Poetry and Calligraphy at the Newberry Library

Scott de Groot
Post-doctoral Scholar in History at the University of Winnipeg
Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Faculty Fellow
Historicizing Niizh Manidoowag: Two-Spirit as a Concept, Identity, and Decolonization Project

Margaret Flood
PhD Candidate in History at the University of Minnesota
Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Student Fellow
Plants, Health, and Power: Narratives of Medicine in Ojibwe Country, 1825-1930

Balraj Gill
PhD Candidate in American Studies at Harvard University
Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Student Fellow
The Politics of Confinement: Indigenous Homelands, Imperial Duress, and Incarceration in the Deep North Borderlands

Niccoló Guasti
Assistant Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Foggia
Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois Fellow
The Jesuit Missions in New France between Reality and Representation

Jessica Herzogenrath
Grant Proposal Developer, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at Sam Houston State University
John S. Aubrey Fellow
The Doyenne of Chicago Dance: Ann Barzel as Champion, Collector, and Critic

Eric Hupe
PhD Candidate in Art History at the University of Virginia
The Renaissance Society of America/Kress Foundation Fellow
The Franciscan Theology of Light and Venetian Painting of the Late-Fifteenth Century

Billie Kingfisher, Jr.
Independent Scholar in History
Susan Kelly Power and Helen Hornbeck Tanner Fellow
Voices of the Four Bands: A Oral History of the Cheyenne River Reservation

Georgi Kyorlenski
PhD Candidate in Archeology at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles
Newberry Short-Term Resident Fellow for Individual Research
Huascar: Remembering the Final Inca Ruler and His Lasting Impact

Lucie Kyrova
Assistant Professor of North American Studies at Charles University (Prague)
Newberry Short-Term Resident Fellow for Individual Research
“The Right to Think for Themselves”: Native American Transnationalism and Intellectual Sovereignty in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

Julia Lillie
PhD Candidate in Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Culture at Bard Graduate Center
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Student Fellow
Taking Refuge in Print: Exiled Protestant Engravers from the Netherlands in Cologne and the Circle of Johannes Bussemacher, 1585-1615

Giorgio Lizzul
Research Fellow in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Italian Studies at the University of Warwick
Charles Montgomery Gray Fellow
The Cronaca Veneziana (Newberry F. 87.1) and Economic Thought in Fifteenth-Century

Aaron Luedtke
PhD Candidate in History at the Michigan State University
Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Student Fellow
White Cities in the Red Forest: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Peoples in the Creation of Chicago and Toronto

Eric MacPhail
Professor of French at Indiana University Bloomington
Midwest Modern Language Association Fellow
No Word for God

Lindsay Marshall
PhD Candidate in History at the University of Oklahoma
Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Student Fellow
Teaching Us to Forget: American History Textbooks, the Plains Wars, and Public Memory

Meredith McCoy
PhD Candidate in American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Frances C. Allen Fellow
Serving Students in Motion: Indian Education during Relocation

Jennifer Park
Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Charles Montgomery Gray Fellow
Cartographic Games: Visualizing World-Division in Seventeenth-Century English Geographical Playing Cards

Antonia Perna
PhD Candidate in History at Durham University
The John Rylands Research Institute Exchange Fellow
Childhood, Politics and Patriotism in Revolutionary France, 1789-99

Benjamin Pohl
Associate Lecturer of History at the University of Bristol
Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Faculty Fellow
Making History: Medieval Monasteries as Centers of History

Pranav Prakash
PhD Candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Iowa
Newberry Library-École Nationale des Chartes Exchange Fellow
Reimagining Sufi Poetics in South Asia: The Literary Writings of Hasan Sijzi Dihlavi (1253 - c.1336 CE)

Megan Stanton
PhD Candidate in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Newberry Library-Jack Miller Center Fellow
American Genealogy and Religious Pluralism: The Interfaith Work of Family Research

Herendira Tellez-Nieto
Professor of Classics at the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Mexico
Lester J. Cappon Fellow in Documentary Editing
A Study, Critical Edition, and Translation of the Ars Tzeldaic

Giulia Torello-Hill
Lecturer in Italian at the University of New England (UNE)
The Renaissance Society of America Fellow
The Lyon Terence and its Legacy in the Sixteenth Century

Zanna Van Loon
PhD Candidate in History at KU Leuven
Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois Fellow
The Acquisition, the Production Processes, and the Diffusion of Knowledge about the Indigenous Languages of the New World in the Early Modern Period

Richard Wendorf
Director of the American Museum in Britain and Visiting Professor at Bath Spa University
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellow
Abandoning the Capital: Readers, Writers, and Printers in the Eighteenth Century

Weiya Zhao
Lecturer at Jiaotong University
Newberry Short-Term Resident Fellow for Individual Research
Chinese New Poetry and Chicago (1917-1949)

Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention Award

Emanuele Lugli
Assistant Professor of History of Art at the University of York
The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness

Maddalena Signorini
Associate Professor of Literature at Universitá di Roma Tor Vergata
‘Tracce’ petrarchesche. Storia e significato di una prassi scrittoria

Amanda Wunder
Associate Professor of History at City University of New York, Lehman College and Graduate Center
The Spanish Style: Fashion and Experience in the Reign of Philip IV (1621-1665)