Current Fellows List
2024-2025 Research Fellowships Recipients
Mary Catherine Mooney Fellowship: Jack Tripp, MA student, Harvard Divinity School, “[Working title] The Liturgical Art of Allan Rohan Crite”
Caleb Loring, Jr., Fellowship: Christian Gallichio, postdoctoral fellow, Emory University, “‘The Old Year and the New’: Slavery, Rhetorical Purpose, and the Christmas Annual”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship”: Alexander Wood, lecturer, MassArt, “By Hammer and Hand: A History of the Building Trades in America”
The American Congregational Association-Boston Athenæum Fellowship: Anthony Trujillo, PhD candidate, Harvard University, “The Life and Power of Religion”: Aesthetics, Settler Religiosity, Indigenous Christianity and Pequot Women’s Power in the New England Borderlands, 1720-1840”
The Suzanne and Caleb Loring Research Fellowship (Jointly with MHS): Sarah Gardner, Professor, Mercer University, “Shakespeare Fights the American Civil War”
The New England Regional Fellowship: Monique Hayes, independent scholar, “Sally Forth: a historical novel” and Thomas Lecaque, Associate Professor, Grand View University, “Holy War Rhetoric in Early America, 1680-1765”
The Boston Athenaeum Community Fellowship
- Ione Barrows, PhD Candidate, Harvard University, “Before Tranquility is Restored”: Morrison I. Swift’s Industrial Army, Labor Organizing, and Anti-Imperialism in Boston, 1890-1918″
- Shana Dumont Garr, PhD Candidate, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, “Plant Beings: Contemporary Impulses Rooted in Transcendentalism”
- Phillippa Pitts, PhD Candidate, Boston University, “Pharmacoepic Dreams: Art and America’s Medical Democracy, 1800-1860”
- Kameelah Janan Rasheed, artist and writer, “Un-Monument/ Re-Monument / De-Monument: Transforming Boston”
- Daniela Lilly Rodiles, Masters student, University of Massachusetts, Boston, “Undressing The Tramp: 19th Century Construction of the Female Tramp Archetype”
- Nicole Myers Turner, Assistant Professor of Religion, Princeton University, “Black Religious Movements, 1787 to 1861: Fugitivity, Emigration, and the Other Worlds of Antebellum Black Religious Communities”
Polly Thayer Starr Fellow in American Art: Astrid Tvetenstrand, 2023–2025
Generously funded by the Polly Thayer Starr Trust