Former Winterthur Research Fellows

2015-2016

• (NEH) Laura Turner Igoe, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University Art Museum -- “Art and Ecology in the Early Republic.”
• (NEH) Andrea Pappas, Associate Professor of Art History, Santa Clara University -- “Embroidering the Landscape in Early America.”
• Mary C. Beaudry, Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Gastronomy, Boston University -- “Gastronomical Archaeology: Food, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Dining.”
• Nicole Belolan, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Delaware -- “Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1700-1861.”
• Carla Cevasco, Ph.D Candidate, Harvard University -- “Feast, Fast, and Flesh: The Violence of Hunger in Colonial New England and New France.”
• Ben Davidson, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University -- “Freedom’s Generation: Coming of Age in the Era of Emancipation.”
• Lynn Edgar, Independent Researcher -- “Bespoke Children’s Clothing: Evidence of Children’s Clothing in 18th Century Tailor’s Daybooks.”
• Jeannine Falino, Adjunct Curator, Museum of Arts and Design -- “Gilded Age in America.” 
• Katrina E. Greene, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Delaware -- “Modern American Intermediality, 1880-1930: Painting, Etching, Photography, Sculpture, Textiles.”
• Diana Greenwald, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Oxford, UK -- “Distinction and Development: Economic and Social Determinants of Artistic Taste in the United States, 1830-1880.”
• Kerry Hackett, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Central Lancashire, UK -- “Shaker medicine in New York State: 1815-1860.”
• Amy E. Hughes, Associate Professor and Deputy Chair for Graduate Studies, Brooklyn College, City University New York -- “An Actor’s Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century America.”
• Elizabeth Keslacy Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan -- “A New Kind of Design: The Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (1896-1976).”
• Rebecca J. Keyel, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison -- “Knitting for Victory: Women’s Volunteerism in the World Wars.”
• Michael “Mookie” Kideckel, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University -- “When Food Became Natural: Industrial Food Culture and the Marketing of Reform.”
• Cecilia Macheski, Professor Emerita, LaGuardia Community College, The City University of New York -- “Transporting Venice: Americans Abroad 1865-1940.”
• Thomas Luke Manget, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Georgia -- “Root Diggers and Herb Gatherers: An Environmental History of the Botanical Drug Industry in the United States.”
• Chantal Meslin-Perrier, Conservateur Général du Patrimoine, Chercheur associé à l’INHA, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art -- “The Art of Dining in the United States from the 17th Century up to 1936.”
• Katherine Miller, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Virginia -- “Ammi B. Young and the U. S. Office of the Supervising Architect, 1852-62.”
• Michael Nix, Independent Researcher -- “Norwich textiles and the transatlantic trade with North America, 1750–1820.”
• Laura Ping, Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate Center, City University of New York -- “Throwing off ‘the Drapery:’ Women and the Bloomer Costume, 1820- 1900.”
• Laura Soderberg, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania -- “Vicious Infants: Antisocial Childhoods and the Politics of Population in the Antebellum United States.”
• Sarah Templier, Ph.D. Candidate, Johns Hopkins University  -- “Between Merchants, Shopkeepers, Tailors and Thieves: Circulating and Consuming Clothes, Textiles and Fashion in Eighteenth-Century North America.”
• Margaret A. Toth, Associate Professor of English, Manhattan College -- “Bric-a-brac and Textiles: Consumer Orientalism at the Turn into the Twentieth Century.”
• Amy C. Wallace, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada -- “Towards a Unity of the Arts and Life: Artistic Communities in the United States, 1870–1930.” 
• Katherine Wheeler, Assistant Professor of Practice, University of Miami School of Architecture -- “Graphic Intercessors: The Architectural Working Drawing.”
• Edward E. Wise III, Independent Scholar -- “The Maverick’s Maverick: Hervey White and the Spirit of Woodstock.

2014-2015

• (NEH) Katherine Fama, Ph.D., John F. Kennedy School of North-American Studies, Free University Berlin, and Washington University, St. Louis -- “The Literary Architecture of Singleness: American Fiction and the Production of Women’s Independent Space, 1880-1929.”
• Zara Anishanslin, Assistant Professor, City University of New York (College of Staten Island) -- “Producing Revolution: The Material and Visual Culture of Making and Remembering the American Revolution.” 
• Nicole Belolan, Ph. D. candidate, University of Delaware -- “Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1700-1861.”
• Claire Louise Blakey, Assistant Curator of Ceramics, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, UK -- “Bringing China to Stoke-on-Trent: A Collection of Early 20th-Century Porcelain at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.”
• Alison Boyd, Ph.D candidate, Northwestern University -- “Ensemble Modernism: Orchestrating Art and People at the Barnes Foundation.”
• Jennifer Chuong, Graduate student, Harvard University -- “Glass as Supplemental Architecture in Early America.”
• Amber M. Clawson, Graduate research assistant, Middle Tennessee State University -- “Symbols of America’s “Backcountry” Republic: Tennessee’s “Rope and Tassel” Furniture.”
• Michael D’Alessandro, Ph.D. candidate, Boston University -- “Staged Readings: Sensationalism and Class in Popular American Literature and Theatre, 1835-1875.”
• Jennifer Dorsey, Associate Professor of History, Siena College -- “Tending the Empire: The Life of George Holcomb (1791-1856).”
• Heidi Louise Egginton, Graduate student, Newnham College, University of Cambridge -- “Cultures of Amateur Antique and Curio Collecting in Britain, c.1868-1939.”
•  Lydia Garver, Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington -- “The Pastor’s House.”
• Ann Martin, Stanley and Polly Stone (Chipstone) Professor and Director, Material Culture  Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison -- “Banish the Night: Domestic Illumination and Reflection before the Light Bulb.”
• Cheryl-Lynn May, Curatorial Assistant, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University -- “Undressing the Dressed Portrait Miniature: The History, Context, and Significance of Eighteenth- and Ninetheenth- Century Collage Portraiture.” 
• Christina Michelson, Ph.D. student, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities -- “Prints & Personalization: Negotiating Reproducibility and Uniqueness in the Nineteenth-Century American Home.”
• Audrey Millet, Ph.D. student, University Paris 8 and University Neuchâtel, Switzerland -- “Towards a Global History of the “Factory Design”: Draughtsmen between Europe and the North American East Coast in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.”
• Lauren Palmor, Ph.D. candidate, University of Washington -- “Visualizing Age in Victorian Britain and America: A Typological Survey,”
• William Riehm, Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University -- “ ‘In-between’ Creole and Anglo-American: Material Culture following the Louisiana Purchase.”
• Karen L. Sanchez-Eppler, Stanton Williams 1941 Professor of American Studies and English, Amherst College -- “In the Archives of Childhood: Personal and Historical Pasts.”
• Amber Shaw, Assistant Professor, Coe College -- “The Fabric of the Nation: Textiles, Nationhood, and Identity in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.”
• Julia A. Sienkewicz, Assistant Professor, Duquesne University -- “Epic Landscapes: Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s Virginian Watercolors, 1795-1799.”
• D. Albert Soeffing, Independent Scholar -- “The Career of Allen Leonard, Artist, Silversmith and Die-Sinker and His Production of American Architectural Card Cases: Social Aspects of Visiting Card Culture in Nineteenth-Century America.”
• Whitney Stewart, Ph.D. Candidate, Rice University -- “The Politics of Black Womanhood in the Nineteenth Century.”
• Jennifer Streb, Associate Professor & Curator, Juniata College Museum of Art -- “The Art and Science of Portrait Miniatures.”
• Yolanda Theunissen, Curator, Osher Map Library, and Director, Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine -- “Mastering Spatial Literacy with Pictorial Maps, Games and Toys from 1750 to the Present.”
• Emily (Amy) Torbert, Ph.D. candidate, University of Delaware -- Going Places: The Material and Imaginary Geographies of Prints in the Atlantic World, 1770-1840.”
• Rachel Zimmerman, Ph.D. candidate, University of Delaware -- “Global Luxuries: Art and Material Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Elite Home in Minas Gerais, Brazil.”

2013-2014

• (NEH) Kirin Makker, Hobart and William Smith Colleges -- “The Myths of Main Street.”
• Amanda Casper, University of Delaware -- “Home Alteration in Industrial Philadelphia, 1865 to 1925.” 
• Michael Clapper, Associate Professor of Art History, Franklin & Marshall College -- “Popular Art in America: Mass Reproduction and Middle-Class Taste.” 
• William L. Coleman, University of California, Berkeley -- “Thomas Cole’s Buildings: Architecture in Painting and Practice in the Early Republic.”
• Erin Corrales-Diaz, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill -- “Remembering the Veteran: Disability, Trauma and the American Civil War, 1861-1915.” 
• Laurel Daen, College of William and Mary -- “Civic Capacity and the Constitution of Disability in the Early American Republic.”
• Alice Dolan, University of Hertfordshire, UK -- “Linen and Human Life Cycles: Everyday Experience in England, c. 1680-1810.”
• Patricia Edmonson, Intergenerational Interpretation Specialist, The Cleveland Museum of Art -- “Art & Industry: The Art-in-Trades Club of New York.”
• Rebecca Lee Fifield, Collections Manager, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- “Lately Imported: Dress and Self-Fashioning of Female Indentured and Enslaved Servants, 1750-1790” and “The American Institute of Conservation’s Collection Care Network.” 
• Javier Grossutti, Independent Scholar, University of Trieste, Italy -- “The Herter Brothers Firm and the Introduction of Marble Mosaic in America.”
• Thomas A. Guiler, Syracuse University -- “The Handcrafted Utopia: Arts and Crafts Communities in America’s Progressive Era.”
• Mary Ann Haagen, Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College -- “The New Hampshire Shakers on Trial, 1848-1849.”
• Leonie Hannan, Teaching Fellow, University College London, UK -- “Material Matters: The Early Modern Home as a Site for Scientific Enquiry.”  
• Christine Henderson, PhD Candidate, University of Connecticut -- “The American Literary Imagination & World’s Fairs: 1851-1909.” 
• Martha Libster, Professor of Nursing, Governors State University -- “Near and Dear Sisters – The Spirit of Nursing in Antebellum Shaker Communities.”
• Christopher J. Lukasik, Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Purdue University -- “The Image in the Text.” 
• Anna O. Marley, Curator of Historical American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art -- “American Impressionism and the Garden, 1889-1920.”
• John Murphy, Northwestern University -- “Comrades in Craft: Arts and Crafts Colonies in the United States, 1896-1916.” 
• Jeff Peachey, Independent Book Conservator -- “In-board Bindings and the Beginning of Industrialized Bookbinding in America and England, 1800-1840.”
• M. Christina Roberts, Registrar, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia -- “Plant to Print: Modern Methods for the Cultivation and Production of Natural Dyes.”
• Alexandra Socarides, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri -- “The Lyric Pose: Antebellum American Women’s Poetry and the Problem of Recovery.”
•  Rachel A. Snell, University of Maine -- “ ‘Woman’s sphere is wherever she makes good’: Domesticity and Anglo-American Women’s Roles, 1790-1860.”
• Erin Sweeney, University of California, Irvine -- “Dwelling in Possibility: Spatial Practice and Innovation in the Nineteenth Century American Novel.”
• Kristina Taketomo, University of Pennsylvania -- “Cold, White, and Clean: American Aesthetics and the Modern Refrigerator.”
• Eric Weichel, graduate student, Queen’s University, Ontario -- “Whether France Will Be Concerned in It or Not”: Francophilia and Polyculturalism in the Visual and Material Culture of Eighteenth-Century British North America.”

2012-2013

• (NEH) Ellen Avitts, University of Central Washington -- “’Doesn’t It Look Like a Happy Place to Live?’  House Merchandising and Ideas of Home.”
• (NEH) Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware -- “What Statues Remember: Sculpture and Iconoclasm in American History.” 
• Gretchen Voter Abbott, Rutgers University -- “Nineteenth Century Women’s Experiences of Aging in the United States.”
• Christopher P. Barton, Temple University -- “Identity and Improvisation: the Archaeology of Consumption at the African American Community of Timbuctoo, NJ.” 
• Lynne Zacek Bassett, Independent Curator, American Museum of Textile History -- “American Dress in the Romantic Era, 1810-1860.” 
• Sarah Beetham, University of Delaware -- “Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865-1917.”
• Xavier Bonnet, Independent Upholsterer and Upholstery Historian -- “From Paris to Philadelphia: Georges Bertault (1733/ ?); A Major Protagonist for Introduction of French Upholstery Taste and Techniques in late 18th-century America.” 
• Alena Buis, Queens University, Canada -- “Homeliness and Worldliness: Domestic Material Culture in New Netherland and New York, 1600-1725.” 
• Mara Caden, Yale University -- “Making Imperial Capitalism: The Process of Manufactuing in the British Empire, 1696-1740.”
• Noel Carmack, Utah State University -- “Incidents in an Engineer's Life in the Far West: James R. Maxwell and the Union Pacific Railroad Survey.”
• Amanda Casper, University of Delaware -- “Making Home: Altering the Home in Industrial America, 1850-1950.” 
• Justin Clark, University of Southern California -- “Training the Eye: Romantic Vision and Class Formation in Boston, 1830-1870.”
•  Katelyn Crawford, University of Virginia -- “Itinerant Portraits in the Late Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World.” 
• Margaretta Frederick, Delaware Art Museum -- “‘Products of Artistic Effect’: The Lighting Designs of W.A.S. Benson.”
• Emily C. Friedman, Auburn University -- “Reading Smell in the Eighteenth-Century Novel.” 
• Nancy Green, Cornell University, Herbert Johnson Museum of Art -- “Exhibiting Japan.” 
• Stephen Hague, Linacre College, Oxford University, UK -- “The Gentleman’s House: Material Culture and Social Status in the British Atlantic World, 1680 – 1770.”
• Kelli Jasper, University of Colorado-Boulder -- “Gathering Flowers: Romantic-Era Botanico-Literary Production and the Trans-Altantic Mediation of Culture.” 
• Shana Klein, University of New Mexico -- “The Fruits of America: Contextualizing Food in American Still-Life Representation, 1850-1900.” 
• Jay Lemire, Bard Graduate Program -- “Vernay, Inc.: A Case Study of the Social History of the American Antiques Market, 1904-1940.”
• James D. McMahon, Jr., Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg -- “The Swiss Bank House in Pennsylvania: Constructing Identity in  Eighteenth Century Pennsylvania German Rural Vernacular Architecture.”
• Jennifer Burek Pierce, University of Iowa -- “Toward a History of the Role of Games and Toys in American Public Libraries.” 
• Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, New York University -- “This is What a Feminist Looks Like: The Construction of the New Woman Imagery through Fashion and the Political Culture of American Feminism, 1890-1940,” 
• Melinda Rabb, Brown University -- “Mimesis Reconsidered: Miniaturization in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture.”
• Sarah Fayen Scarlett, University of Wisconsin-Madison -- “Taste and Space on College Avenue.”  
• Ashli White, University of Miami -- “Object Lessons of the Revolutionary Atlantic.” 
• Clay Zuba, University of Delaware -- “Unstable Images: Native American Representation and Imperial Identity, 1676-1861.” 

2011-2012

• (NEH) Christian Koot, Towson University -- “The Merchant, the Map and Empire: Augustine Herrman’s America and Cross-Cultural Exchange, 1644-1673.”
• (NEH) Chi-ming Yang, University of Pennsylvania -- “Global Culture and the Lives of Objects, 1600-1800.” 
• Alexandra T. Anderson, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum/Parsons The New School for Design -- “The Byrdcliffe Arts Colony: Landscape, Stewardship, and Aesthetics.” 
• Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Yale University -- “Threads of Empire: Art and The Cotton Trade in the Indian and Atlantic Ocean Worlds, 1780-1900.”
• Kelly Arehart, College of William and Mary, -- “Give Up Your Dead: How Business, Technology and Society Separated Americans from their Dearly-Departed, 1790-1930.” 
• Jennifer Betsworth, University of South Carolina -- “‘Then Came the Peaceful Invasion of the Northerners’: The Impact of Outsiders on Plantation Architecture in Georgetown County, South Carolina.” 
• Susan Brandt, Temple University -- “Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Mid-Atlantic Region, 1740-1830.” 
• Robyne E. Calvert, Glasgow School of Art -- “Fashioning the Artist: Artistic Dress in Britain and America, 1848-1914.”
• Kathleen Daly, Boston University -- “Shapely Bodies: The Material Culture of Women’s Health, 1880-1920.” 
• Frederika Eilers, McGill University -- “Building Toys and Toying Buildings: Constructing (or domesticating) Children through Blocks, Dollhouses, and Playrooms.” 
• Ernest Freeberg, University of Tennessee -- “Incandescent America: Electric Light and America’s Culture of Invention.” 
• Kara French, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor -- “The Politics of Sexual Restraint: Debates over Chastity in America 1780-1850.” 
• Janice E. Frisch, Indiana University -- “A Historical Study of Transatlantic Influences on the Emergence of the Block-Style Quilt in the United States.” 
• Christian Goodwillie, Hamilton College Library -- “Biography of Richard McMemar and Critical Edition of Isaac Young’s ‘Concise View.’”
• Mazie Harris, Brown University -- “Fancy Photography on Broadway, 1859-1882.” 
• Erin Leary, University of Rochester -- “Sowing the Seeds of Nativism and Eugenics in Gardening and the Domestic Arts, 1893-1923.” 
• Robyn McMillin, Independent Scholar -- “Science in the American Style, 1700 – 1800.” 
• Jean Portell, Art conservator, retired -- “Biography of Sheldon and Caroline K. Keck.” 
• Josh Probert, University of Delaware -- “Gilded Religion in the Age of Tiffany.” 
• Melinda Rabb, Brown University -- “Mimesis Reconsidered: Miniaturization in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture.” 
• Sara Rivers Cofield, Maryland Archaeological conservation laboratory at Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum -- “Bridles, Bosses, Saddles, and Spurs: Interpreting Colonial Horse Equipage in the Archaeological Record.” 
• Nancy Siegel, Towson University -- “Political Appetites: Revolution, Taste, and Culinary Activism in the Early Republic.” 
• Sally Tuckett, University of Edinburgh -- “Heritage and Design: Scottish Influences on Textiles and Clothing in Nineteenth-Century America.” 
• Catherine Walsh, University of Delaware -- “Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Orality in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture.” 
• Emilie Johnson Wheeler, University of Virginia -- “The Great House and Beyond: Plantation Complexes and Networks in the Antebellum Deep South.”
• Virginia J. Whelan, Textile conservator in private practice -- “A Survey of Original Frame Styles for Philadelphia Needlework (1725-1830).” 
• Kemble Widmer, Independent scholar -- “The Nathaniel Gould Ledgers.” 

2010-2011

• (NEH) Anna M. Dempsey, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth -- “Working Women Artists: Images of Domesticity and the Construction of American Modernism, 1880-1930.” 
• (NEH) Jennifer Van Horn, Smithsonian/Corcoran History of Decorative Arts -- “The Object of Civility and the Art of Politeness in British America.” 
• Anne Anderson, University of Exeter, UK -- “‘A Backward Glance: Furnishing with Antiques in the Gilded Age and Beyond.”
• Ashley Barnes, University of California, Berkeley -- “An American Love Story: Narrative Ethics and the Novel from Stowe to James.
• Jane F. Crosthwaite, Mount Holyoke College -- “The Divine Book of Holy Mother Wisdom: Construction of a Shaker Sacred Text.” 
• Christian DuComb, Brown University -- “From the Meschianza to the Mummers Parade: Racial and Gender Impersonation in Philadelphia.” 
• Jennifer D. Elliott, University of Virginia -- “The Neoclassical Backcountry: Architecture, Material Culture and Hybrid Identities in the American South, 1780-1830.” 
• Ross Fox, Royal Ontario Museum -- “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 -- “A Genteel Revolution: Practical Refinements of New England’s Middling Sorts.”
• Sarah M. Iepson, Temple University-- “Postmortem Relationships: Death and the Child in Antebellum American Visual Culture.” 
• Sarah Keyes, University of Southern California -- “Circling Back: Migration to the Pacific and the Reconfiguration of America, 1820-1900.” 
• Melanie Kiechle, Rutgers University -- “The Air We Breathe: Nineteenth-Century Americans and the Search for Fresh Air.”
• Alison M. K. Klaum, University of Delaware -- “Pressing Flowers:  The Construction of Nature and the Preservation of Culture in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Print.” 
• Anca I. Lasc, University of Southern California -- “Publishing the Interior in Nineteenth-Century Paris, 1852-1914.” 
• Whitney A. Martinko, University of Virginia -- “Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, 1790-1860.” 
• Carol A. Medlicott, Northern Kentucky University -- “Now By My Motion: the Life Journey of Issachar Bates.” 
• Consuela G. (Chela) Metzger, University of Austin -- “The Material Culture of Bound Record-keeping Structures in America before 1860.” 
• Christopher C. Oliver, University of Virginia -- “Civic Visions: The Panorama and Popular Amusement in American Art and Society, 1845-1870.” 
• Katie A. Pfohl, Harvard University -- “Abstraction’s Islamic Antecedents: American Modernism and Islamic Art, 1830-1930.” 
• Madelyn Shaw, Independent Scholar for the American Textile History Museum -- “Homefront & Battlefield: The Civil War Through Quilts & Context.” 
• David J. Silverman, George Washington University -- “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 -- “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.”  

2009-2010 

• (NEH) Roderick McDonald, Professor of History, Rider University -- “The Ethnography and Pornography of Slavery: Dr. Jonathan Troup’s Journal of Dominica, 1789-1791.” 
• (NEH) John Lardas Modern, Professor of Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College -- “Haunted Modernity; or, the Metaphysics of Secularism in Antebellum America.” 
• Matthew Bailey, PhD candidate, Washington University in St. Louis -- “Materiality in American Painting.”
• Alice Barnaby, PhD candidate, University of Exeter, UK -- “Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1780-1840.” 
• Christina Bisulca, PhD candidate, University of Arizona -- “Reconstructing a Lost N. C. Wyeth Illustration.”
• Jennifer Black, PhD candidate, University of Southern California -- “Branding Trust: Advertising, Legitimacy, and Trademarks in US Popular Culture, 1876-1930.” 
• Michael Block, PhD candidate, University of Southern California -- “New England Merchants, the China Trade, and the Origins of California.”
• Jennifer Carlquist, Master’s degree candidate, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Program -- “The Antiquarian Career of J. A. Lloyd Hyde: Americana Business as Pleasure.”
• Laurie Churchman, Assistant Professor of Fine Art, University of Pennsylvania -- “The Art and Craft of Sign Painting.”
• Jennifer Egloff, PhD candidate, New York University -- “Popular Numeracy in Early Modern England and British North America.” 
• Robert P. Emlen, University Curator, Brown University -- “Picturing the Shakers: Illustrating Shaker Life in the Popular Press of Nineteenth-Century America.”
• Ernest Freeburg, Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville -- “Incandescent America: A Cultural History of the Light Bulb.” 
• Christian Goodwillie, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections, Hamilton College Library -- “Hancock Shaker Village Guidebook and Isaac Newton Young’s ‘Concise View.’” 
• Margaret K. Hofer, Curator of Decorative Arts, The New-York Historical Society -- “Silver at The New-York Historical Society.” 
• Abigail Lundelius, PhD candidate, University of South Carolina -- “Shall We Gather at the Table?” 
• Aaron McCullough, PhD candidate, Michigan State University -- “Masculine Interiors and Transnational Commodities, 1880-1920.” 
• Tanya Pohrt, PhD candidate, University of Delaware -- “Touring Pictures: The Exhibition of American History Paintings in the Early Republic.”
• Kate Smith, PhD candidate, University of Warwick, UK -- “Eighteenth-Century British Ceramics Industry – Ideas of Skill and Workmanship.” 
• Arden Stern, PhD candidate, University of California, Irvine -- “Slanted, Shredded, and Simulated: A Cultural History of the Unruly Typeface.”
• Joseph Stubenrauch, PhD candidate, University of Indiana -- “Faith in Goods: Evangelicalism, Materiality, and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain.”
• Anne Verplanck, independent scholar -- “The Graphic Arts in Philadelphia, 1780-1880.” 

2008-2009

• (NEH) Martin Bruckner, Associate Professor, University of Delaware -- “The Social Life of Maps in North America, 1690-1860.”  
• (NEH) Chloe Wigston Smith, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Georgia -- “Practical Habits: Clothes, Gender, and the History of the Novel.” 
• (McNeil) Arthur McLendon, PhD candidate, University of Virginia -- “Ye Living Building: Spirit, Space, and Ritual Encounter in Shaker Architecture.”  
• (McNeil) Julia A. Sienkewicz, PhD candidate, University of Illinois -- “Citizenship by Design: the Creation of Identity through Art, Architecture and Landscape in the Early Republic.” 
• (McNeil) Janneken Smucker, PhD candidate, University of Delaware -- “From Rags to Riches: Amish Quilts and the Crafting of Value.”  
• Anne Anderson, Research Fellow, Exeter University -- “Chinamania”: American Collectors of Antique Ceramics, c. 1880-1930.” 
• Laura Beach, Independent scholar and free-lance journalist -- “A Genius for the True and the Beautiful: Merchant Visionaries who Bought, Sold, and Saved America’s Past.” 
• George Boudreau, Associate Professor of History and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University -- “The Surest Foundation of Happiness: ‘Useful Knowledge,’ the Enlightenment, and the Cultural Transformation of Philadelphia.”  
• David Brown, graduate student, The College of William and Mary -- “Time, Space, and Movement:  The Manor House and Gardens of Fairfield Plantation, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1694-1787.”
• Sarah Carter, PhD candidate, Harvard University -- “A Basket, A Needle, A Penknife:  Object Lessons in Nineteenth-Century American Material and Visual Culture.” 
• Elise Ciregna, graduate student, University of Delaware -- “Ornamental Marble in America, 1750-1880.”
• Mary Bryan Curd, Harrison Middleton University -- “Facing Death:  Portraits and Mourning Ritual in America, 1775-1850.” 
• Catherine Holochwost, PhD candidate, Art History Department, University of Delaware -- “Landscape as Machine:  Vision and Imagination in Nineteenth-Century American Painting.”  
• Louisa Iarocci, Assistant Professor, University of Washington -- “Spaces of Selling: the Commercial City, the Mercantile House and the Department Store”.  
• Jeffrey Kaja, PhD candidate, University of Michigan -- “Transportation in Early Pennsylvania, 1675-1800”. 
• Kimberly Kay Lamm, Assistant Professor of English, Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute -- “Portraying, Displaying, and Disciplining the Girl in Nineteenth–Century America.”  
• Carol Matthews, Lecturer in history, United States Naval Academy -- “From the Heart of Mother Ann: Philemon Stewart’s Search for Obedience."
• Cynthia Patterson, Assistant Professor, University of South Florida-Lakeland -- “Exclusively from Original Designs:  The Philadelphia Pictorials and the Graphic Arts.” 
• Charlotte Rodabaugh, PhD candidate, West Virginia University -- “Ambitious Brotherhood:  Yankee Masculinity and the American Frontier.” 
• Teagan Schweitzer, PhD candidate, University of Pennsylvania -- “Philadelphia Foodways ca.1750-1850:  An Historical Archaeology of Cuisine.”
• Akiko Shimbo, Independent scholar -- “Patterns and Identities:  Furniture Makers, Consumers, and the Design Process in England and America, c.1750-1850.” 
• Nancy Siegel, Assistant Professor of art history, Juniata College -- “To Elevate the Mind:  Female Instruction, Women Artists, and the Hudson River School."
• Kelly Sisson, PhD candidate, University of Michigan -- “King Corn in American Culture, 1862-1936.”
• Kevin Sweeney, Professor of history and American studies, Amherst College -- “Guns in Early American Cultures:  The Use and Possession of Firearms in America, 1620-1820.” 
• Megan Walsh, PhD candidate, Temple University -- “Inconspicuous Consumption: Objects, Publics, and Visible Patriotism in Early American Literature, 1771-1798.” 

2007-2008

• (NEH) Michelle Craig McDonald, Assistant Professor of Atlantic History, Richard Stockton College -- “Regional Reliance: Coffee, the Caribbean and the Early American Economy, 1765-1825”
• (NEH) Jennifer Greenhill, Assistant Professor of American Art, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- “The Plague of Jocularity: Contesting Humor in Modern American Art”
• (McNeil) Daniel Claro, Doctoral Candidate, History of American Civilization, University of Delaware -- “Bodies in Motion: Material Culture and the Experience of Mobility, 1800-1860”
• (McNeil) Jakob Crockett, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina -- “Mann-Simons African American Archaeology Project
• Jhennifer Amundson, Associate Professor of Architecture, Judson College -- “Thomas U. Walter and the Founding of the Architecture Profession in the U.S.”
• David Bjelajac, Professor of Art, George Washington University -- “Mercurial Pigments: Chymistry, Color Theory and Studio Practice in American Painting, 1720-1880”
• Christian Carr, Assistant Professor of Arts Management and Museum Director, Sweet Briar College -- “Picturesque and Imposing: Sweet Briar House, 1851-1852”
• Robert Crocker, Senior Lecturer, Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design, University of South Australia -- “The Role of Furniture and Furnishing History in the Construction of Period Style Anglo-American Interiors, 1918-1939”
• Kate Davies, Lecturer in English and American Literature, Newcastle University -- “Regional Fabric? Women, Silk and the Sense of Place in the Delaware Valley”
• Joanna Frang, Doctoral Candidate in American History, Brandeis University -- “Early Americans on the Grand Tour”
• Carole Glauber, Instructor, 20th Century History of Photography, Mt. Hood Community College -- “Eva Watson-Schutze: Her Years at Byrdcliffe”
• Susanna Gold, Lecturer, Art History Department, Temple University -- “The Performance of Memory: Art, War, and Nation at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition”
• Laurel Horton, Independent scholar -- “Kalmia Research: Early White Quilts and Coverlets”
• Adam Jortner, Doctoral Candidate in American History, University of Virginia -- “A Political History of American Miracles, 1780-1838”
• Martha Katz-Hyman, Independent curator -- “Doing Good While Doing Well: The Decision to Manufacture Products that Supported the Abolition of the Slave Trade,” Slavery and Abolition,  June, 2008.
• Barbara Klempan, Assistant Professor of Art Conservation, Queen’s University, Canada -- “Importation and Use of Early Artists’ Materials in North America”
• Zbigniew Lewicki, Professor of American Studies, University of Warsaw -- “From Thrift Society to Consumer Society: The Role of Advertising”
• Carol Matthews, Adjunct Professor, U.S. Naval Academy -- “Dreams, Visions and Healings: Constructions of Prophetic Identity in Shaker Autobiography”
• Arthur McLendon, Doctoral Candidate in American Art and Architecture, University of Virginia -- “Spirit, Space and Ritual Encounter in Shaker Architecture”
• Marla Miller, Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts -- “True Colors: Betsy Ross and the Making of America”
• Ruth Norton, Head of Conservation, Field Museum of Natural History -- “Use and Durability of Animal Hard Tissues in Artifacts”
• Yvette Piggush, Doctoral Candidate in English, University of Chicago -- “Governing Imagination: American Social Romanticism, 1790-1840” 
• Vincent Plescia, Independent scholar -- “Fused-Plate Dual-Air Current Burner Oil Lamps in the Winterthur Collection: Seeds of a Revolution in Artificial Lumination”
• Katherine Turner, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Delaware -- “Food and Cooking in America, 1880-1930”
• William Wagner, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of California-Berkeley -- “Reading, Writing and Rambling: The Literary Culture of Travel in Antebellum America”

2006-2007

• (NEH) Catherine Kelly, Associate Professor of history, University of Oklahoma -- “Things Useful and Ornamental:  The Aesthetics of Everyday Life in the Early Republic.”
• (NEH) William Moore, Assistant Professor, Public History, University of North Carolina -- “Not-So-Simple Gifts:  The Image and Interpretation of the Shakers in America, 1925-1965.” AND "Interpreting the Shakers: Opening the Villages to the Public, 1955-1965". The Journal of Heritage Stewardship, Winter, 2006. 
• (McNeil) Eric Gollanek, PhD candidate in Art History, University of Delaware -- “Empire Follows Art:  Exchange and Visions of Empire in Britain and Its Colonies.”  
• (McNeil) Anna Marley, PhD candidate in Art History, University of Delaware -- “Rooms With a View:  The Topographic Landscape in the American Home, 1780-1820.”      
• (McNeil) Katherine Rieder, PhD candidate in American Civilization, Harvard University -- “The Remainder of Our Effects We Must Leave Behind:  American Loyalists and the Meaning of Things, 1765-1800.”  
• Christian Goodwillie, Curator, Hancock Shaker Village -- “Gather Up the Fragments:  The Andrews Shaker Collection.” 
• Mario S. De Pillis and Christian Goodwillie, "Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection," Yale University Press, 2008, and traveling exhibition.
• Joy Howard, PhD student, English, Purdue University -- “The Patchwork of Race and Authority.”  
• Sandra Soule, Independent scholar -- “Robert White, Jr.:  A Brother Much Respected and Beloved. But Was He a Shaker?”        
• Isabell Cserno, PhD candidate in American Studies, University of Maryland -- “The Aesthetics of Race, Gender, and Nation in Advertising in the U.S. and Germany, 1880-1930.”   
• Anna Hajdik, PhD student in American Studies, University of Texas -- “Gentleman Farmer, Agriculture Industrialist:  Henry Francis du Pont and the Winterthur Farm.”   
• Hannah Carlson, PhD candidate in American Studies, Boston University -- “Pocket Narratives in American Dress.”  
• Jennifer Criss, PhD candidate in Art History, University of Pennsylvania -- “Japonisme and beyond in the art of Marie Bracquemond, Mary Cassatt, and Berthe Morisot, 1867—1895”. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2007. 
• Lucia Curta, Adjunct Assistant Professor of history, University of Florida -- “‘Imagined Communities’ in showcases:  the Nationality Rooms in Pittsburgh and the “period rooms” in Winterthur.” 
• James del Prince, Associate Professor of floral design, Mississippi State University -- “Gilding the Lily:  Floral & Plant Containers of the 19th Century.”    
• Sarah Gould, PhD candidate in American Culture, University of Michigan -- “Toys Make a Nation: Ethnic Imagery in Toys, 1840-1920.”  
• Uriel Heyd, PhD candidate in History, University of London -- “A Comparative Study of English and American Newspapers in the long 18th Century.”  
• Michelle Mormul, PhD candidate in History, University of Delaware -- “Philadelphia’s Linen Merchants, 1765-1815.”
• Starr Siegele, Adjunct Curator, Allentown Art Museum -- “Parallel Patterns in Print:  Winterthur’s Early Printed Cottons in Context.”   
• Laura Sprague, Curator, Maine Historical Society -- “Furniture in Maine, 1750-1850.”   
• Kevin Tucker, Curator, Dallas Museum of Art -- “Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and crafts Movement.” Exhibition and catalog.
• Jennifer Van Horn, PhD candidate in Art History, University of Virginia -- “The Object of Civility and the Art of Politeness in British America.”  
• Tamara Wilde, PhD candidate in American Art History, University of Iowa -- “Virgins and Vixens:  Women, Musical Instruments and Identity in Gilded Age Art.”   

2005-2006

• Zara Anishanslin-Bernhardt, University of Delaware -- "Portrait of More than a Lady: Fashioning American Identity Through Atlantic World Material Culture 1688-1790"
• Jonathan Eacott, University of Michigan -- "Owning Empire: East Indian Goods in the Development of the Anglophone World, 1740-1830"
• Chris Evans, University of Glamorgan -- “Iron marks as early brand names: Swedish iron in the Atlantic market during the eighteenth century”. 
• (NEH) Lydia Fisher, University of Puget Sound -- "Domesticating the Nation: American Literature, Exceptionalism, and the Science of Cultivation"
• Cynthia Fowler, Emmanuel College -- "Hooked Rugs in Early 20th–Century America"
• Caroline Frank, Brown University -- "China as Object and Idea in the Making of an American Identity 1680-1820
• Marie Frank, University of Massachusetts, Lowell -- "Pure Design and American Decorative Arts"
• Nancy Green, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University -- "Shared Dreams: Collaborative Partnerships of the Arts and Crafts Movement"
• Harriette Hawkins, Independent Scholar -- "The Colonial Revival in New Jersey"
• Bryn Hollenbeck, University of Delaware -- "To Nurture and Protect America's Modern Tots: The Material Culture of Childhood, 1900-1960s"
• Ann Merrill Ingram, Davidson College -- "The Culture of Flowers in Nineteenth-Century America" 
• Alison Isenberg, Rutgers University -- "Second Hand Cities: Antiques Dealers, Salvage Shops, and Revaluing the Past in the 20th Century"
• Jonathan Massey, Syracuse University -- "Crystal and Arabesque: Claude Bragdon's Progressive Architecture" AND “Organic Architecture and Direct Democracy: Claude Bragdon’s Festivals of Song and Light.”
• Barbara Mooney, University of Iowa -- "Learning Your Place: Race and Space in Jim Crow-Era Popular Culture"
• Ewa Mroczek, Polish Academy of Science -- "Read From the Past: Historical-Aesthetical and Ideological-Background of a Modern American Toy"
• Ruth Ann Penka, Independent Scholar -- "From Pencil to Plate: Creating a Transferred Version of 19th–Century American Art for American Consumers by English Staffordshire Potters" 
• Kyle Roberts, Georgetown University -- “Urban Evangelicals: Popular Religious Belief in New York City, 1783—1845”
• Mary Schoeser, Central St. Martin's College of Art & Design, London -- "Meaning and Manufacture: Scottish Turkey red in North America 1780-1910"
• Nancy Siegel, Juniata College Museum of Art -- "An Acquired Taste: Patriotic Imagery in the Home and the Shaping of a National Culinary Culture"
• Starr Siegele, Allentown Art Museum -- "Early Narrative (Scenic) Printed Textiles Produced Before 1830"
• Virginia Whelan, Independent Conservator -- "New Discoveries in Early American Needlework: The 'Tree of Life' Embroideries." AND “Discoveries in Philadelphia Needlework: the Tree of Life Embroideries.”

2004-2005

• Anna Thompson Andrzejewski, University of Wisconsin-Madison -- “Imag(in)ing Resistance:  Representation of Domestic Servants as Didactic Fiction in Victorian America.”  Building Power: Architecture and the Ideology of Surveillance in Victorian America. University of Tennessee Press, 2008.
• Elif Armbruster, Suffolk University, Boston -- "Reading in Three Dimensions: Architectural Biography from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Edith Wharton." 
• Ashley Atkins, Rutgers University -- "Winslow Homer and Aestheticism in the United States."
• Kathryn Berenson, Independent Scholar -- "Review of Winterthur's French Textile Collection."
• Johanna Bernstein, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey -- "The Materials and Techniques of 18th–Century American Japanning"
• Dennis Carr, Yale University -- "Furnituremaking in Early Rhode Island."
• Sara Desvernine, University of Delaware -- "Havana: A Study in Interiors, Identities, and Ideologies."
• Ellen Dyer, Montpelier, the General Henry Knox Museum -- "Montpelier: This Spot So Sacred To A Name So Great." Montpelier: The General Henry Knox Museum, 2004.
• Suzanne Findlen Hood, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation -- "Importation and Imitation: Stoneware in Early America, 1600-1830."
• Craig Friend, University of Central Florida -- "Death in America, 1776-1876."
• Susan Greene, Independent Scholar -- "A Comprehensive Guide to Identifying Printed Dress Fabrics, 1800-1860."
• Phililp Guerty, Indiana University -- "Constructing Exoticism: Images of Asia in Britain, 1688-1809."
• Kate Haulman, Ohio State University -- "Political Modes: The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America." Article: "Fashion and the Culture Wars of Revolutionary Philadelphia." William and Mary Quarterly 62, n. 4 (Oct 2005)
• William Huntting Howell, University of Pennsylvania --“‘A more perfect copy than heretofore’: Cultures of Emulation in Early American Literature.” 
• Susan Isaacs, Union College -- "Pots, Potters, and Patrons."
• Carl Keyes, Johns Hopkins University -- "Advertising and the Commercial Community in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia."
• Heidi Aronson Kolk, Washington University -- "Tropes of Suffering and Postures of Authority in Margaret Fuller's European Travel Letters." Biography 28, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 377-413. 
• Cynthia Morgan, Claremont Graduate University -- "James Logan and the Material Culture of Science in the 18th-Century British Atlantic World."
• Margaret Ponsonby, University of Wolverhampton -- "Interpreting Domestic Interiors at Historic House Museums," presented at "History and the Public" Conference, February 2006 
• William Ross Ramsey, Deakin University -- "The 1744 Ceramic Patent of Heylyn and Frye: 'Unworkable unaker formula' or landmark document in the history of English ceramics."
• Paula Richter, Peabody Essex Museum -- "Wedded Bliss: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony." Exhibition and Book, Peabody Essex Museum, 2008. 
• Ellen Roberts, Boston University -- "Japanese Art and the American Aesthetic Interior, 1876-1893."
• David Schuyler, Franklin and Marshall College -- "The Transformation of the mid-Hudson Valley Landscape in the Nineteenth Century."
• Catherine Wilkins, University of Minnesota -- "From Clown Alley to Center Ring: The Cultural Landscape of the American Circus."
• Anna Wong, University of Sydney -- "Cultural Significance, Social History & House Museums."