Winterthur Research Fellows

2010-2011

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships

2 Awards

Anna M. Dempsey, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Art History Department, “Working Women Artists: Images of Domesticity and the Construction of American Modernism, 1880-1930”

 

Jennifer Van Horn, Smithsonian/Corcoran History of Decorative Arts, “The Object of Civility and the Art of Politeness in British America”

Dissertation Fellowships

3 awards

Alison M. K. Klaum, University of Delaware, Department of English, “Pressing Flowers: The Construction of Nature and the Preservation of Culture in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Print”

 

Christopher C. Oliver, University of Virginia, McIntire Department of Art, “Civic Visions: The Panorama and Popular Amusement in American Art and Society, 1845-1870”

 

Katie A. Pfohl, Harvard University, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, “Abstraction’s Islamic Antecedents: American Modernism and Islamic Art, 1830-1930”

Short-term Fellowships

 21 awards

Anne Anderson, University of Exeter (UK), School of English, “‘A Backward Glance: Furnishing with Antiques in the Gilded Age and Beyond”

 

Ashley Barnes, University of California, Berkeley, Department of English, “An American Love Story: Narrative Ethics and the Novel form Stowe to James”

 

Jane F. Crosthwaite, Mount Holyoke College, Department of Religion, “The Divine Book of Holy Mother Wisdom: Construction of a Shaker Sacred Text”

 

Christian DuComb, Brown University, Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, “From the Meschianza to the Mummers Parade: Racial and Gender Impersonation in Philadelphia”

 

Jennifer D. Elliott, University of Virginia,McIntire Department of Art, “The Neoclassical Backcountry: Architecture, Material Culture and Hybrid Identities in the American South, 1780-1830”

 

Ross Fox, Royal Ontario Museum, Early Canadian Decorative Arts, “Exploring Relationships in Construction and Design Among the Furniture of New England, New York and Montreal, 1790-1820”

 

Vanessa Habib, Independent Scholar, “Transatlantic Craftsmanship: Scotch Carpets in the American Colonies”

 

Christina J. Hodge, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, “A Genteel Revolution: Practical Refinements of New England’s Middling Sorts”

 

Sarah M. Iepson, Temple University, Tyler School of Art, “Postmortem Relationships: Death and the Child in Antebellum American Visual Culture”

 

Sarah Keyes, University of Southern California, Department of History, “Circling Back: Migration to the Pacific and the Reconfiguration of America, 1820-1900”

 

Melanie Kiechle, Rutgers University, Department of History, “The Air We Breathe: Nineteenth-Century Americans and the Search for Fresh Air”

 

Anca I. Lasc, University of Southern California, Department of Art History, “Publishing the Interior in Nineteenth-Century Paris, 1852-1914”

 

Whitney A. Martinko, University of Virginia, Department of History, “Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860”

 

Carol A. Medlicott, Northern Kentucky University, Department of History and Geography, “Now By My Motion: the Life Journey of Issachar Bates”

 

Consuela G. Metzger (Chela), University of Austin, School of Information, “The Material Culture of Bound Record-keeping Structures in America before 1860”

 

Madelyn Shaw, Independent Scholar for the American Textile History Museum, “Homefront & Battlefield: The Civil War Through Quilts & Context”

 

David J. Silverman, George Washington University, Department of History, “Thundersticks: Firearms and the Transformation of Native America”

 

Ryan K. Smith, Virginia Commonwealth University, “Robert Morris’s Folly: The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder”

 

Andrea M. Truitt, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Art History, “Neither Inside nor Outside: Cozy Corners and Their Role as Intermediaries of Interiority”

 

Marie von Möller, Independent Scholar connected to Kunstmuseene, Bergen, Norway, “Art History and Paintings Conservation in the Twentieth Century”

 

Bärbel Wöhlke, Technische Universität Dresden, Institute für Kunst- und Musikwissenschaft, “From the Boy to the Man: Visualizing Masculinity in American Genre Paintings, 1800-1870”