Awarded Fellowships

The 2026-27 Newberry Fellows

Long-Term Fellows

Jade E. Bird
Robert C. and Margaret R. Ketterer and Mellon Foundation Fellow
Independent Scholar, Literature
Shakespeare's Playhouse Fencers

LaVerne Gray

Richard H. Brown/William Lloyd Barber Fellow
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Bright Young Things: Black Youth, the Wonder Books, and the Making of the 1920s Chicago Renaissance

Essaka Joshua
Richard H. Brown/William Lloyd Barber and Mellon Foundation Fellow
University of Notre Dame
Disability and Romantic Theatre 1780-1840

Kasey Keeler
Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies (NCAIS) Faculty Fellow
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Homesteading Indian Country: Legacies of Land and Law

Michael Kramer
Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History
SUNY Brockport
Experimental Dance in Seventies Chicago

José María Moreno Madrid
Evelyn Dunbar and Ruth Dunbar Davee and Richard H. Brown/William Lloyd Barber Fellow
University of Limerick
An Obituary for Cosmography: Rise and Fall of a Drawn Universe

Moreno Pacheco
Evelyn Dunbar and Ruth Dunbar Davee and Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel Fellow
Federal University of Bahia
Bahia Before the Fall

Jeffrey Sklansky
Mellon Foundation Fellow
University of Illinois at Chicago
The Work of Retirement: A Labor History of the American Pension

Antonina Woodsum
Monticello College Foundation Fellow
Wesleyan University
Doing Time: Carceral Power, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Relations in North America, 1890-1953

Short-Term Fellows

Maria Salome Adank
Anne Jacobson Schutte Fellow in Early Modern Studies
University of Verona
Learning by Hand: Exploring Women’s Literacy through Material Evidence (15th–17th c.)

Michelle Caswell
Adele Hast Fellow in American History
University of California Los Angeles
Searching for South Asian Traces in Chicago, 1893

Monica Cerda Camero
Fellows’ Fellow
Columbia University
Chichimeca: Becoming the Body of Violence. Mining, Biopolitics, and Sovereignty in Northwestern New Spain (1521-1590)

Emma Cohen
Lawrence Lipking Fellow
Northwestern University
Sick Thinking: Illness and Capacity in Early Modern English Literature

Hector Duenes
Charles Montgomery Gray Fellow
University of Virginia
Forging Belonging: Vassalage and Political Community in the Early Modern Spanish Transpacific, 1660-1730

Cathryn Halverson
Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) Fellow
Linköping University
Becoming an American Daughter: Era Bell Thompson, North Dakota, and the World

Brittany Jones
John S. Aubrey Fellow
University of St Andrews
The Surrealist Underground: Chicago Surrealism and the American Radical Press

Emily Kent
Anne Jacobson Schutte Fellow in Early Modern Studies
Independent Scholar
From Eden to the Antilles: Mendicant Readings of Nature in the Early Modern French Atlantic

Nayoung Kim
Charles Montgomery Gray Fellow
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lures of Order: Genealogical Images of Northern Europe, 1450-1650

Camila Marcone
Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Fellow
Yale University
Systems of water, systems of belief: infrastructure and identity in sixteenth-century Granada, Lima, and Tétouan

Cody Norling
Collester Fund for Chicago Music Fellow
West Virginia University
Opera in the Second City: Operatic Agency and Civic Life in Interwar Chicago

Carlotta Paltrinieri
Lester J. Cappon Fellow in Documentary Editing
Royal Holloway University of London
Reviving the Bibliotheca Altempsiana: A Digital Reconstruction of the Greatest Private Library of 17th-Century Europe

Jennifer Waldron
Arthur and Janet Holzheimer Fellow in the History of Cartography
University of Pittsburgh
Sensing Scale: Shakespearean Theater and Early Modern Cartography

Jochen Wierich
Adele Hast Fellow in American History
The Brinton Museum
Father Peter Powell and the Northern Cheyenne and Crow People

Ana Laura Zúñiga Loreto
Charles Montgomery Gray Fellow
Columbia University
Between Altepetl and Empire: Indigenous Epistemologies of Legal Evidence in Colonial Mexico during the Late Habsburg Era

NCAIS Graduate Student Research Fellows

Sierra Mondragón
University of Washington
To Hold and Be Held: Tewa Women Shaping Pueblo Belonging and Sovereignty, 1848 - Present Day New Mexico

Kayla Morey
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Supporting Menominee Language Revitalization: Additions to the Menominee Dictionary and Digital Archive

Marissa Olivares-Morales
University of Washington
Channels of transnational Indigenous and Afro-indigenous politics: The struggles of the Rama-Kriol peoples inside and outside of Nicaragua

Ilianna Vásquez
Yale University
Indigenous Women, Confession, and Sexual Violence in Colonial Western Mexico

Artists-in-Residence Fellows

Leo Covault
Arthur and Lila Weinberg Artist-in-Residence
Lowell, 1837

Mercedes Estevez
Historical Fiction Writing Artist-in-Residence
Headwaters

Angelina McComiskey
Jan and Frank Cicero Artist-in-Residence
Balikbayan: What's Carried Across Waters

Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Recipients

Kate Driscoll
Assistant Professor, Literature, Duke University
Cambridge University Press
Tasso and Women Readers: Literary Hospitality in Early Modern Italy


Daniela D’Eugenio and Pier Mattia Tommasino

Assistant Professor, Literature, University of Arkansas and Associate Professor of Italian, Columbia University
Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore
Vincenzo Busdraghi, il libretto calligrafico per il Principe di Piombino (1545)/Vincenzo Busdraghi, The Calligraphic Book for the Prince of Piombino (1545)


Elizabeth Tavares

Assistant Professor, Literature, University of Alabama
University of Pennsylvania Press
Playing the Repertory before Shakespeare

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