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Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships

ACLS invites applications for Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships, which support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing. The program encourages timely completion of the PhD and is open to scholars pursuing humanistic research on topics grounded in any time period, world region, or methodology. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2022.

Upper  $43,000 USD

Applicant must:

– be PhD candidates in a humanities or social science department in the United States .

– have completed all requirements for the PhD except the dissertation (i.e., obtained ABD status) by the application deadline.

– be no more than six years into the degree program at the time of application. This includes time spent earning an MA within that program. In special circumstances, an applicant who is in their seventh year may petition to have this eligibility requirement extended by one year.

– not currently hold or have previously held a dissertation completion fellowship.

– have not previously applied for this fellowship more than once.

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships 2021-22

Mellon acls dissertation completion fellowship information session.

Workshop Date:

Sep 30, 2020, 3:00 PM

Join UChicagoGRAD for an information session on the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. This program supports a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing.

Assistant Professor Tamara Golan, a former fellow, will attend the info session to answer questions from her experience successfully applying. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2022. ACLS will award 65 fellowships in this competition for a one-year term beginning between June and September 2021 for the 2021-2022 academic year. The fellowship may be carried out in residence at the fellow's home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for the research. The total award of up to $43,000 includes a stipend plus additional funds for university fees and research support. Note that this program is open to international students. The deadline for the 2021-22 fellowship is 9 pm Eastern Daylight Time, October 28, 2020. More information on the fellowship can be found here: https://www.acls.org/programs/dcf/

About the Fellowship

ACLS invites applications for  Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships , which support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing. The program encourages timely completion of the PhD and is open to scholars pursuing humanistic research on topics grounded in any time period, world region, or methodology. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2022. A grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program.

ACLS will award 65 fellowships in this competition for a one-year term beginning between June and September 2021 for the 2021-22 academic year. The fellowship may be carried out in residence at the fellow's home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for the research. These fellowships may not be held concurrently with any other fellowship or grant.

The total award of up to $43,000 includes a stipend plus additional funds for university fees and research support. In addition to the monetary support that the fellowship offers, Dissertation Completion Fellows may apply to participate in a seminar on preparing for the academic job market. The seminar takes place over three days in the fall of the fellowship year. ACLS believes that humanistic scholarship benefits from inclusivity of voices, narratives, and subjects that have historically been underrepresented or under-studied in academe. We especially welcome applications from PhD candidates whose perspectives and/or research projects cultivate greater openness to new sources of knowledge, innovation in scholarly communication, and, above all, responsiveness to the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities, including (but not limited to) Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, and Indigenous communities from around the world; people with disabilities; queer, trans, and gender nonconforming people; and people of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. We also believe that institutional diversity enhances the scholarly enterprise, and we encourage applications from PhD candidates from all types of institutions in the United States. 

ELIGIBILITY

Applicants must:

• be PhD candidates in a humanities or social science department in the United States. 
• have completed all requirements for the PhD except the dissertation (i.e., obtained ABD status) by the application deadline.
• be no more than six years into the degree program at the time of application. This includes time spent earning an MA within that program. In special circumstances, an applicant who is in their seventh year may petition to have this eligibility requirement extended by one year. Please see the FAQ for more information about time to degree. 
• not currently hold or have previously held a dissertation completion fellowship.
• have not previously applied for this fellowship more than once.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

Applications must be submitted online and must include:

• Completed application form
• Proposal (no more than five pages, double spaced, in Times New Roman 11-point font)
• One-page timeline for the expected completion of dissertation writing and defense/filing ( see sample timelines )
• Up to three additional pages of images, musical scores, or other similar supporting non-text materials (optional)
• Bibliography (no more than two pages)
• Completed chapter of the dissertation (that is neither the introduction, nor the conclusion, nor the literature review) of not more than 25 double-spaced pages, in Times New Roman 11-point font; or a representative 25-page excerpt from a longer chapter. The chapter must be in English, though citations may be in other languages (with translations provided).
• Two reference letters, one of which must come from the applicant's dissertation advisor
• A statement from the applicant’s institution (preferably from the applicant’s department chair, director of graduate studies, or dean). The provided form asks the institutional representative to (1) attest to the viability of the proposed timeline for completion; (2) stipulate that, in the event of an award, the university will not charge the student tuition or fees beyond a limit of $5,000; and (3) pledge that if an ACLS award is made, the university will not provide the applicant with any subsequent aid. The person submitting the statement should not be one of the reference letter writers.

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship supports outstanding graduate students in the humanities and social sciences in finishing the final year of work on their Ph.D. dissertations. This highly competitive program is funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and recognizes only 65 scholars annually.

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Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing. The award includes a $30,000 stipend, funds for research costs of up to $3,000 and funds for university fees of up to $5,000.

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Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

• Divinity School
• Social Sciences
• Fall Quarter (September-December)
• Early graduate school
• International Research or Work
• Library/Museum/Institute Residency or Research
• Research Grant
• DACA Recipient eligible
• No citizenship requirements

The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program is designed to support emerging scholars as they pursue bold and innovative research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

The program will make awards to doctoral students who show promise of leading their fields in important new directions. The fellowships are designed to intervene at the formative stage of dissertation development, before writing is advanced, and provide time and support for emerging scholars’ innovative approaches to dissertation research – practical, trans- or interdisciplinary, collaborative, critical, or methodological. The program seeks to expand the range of research methodologies, formats, and areas of inquiry traditionally considered suitable for the dissertation, with a particular focus on supporting scholars who can build a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable academy.

Award Details

• $40,000 stipend for the fellowship year, plus up to $8,000 for project-related research, training, development, and travel costs.
• The award also includes a $2,000 stipend for external mentorship.

Eligibility

Applicants must:

• Be a PhD student in a humanities or social science department in the United States. 1
• Be able to take up a full year (9-12 months) of sustained specialized research and training, released from normal coursework, assistantships, and teaching responsibilities.
• Have completed at least two years and all required coursework in the PhD programs in which they are currently enrolled by the start of the fellowship term.
• As of September 2023 require at least two years remaining with their programs to complete the PhD degree.
• have not previously applied for this fellowship more than once.

(1) The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program does not accept applications from students receiving professional or applied PhDs, terminal degrees that are not a PhD (such as an EdD or MFA), or PhDs outside of humanities and social science departments, including the following disciplines: business, clinical or counseling psychology, creative or performing arts, education, engineering, filmmaking, law, library and information sciences, life/physical sciences, public administration, public health or medicine, public policy, social work, or social welfare. If you are unsure whether your department or interdisciplinary program qualifies you for this fellowship program, please email  [email protected]  with a brief summary of your affiliation.

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3 Receive Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships for 2020-2021

Duke Ph.D. candidates Lea Greenberg (German Studies), Bill Sharman (History), and Anna Tybinko (Romance Studies) have received the prestigious Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year.

A total of 64 fellowships were awarded out of more than 1,000 applicants. The fellowship, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides a $35,000 stipend and up to $8,000 in research funds and university fees to advanced graduate students in their final year of dissertation writing. It also includes a faculty-led academic job market seminar, hosted by the ACLS, to further prepare fellows for their postgraduate careers.

A look at this year's Duke awardees and their dissertations:

Lea Greenberg

Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies

Dissertation: "curious daughters: language, literacy, and jewish female desire in german and yiddish literature from 1793 to 1916".

In her dissertation, Greenberg examines the interplay between language politics and romantic politics in German-Jewish and Yiddish literature, confronting the social dynamics of Jewish assimilation into wider European culture. It uses literary case studies from the Jewish Enlightenment in the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. Each work uses a concern with the sexual purity and loyalty of the Jewish daughter to depict anxieties toward Jewish assimilation into the non-Jewish world. But these texts also share another layer of her subversion: a rebellious act in the form of a linguistic or cultural departure from tradition. “Curious Daughters” considers how these dynamics stage the ambivalence of a departure from Jewish tradition and brings them into conversation with the sociolinguistics of Jewish language usage and the history of Jewish women in Europe.

Bill Sharman

Dissertation: “Moral Politics: Global Humanitarianism, the Third World, and West Germany, 1960-1990”

Sharman’s project explores how and why West Germany became a central hub of humanitarian care and governance around the world after 1945, seeking to balance aid commitments abroad with Europe’s largest refugee population at home. It focuses on humanitarian aid and intervention in Africa, as well as the migration of refugees from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia to West Germany. It argues that these twin processes reflected West Germany’s changing relation to the world in an age of universal human rights, Holocaust memories, and postcolonial crises, creating capital flows, transnational solidarities, and migrations that had not previously existed. Moreover, people from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia were key actors. Their claims for aid and justice challenged stereotypes about Third-World violence and suffering; and their ideas about global political economy and immigration became influential, especially within a growing human rights movement.

Anna Tybinko

Romance Studies

Dissertation: “urban borderlands: african writers in precarious spain, 1985-2008”.

Tybinko’s dissertation examines Spain’s dependency on undocumented African labor in the quest to become a developed, European nation. Via literature, “Urban Borderlands” charts Spain’s transformation from a longstanding sending country for migrant labor into a cosmopolitan destination for workers the world over following the promulgation of its first immigration law in 1985. Drawing on both textual analysis and one-on-one interviews, it constructs a conversation among a group of African-born writers who publish for a Spanish audience. Through their collective storytelling, Tybinko reframes the concept of bordering as practices of racialization and labor market segmentation that exert serious controls over the day-to-day of migrant life within Spanish national bounds. To this end, her project considers the work of these writers as a unique form of political intervention, aimed at revealing the inherent instability of Spain’s economy—well before the Great Recession of 2008.

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About the Program

Supports a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing.  The program encourages timely completion of the PhD and is open to scholars pursuing humanistic research on topics grounded in any time period, world region, or methodology. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2022. 

Eligibility

Applicants must be PhD candidates in a humanities or social science department in the United States; have completed all requirements for the PhD except the dissertation (i.e., obtained ABD status) by the application deadline; be no more than six years into the degree program at the time of application (this includes time spent earning an MA within that program); not currently hold or have previously held a dissertation completion fellowship; have not previously applied for this fellowship more than once.

Award Amount/Award Period

$35,000, plus funds for research costs of up to $3,000 and for university fees of up to $5,000 for 1 year.

Application Deadline

October 27, 2021.

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PhD Candidate Gloria Yu Awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Gloria Yu, who has been awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowshi p! The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship supports a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing. Yu has been awarded this fellowship to complete her dissertation entitled: “ The Science of the Will: Morality and the Mind in Nineteenth-Century Germany ”. For the dissertation abstract, and to see the full announcement, click here.

Breaking boundaries: UCSB grad students win prestigious Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

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Recognized for their “bold and innovative approaches” to research, three UC Santa Barbara graduate students have been awarded the 2024 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship. Doctoral students Yuri Fraccaroli , Salma Shash and Tinghao Zhou are among 45 awardees selected from a nationwide pool of more than 700 Ph.D. students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.

“We are extremely proud of these three international students for winning such a prestigious and competitive fellowship,” said Interim Graduate Dean Leila J. Rupp. “It is notable that all are involved in research that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries and allows them to bring their personal experiences into their projects. Together, they show the global reach, interdisciplinarity and emphasis on social justice that is a hallmark of our campus.”

Fraccaroli, a first-generation doctoral student from Brazil, is pursuing research in the feminist studies department based on their work as an educator, artist and researcher with Acervo Bajubá, an LGBT+ community archive in São Paulo. They will use the funding and support from the award to expand the scope of their winning dissertation, “Archivo vivo! An Ethnography of the Archive: Latin American Sex and Gender Community Archives.” 

“I have an outline of chapters, I know the sites I'm working at, I know the communities I'm going to be talking to,” Fraccaroli said. “It’s also research that is a result of five years around this life commitment that I have with community archives in Latin America, especially in South America, and in Brazil with Acervo Bajubá , where my work comes from. Instead of seeing these archives as objects, I consider them as epistemological projects. That’s the key intervention of my project.” 

Part of the support and resources provided by the fellowship include an external advisor. “The first stage of my research is going to be probably at the University of Leeds with Patricio Simonetto, who is a queer historian who has a very outstanding career,” they said. “At this moment, I want to expand my theoretical knowledge from Brazil to the region. The idea of the project is to get a regional and global perspective on this phenomenon, this rise of community archives that has been happening in the last decade.”

A Ph.D. candidate in film and media studies, Zhou won the award for his dissertation, “At the Ends of Media: E-Waste Pollution, Secondhand Extraction, and Environmental Politics in Guiyu, China,” “I'm looking at a specific e-waste processing site in China, which has been perceived as one of the largest e-waste recycling hubs in the world for the past 20 or 30 years,” he said. “I think this award is instrumental for my research because it allows graduate students like myself to go to the places that I want to visit and to talk to the people I want to reach outside of America. I think this funding gives me an opportunity to gain access to those trainings and spaces, which I think is really important for my project.”

Zhou’s personal experiences also fueled his dissertation goals. He grew up in South China, in an area known for its manufacturing, industry and international trade, not far from a town with many recycling workshops and centers.  “It was famous for collecting old TV sets, air conditioners and refrigerators – all of these old consumer electronics,” he recalled. “When I was in my childhood home, I always got that smell of recycling. I had to close my door or close my windows sometimes. The smell is a memory I associate with these old recycling industries, and that actually became a kind of central methodology of my project — to use this sensory ethnography to understand how the local people live and work in and around e-waste recycling sites.”

He hopes his research and the funding provided for interviews with local officials, environmental scientists and activists will shed light on the impact of e-waste recycling processes on the local communities. “I was thinking of how the chemical and physical components of those devices could even impact the metabolism of the workers’  bodies,” Zhou said. “Looking at this site pushes me to think about how the global media economy and output of e-waste tangibly shape the local ecologies, politics and people. The other part of the project is also looking at how the central government negotiates or reacts to this global media economy in its development of environmental science and technology.”

The award arrived at a crucial time in Shash’s graduate research career. “I had no guaranteed funding for next year, and this fellowship will allow me to focus on research and writing without teaching duties or other work responsibilities,” she said. “It also gives you some motivation to know that other people think your research is important or worth funding.”

Shash’s winning research project, “Villagers, Criminals, and Policemen: Policing and Justice in Rural Egypt, 1854-1914,”  stems from political changes in her home country of Egypt. “I have been interested in understanding police brutality, coercion and criminal justice since the 2011 revolution in Egypt,” she said. “I wrote my master's thesis in 2015 at SOAS, the University of London, on police brutality after the revolution. I have since been convinced that unpacking the genealogy and history of the Egyptian police is essential to `reforming’ (or transforming) it today. When I started my archival work in 2022, I shifted to a more complex understanding of policing in Egypt through rural experiences, where political economy and, specifically, land are intimately linked to police power. At the core of my research is a commitment to seeking and understanding justice.”

A doctoral candidate in the history department, Shash’s research goals have been enhanced by her mentors, the presence of the Center for Middle East Studies, and the interdisciplinary nature of research at UC Santa Barbara. In addition to Professor Sherene Seikaly as her graduate advisor, Shash has received key mentorship from other Middle East historians like Professor Adam Sabra as well historians outside her field, including Professor Utathya Chattopadhyaya, who teaches South Asian history, and Professor Dwight Reynolds from the religious studies department. “I would ideally like to continue pursuing a career in academia, teaching and doing research, while remaining active with and grounded in my local community,” said Shash, who continues to build on her “commitment to justice and faith that knowledge production and teaching are spaces for activism and vehicles for change.”

The ACLS launched the fellowship program in 2023, with the support of the Mellon Foundation, to advance a vision for doctoral education that prioritizes openness to new methods and sources, underrepresented voices and perspectives and scholarly experimentation. The awards are designed to accelerate change in the norms of humanistic scholarship by recognizing those who take risks in the modes, methods and subjects of their research.

Each fellow receives an award of up to $50,000, consisting of a $40,000 stipend for the

fellowship year; up to $8,000 for project-related research, training, professional development and travel expenses; and a $2,000 stipend to support external mentorship that offers new perspectives on the fellow’s project and expands their advising network. With fellows pursuing their research across the country and beyond, the ACLS will also provide opportunities for virtual networking and scholarly programming throughout the fellows’ award terms.

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Doctoral Student Awards and Fellowships

2010 to present,     2017-2018.

Information forthcoming.

    2016-2017

History Department Awards

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Christopher DeLorenzo, Oliver Horn, Michael Polczynski, Patrick Scallen, Jordan Smith, Katrina Yeaw

University Awards

• 2017 Harold N. Glassman Award in the Humanities – Larisa Veloz, Ph.D. ’15

External Awards

• Mellon/CLIR Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, 2016-2017 – Chelsea Berry
• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental History/Geography, College of William and Mary, 2016-2018 – Alan Roe, Ph.D. 2016
• The Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation, Edwin J. Beinecke, Jr. Scholarship in International Affairs, 2016 – Gregory Brew
• Bosphorus University, Istanbul,  Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2016-2017 – Selim Güngörürler
• Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award, 2017 – Douglas McRae
• Harvard University, Academy for International and Area Studies at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Academy Scholar, 2016-2017 – Chris Gratien, Ph.D. 2015
• Higher School of Economics (Moscow), International Centre for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, Postdoctoral Fellowship – Jonathan Sicotte
• Loyola Marymount University, Asian & Asian American Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2018 – Fr. Lan Ngo, S.J., Ph.D. 2016
• ​Jing Brand Fellowship, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge University, Oct. 2016-March 2017 – Yubin Shen

    2015-2016

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Elena Abbott, Eric Gettig, Isabelle Kaplan, Graham Pitts, Yelizaveta Raykhlina, Alan Roe
• ​Dorothy Brown Teaching Award (teaching assistant) – Soha El Achi
• Tom Helde Teaching Award (teaching an undergraduate seminar or colloquium) – Co-winners: Eric Gettig and Graham Pitts
• 2016 Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Erin Steward Mauldin, Ph.D. ’14
• GSAS Doctoral Dissertation Research Travel Grant, Fall 2015 – Laura Goffman, Faisal Husain 
• GSAS Doctoral Dissertation Research Travel Award, Spring 2016 – Graham Hough-Cornwell, Jeffrey Reger, and Volodymyr Ryzhkovski
• Academy of American Franciscan History, 2015-16 Dissertation Fellowship – Daniel Cano
• ​American Society for Environmental History, Leopold-Hidy Prize for Best Article in Environmental History – Faisal Husain
• Austro-Hungarian Fulbright Research Grant – Robert Mevissen
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Awards, 2016 – Chelsea Berry, Gregory Brew, Kate Dannies, Andrey Gornostaev (Joan Challinor Award for Overall Excellence), John Maurer (Joan Challinor Award for Overall Excellence), Jackson Perry
• Ernst Mach Worldwide Grant, Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research, and Economics
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship – Robert Mevissen
• Fulbright Foreign Student Doctoral Fellowship (2015-2019) – James Torres Moreno
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award, FY15 – Graham Cornwell
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Dissertation Research Grant – Selim Gungorurler & Alex Macartney
• German Historical Institute, Research Grant – Volodymyr Ryzhkovsky
• Ibero-Amerikanische Institut Research Fellowship (Ibero-American Institute, Berlin, Germany) – Daniel Cano
• History of Economics Society, The Warren J. and Sylvia J. Samuels Young Scholars Program Award – Christopher England
• Hoover Archives Summer Workshop on Political Economy (2016) – Ben Feldman
• Hoover Institute, Silas Palmer Research Fellowship – Jonathan Sicotte
• D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia, Dissertation Fellowship – Yubin Shen
• Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund, Dissertation Fellowship (2015-2017) – Alissa Walter
• National University of Singapore, Middle East Institute, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2015-2017 – Shuang Wen
• Palestinian American Research Center (PARC), Dissertation Research Fellowship – Jeff Reger
• Rockefeller Archive Center, Travel Grant – Greg Brew
• Roosevelt Institute, Research Support Grant-in-Aid – Chad Frazier
• Roosevelt Library, Travel Grant – Greg Brew
• Social Sciences Research Council, Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Clark Alejandrino
• Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant – Chad Frazier
• Society of Military History, Russel F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grant – Greg Brew
• Watson Institute, Brown University, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2015-2017 – Elizabeth Williams, Ph.D. 2015

    2014-2015

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – James Benton, Nick Danforth, Geraldine Davies-Lenoble, Yubin Shen, Larisa Veloz, Elizabeth Williams
• ​John Ruedy General Education Award (teaching a lecture class) – Zackary Gardner, US to 1865
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award (teaching assistant) – Daniel Cano
• ​Tom Helde Teaching Award (teaching an undergraduate seminar or colloquium) – Larisa Veloz, Women, Gender & Mexican Migration
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Joseph Hower, Ph.D. ’13
• GSAS Doctoral Dissertation Travel Award – Daniel Cano, Katy Hull, Adrienne Kates, Alissa Walter
• Georgetown Environment Initiative, Grant-in-Aid – Yubin Shen
• Georgetown-Japan 2020 Fellow – Alex Macartney
• The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII), 2015 Research Grant – Alissa Walter
• Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies, 2014 Graduate Paper Prize – Laura Goffman
• Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), 2015 Research Grant – Graham Cornwell
• Balassi Institute Hungarian Language and Culture, 2015 Scholarship – Robert Mevissen
• John Carter Brown Library, 2015-16 Short-Term Research Fellowship – Jordan Smith
• Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library of Taiwan, Research Grant for Foreign Scholars – Clark Alejandrino
• Columbia University, Libraries Research Award, Global Studies Collection and Rare Books and Manuscripts Library – Chad D. Frazier
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Awards, 2015 – Kathy Hull, Yue Shi, Jordan Smith, Elizabeth Williams
• European Society of Environmental Historians, Travel Award – Graham Cornwell
• Fulbright Austro-Hungarian Joint Research Grant – Robert Mevissen
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award, FY14 – Laura Goffman & Michael Polczynski
• Herbert H. Hoover Presidential Library, Travel Grant – Chad D. Frazier
• Hoover Institution Library & Archives Research Support Program Grant – Alissa Walter
• Lapidus-Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Graduate Research in Slavery and Print Culture Fellowship – Jordan Smith
• Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Pre-doctoral Fellowships – Shuang Wen & Clark Alejandrino
• NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers – Barry McCarron
• Jacques Rossi Memorial Research Fellowship – Jonathan Sicotte
• Smith Richardson Foundation, Pre-doctoral Fellowship International Security Studies, Yale University- Julia Famularo
• Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Robynne Mellor
• Social Sciences Research Council, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship – Chelsea Berry
• Society for Military History, 2015 Edward M. Coffman First Manuscript Award (prize for best dissertation in military history) – Nathan Packard
• The Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation, Edwin J. Beinecke, Jr. Scholarship in International Affairs – Douglas McRae
• University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center & Archives, Grant-in-Aid Travel Award – Barry McCarron

    2013-2014

• Royden B. Davis Fellowships – Maria Amelicheva, Christopher England, Zackary Gardner, Kelly Hammond, Onur Isci, Anita Kondoyanidi
• ​John Ruedy General Education Award (teaching a lecture class) – Paul Adler, Introduction to US History, 1865 to present
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award (teaching assistant) – Brian Taylor
• Tom Helde Teaching Award (teaching an undergraduate seminar or colloquium) – Anita Kondoyanidi, History 372, Cultural Cold War
• American Historical Association, Bernadotte Schmitt Research Grant – Shuang Wen
• American Institute of Maghrib Studies, Jeanne Jeffers Mrad Graduate Student Travel Award – Graham Hough-Cornwell
• American Institute of Maghrib Studies, Long-Term Research Grant – Graham Hough-Cornwell & Katrina Yeaw (deferred)
• American Research in Turkey Fellowship – Michael Polczynski (declined)
• American Society for Environmental History, Hal Rothman Dissertation Fellowship – Robynne Mellor
• Association of American Colleges and Universities, K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award – Elena K. Abbott
• Association for Asian Studies, China Inner Asia Council Research Grant – Kelly Hammond
• Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Dissertation Fellowship – Shuang Wen
• Common Ground Publishing, Graduate Scholar Award – Bader Mousa Sulaiman Al-Saif
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2014 – Elena Abbott, Oliver Horn, Graham Hough-Cornwell, Adrienne Kates, and Barry McCarron
• Foreign Language & Area Studies Grant (FLAS) – Kate Dannies, Robert Mevissen, and Michael Polczynski
• Fulbright – Garcia-Robles Fellowship for Dissertation Research – Adrienne Kates
• Fulbright Polska Fellowship – Michael Polczynski
• Immigration and Ethnic History Society, George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award – Barry McCarron
• Institute of Historical Research, Mellon Pre-Dissertation Fellowship – Jordan Smith
• Huntington Library, Michael J. Connell Foundation Fellow, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship – Barry McCarron
• Huntington Library, William Keck Foundation Fellowship – Jordan Smith
• Lehigh University, Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Latin American Studies Program – Javier Puente Valdivia
• The LBJ Foundation, Moody Research Grant – Oliver Horn
• Library Company of Philadelphia, Program in Early American Economy and Society – Jordan Smith
• Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies, Pre-dissertation Summer Travel Grant – Clark L. Alejandrino
• Massachusetts Historical Society, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship – Jordan Smith
• Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship – Christopher Gratien
• Mellon/CLIR Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources – Michael Polczynski
• Mellon Sawyer Seminar – Critical Silk Road Studies, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship – Yelizaveta Raykhlina
• Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, Graduate Student Research Travel Award – Jordan Smith
• New England Regional Consortium Grant – Jordan Smith
• Organization of American Historians, Samuel and Marion Merrill Graduate Student Travel Grant – Zackary W. Gardner
• Peabody Essex Museum, Phillips Library Fellowship – Jordan Smith
• Phi Alpha Theta Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, Winning Paper 2014, Graduate Student Division – Ashleigh Corwin
• Jacques Rossi Memorial Research Fellowship – Carol Dockham & Jonathan Sicotte
• School of Foreign Service-Qatar Fellowship – Kelly  A. Hammond
• Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Doctoral Fellowship – Robynne Mellor
• Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Diversity-International Outreach Fellowship – Barry McCarron
• Society One-Month Fellowship – Jordan Smith

    2012-2013

• Royden B. Davis Fellowships – Paul Adler, Michael Hill, Nathan Packard, Fernando Perez Montesinos, April Yoder
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award – Elena K. Abbott
• John Ruedy General Education Award
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Frederick W. Gooding Jr.
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Toshihiro Higuchi, Ph.D. ’12
• American Research Center in Turkey (ARIT), Dissertation Research Fellowship – Elizabeth Williams
• David L. Boren Dissertation Fellowship, National Security Education Program – Julia Famularo
• Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Dissertation Fellowship – Shuang Wen
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholar Awards, 2013 – James C. Benton and Eric T. Gettig
• Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) – Jeffrey Reger
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, FY12 – John Gregory, Erina Megowan, & Alan Roe
• Institute for Turkish Studies, Dissertation Research and Writing Grant – Nick Danforth
• Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Pre-dissertation Fellowship – Yubin Shen
• McNeill Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Pre-Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship – Jessica Simmon Hower
• Oxford University Press USA Dissertation Prize in International History – Toshihiro Higuchi
• Rockefeller Archives Center, Grant-in-Aid – Yubin Shen
• Smith Richardson Foundation World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship – Julia Farmularo
• Social Sciences Research Council, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship – Jordan Smith & Jonathan Sicotte
• Social Sciences Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Eric Gettig
• Social Sciences Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Chris Gratien

    2011-2012

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Thomas Apel, Rodolpho Fernandez, Darcy Kerns, Jessica Simmon Hower, Joseph Hower
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award – James Benton
• John Ruedy General Education Award – Darcy Kern
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Ben Francis-Fallon
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Andrew R. Robarts, Ph.D. ’11
• Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Research Fellowship, JFK School of Government, Harvard University – Evelyn Krache Morris
• Ernest May Fellowship, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, JFK School of Government, Harvard University – Anand Toprani
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship – Michael Polczynski
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program – Isabelle Kaplan
• George C. Marshall Foundation, Baruch Fellowship – Eric Gettig
• Mellon/ CLIR Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources – Sylvia Mullen
• Minerva Humanities Center of Tel Aviv University, Pre-doctoral Fellowship – Guy Lurie
• New Netherland Institute Hendricks Annual Award – Danny Noorlander
• Smith Richardson Foundation, Pre-doctoral Fellowship, International Security Studies, Yale University – Anand Tropani
• Southern Historical Association Summer Institute “Does Culture Matter? The Emotions, Senses, and Other New Approaches to the History of US Foreign Relations/International Relations” – Evelyn Krache Morris
• Innovative Scholar Award, HealthTank, LLC – James Benton

    2010-2011

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – John Corcoran, Frederick Gooding, Jr., Evelyn Krache Morris, Marc Landry, Danny Noorlander
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award – Anita Kondoyanidi, Kelly Hammond
• John Ruedy General Education Award – Darcy Kern
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Frederick Gooding Jr., Seth Rotramel
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Megan Brandow-Faller, Ph.D. ’10
• ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship – Toshihiro Higuchi
• Amherst College, Forris Jewett Moore Graduate Fellowship in History – Eric Gettig
• The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII), Fellowship for Dissertation Research – John Bowlus
• CASA Fellowship – Graham Pitts
• Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Maryland – Matthew Bowman
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2011 – Paul Adler, Mariya Amelicheva, Nicholas Danforth, Onur Isci, Graham Pitts (Max and Vera Britton Environmental Science Award), Larisa Veloz
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship – Siobhan Doucette
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program – Larisa Veloz & Elizabeth Williams
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, FY10 – Siobhan Doucette
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Dissertation Writing Fellowship – Marc Landry
• Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, General Lemuel C. Shepard, Jr. Memorial Dissertation Fellowship – Nate Packard
• Mellon Foundation Fellowship, The Diploma Programme in Manuscript Studies at the American Academy in Rome – Sylvia Mullins
• Miriam U. Chrisman Travel Fellowship for Dissertation Research – Amy Rogers Hays
• NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers – Jessica Simmon Hower
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship – Matthew Bowman
• Reed Fink Research & Travel Grant in Southern Labor History – James Benton
• Smith Richardson Foundation, World Politics and Statecraft Pre-doctoral Fellowship – Anand Toprani
• Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant – Eric Gettig
• Southern Historical Association Parker Schmitt Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in European History – Megan Brandow-Faller
• Truman Good Neighbor Award – Soha El Achi

2000 to 2010

    2009-2010.

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Megan Brandow-Faller, Benjamin Francis-Fallon, Rita Guenther, Seth Rotramel, Tao Wang
• John Ruedy General Education Award – Jonathan Wyrtzen
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award – Paul Adler, Joshua Kueh
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Kevin Powers, Veronica Vallejo
• GSAS Doctoral Dissertation Research Travel Award – John Corcoran, Darcy Kern
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Luis Granados, Ph.D. ’08
• ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship – Shona Johnston
• ACLS Dissertation Writing Fellowship in Eastern European Studies – Andrew Robarts
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2010 – Emrah Safa Gurkan, Toshihiro Higuchi,  Joseph E. Hower, and Anand Tropani
• Fulbright Foreign Student Doctoral Fellowship (2009-2011) – Geraldine Davis
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (2009-2012) – Erina Megowan
• George C. Marshall Foundation/ Baruch Fellowship – Anand Tropani
• Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Aurelia Perrier
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Doctoral Fellowship (2009-2013) – Jenn DeVries
• Mormon History Association, Brooks Award for Best Graduate Student Paper – Matthew Bowman

    2008-2009

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Matthew Bowman, Corey Campion, Peter Engelke, Mikail Mamedov, Kevin Powers, Veronica Vallejo, Jonathan Wyrtzen
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award – Mariya Amelicheva, Mike Hill, Joe Hower
• John Ruedy General Education Award – Matthew Bowmann
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Ben Fulwider
• Doctoral Dissertation Research Travel Award – Tao Wang
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Meredith Oyen, Ph.D. ’07
• American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT), Dissertation Research Grant – Andrew Robarts
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2009 – John V. Bowlus and Anita Kondoyanidi
• Peace History Society, Charles DeBeneditti Prize for best article – Toshihiro Higuchi
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program – Danny Noorlander
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, FY08 – Curtis Murphy
• Institute for Civic Space and Public Policy, Doctoral Research Fellowship, Lazarski University, Warsaw, Poland – Felicia Rosu
• McNeill Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Fellowship – Shona Johnston
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Doctoral Fellowship (2008-2012) – Kelly Hammond
• Morman History Association, J. Talmage Jones Award for best paper – Matthew Bowman
• International Seminar on the Historic Atlantic World Research Grant – Danny Noorlander

    2007-2008

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Ben Fulwider, Okezi Otovo
• John Ruedy General Education Award – Andy Wackerfuss
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Okezi Otovo
• Doctoral Dissertation Research Travel Award – Shona Johnston
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Sara Scalenghe, Ph.D. ’06
• ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowship – Melissa K. Byrnes
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2008 – Megan Brandow-Faller
• Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship – Okezi T. Otovo
• Fulbright-Hays International Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, FY07 – John Corcoran, Rita Guenther, and Daniel Scarborough
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Dissertation Research Grant – Marc Landry
• Institute for Civic Space and Public Policy, Doctoral Research Fellowship, Lazarski University, Warsaw, Poland – Curtis Murphy
• Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Andrew Robarts
• Barra Dissertation Fellowship – Shona Johnston
• Edward Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Inductee – Okezi T. Otovo
• John Carter Brown Library – Shona Johnston
• The Library Company of Philadelphia – Shona Johnston
• Massachusetts Historical Society – Shona Johnston
• Middle East Studies Association Graduate Student Paper Award – Hoda Yousef
• Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Doctoral Scholarship – Megan Brandow-Faller
• Philanthropic Educational Organization Scholarship Award – Megan Brandow-Faller
• Virginia Historical Society – Shona Johnston

    2006-2007

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Melissa Byrnes, Emilio Coral, Haiyun Ma, Felicia Rosu, Ryan Swanson, Xenia Wilkinson
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award – Ben Francis Fallon, Shona Johnston, Evelyn Krache Morris
• John Ruedy General Education Award – Stefan Zimmers
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Anton Fedyashin
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – George Vrtis, Ph.D. ’05
• Academia Sinica, Republic of China (Taiwan), Dissertation Fellowship – Catherine Kai-Ping Lin
• American Council of Learned Societies, Dissertation Writing Fellowship in East European Studies – Mirjana Morosini-Dominick
• ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship – Melissa K. Byrnes
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2007 – Bjorn Hofmeister
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship – Evelyn Krache Morris
• Fulbright-Austria, Austrian-American Educational Commission, Dissertation Fellowship – Megan Marie Brandow-Faller
• Fulbright Foreign Student Doctoral Fellowship (2006-2008) – Guy Lurie
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, FY06 –  Catherine McKenna, Elizabeth Shlala, & Jonathan Wyrtzen
• Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Language Fellowship – Evelyn Krache Morris
• Neal A. Maxwell Institute of Religious Studies, Brigham Young University, Pre-Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship – Matthew Bowman
• Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship – Nadya Sbaiti

    2005-2006

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Karen Carter, Anton Fedyashin, Luis Granados, Henri Lauziere, Meredith Oyen
• John Ruedy General Education Award – Tait Keller
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award – Ben Fulwider, Cathy McKenna, Veronica Vallejo
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Henri Lauziere
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Henriette de Bruyn Kops, Ph.D. ’05
• Association des Professeurs Francais et Francophones de l’Amerique, Bourse Jeanne Marandon Fellowship – Melissa Brynes
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2006 – Megan Faller and Andrew Robarts
• Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Dissertation Fellowship – Catherine Kai-ping Lin
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship – Curtis Murphy
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program – Jonathan Wyrtzen & Benjamin Fulwider
• Social Sciences Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Vanesa Casanova-Fernandez

    2004-2005

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Paul Du Quenoy, Sean Foley, Aron Palmer, Nadya Sbaiti, Sarah Snyder, Andrew Wackerfuss
• Dorothy Brown Teaching Award – Karen Carter, Vanesa Casanova Fernandez, Kevin Powers
• John Ruedy General Education Award – George Vrtis, Stefan Zimmers
• Tom Helde Teaching Award – Valerie Shearer, Tait Keller
• Association des Professeurs Francais et Francophones de l’Amerique, Bourse Jeanne Marandon Fellowship – Valerie Shearer
• David L. Boren Graduate (NSEP) Fellowship – Jonathan Wyrtzen
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship – Sara Scalenghe
• Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2005 – Nadya Sbaiti and Xenia Wilkinson
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program – Meredith Oyen
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program, FY04 – Felicia Rosu & Mirjana Morosini-Dominick
• Institute for Turkish Studies, Dissertation Research & Writing Grant – York A. Norman
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship – Paul du Quenoy
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship – Catherine McKenna, Christina Petrides, Veronica Vallejo
• Mellon / CLIR Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources – Vanesa Casanova-Fernandez, Diana Villiers Negroponte
• Mid-Atlantic Phi Alpha Theta conference “Best Graduate Paper” prize – Jonathan Wyrtzen

    2003-2004

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Isaiah Gruber, Tait Keller, Alexander Merrow, Sara Scalenghe, Valerie Shearer, Frederic Vallve
• Harold N. Glassman Dissertation Award in the Humanities – Jeffrey T. Zalar, Ph.D. ’03
• Chateaubriand Fellowship, awarded by the Cultural Services Division of the French Embassy in Washington, DC – Karen Carter
• ​Cosmos Club Foundation, Cosmos Scholars Award, 2004 – Felicia Rosu and Sara Scalanghe
• Fulbright – Haruka Matsumoto
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program – Andrew Wackerfuss
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, FY03 – Paul de Quenoy & Mikhail Mamedov
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship – Andrew Robarts
• Mid-Atlantic Phi Alpha Theta conference “Outstanding Graduate Paper” prize – Melissa Byrnes
• ​Social Sciences Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Mikhail Mamedov

    2002-2003

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – Simone Ameskamp, Waskar Chachki Ari, Meriam Belli, Lisa Khachaturian, Michael Rouland
• American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR), Dissertation Fellowship – Lisa Khachaturian
• David L. Boren Fellowship – Meredith Oyen
• Fulbright-Hays International Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, FY02 – Osama Abi-Mershed, York A. Norman, and Sean E. Foley

    2001-2002

• Royden B. Davis Fellowship – James Class, Lisa E. Davenport, Gillian A. McGillivray, Barbara J. Skinner 
• American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR), Dissertation Fellowship – Michael Rouland
• Association des Professeurs Francais et Francophones de l’Amerique, Bourse Jeanne Marandon Fellowship – Mitra Brewer
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program – Alexander Merrow & Sean E. Foley
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, FY01 – Isaiah J. Gruber & Kevin W. Martin
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Dissertation Research Grant – Tait Keller
• International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), IREX Individual Advanced Research Fellow – Isaiah J. Gruber
• Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC/IDRF) – Sara Scalenghe
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research of Canada, Doctoral Fellowship (2000-2004) – Henri Lauziere

    2000-2001

• Association des Professeurs Francais et Francophones de l’Amerique, Bourse Jeanne Marandon Fellowship – Joanna Hamilton
• David L. Boren Fellowship – Bart Goldyn
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program – Kevin W. Martin
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, FY00 – Sabrina E. Joseph & Meriam Belli
• International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) – Michael Rouland

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B.A., Harvard University, 2006 Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2013

• Hist 111: Introduction to U.S. History
• Hist 213: Race and Ethnicity Through the Ages
• Hist 290: The Historian’s Craft
• Hist 310: The Civil War and Reconstruction
• Hist 318: Colonial North America
• Hist 319: 19th-century America
• Hist 454: Pictures and Power: Photography, Politics, and American History
• Hist 495: History Senior Seminar

Matthew Fox-Amato is a cultural historian of the United States and a historian of visual and material culture. His interests include the nineteenth century, the Civil War era, the presidency, race and ethnicity, African American history, journalism, popular culture, art and visual culture, and photography. He is particularly interested in connections between the uneven development of American democracy and visual media.

His first book – Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America (Oxford, 2019) – explores how photography influenced and was shaped by conflicts over slavery. The book was the runner-up for the 2021 Shapiro Book Prize of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens and a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize as well as the Association of American Publishers PROSE Award. It has been reviewed widely, excerpted in Lapham’s Quarterly , and was named one of The Advocate ’s “Must-Read Books on Race and Hate.”

He is currently working on projects about the visual culture of the presidency and the history of iconoclasm in the Civil War era.

Selected Publications

Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America (Oxford University Press, 2019).

“Claiming the Past, Possessing the Park: The Forest Park Confederate Memorial and the Privatization of Public Space,” in The Material World of Modern Segregation: St. Louis in the Long Era of Ferguson , eds. Iver Bernstein and Heidi Kolk (scheduled for publication with The Common Reader in 2021).

“Portraits of Endurance: Enslaved People and Vernacular Photography in the Antebellum South,” in To Make Their Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes , eds. Ilisa Barbash, Molly Rogers, and Deborah Willis, Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Aperture Foundation and Peabody Museum Press,  2020).

“Plantation Tourism,” in Paper Promises: Early American Photography, ed. Mazie Harris (Getty Publications, 2018).

“An Abolitionist Daguerreotype, 1850,” in Getting the Picture: The Visual Culture of the News, eds. Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jason Hill (Bloomsbury Press, 2015).

Awards and Honors

• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Getty Research Institute, 2016-2017 (Declined)
• Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship, Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning, Univ. of Idaho, 2017
• The Zuckerman Prize in American Studies, Dissertation Award, The McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, 2014 (Recipient) 
• C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize, Southern Historical Association, 2014 (Runner-up)
• Mellon Research Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2013
• Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2012-2013
• Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), 2011-2012
• Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 2011
• Research Fellowship, Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South, University of Alabama, 2011 
• Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, 2011
• Research Fellowship, Clements Center-DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, 2011 Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2009
• Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2009
• Curriculum Vitae pdf
• Interview with the Journal of American History