Awarded Fellowships

2026-27

Announcement coming soon

2025-26

Darcy Allred
Frances C. Allen Fellow
Illinois State University
Reawakening Waⁿdat: Community Research & Reclamation (Dissertation); Chapter "Historical Background of the Wyandot(te) Diaspora"

Bradley Benton
Charles Montgomery Gray Fellow
North Dakota State University
Blended Families: Nahua-Spanish Intimate Partners and Their Children

Charlotte Biggs
Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois Fellow
University of California, Riverside
Mobility, Gender, and Continuity; Native Women in La Florida and the Atlantic World. (1725-1784)

Hester Blum
Fellows’ Fellow
Washington University in St. Louis 
Polar Erratics: In and Out of Place in the Arctic and Antarctica

Nicholas Blumberg
Arthur and Lila Weinberg Independent Researcher Fellow
WTTW/Chicago PBS
Epidemic of Arson

Lauren Braun-Strumfels
Adele Hast American History Fellow
Cedar Crest College
Between the Lines: Railroads, Facilitated Migration, and the Infrastructure of Racial Capitalism in the New South

Kai Chase
Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies (NCAIS) Graduate Student Research Fellow
Northwestern University
Colliding Colonialisms: LandBack and Anti-Imperialism in Puerto Rico's El Yunque Forest

Henry Chen
Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) Fellow
University of Michigan
Sex, Domesticity, and Citizenship in Chinese America, 1875-1943

Megan Cole
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Community College Fellow
Victor Valley College
Fossil-Fueled Fictions: Coal, Oil, and the (Un)Making of American Literary Modernity

David Correia
Adele Hast American History Fellow
University of New Mexico
One Nation, Under Occupation: Police Violence and Settler Colonial Law and Order

Gail Coughlin
Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies (NCAIS) Graduate Student Research Fellow
University of Minnesota
Dakota and Ojibwe Experiences in the “Athens of the West,” 1860-1870

Simon Dagenais
Newberry Short-Term Residential Fellow
University of Trier (Universität Trier)
Simon Dagenais News from the Court of France and of High Nobility: The Handwritten Newspapers of the Newberry Library’s Collection (1732-1749)

Jose Estrada
McElroy Faculty Fellow
Carnegie Mellon University
Found in Translation: Don Bartolomé de Alva’s Nahuatl Interpretation of Spanish Baroque Theater

Aidan Forth
The Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois Fellow
MacEwan University
Ocean Voyages: Technology and Mobility in a Globalizing World

Jessica Fremland
Francis C. Allen Fellow
University of California, Los Angeles
Sewing Intimacies, Routing Refusals: Dakota Aesthetics of Relationality in and Beyond the Archive

Daniel Gomes
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Community College Fellow
Bakersfield College
Old Songs for New Shores: Ballads and the Remaking of Irish America

Mariana Gutierrez Lowe
Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies (NCAIS) Graduate Student Research Fellow
Northwestern University
Maternal Ruptures: Motherwork and Embodiment in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Elaine Hobby
Lester J. Cappon Documentary Editing Fellow
Loughborough University
Aphra Behn (1640-1689), the first professional woman writer in English, in the Newberry Library collections

Alisha Ibkar
Rylands Exchange Fellow
University of Manchester

Shane-Jahi Jackson
Jan and Frank Cicero Artist in Residence
Independent Scholar
Bodies as Containers of Stories

Matthew Jeffries
Rylands Exchange Fellow
University of Manchester
Primers for the Volk? Popular photobooks in twentieth-century Germany

Boyda Johnstone
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Community College Fellow
The City University of New York, Manhattan

Sheiba Kian Kaufman
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Community College Fellow Saddleback College
Women, Wit, and Wisdom: Queen Sheba, Early Modern England, and the Public Humanities

Claudio Lagomarsini
The Lester J. Cappon Documentary Editing Fellow
Università di Siena
The Chicago Lancelot (Newberry Library, Case MS 21): Tracing the Early Circulation of the Arthurian Cycle

Claire Lavarreda
Frances C. Allen Fellow
Northeastern University
Cultural Transformation in the Process of Text Production: Indigenous Catholicism in New France and New Spain, 1521-1701

Héctor Linares González
Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Fellow
Pennsylvania State University
Global Knighthood: African, Indigenous, and Asian Members in the Noble Military Orders of the Iberian World, 1536-1700

Carolina Martinez
Arthur and Janet Holzheimer History of Cartography Fellow
Universidad Nacional de San Martín
A Spatial History of the Polar Regions. Azimuthal Projections and Practices of Visualization (ca. 1500-1800)

Jennifer Morales
Historical Fiction Writing Fellow
Independent Scholar
A Source of Pride (working title for historical novel-in-progress)

David Nee
Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Fellow
Louisiana State University
Shakespeare and the Afterlives of Form: Roman Declamation and "The Merchant of Venice"

Sean O’Neil
The Anne Jacobson Schutte Early Modern Studies Fellow
Independent Scholar
The Art of Signs: Symbolic Notation and Visual Thinking in Early Modern Europe

Karen Quandt
Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) Fellow
Wabash College
Green Pulp: Stéphane Mallarmé and the Ecopoetry of Paper in fin-de-siècle France

Antonio Ramirez
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Community College Fellow
Elgin Community College
A Century of Latinx Suburbia in Oral Histories, 1925-2025

Mónica Ramírez Bernal
Newberry Short-Term Residential Fellow
Columbia University
Afterlife of the “Amerasian” Map in Independent Mexico

Jason Reblando
Jan and Frank Cicero Artist in Residence
Illinois State University
Field Notes: Reframing Colonial Photography from the Philippines

Alina Rodríguez Sanchez
Anne Jacobson Schutte Early Modern Studies Fellow
Historisches Seminar Leibniz Universität Hannover
Ruling the Mountains and the Wastelands: Normativities of Uncultivated Landscapes and the Creation of Common Land in Early Colonial Mexico, 1530-1650

Shannah Rose
Anne Jacobson Schutte Early Modern Studies Fellow
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
The Codex Ríos and the Reception of Mesoamerican Pictography in Early Modern Italy

Linda Rupert
Charles Montgomery Gray Fellow
University of North Carolina Greensboro
Mapping the Spanish Sanctuary, 1650-1790

Lindsey Smith
Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies (NCAIS) Graduate Student Research Fellow
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Detroit as a Native City: Community-Making and Women’s Roles Before, During and After Relocation

Matthew Stanley
John S. Aubrey Fellow
University of Arkansas
Capital Reconciliation: Owners, Workers, and the Political Economy of Blue-Gray Reunion

Arielle Steimer-Barragan
The Anne Jacobson Schutte Early Modern Studies Fellow
University of California, Irvine
Binding Text and Power: Women Printers and the Pursuit of Empire, 1540-1698

Ianick Takaes de Oliveira
Newberry Short-Term Residential Fellow
Bibliotheca Hertziana
“A Most Severe Judgment to All Peoples”: On the Circulation of Philippe Thomassin’s Last Judgement (1606) in the Early Modern Iberian World

Christina Thomas
Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies (NCAIS) Graduate Student Research Fellow
University of California, Davis
Weaving TransIndigenous Language and Arts Connections to (Re)awaken Numu Yadooana [Northern Paiute language] for Generations to Come

Agnieszka Tuszynska
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Community College Fellow
Queensborough Community College
“A Damn Hard Fight”: The Life of Willard Motley

Kabl Wilkerson
Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies (NCAIS) Graduate Student Research Fellow
Harvard University
Strength of the People: US Imperialism and the Reconfiguration of Power in Indian Country, 1887-1945

Elizabeth Winter
Lawrence Lipking Fellow
Northwestern University
Legal and Literary Liberties: Figuring (Bi)Racial Difference in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Novel

Nazera Wright
Fellows’ Fellow
University of Kentucky

Eunyoung Yang
Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Fellow
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Between Mexico and the Philippines: The Pacific Ocean as a Site of Cultural and Social Construction in the Eighteenth Century

Onteya Zachary
Beer Culture Center Beer History Studies Fellow
University of Minnesota
Dark Debts: The Spatial Politics of Race and Beer in Chicago’s Landscape

Jocelyn Zimmerman
Charles Montgomery Gray Fellow
Independent Scholar
Knowing Polygamy: People, Plants, and Progress in the Eighteenth Century

2026-27

Announcement coming soon

2025-26

Christopher D. Fletcher
Assistant Director, Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library
ARC Humanities Press
Public Engagement in the European Middle Ages: Medieval Solutions for a Modern Crisis

Benjamin A. Saltzman
Associate Professor, English, University of Chicago
University of Chicago Press
Turning Away: Variations on an Ancient Gesture